Quotes About Sacrifice

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, since you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. 1 Corinthians 5:7

Any sacrifice we make in our quest for freedom will be wholly consumed and blessed by God. Notice something extremely important: Gideon prepared a sacrifice. Then we read in verse 21: "With the tip of the staff that was in his hand, the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire flared

We resist offering ourselves wholly to anyone or anything that has the potential to encroach on our personal desires, and Jesus made clear from the start that God's will and ours would be in conflict at times. Yet our surrender to Jesus is also ultimately our surrender to joy.

Physical existence is not what Christ died to bring us. He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly.

To live, is to have Christ...

In God's plan not only was Christ to suffer the cross, but we too must die daily.

God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

Mom did what many women of her era did. She stayed, despite a dozen valid reasons to go. She considered dying, but never leaving.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. 1 John 3:16 You may say, "You don't know what I've been through." Please hear my heart. I am completely compassionate, because I've also been hurt by people who were supposed to love me. But let me say this: no matter how many people have made you feel unloved, the heavenly Father has done so much more to show you that you are loved. If need be, make a list of ways you've

Christ gave His life so God could say yes to the fulfillment of His promises in the lives of believing mortals. Therefore, I am utterly convinced that any no an earnestly seeking child of God receives from the Throne is for the sake of a greater yes, whether realized on earth or in heaven.

Sometimes God requires much of us so we can experience the unmatched exhilaration of partnering in divine triumph.

Surely the greatest callings of God are the gravest as well.

God remembers our sins no more because the work of the cross already has. No further sacrifice remains for sin because the work has already been accomplished. Therefore, God need never act again on their behalf.

Jesus Christ graced earth's guilty sod to offer Himself as the perfect sacrifice and fulfill every requirement of the Law once and for all. He shed His precious blood on an altar constructed of two pieces of wood and fashioned into a cross. The fire of holy judgment met with the blood of the spotless Lamb, and our guilt was purged and our sins atoned. Glory to His name! We need no further act of atonement, but we are desperate for the continuing work of sanctification.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. 1 John 3:16

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. . . . If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. (1 John 4:10–15)

Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.

My friend, I am "jealous" for you to enjoy God. I want God to be the greatest reality in your life. I want you to be more assured of His presence than any other you can see or touch. This can be your reality. This is your right as a child of God. We were destined for this kind of relationship with God, but the enemy tries to convince us that the Christian life is sacrificial at best and artificial at worst.

This is love: that we walk according to His commands. 2 John 6

I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life" (John 6:47–48). Did you notice how Jesus combined the bread of life with everlasting life? Christ is the bread of God's presence to us. His scars are placed before God as a perpetual memorial that the wages of our sins have been paid. Christ said, "This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world" (John 6:51b).

Marriage is sacred. It was created to be the wedding portrait of Christ and His Bride hung over the blazing fireplace of judgment. A match made in Heaven, a contract signed in blood. In the bond of marriage, we are to stand at the altar of Sacrifice or we're not to stand at all.

For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son. John 3:16

1 Pet. 1:18–19)

God doesn't call us to sacrifice our sanity; He calls us to sacrifice our selfishness.