Presenting Our Bodies as a Living Sacrifice, Part 2 (TMF:1802)

Tuesday, March 08, 2022
Peace to Live By: Presenting Our Bodies as a Living Sacrifice, Part 2 (TMF:1802) - Daniel Litton
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       So, we know that when Paul presents a “therefore,” that it is there for a reason. What have we been touching on in the last three chapters? Well, as I already mentioned, we’ve been discussing the Jews, and how they think they’re right before God already. They don’t believe they need Christ. But Paul is saying here, in light of the current state of the Israelites, that we are not to be like them. He is saying they are a ‘dead’ sacrifice to God, but we are to present ourselves as a “living sacrifice.” The living sacrifice is obviously quite different from the dead one. Currently, if a Jewish person were to offer an animal sacrifice to God for his or her sins, as the Jews did in the Old Testament, that sacrifice on the altar is dead. On the contrary, for us as believers, we offer ourselves too, but what’s the difference? We are living. We are alive in Christ. Thus begets the second word that’s regularly deleted—that’s usually overlooked—and that is the word “living.” Yes, we are a living sacrifice to God, not a dead one.