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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

Sacrifice

David Wright

Life: The Final Goal of All Sacrifice

The Reproach of Those Closest

God Wants To Hear You Sing

Salvation: An Expensive Gift

Sacrifice: Leftovers or Copper Coins

Never Enough

Sin Spotters

Sacrifice Required

Sacrifice for the Gospel

Well, what's the gift that you give to somebody that has everything?

And how much have you ever spent on a gift?

You know, you can go online and you can find some of the top 10 most expensive gifts ever.

The Taj Mahal, 1 of the most famous historical places in the world.

Everyone knows it's the most precious gift, so they say, given for a wife from her husband.

Took about 22 years to make this historic place at a cost of 32 million Indian rubies, a huge sum at the time, still considered according to the internet the best, most expensive, extravagant gift ever given.

Do I really want to go through with this?

We've been going through the last several weeks on a series we're entitling Sacrifice.

We've looked at various different parts of this thing called Sacrifice.

The first time we preached it was on the character of sacrifice, How you can't have a testimony without a test.

And we looked at Abraham and Isaac and the incredible test that he was faced with.

And it wasn't so much a test of his strength, but a test of his dependence upon God.

And we saw how life is the ultimate goal of all sacrifice.

If you want to save your life, you will lose it, but if you lose your life For God and for the gospel, you will save it.

We looked at the sacrifice of relationships and how God calls us to put him first above even those closest of relationships.

We saw how Christ walked alone, how his disciples and his family members, they thought he was crazy, they didn't understand, and how he walked alone, but how he was faithful to his Father.

We looked at the text, that we must be willing to give up houses and father, mother, sister, brother, children, land for the sake of God and the gospel.

But in so doing, the promise says, we'll receive a hundredfold.

We looked 2 weeks ago at physical sacrifice and this prosperity gospel, which is a thousand miles away from reality.

That following God can be hard, it can be difficult, it can be challenging.

In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good courage.

We talked about how God wants to hear you in the midst of your trial, in the midst of your difficult circumstance, to sing even in the inner prison as Paul and Silas did.

To glorify God in your trial, to proclaim to the world, even in this situation I will continue to trust in Him in the midst of physical sacrifice.

And then today's piece, the sacrifice of the Son as we think about communion.

And then next week we'll look at the sacrifice of self-reliance, sacrifice of means and pleasures, the sacrifice of pride, how sacrifice is required, and lastly the sacrifice of the gospel.

So we're still just kind of getting underway here.

But the sacrifice of the Son, what is the purpose?

And I would suggest to you the means of salvation is a very expensive gift, very costly gift.

And we're gonna try and make this a little bit shorter today, obviously because of the communion service, but you just go back in your mind's eye.

We've read the passages before, we're not going to go back to Genesis, but think of this perfect world before sin entered.

See there, Gary and Bryce, there's even some trout there in heaven, but you already knew that.

And it was said you can go anywhere in the garden Except for this tree.

Don't touch the fruit from this tree, but as you know the story, Eve picked the fruit.

And so Jesus, the creator of the universe, chooses to come in the flesh to this sin-filled, broken planet.

In fact, all the way through from Genesis to Revelation, it is God's way, God's means, His method to restore lost humanity and the sacrifices He's willing to pay.

Yes, he sent his word, but he sent something far better than any of those.

And if we took time, and we're not going to, but in Luke chapter 15, you know the story of the hundred sheep or the 99 sheep and the 1 that's lost.

Just an excerpt from there, it says, "'Go after the one, ' referring to the shepherd, "'he will go after the 1 which is lost "'until he finds it.'" Until he finds it.

That word until encompasses the eternity of determination.

In other words, at any cost, I will find you, until I will keep searching and searching and pursuing until I find you.

We serve a God, yes, He respects our freedom of choice, but He's relentlessly pursuing you and I, And it came to the point he couldn't take it anymore and he couldn't just send another messenger, he couldn't just send another prophet, but he had to come in the flesh in search of you and I.

Desire of Ages says it this way, he would save man at Any cost to himself.

The creator of the universe that made all creatures, all incredible things of nature and knit them all together, all the things of space, all the things of everything that you look at, every flower, every detail.

And he says that was nothing in cost in comparison.

First Corinthians 6, 19 and 20, do you not know that you are not your own for you were bought at a price, a high price, an expensive gift.

You're not your own, but you were bought at a price.

If you brought your Bibles, I want to look briefly at Philippians chapter 2, 5 and 8, or 5 through 8.

Philippians chapter 2, as we get a glimpse of the mind of Christ.

Philippians chapter 2 beginning verse 5 it says, let or allow this mind or this attitude to be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

It doesn't say give it your best shot or your best effort or pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Verse 6, who being in the form of God, did not consider robbery to be equal with God.

But made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond servant or a slave, and coming in the likeness of men.

He stripped himself of all privilege, some translate it.

He made himself nothing, as maybe what your translation says.

He laid aside his mighty power and his glory, say another.

And being found the appearance of a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the most despicable, Torturesome, painful, brutal death.

And what made this gift so costly, so expensive?

Well for 1, He gave up His omnipotence, His being all-powerful.

We see here in John 5 verse 30, I can of myself do how much?

Think about all the things that he did through the power of the Father.

John 14 10, I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father.

Series

Sacrifice

Salvation: An Expensive Gift

Transcript

Parent Series

Sponsor

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IMPACT Scandinavia 2012: Plenary Sessions

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Jesus on Prophecy

14 Jesus on Revelation’s Rapture

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