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Sacrifice

In the Bible, people are always offering things to God. God demanded that sacrifices be made to Him. All kinds of offerings from flour to sheep to bulls to birds.


We don't really do these things anymore. We don't slaughter animals. and we don't burn fat that create a smell pleasing to God. Is it the case then that God has decided that he doesn't need sacrifices?


He does. You are to "offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God"


How often do you sacrifice? For God?

I have found that we are still very reluctant people. Quick in our mouths, stubborn in our hearts.

And when we do offer sacrifices, we don't offer the best. We offer the second best. Do you sacrifice your time for God? Does the work you do for God always fall in the the "gap filling" times? I must admit I do do that sometimes. Reading the bible just before I sleep, when I am sleepy already. Not offering my prime for God.

Do we offer our

prime Energy,

prime Time,

prime Health,

prime Youth,

prime Talents

to God?


This is one of the first problems of Man Kind:

3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. (Gen 4 NIV)

And he ended up killing his brother out of jealousy.

Posted by Jot.. on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 10:04 pm |

Luke 14:15-24
New International Version (NIV)
The Parable of the Great Banquet
15When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, "Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God."
16Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.'
18"But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.'
19"Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'
20"Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.'
21"The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'
22" 'Sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.'
23"Then the master told his servant, 'Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full. 24I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.' "

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 9:37 am, October 11, 2008  

Ivan,
That is very serious article...
Good work!

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 9:05 am, November 09, 2008  

I wanted to find my way before 30, then I left my homeland going to Australia on April,12,2008.
The treasure words I learnt for a year were "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6.
April 10 2009, the day I went back to HK, I got the reminder from bible, Matthew 6:24 "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."
And Do Not Worry!!! By continued on Mt 6:25-26 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
I can't tell what can I sacrifice to GOD. since I am the child of God, He is my heavenly Father, all i had were given by Him.
Trust and obey;,Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness? Would you share with me what is meant?

Posted by Anonymous Ms Jane | 5:39 am, April 17, 2009  

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