ONLY ONE SACRIFICE
Jesus Christ
was the only one good enough to become a sacrifice. His sacrifice was to live
for us, as a human being, to show us how to live for God. Jesus was the son of God Almighty. Every other human
being has flaws, so not one other human could be the perfect sacrifice.
We know that there is
always a price to pay for a relationship. Anyone married knows their
relationship requires personal sacrifices. To have a perfect relationship with
God also requires sacrifices. We consider that the sacrifices we make for spouses,
children, parents or friends, may be inconvenient, but we consider the end, and
in light of the end purpose, the sacrifice is not that bad.
To be a close friend of
God requires sacrifices as well, but they should be considered as essential as sacrifices
we make for any dear relationship we have with any human being.
However, historically men
have believed that gods are more perfectly designed than any human and consequently
would require a much bigger and more significant sacrifice to remain in the god’s
favor. Thus, the practice of human sacrifice.
In most pagan religions,
past and present, human sacrifice is the preferred offering. We see it
throughout the Bible, and we see it in other older cultures around the world,
such as the Incan, Mayan, and Aztec cultures. Those are just three that I know
something about, but I’m sure you may know of others. Human sacrifice is still
practiced around the world today. In the USA, babies are sacrificed to provide blood
and adrenochrome in the ritualistic rites of several different Luciferian groups.
This is not the way of our God, the true God of the Bible.
God required only one
sacrifice, and He could afford to sacrifice His only begotten son, Jesus,
because He knew he would get him back, whole, complete, and forever. The only
legal sacrifice of all time was the son of God Himself. He sacrificed Jesus by
having him come to earth as a man. Then He let the devil think he killed him.
The devil thought that in taking God’s sacrifice, he would also be taking God’s
power and authority. But no! God brought Jesus back to life, because only He could
do that. The devil thought way too little of the magnitude and sovereignty of
the true God.
No other sacrificial death
would be so good that it would make for a complete reconciliation, a complete
oneness between a man or woman, or child with our creator, God.
The fallacy of pagan
religions’ idea of sacrificing to get a better standing with their creator, or
more favor with their god, is that it never works. It’s always a guessing game,
a risk, a total gamble, and most of the time the practitioners are going to
lose.
There are many examples of
pagan sacrificial practices throughout the Bible. One that I saw recently is in
2 Kings 3. The Moabites couldn’t seem to win a battle, though they tried just
about everything they had and as a final step, human sacrifice.
“But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up
and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them. And they went forward,
slaying the Moabites as they went.
“They beat down the cities [walls], and on every good piece of
land every man cast a stone, covering it [with stones]. And they stopped all
the springs of water and felled all the good trees, until only the stones [of
the walls of Moab’s capital city] of Kir-hareseth were left standing, and the
slingers surrounded and took it.
“And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was against him, he
took with him 700 swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they
could not.
“Then the king of Moab took his eldest son, who
was to reign in his place, and offered him [publicly] as a burnt offering [to
Chemosh] on the [city] wall [horrifying everyone]. And there was great wrath
against Israel, and Israel’s allies [Judah and Edom] withdrew from King Jehoram
and returned to their own land” (2 Kings 3:24-27).
We need to stop the
sacrifices. Jesus was the only true sacrifice ever for all mankind. No other
human sacrifice is lawful or necessary to get favor from our maker. God gave us
His son as the perfect sacrifice for everything we desperately need and desire.
We can understand this. We
make sacrifices in our relationships with others so that the relationship will
get even better and last even longer. It’s worth it. But some sacrifices are
harder than others. Don’t you think that it was hard for God to sacrifice
Jesus? Of course it was, but He did it to bind a relationship with us, and yes,
forever. It was worth it to Him. And, He already knew that He would get Jesus
back. Death could not take Jesus, and it cannot take any other person who
believes in him. Believe in him today.
Let’s believe in the
sacrifice God made for us. Let’s run to the only God who requires nothing of us
but to believe in His son Jesus and accept him as supreme in our lives. Romans
10:9-10. One sacrifice. One Jesus Christ. One family. No other sacrifice will
do.
Love, Carolyn
PS: And teach this to your
children. Give them a chance to learn about the true God and His only begotten
son Jesus. Let them learn to believe in the Bible, to know what the ten
commandments are, to know what Jesus taught, and to have a chance to be filled
with God’s precious gift of the holy spirit to guide them when they are away
from you. It will be important to them, and to others they will share with
along the way.