ONLY ONE SACRIFICE

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.