by Joseph S.
Butler

All of God’s people, since the
rending of the veil of the temple following the death of Christ (Matt. 27:51),
are priests of God (1 Pet. 2:5,9).   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.

1. Ourselves. "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 JND). "Do you not know that … you
are not your own? for you have been bought with a price:glorify now then God
in your body" (1 Cor. 6:19,20 JND).

2. Our 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 JND). "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 JND).

3. Our Possessions.
"But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful,
for with such sacrifices God is well pleased" (Heb. 13:16 JND).
"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 JND).

"What shall I render unto
Jehovah for all His benefits toward me? (Psa. 116:12 JND). "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 JND).

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