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A Thanksgiving Sacrifice
There are many emotions concerning God.
Some feel, from their limited understanding of the OT, God is an angry Judge
God is a mean God; needs blood, and war.
He is offended,mean, wants revenge for these “people” but He doesn’t want to kill them so He takes it out on animals.
He needs blood to sooth His wrath.
I believe people form this view of God because the watch to many scary movies, not from the scripture.
Read the NT and we tend to Love, Jesus, but we still hide from God as Adam did.
We think Him as a Jekyll and Hyde.
Others say, if Jesus is Love and God has relented, why aren’t all in?
If Jesus is love why aren’t all in?
Some say He predestined you, so good luck.
Still others say He predestined you, so good luck.
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the power of God.
The writer of Hebrews has a clear understanding of the cross.
He/she has a clear understanding of the meritorious work of Jesus and what bulls and goats lacked.
10:1 tells us, reminds us the blood of bulls and goats could never do what needed to be done.
In the OT Covenant, we see war, blood, death, darkness and the like.
But through death, a new covenant was instituted.
Think of the covenant like a Will your parents have in place.
When they dies, what is in that will is carried out.
Not before.
Death came and made the will active, enforceable.
Same with the new testament.
When Jesus came He clearly showed us:
Evil doesn’t get the last word, Good does
Darkness doesn’t get the last word, Light does
Sin doesn’t get the last word, Grace does
Death doesn’t get the last word, Life does
Jilted Lover
God is a passionate lover who has woo’d us into His covenant.
But after being there a while, we are woo’d back to our old friends and old lovers.
Hosea was instructed by God to marry a Harlot. .
He chose Gomer.
He loved her and treated her with kindness.
Watched over her and gave her gifts.
Yet she keeps going back to town.
Hosea to God, hello, what have you done to me???
She keeps leaving me and going back to her old ways!
God says hello!
No kidding.
I don’t like it either it is what Israel, my lover does to me.
Read Hosea 2:6-13
Imagine if I was unfaithful to Sally.
I know how deeply she would be offended, hurt and crushed.
My truck would be burned, my clothes on the front lawn, locks changed.
But after a few days, she relents and says, I want you to come back.
Not today, but give it a week and come back.
How would I go back?
With a date?
NO!
Chocolate, flowers, gifts, jewelry!
But I don’t need those things, she has already forgiven me.
She is bearing the cost of forgiveness!
I had a good time, i hurt her, yet she has forgiven me and says, come back.
The gifts are a sign I know the cost of her forgiveness.
I should not overlook it.
She has covered the cost.
I bring my gifts, good gifts, expensive gifts to say, I know what you have done.
I know.
The Cost of a True Sacrifice
A. Bulls and Rams
B. Blood is a sign of sacrifice, or scary movie.
C. In the scripture, not a sign of death but the offering of a gift.
Think about going to the Red Cross and giving your blood.
It is the same in the scripture.
Gift.
II.
The Result of Sacrifice
A. Guilt continually
III.
The Cost of a True Sacrifice
A. Blood
A. Our thanksgiving turkey what is his name?
Its too bad we don’t know its name.
If we had raised it, cared for it, fed it: we would recognize it has made this meal possible.
It made this family possible, it sustains us, he gave his life for us.
B. Like a lamb before its shearers, silent.
It gives us a gift with its life.
Not kicking and screaming but quietly giving life that we might live.
C. God isn’t offended, He has forgiven, but we are so unfaithful.
The blood of Bulls and goats can’t do it.
The Old Covenant can’t do it.
I don’t want sacrifices...
Flowers and Chocolate for our unfaithfulness?
Christ takes on our unfaithfulness, our violence, sinfulness.
What do we offer Him?
Old Testament blood flows like water.
We see it as death, horror.
Blood doesn’t appease God’s wrath because He loves the taste of blood.
I want you to think of the OT blood covenant like a transfusion, it changes us.
Blood doesn’t change God but like a transfusion, it changes us.
Flowing in and through us, replacing our sin with His life.
It is the great mystery of God.
Example of having your way paid.
Paid in full.
No chocolate require.
He made the payment.
your debt and mine is paid in full.
You are welcome to come home.
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