The Sacrifice/Offering God Accepts
Activity : Sunday Sermon Scripture References: Gen. 4: 1-8, 1 Kings 3: 1-15, Acts 2: 42-47; 4: 32-37; 8: 9-24, Gal. 6: 6-10, Heb. 10: 1-18 Introduction Our present world is tilted to believe that everything and everybody, including supposed men of God, and even God Himself, has a price. The capitalist orientation has modified our thinking into believing that there is nothing that could not be bought, including things that are exclusive of God; grace, mercy, blessings and even, the Holy Spirit, as long as the price is right . Body In the Old Testament, the very first advent of sacrifice was by Jacob (Genesis 31:54). I did tell us over the past three weeks that father Abraham and his son, Isaac never sacrificed for once before God blessed them; they were both given to good works before God. God began to explicitly require sacrifices from His people for basic reasons like, thanksgiving, remission of sins, peace, etc while in the wilderness and their sins, both against God and