2 Samuel 24

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• 2 Samuel 24
• What has your faith cost you?

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Define - Sacrifice

• Animal sacrifice give up their life
• Grain, meal sacrifice to give what you could
  have sold, used, eaten, or traded for something
  of value
• SACRIFICE to give up something of value
• Not a sacrifice
• If you give away what you don't want
• Sell a low cost in a garage sale
• Get rid of stuff, give to charitible place

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Define - Sacrifice

• Dictionary - The surrender or destruction of
  something prized or desirable for the sake of
  something considered as having higher or more
  pressing claim.
• To surrender or give up, or permit injury or
  disadvantage to, for the sake of something else

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2 Samuel 241-2

• 1 Again the anger of the Lord was aroused against
  Israel, and He moved David against them to say,
  "Go, number Israel and Judah."
• 2 So the king said to Joab the commander of the
  army who was with him, "Now go throughout all the
  tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and
  count the people, that I may know the number of
  the people."

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2 Samuel 2410

• And David's heart condemned him after he had
  numbered the people. So David said to the Lord,
  "I have sinned greatly in what I have done but
  now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of
  Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

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2 Samuel 2410

• And David's heart condemned him after he had
  numbered the people. So David said to the Lord,
  "I have sinned greatly in what I have done but
  now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of
  Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

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2 Samuel 2418-19

• 18 And Gad came that day to David and said to
  him, "Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the
  threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
• 19 So David, according to the word of Gad, went
  up as the Lord commanded.

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Here is what David did

• Wanted to buy the threshing floor
• Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come
  to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the
  threshing floor from you, to build an altar to
  the Lord, that the plague may be withdrawn from
  the people." 2 Samuel 2421

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Here is what was offered

• Was offered oxen, wood, everything for the
  sacrifice
• Now Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king
  take and offer up whatever seems good to him.
  Look, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and
  threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen
  for wood. 2 Samuel 2422

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Here is David's answer

• David's response NO!
• Then the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will
  surely buy it from you for a price nor will I
  offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with
  that which costs me nothing." So David bought the
  threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of
  silver. 2 Samuel 2424

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Sacrifice in the NT

• NT Christians are to sacrifice
• 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be
  conformed to this world, but be transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
  what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
  of God. Romans 121-2

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Sacrifice in the NT

• Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink
  offering on the sacrifice and service of your
  faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
  Philippians 217
• By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent
  sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained
  witness that he was righteous, God testifying of
  his gifts and through it he being dead still
  speaks.Hebrews 114

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Sacrifice in the NT

• 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the
  sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of
  our lips, giving thanks to His name.
• 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for
  with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Hebrews 1315-16

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How are you doing?

• Missionary in Korea went to a small village
• Man was pulling plow and wife was guiding it
• Why don't they have an ox do that work?
• Local minister explained They sold their ox and
  gave the money to the church.

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How are you doing?

• You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving
  against sin. Hebrews 124
• What have you sacrificed?
• What has your faith cost you?

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Our Sacrifice

• Is not animal, grain or other goods
• Our sacrifice is
• Worship Praise Sing Pray Study
• Time service to others share with others
• Ability use your ability for God
• Gifts contribution to the work of the church

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Our Sacrifice

• Our sacrifice is
• SELF - Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If
  anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny
  himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
• Matthew 1624