The Sacrifice and Service of Faith

There are three sacrifices mentioned in the New Testament, to which faith and love would
respond, that are to be offered by God’s people, who, since the rent veil, are, all of them (young
and old), God’s priests.

1) THEMSELVES "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassion of God, to present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service" (Rom. 12:1,
J.N.D. trans.). "Do ye not know that … ye are not your own? for ye have been bought with a
price:glorify now then God in your body" (1 Cor. 6:19,20, J.N.D. trans.).

2) THEIR WORSHIP "Yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a
holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 2:5, J.N.D.
trans.). "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God,, that is, the fruit
of the lips confessing his name" (Heb. 13:15, J.N.D. trans.).

3) THEIR POSSESSIONS "But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not
forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased" (Heb. 13:16, J.N.D. trans.). "But I have
all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things sent
from you, an odor of sweet savor, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God" (Phil. 4:18, J.N.D.
trans.).

"But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer willingly after this manner?
for all is of thee, and of that which is from thy hand have we given thee" (1 Chron. 29:14, J.N.D.
trans.).

How beautiful to see the grace that moves us and enables us to give to God that which is His own!