HONORING SACRIFICE - VETERAN'S DAY 2023
K. Doug Allen
Keys to the Kingdom • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Introduction
Introduction
Welcome and Thanks
Kingdom Keys intro
There are two primary uses, or meanings of the term “Sacrifice”.
sacrifice [sak-ruh-fahys] noun
1) the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage. the person, animal, or thing so offered;
2) the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.
The History
The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.
If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.
For if you choose self-sacrifice and lose your lives for my glory, you will continually discover true life. But if you choose to keep your lives for yourselves, you will forfeit what you try to keep.
Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship.
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
