Sermonette: Our Complete, Whole Burnt Offering
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Bill Onisick
Given 30-Sep-23; 22 minutes
description: Our patriarch Abraham, when God tested him by asking him to sacrifice Isaac, knew deep within his heart that God will provide (Genesis 24:13) regardless of the cost of the sacrifice. Likewise, the widow with two mites sacrificed more than all the others jingling their coins in the trumpet receptacle in the temple. We are admonished in the great commandment to love God with all our heart and our neighbor as ourselves. In the end times, we are warned in the Olivet prophecy that love, because of lawlessness, will dangerously cool. I Corinthians 13 prescribes some concrete actions to always do what is best for the God family. Romans 12:1-2 demands that our sacrifice should be a total sacrifice, determined to pour ourselves out as a drink offering, emulating the Apostle Paul, who knew that God will always provide and sustain us if we stir up the spirit within us (II Timothy 1:6).