Steadfast Love or sacrifice Part 2

SACRIFICES OR STEADFAST LOVE- PART 2

Hosea 6:6”for I desire steadfast Love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings”

God is love and his love has met the greatest need of man. We have seen that God does not desire sacrifice but steadfast love.

Yet God made his son our scapegoat. Christ became for us our substitute by taking upon himself our sins and us being imputed righteousness. It’s an exchange worth all our fathom, all our imagination.

To think of how the son of God has equally represented mankind in himself is of the greatest bliss to be apprehended by the soul. The greatest sacrifice therefore is what God himself did and he did it once and for all through his son.

Heb 1:3,,,,, after making the purification for sins he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high,

God desires steadfast Love and you and I are the object of his love. God did all that he could do to capture his love moment for us.

Col 2:13-14 and you who were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircurmcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him having forgiven us all our trespasses, By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands, this he set aside by nailing it to the cross.

What’s therefore to prove again? What a fate that awaits us? Man is no longer left at the expense of having to perform to be forgiven but on the contrary he is the beneficiary of the greatest love gift to have ever existed.

The plea of God still stands today. God desires steadfast love and not sacrifice. We have heard so much of the preaching that tells us that God will bless us depending on how well we offer ourselves, how much we sacrifice our time, our money, our life. If there is a reason Why God will bless us its only because he desires to do so and he has blessed us with every spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus (eph 1:3)

sacrifices or steadfast love; which one do you take ?

If there is any sacrifice that has completely pleased God; it’s that which he himself offered. He did not withdraw his son from us but he willingly gave us Christ.

Rom 8:32” He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies”

The same grace that saved us also avails for us everything we need for life. Where did believers ever get the notion that its up to their effort again to deserve God’s blessings? Good news, blessings are freely given no longer about your sacrifice.

In view of God’s mercies, we therefore offer our bodies as a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God. Rom 12:1. A common scripture yet commonly misconstrued to mean that believers should sacrifice their bodies to God. Sacrifice their time to God, your money to God, no! what Paul is saying is in view of God’s mercies we are offering ourselves as living sacrifices fully accepted before God, We in short appear before God as ones accepted before Christ. In reality it was Christ’s sacrifice which is acceptable before God and we are in Christ and therefore are accepted in him.

 Jesus did a perfect job in representing us, redeeming us and reconciling us back to God. It’s of God lest any man should boast.

In view of Gods mercies therefore we respond to his provision and we now offer our faculties to experience the complete transformation in Christ. If now you are to go out of your way to do something good, its not to hoodwink God to bless you but in a glorious response to his working in Christ. We give ourselves to work of God, we lay our lives for other people because of what God has done. Its an effortless manifestation of the life of God in us.

Rest therefore in the perfect sacrifice God gave for you, Christ is the living sacrifice living in you. A receipt that guarantees once and for all that you are eternally loved of God. There is no love gift greater than what God has given, lets enjoy and be a blessing to the world.