Sacrifice
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart,
O God, you will not despise.
(Psalm 51:16-17)
A different sort
of sacrifice?
11 “What makes you think I want all your sacrifices?” says the Lord.
“I am sick of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle.
I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
12 When you come to worship me, who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?
13 Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts;
the incense of your offerings disgusts me!
As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath
and your special days for fasting—
they are all sinful and false.
I want no more of your pious meetings.
(Isaiah 1)
Jesus
God so loved the world...
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:32
Jesus is the
Sacrifice!
- Worship had become religion
Isaiah
David
- Adultery with Bathsheba
- Psalm 51
- Pharisee - he KNEW about Sacrifice
- Jesus was a different sort of sacrifice
- We were to be "like" Jesus
- Not a sacrifice of animals
Moses
- Passover Lamb - Exodus 12
- Sacrifice "codified" - Exodus, Leviticus
- Worship at the Tabernacle - Leviticus
- Sacrifice is principal means of worship
Paul
Abraham
"He is no fool who gives
what he cannot keep
to gain that
which he cannot lose."
- Sacrifice seals first covenant - Gen 15
- Circumcision - Gen 17
- Offering of Isaac - Gen 22
- Act of dedication
Jim Elliot
Noah
- Sacrifice after the flood
- "Thank Offering"
- Act of dedication
Themes
- Highlights what is important