370: Stephen Whitehouse – Exhortation: Present Your Bodies a Living Sacrifice

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This week’s talk is that the

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title Present Your Body’s Living
Sacrifice by our brother Stephen

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Whitehouse.
Brother Stephen takes us back to

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Genesis 22 where Abraham goes to
offer Isaac as God asked and

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shows how Isaac was the first
living sacrifice recorded in the

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Bible.
He highlights the change that

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needs to happen within us that
affects the way we live and act

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every day to allow God’s Word to
transform us to be more like

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Christ.
Brother Stephen challenges us

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that true worship is what we
become, not what we do.

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So here is our brother Stephen’s
Exor.

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Present your bodies a living
sacrifice.

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Well, good morning brothers and
sisters and young people.

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If I were to use the word
worship, I want us to think

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about that word for a moment.
If I were to say the word

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worship, what does that bring to
mind for you personally?

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Well, of course, we, we, we
think about our, our hymns and

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our prayers and, and coming to
the meeting, maybe that’s the

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first thing that we’ll think
about.

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But that’s all about what we do.
And when you look closely to the

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scriptures, you, you find that
worship is all about what we

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become.
Want you to think about that.

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It’s not what we do.
Worship is all about what we

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become and it presents to us a a
huge challenge because the

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closer we look at the word
worship in Scripture, it talks

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about a change, a transformation
that comes from within and it is

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continual.
And it’s the apostle Paul for

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inspiration who presents that
idea this morning as a living

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sacrifice.
And that’s what we’re going to

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base our exhortation on this
morning, the idea of a living

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sacrifice.
So can we open up the God’s Word

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now?
And let’s have a look at Romans

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chapter 12.
And it’s lovely, isn’t it, that

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it came in the announcements, it
came in Brother Gunk’s prayer,

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and now here in verse one.
I beseech you, therefore,

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brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your bodies as

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a living sacrifice.
Now just to imagine for a moment

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how that would have felt to the
brothers and sisters at Rome

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here as they they read these
words for the first time.

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A living sacrifice.
That would have been a shocking

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phrase, wouldn’t it?
Because sacrifice was all about

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death.
But this was something very

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different, wasn’t it?
Paul says here that you present

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your bodies as a living
sacrifice.

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If you look at the Greek, the
idea here is worth picking up a

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pencil because we’re going to
pick out a few little phrases

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and and and quotations and cross
references this morning.

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The idea to present your bodies
is the idea to stand before.

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That’s the idea in the Greek.
Think about that.

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It’s the idea of standing
before.

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Then the obvious question is in
front of whom?

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God.
Now suddenly it becomes very

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direct, doesn’t it, That as we
live our life, we are standing

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before God and he is watching,
he is observing all things.

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And I want to just just give you
an idea of how this word is used

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in Scripture.
We’re going to come back to

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Romans chapter 12.
I want to just by way of

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illustration, use that word.
Come with me to Luke chapter 2.

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And you know this, this is about
Mary who presents the Lord Jesus

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Christ Jesus as a, as a child
here in the temple.

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And he picks up the very same
word.

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And it gives us an idea of what
this presenting as a living

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sacrifice is all about.
So here then in Luke chapter 2,

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verse 21, we read these words,
these well known words.

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And when 8 days were
accomplished for the

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circumcising of the child, his
name was called Jesus, which was

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so named of the Angel, because
before he was conceived in the

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womb.
And when the days of her

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purification according to the
Lord Moses were accomplished,

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here we are.
They brought him to Jerusalem.

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Two, there you are present.
It’s the same word.

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Present your bodies as a living
sacrifice.

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And here Jesus was presented.
Now why was he presented at this

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point of time?
Because He was the first born of

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Mary.
And under the Law, the first

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born of any family needed to be
redeemed to remind every single

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Israelite that they were
redeemed by the precious blood

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of the lamb when they came out
of Egypt.

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Can you see the point?
So it’s worth just putting in

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your margin there Numbers 18
verses 15 to 16, because this is

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what it’s taking our minds back.
It’s talking about deliverance

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from Egypt and, and, and the
ritual in the family was that

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every father needed to pay 5
shekels for their first born son

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to remind them that under the
law they would have lost their

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son without the shedding of the
precious blood of the lamb.

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So suddenly in our brothers and
sisters, we’ve got this little

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connection, haven’t we, to
present our bodies as a living

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sacrifice.
It’s reminding us, you and me

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this morning that we have been
redeemed.

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Do you feel it?
Brothers and sisters, there was

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a lot of energy in the hall this
morning.

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We, we do, don’t we?
Redeemed by the precious blood

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of the Lord Jesus Christ, you
and I.

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And we’re going to see this
theme come out loudly this

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morning.
We came out of Egypt, we were

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saved.
We are precious in God’s sight.

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And so therefore, then we need
to respond in thankfulness.

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So the apostle Paul says, then
think about this, think about

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Egypt, think about coming out
that you’ve been redeemed by the

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precious blood of the the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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Think about that, brothers and
sisters.

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And so he says then, then it is
your reasonable service.

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Poor translation really.
In the KJV it is your reasonable

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service and the word reasonable,
you’ll see in your margin is

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spiritual but better.
It is the word logica with AK

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logica.
And that word logica got passed

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down to the Romans and they
called it logica and we call it

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logical as you think about what
God has done for you and me.

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And This is why the exhortation
is so lovely, isn’t it?

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As we reflect upon our own
salvation, It is the logical

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response.
It’s not an emotional response.

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It is the only rational thing in
this irrational world.

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It is the only rational thing
that you and I can do.

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Now, isn’t that amazing?
Because this world is, is based

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upon logic.
Yet here the apostle Paul under

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inspiration, is using that word
and logic, real, true logic.

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Is offering yourself as a living
sacrifice.

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Totally illogical in this world,
isn’t it?

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Totally illogical.
But under Scripture, it’s

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logical.
We’re special brothers and

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sisters.
We’re very special in God’s

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sight.
Come back then to Romans chapter

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12.
So then, then with this with

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this logical response here, the
the apostle goes on to say, and

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I and I love the way that
brother Phil emphasized these

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words here in verse 2 and be not
conformed to the world, but be

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ye transformed by the renewing
of your warrant mind.

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And and and I’m sure you know
that that word transformed.

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It’s a very special Greek word.
It’s Metamorphu.

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It’s the metamorphosis.
It’s the word that’s used in

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Matthew 17 and verse two of the
Lord Jesus Christ who was

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transfigured in front of his
three disciples and he was

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altogether brilliant.
In fact, it says there in

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Matthew 17 and verse 2 that he’s
faced did shine as the sun and

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his raiment was as light.
Can you see the point, brothers

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and sisters, as as we go through
this life with God’s Word

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working within us, we become
beautiful in God’s sight.

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We are transformed, but the
transformation takes place

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through God’s Word within.
It’s not without.

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It starts within metamorpho.
Be ye not conformed, but be ye

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transformed now.
Now the idea of conformed is, is

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something that is convenient.
It’s something that requires no

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energy, no input at all, no
time, no sacrifice.

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But be ye transformed requires
time, effort, prayer, pouring

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over God’s Word.
Brothers and sisters, this is a

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huge challenge for you and me as
we sit here on a Sunday morning.

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Is God working in your life in
such a way that you can feel you

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can feel transformation?
Or are you merely conformed,

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standardised, consistent with
everything around you?

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What a challenge that is.
Brothers and sisters, for you

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and me in the Ecclesia without,
it starts with God, God’s Word

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working within our lives.
Now if we just reflect for a

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moment and we, we just pondered
that phrase, living, sacrifice,

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it’s a paradox, isn’t it?
It’s a contradiction.

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And the reason why it’s a
contradiction is because it

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brings together, it pulls
together 2 ideas, living and

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sacrifice, life and death.
And it’s a contradiction, isn’t

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it, brothers and sisters?
But it’s not.

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And what I want to show you now,
something I believe here that

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the apostle Paul under
inspiration is taking our minds

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back to a principle, an example.
I believe all of this in Romans

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chapter 12 is based upon one
particular scriptural example or

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principle, I should say a
blueprint.

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And then it’s illustrated by two
examples.

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And if we haven’t seen this, I
only discover this in my own

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studies here.
If you know this, that’s

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wonderful.
It’s just so wonderful when I

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discovered it.
Let’s have a look then at

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Genesis chapter 22.
We’re going here to see where

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the whole idea of a living
sacrifice is rooted, brothers

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and sisters.
So we’re going to do a little

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bit of exposition, but then it’s
powerful excitation.

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It’s so moving.
Genesis chapter 22 then.

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So what we’re trying to do now
is discover this idea of a

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living sacrifice.
And I believe here this event

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lays out the Bible principle.
So Genesis chapter 22.

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I don’t need to introduce this
chapter to you, do I?

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First one.
Then it came to pass after these

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things that God did tempt
Abraham, and said unto him,

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Abraham.
And he said, Behold, here am I.

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And he said, Take now thy son,
thine only son Isaac, whom thou

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lovest, and go thee into the
land of Moriah, and offer him

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there for a burnt offering unto
one of the mountains, which I

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will tell thee of.
So there’s a few little things I

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want you just to observe here.
First of all, let’s just pick

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out the word offer.
You see that there in verse 2

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offer.
And that’s an important word.

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It’s a a frequently used word.
It’s an important word.

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It’s the word Ola with an O Ola.
And it’s the whole idea to

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ascend, to bring up.
And the emphasis is that it’s a

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movement towards God from where
you are.

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It’s a movement towards God,
towards heavenly places.

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And the whole idea is
underpinned by the principle of

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surrender.
Surrender.

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Now the other word I want you to
pick out here is the burnt

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offering.
It’s one Hebrew word there at

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the end of verse 2.
It’s related to Ola.

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So, so we’ve got a Hebrew here
and they’re connected and we

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don’t want to make this overly
academic, but it’s, it’s the

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word.
So we’ve got Allah.

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Sorry, I should have said there
for offer and Ola here for the

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burnt offering, right?
And that means to sacrifice

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holy, to be consumed by fire,
total devotion.

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So sorry, the the first word is
Ola with an A and it’s to ascend

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to heavenly places.
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offering is Ola, which means to
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And they’re related.
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to go to heavenly places and to
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So they’re interrelated.
This whole idea of offering and

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burnt offering.
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pick out these key phrases here.
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See that?
Verse 12 thine only son at the

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end of verse 16 thine only son.
So this is all about this whole

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chapter is all about thine only
son.

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It’s it’s a chapter of father
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And what’s really lovely, if
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phrase thine only in the Hebrew,
it’s picked up in Psalm 22,

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which is a messianic Psalm, a
Psalm we know so well, which

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talks about the feelings of the
Lord Jesus Christ and the

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feelings of the Father.
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Psalm 22 and verse 20, and it’s
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that lovely?
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Psalm 22, it is my darling.
This is how God sees thine only

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Son.
Can you see that?

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Can you see the connection
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This was Abraham’s only son
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There it is, Psalm 22, my
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God will provide.
I want you just to notice that

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God will provide.
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Let’s just put the picture
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Where’s God providing at Moriah
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Moriah, and Moriah means chosen
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So God will provide on the mound
that God has chosen and what is

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he going to provide there in
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So you can see all these
wonderful messianic connections

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here as as a Moses under
expression wrote these words

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1400 years before the Lord Jesus
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But we’ve not established that
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So I want you now to go to
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I don’t know whether you’ve ever
noticed this, but what happens

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in Genesis chapter 22 becomes a
blueprint, an example.

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The Greek is a parable.
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let’s just see what happens here
concerning the Genesis 22

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account.
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Then by faith, Abraham when he
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he that had received the
prophets offered up His only

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begotten son.
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of his only begotten son.
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verse 16, three times it’s
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It is his only son.
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he is picking up that, remember
he’s saying to the reader, this

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was God’s only son in figure.
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was said that in Isaac shall thy
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So here we’re being told that
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would be the son of promise.
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live.
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Now verse 19 is the all together
important verse here accounting

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that God was able to raise him
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So this is Abraham.
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He believed that his son would
live again from whence also he

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received him.
In figure you may have a another

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translation.
If you look in your margin, you

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may have by the word figure a
parable.

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In other words, after this event
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became, it became an indelible
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people of God that they
remembered here that Isaac died

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and he lived.
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because as a substitute here in
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the ram, which was a burnt
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So through this blood of another
burnt offering, because Isaac

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was supposed to be the burnt
offering, Isaac was spared and

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this became a parable.
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He became brothers and sisters.
The 1st in Scripture, the first

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living sacrifice and under
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This is where I think Paul is
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the Father and Son relationship
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Now, now, if you think about
that, having made that

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connection, what is that
connection?

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It’s a wonderful connection,
isn’t it?

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It’s about the intimacy of a
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I send you the mount that Yahweh
has chosen, which is

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anticipating the work that the
Lord Jesus Christ would do at

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the very same mount with His
Father.

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But if you were to stand back
and look at that mountain, you

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were to reflect and examine what
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What was it?
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It was faith, the faith of
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surrender of the Son.
And I think these two ideas lock

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in what a living sacrifice is
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I want you to think about that.
It is about faith and

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surrendering your life.
Now there’s two illustrations

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that bring this to to life for
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Let’s just quickly go there.
Leviticus chapter 14.

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So there’s two, there’s two
sacrifices or two festivals here

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under the law that I believe
bring to life what took place on

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Mount Moriah in Genesis chapter
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It was the blood of the ram.
In Genesis chapter 22 as a burnt

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offering in the replacement of
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So you have two sacrifices here
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One was going to live Isaac, the
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The ram caught in the thickets.
Leviticus chapter 14, then

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again, and, and we’re just
trying to bring to mind what

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that phrase, that loaded phrase,
a living sacrifice is all about

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South.
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interesting because this chapter
is all about how a leper was

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cleansed.
And you might be thinking why

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we’re going here.
It’s going to become very clear

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in a moment.
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Then shall the priest command to
take for him that is to be

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cleansed?
So this is the leper.

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He’s he wants to be cleansed and
what does he have to do?

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He has to offer two birds alive.
That word alive there is Shay,

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which means life, vitality,
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There is no mistake that these
birds are alive and they’re well

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and they’re healthy.
That’s the point being made, the

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two birds alive and clean, and
cedar wood and scarlet and

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hyssop, and the priest shall
command that one of the birds be

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killed in earthen vessels over
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If you look at your margin by
running water, you might have

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living water.
That’s a that’s an echo of John

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4 verse 10, isn’t it?
The woman of Shechem at the

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well, living water, it’s
repeated again in verse 6 as to

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the living bird, he shall take
it and the cedar wood and the

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scarlet and the hyssop and shall
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And by the living bird, in the
blood of the bird that was

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killed over the running water,
again in your margin, living

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water.
What’s the point of all of this?

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You have two birds, one alive
and the other alive. 1 was going

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to be killed, the other one was
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But interestingly, the one that
was to be remain alive was

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dipped in the blood of the one
that had died, the one that had

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been killed, the one that had
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In other words, life was given
to the other bird through the

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death of another.
Can you see that this was very

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unusual.
There’s only two sacrifices

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under the law that have two
animals, a living and a dead and

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brothers and sisters.
Why is Paul then using that

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expression, living sacrifice?
Because you, however nice you

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look Sunday morning in your
best.

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We don’t like thinking about it,
do we?

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We were lepers.
Lepers.

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That’s hard, isn’t it?
That’s an inconvenient truth.

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You and I had leprosy and we
were out of fellowship with God

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and through the precious blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we

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have been cleansed, we have been
purified, and we have been

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brought in fellowship with God,
His Son and His family.

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You and I, brothers and sisters,
are sitting here this morning

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about to take of the emblems
because you’ve been cleansed,

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purified and sanctified.
You were a leper.

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I was a leper.
The worst of the worst.

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And we’ve been set free and we
can enjoy the freedom and

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fellowship that God has provided
to himself.

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Now, brothers and sisters, we’ve
got to take that on.

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We’ve got to accept that.
We’ve got to.

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We’ve got to embrace that idea.
None of us like thinking like

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that, do we Eppers?
That’s what Paul is saying.

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You are a living sacrifice.
Remember, brethren and sisters,

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you were a leper, A leper, a
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I’ll show you the other example.
It’s just two pages on Leviticus

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chapter 16, the Day of
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Look at this.
Two goats, one alive, 1’s going

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to die.
Look at this verse ten.

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I’ve got these all highlighted,
so it’s easy.

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The words jump out for me.
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Can you see just a few lines
down alive, really emphasizing

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here alive.
And you can you can see again,

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just a few lines down verse 21,
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And the live goat is named and
you see that the end of verse 8

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scapegoat.
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The end of verse 10, scapegoat
at the beginning of verse 26,

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scapegoat.
So the live goat is called the

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scapegoat.
It’s named, it’s called a

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scapegoat.
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time the word scapegoat is used
in verse 8, you may have a

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little thing in your margin that
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There is azazel, which means
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It’s the idea of something that
is removed entirely and what was

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removed entirely by the Skaker.
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The high priest was to confess
over him all the iniquities of

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the children of Israel and their
transgressions in all their

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sins, putting them upon the head
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You can put there the live goat
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So the live goat was going to
take away all the sins and the

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iniquities and the
transgressions of the children

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of Israel.
All the the sins that have built

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up that past year was going to
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Verse 22, it’s going to go into
a wilderness, a land not

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inhabited.
Of course, we can make the

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connection, the Lord Jesus
Christ upon him, the iniquities

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of us all were placed Isaiah 53
and now sits at the right hand

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of the Father, a land that is
not inhabited by man.

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We can see the wonderful
connections there.

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But the point I want to note is
verse 15, there’s another goat

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and the goat there is killed.
I’m sure you knew that there

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were two goats there on the Day
of Atonement.

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The Azazel, the scapegoat that
was going to be set free in

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verse 15, the other one was
going to be killed.

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Now, now of course we know that,
but there’s a lovely little

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detail here.
There’s huge emphasis that upon

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the goat that was going to live
all the transgressions and the

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you imagine that moment, all the
transgressions and the iniquity

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of God’s people are placed upon
this scapegoat and off it goes

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into the distance as they see
their transgressions and their

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iniquities all go off, taken,
hidden away.

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Verse 15, What about the other
goat that was killed?

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Was there any announcement made?
There were any sins uttered?

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Not a word, you see that the
goat that was killed, not one

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single sin was uttered.
The scapegoat, a loud

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pronouncement of all the
transgressions of God.

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Can you see the contrast here,
brothers and sisters?

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And isn’t it amazing?
Again, Moses under inspiration,

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recording these words.
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got another wonderful picture of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He had no sin, yet He died for
you and for me.

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Can you see that?
Isn’t that amazing?

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This this graphic Technicolor of
how the Lord Jesus Christ was

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going to redeem you and me?
So this other then connection

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with living sacrifices, all
about how your sins and my sins

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were taken away.
Living sacrifice goes back to

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Genesis 22, the Father and Son.
We are the children of God,

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faith and surrender.
That’s a connection.

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Leviticus 14, whether you like
to accept it or not, brothers

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and sisters, you and I were
lepers, lepers in God’s sight.

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But we’ve been clanced and
brought into fellowship with God

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and his Son and one another.
What a wonderful, what a

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wonderful rejoicing moment that
is.

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And we’ve got to believe it,
that your sins and my sins have

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been taken away.
We shouldn’t, brothers and

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sisters, be weighed down by the
weight of past guilt.

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We are free, our sins were
forgiven when we entered the

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waters of baptism, and we can go
to the Lord Jesus Christ in

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prayer and have any sin that we
utter forgiven.

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So finally then, brothers and
sisters, I just want to take you

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through a little section here.
We’re going to be very brief.

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I believe that that’s the
connection of a living

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sacrifice.
So in the final few moments,

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they will just be the final few
moments.

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I want you to see how this is
brought to life in your lives

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and mine.
Come back to Romans chapter 12

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and we’re going to just quickly
go through some verses.

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And I want to have this as a
litmus test.

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Let’s be honest with ourselves.
Let’s just see this as like an

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examination on ourselves this
morning as we prepare ourselves

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for the bread and the wine.
And, and I don’t mind.

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You can tell me after.
I don’t mind if you feel

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uncomfortable because I felt
uncomfortable when I was reading

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through these things.
What kind of living sacrifice

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are you?
Because here the apostle Paul

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brings out two aspects of living
sacrifice.

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You can you can mark here verse
3 to verse 13 is all about how

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we love our brothers and
sisters.

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So the living sacrifice, we’ve
made the connection back to

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Abraham.
The living sacrifice is all

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about how you love your brothers
and sisters.

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And then verses 14 to 21, how
we’re good in the world.

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And I’m just going to read some
phrases and you can think about

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how you’re getting on in life,
how you’re serving the Lord.

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Let’s just catch these hard
hitting phrases together.

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Verse 3.
Then we’re just going to run

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through the words.
Verse three, If you’re a living

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sacrifice, this is what’s seen
in loving your brothers and

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sisters.
Verse 3, Not to think of himself

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more highly than he ought to
think.

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OK, that’s one thing.
Verse 9, Let love be without

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dissimulation or brother Phil
read hypocrisy.

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Verse 10 be kindly affectioned.
1 To another with brotherly

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love, real love, real I felt it
this morning, real love with one

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another.
Verse 10 in honour, preferring

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one another.
Verse 13 distributing to the

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necessity of the Saints.
So a living sacrifice is all

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about how we treat one another.
Do you, brothers and sisters, do

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you love in action or do you
love in words?

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It needs to be action, doesn’t
it?

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And then verses 14 to 21 is all
about how we’re good to the

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world.
Feel the weight of these words.

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Verse 14, you think about this.
It’s not just about being a

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living sacrifice in the
ecclesia.

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It’s every aspect of your life.
Verse 14.

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Bless those which persecute you.
Verse 17 recompense to no man,

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evil for evil.
Verse 17 provide things honest

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in the sight of all men.
Verse 19 dearly beloved, avenge

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not yourselves.
In verse 20 if thine enemy

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hunger, feed him.
If he thirst, give him drink.

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So being a living sacrifice is
how we behave all of the time.

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Are we different to the world or
are we simply blending in?

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Are we being transformed from
within or are we conforming to

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those without?
And so as we come to the bread

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and wine now, brothers and
sisters, as we’ve looked at that

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living sacrifice and how it’s
brought to life, we have seen as

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we reflect upon the work of the
Lord Jesus Christ, that a living

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sacrifice is not a, is not a
single moment of devotion.

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It’s not a single moment of
devotion.

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It’s a life given in surrender.
It’s about God’s Word working

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within ourselves and and being
transformed into the image of

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
It’s not what we do, it’s what

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we become.
It’s it’s not how we are on a

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Sunday.
It’s what we’re like every day,

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brothers and sisters, as we
think of the example of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
Being a living sacrifice is all

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00:33:30,360 –> 00:33:36,640
about what you are like in
reality.

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It is the real you.
So finally then, I pose this

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question to you as we all try to
be living sacrifices to the best

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of our abilities.
This is a good time, isn’t it?

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This is a good moment now, just
now.

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So think about the one thing,
the one thing you know, you

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haven’t given up.
Let’s make the change now.

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