• Romans 12:1-2
  • A sacrifice is my heart’s effort to honor God.
    • Malachi 1:6-7 – The real topic here is their hearts.
    • Malachi 1:8-14 – It would have been better for them to not worship than to worship so poorly. God demands the best from us!
    • Psalms 51:16-17 – God is most pleased with a broken and contrite heart.
    • Mark 12:32-34
    • I Peter 2:4-5 – We are to be living stones, offering up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God.
  • It means giving something up that I otherwise wouldn’t want to give up.
    • Hebrews 13:15-16
    • Philippians 2:17
    • II Timothy 4:6
    • Where is God in our list of priorities?
  • Jesus went first. Our turn.
    • Ephesians 5:1-2
    • Galatians 2:20
    • Romans 12:1 – “By the mercies of God”: everyone deserves God’s wrath, but we can be justified by faith.
    • I owe it to God to sacrifice myself for Him!
  • Am I being a living sacrifice acceptable to God?