THE LIVING SACRIFICE AT THE ALTAR
Psalms 50:5 "Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."
The Lord instructed us to raise Holy altars in this season but we need to know that these Holy altars must have a sacrifice (an offering) and a priest who is consecrated always making prayers.
We need to understand the kind of sacrifices God requires of us if we are to maximise what He has for us.
Psalms 51:16-17 [16] For You do not desire...
THE LIVING SACRIFICE AT THE ALTAR
Psalms 50:5 "Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."
The Lord instructed us to raise Holy altars in this season but we need to know that these Holy altars must have a sacrifice (an offering) and a priest who is consecrated always making prayers.
We need to understand the kind of sacrifices God requires of us if we are to maximise what He has for us.
Psalms 51:16-17 [16] For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. [17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-- These, O God, You will not despise.
God only requires sacrifices that come from a broken Spirit and a contrite heart because God looks at the heart. We need to know that Sacrifice is of God; He Himself sacrificed His only son before the foundation of the earth was laid Revelation 13:8
God desires that everything we do springs from a place of love; that is why the Holy Spirit introduced this love in our hearts when He resided in us. Romans 5:5
So, even as we lay ourselves on the altar, we need to cry to God daily to increase our capacity to love such that everything we do comes from our hearts and that place of love. Ephesians 3:17
Unlike in the old testament where the temple had three segments: The altar which was within the temple, the inner court and the Holy of Holies, time came when God no longer resided in the constructed buildings but in our hearts.
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
We are now the temple of the Holy Spirit: that which was trapped in the covenant box is now inside us. We are the moving altars and the first sacrifices that God needs.
According to Hebrews 9:15 and 2 Corinthians 5:15, Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice and the same demand is now on us to as well offer ourselves as living sacrifices according to John 20:21 and Romans 12:1-2.
How do we give ourselves as living sacrifices?
Ephesians 4:22-32
Below are some of the ways how we can give ourselves as living sacrifices. By,
1. Putting off the former conduct.
2. Being renewed in the Spirit of our minds.
3. Putting on the new man created according to God.
4. Not sinning when we get angry: not letting the sun go down on our wrath.
5. Stop stealing and work with our own hands.
6. Not letting any corrupt word proceed from our mouths.
7. Not grieving the Holy Spirit.
8. Avoiding bitterness, wrath, anger etc.
9. Being kind and forgiving each other.
10. Fleeing sexual immorality.
According to 1 Corinthians 6:16-17, the Bible is making comparisons between the harlot and Christ. The joining with which we have been joined is that the Spirit has mingled with our spirits and now we are one with Christ.
We should run from sexual sins because the bonding of our bodies with the harlot is like our union with Christ but rather glorify God in our bodies and spirits because they are His. 1 Corinthians 6:20
STAY BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED, WE LOVE YOU. PASTOR BEN OCHOLA.!
