Obedience but No Sacrifice (Hebrews 10)

Only think for one minute about how life is good…No longer do we have to offer sacrifices, because of what Jesus did for us,

His obedience canceled the need for any sacrifices on our part.  Life is like that, it is either obedience or sacrifice.  What is it for you?

King Saul had to learn this the hard way when he disobeyed God’s instructions about what to do with the spoil of the enemy.  He gave the lambs in sacrifice rather than obey God himself and that is when God told him: “Obedience is better than sacrifice” (1 Samuel 15:22).  So quit trying to please God by all your good works, it is not what he wants.  He wants you and Jesus understood this because it says in Hebrews 10:5-7…

That is why, when Christ came into the world, he said to God,

“You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings.

But you have given me a body to offer

You were not please with burn offerings or other offerings for sin.

Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God---

As is written about me in the Scriptures’ “

 

Further down in that same passage it is explained in verses 9-10:

Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” 

He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.

  For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice

 of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

 

Look at the marvelous thing Christ did for us!  That means you can rest in him.  Follow his Spirit and let him obey in you the Father on your behalf.  What a deal! Why would anybody not want to do it?

It is a lot easier to let him do it for you through your body than being busy and running around and work hard and not please God at all.  Let him obey through you.  Let him also have the credit, it is less pressure on you.

 

Promise to yourself you will no longer offer sacrifices to God in good works but offer your body as a living sacrifice in obedience to him, then you will be holy and worthy to be called his child. (Romans 12:1-2)

 

Let nothing hold you back and be passionate about one thing… and that is to be bold in obedience to God and for his sake…Be purposeful!