Our Best Example of Sacrifice
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1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Thesis/ Central Idea:
Jesus gave Himself, a sacrifice to God and man. His sacrifice allows us to be saved and gives us an example to live by.
Introduction:
1. He gave Himself for us.
1. He gave Himself for us.
His whole being was cast as a weight into the scale of redemption.
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
2. He gave Himself to God.
2. He gave Himself to God.
His life and death was also a gift to God as well as for us.
10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
3. He gave Himself, an offering and a sacrifice.
3. He gave Himself, an offering and a sacrifice.
Two aspects of His character as a Redeemer; a peace-offering and a burnt-offering, a holy life and an atoning death.
27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4. He gave Himself a sweet-smelling savour.
4. He gave Himself a sweet-smelling savour.
Infinitely pleasing to God.
14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16 to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
18 I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.
5. He gave Himself because He loved us.
5. He gave Himself because He loved us.
His love was stronger than death.
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
6. He gave Himself that we should walk in love.
6. He gave Himself that we should walk in love.
Love constrained Him to yield up His all.
His was a walk in love.
He gave Himself that we should walk in love.
as He loved us (John 13:34; 1 John 3:11–16).
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
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Invitation: