This week’s memory verses are Romans 12: 1 & 2.
When God looks at a true believer, He no longer sees a sinner. He sees us as covered in Christ Jesus. True believers are no longer separated from God.
Before Jesus came, people still had to offer animal sacrifices as an atonement for the cost of sin.
The sacrifice also foretold the work of Jesus at Calvary. The animal was an innocent substitute, just as Jesus was.
The first sacrifice occured in Eden, when God killed an animal to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3).
This picture of God’s love for sinners, helps us see the high cost of sin. The price was paid by our Savior.
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“…Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…”
Isaiah 1:18
That sacrifice is a picture of our redemption. Jesus was perfectly sinless. But our sin and our punishment were poured out upon Him.
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Thankfully, now God will accept our lives and our worship as our perfect sacrifice, when we believe by faith.
Nothing else is required. True believers have been set apart to glorify God.
So what should we do?
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12: 1 & 2
This week, focus on these verses by not only memorizing them, but also make a conscious effort to live by them.
Dedicate your daily life to the Lord, who has sacrificed everything through His Son. We are saved by His grace alone.
With my whole heart, I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
Psalm 119: 10-11
Share the Good News in your world!
Isaiah 52:7
New King James Version (NKJV)
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