Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro: I believe that God is looking for someone to show himself successful in.

God is looking more than you are looking for success.

For you it is mostly self-motivated reasons.

For God it has to do with souls.

Do you know that it is beneficial to Heaven for you to succeed.

God desires for you to succeed however it must be his way.

Success equals change.

Something must die.

You must leave something, quit something.

Success Requires Sacrifice

Success – is a noun; it is a place a thing; something we obtain; take hold of;

To have this Noun you will need to sacrifice soemthing

Sacrifice-

The OT testifies to a complex sacrificial system; a number of words reference different kinds of sacrificial offerings.

The most basic term is זֶבַח (zebaḥ, “sacrifice”; Lev 7:16) from the root זָבַח (zābaḥ, “to slaughter”; 1 Sam 6:15).

Such an offering involved the killing of the sacrificial animal, which would then be placed on the altar (מִזְבֵּחַ, mizbēaḥ; Lev 1:8).

the עֹלָה (ʿōlâ, “whole burnt offering”; Lev 1:3) in which the entire animal was offered and burned; the שֶׁלֶם (šelem, “peace offering”; Lev 3:1); the פֶּסַח (pesaḥ, “Passover sacrifice”; Deut 16:2), the Passover sacrifice of the lamb; the מִנְחָה (minḥâ, “the gift offering”; Lev 2:1), usually of grain or some other produce; the קָרְבָּן (qorbān, “offering”; Lev 2:1).

The last two are general terms for offerings, including offerings not only of livestock and produce, but also of valuables like gold and silver (Num 7:13; 2 Chr 17:11).

Minḥâ can be used to indicate a gift from one person to another (Gen 33:10) or a tribute sent to a king (Judg 3:15)

They all require the slaughter or complete surrender of something

The NT testifies to the ongoing reality of sacrifice in the temple in Jerusalem during the life and ministry of Jesus (Luke 2:24; 13:1) and to other sacrificial practices of the Graeco-Roman world (Acts 14:13).

The Greek term θυσία (thysia, “sacrifice”) is used to describe a sacrifice or an offering made to a deity (Herodotus, Hist.

1.50; 1 Cor 10:18–20).

The word προσφορά (prosphora, “offering”; Acts 21:26) comes from the verb προσφέρω (prospherō, “to bring forward”; Matt 5:23), indicating an offering brought in to be presented in the temple.

The Greek term ὁλοκαύτωμα (holokautōma) refers to a whole burnt offering.

The NT applies the OT concept of sacrifice to Christ.

The letter of Hebrews presents Christ as the fulfillment of the sacrifice of the Day of Atonement (Heb 9:28; 10:12), and the Gospel of John (1:29) similarly presents him as the “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”; 1 Cor 5:7 presents Christ as the fulfillment of the Passover sacrifice.

Sacrifice is required for success and to be successful means something has changed

Something must die (or end) in order for there to be change.

Something must stop or cease to exist.

There must be an absolute change for Success.

If part of it still exist, it is technically the same just a little different.

God isn’t looking for a little change.

God requires sacrifice.

You got to commit to this to get it.

So wait what does God want us to sacrifice

Sacrifice What

What does God need from me?

What do have that God is in NEED of?

Nothing

So what does God want us to Sacrifice?

What does God want us to put on the alter?

Someone once said “God don’t want your sacrifice he wants your Obedience”………aahhhh that is sacrifice.

Doing what God wants and abandoning what I want , is a sacrifice.

So what is keeping you from doing what God has asked you to do?

Is it what you would have to give up?

Maybe it is having let go of vengeance or your idea of how you will become successful.

What anchors you to the shore.

What prevents you from pushing out to the deap.

Is it Sharing?

Is it living Holy?

Is it giving up your way of thinking or …just your way.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Is it doing righteousness or is it being Just when everyone else isn’t?

Consistent love?

Or Getting to know God spending time in His presence?

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Is it having to Love people?

Giving yourself for others?

is it considering others before yourself

Obedience is it Obedience are you willing to sacrifice what you want in life for the plan God has for you?

Are you not willing to be broken.

Or is it no willing to be Contrite (feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt)

Is it that you don’t want to be the drink offering that could be rejected as Christ was rejected

Is you life more valuable than what God has for you?

Or is it you don’t trust him with your best interest?

I have been crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Your Life is required of you.

You must be born again to be saved when you are born again ….

Do you give a praise because he is worthy whether he has done yet or not.

A sacrifice of praise are you willing to offer him your complaining and wining for a praise?

You gone have to put something on the alter

Something has die for your success in God

Success Requires a Sacrifice

You have lay that thing on the alter you know what it is

What ever it is lay it on the alter.

Leave it at the alter

(Call them to the Alter)

Your Success requires a sacrifice

And when you do here is what you can expect

Do want to that do you want those blessing in your life?

Then put it on the Alter

Commit to it.

And keep it.