With What Shall I Come Before Jehovah?

Micah 6:6-8

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Sacrifice and Offerings

In the course of time Cain brought to Jehovah an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions.

Genesis 4:3-4

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There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering

Deuteronomy 18:10

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the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God

1 Samuel 15:15

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Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:22

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Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:22

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TextFor you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Psalm 51:16-17

TextFor you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Psalm 51:16-17

I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Isaiah 1:16-17

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land

Isaiah 1:19

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 6:6

Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.

Amos 5:22

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 5:24

With what shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before God on high?

Micah 6:6

Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Micah 6:6

Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams,

Micah 6:7

Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil?

Micah 6:7

Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

Micah 6:7

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He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8

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He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8

The Limitations of Sacrifice

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11

I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. Psalm 50:9-10

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11

Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 50:13

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11Limitations

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11Limitations

“cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper” Hebrews 9:9

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11Limitations

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:4

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11So why command sacrifice?

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11So why command sacrifice?

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:24

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11So why command sacrifice?

for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

Leviticus 17:11

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11So why command sacrifice?

But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

Hebrews 10:3

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11

WITH WHAT IS GOD PLEASED?

I DO NOT DELIGHT in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11

WITH WHAT IS GOD PLEASED?obey

listen

broken spirit

broken contrite heart

willing

obedient

steadfast love

knowledge

justice

righteousness

do good

justice

kindness

humility

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Hebrews 10:4-10

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“I have come to do your will” Hebrews 10:9

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“I have come to do your will” Hebrews 10:9

“He humbled himself by becoming obedient”

Philippians 2:8

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“I have come to do your will” Hebrews 10:9

“He humbled himself by becoming obedient”

Philippians 2:8

“He learned obedience”Hebrews 5:8

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“I have come to do your will” Hebrews 10:9

“He humbled himself by becoming obedient”

Philippians 2:8

“He learned obedience”Hebrews 5:8

What was it that pleased God about

Jesus’ sacrifice?

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“Jesus’ death was not so much his getting what we deserved, as it is the Holy Father getting what he deserved.”

Jim McGuiggan, The Dragon Slayer, p. 15

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“What Christ ceaselessly offered his Holy Father in his daily living is brought to focus in a cross that consummated his holy obedient life.”

Jim McGuiggan, The Dragon Slayer, p. 15

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“In the cross we see God getting what he deserved; what we should always have given him.”

Jim McGuiggan, The Dragon Slayer, p. 15

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“Finally and completely a human gave to God, as an obedient child, what the Holy Father was worthy of.”

Jim McGuiggan, The Dragon Slayer, p. 15

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“I have come to do your will” Hebrews 10:9

“He humbled himself by becoming obedient”

Philippians 2:8

“He learned obedience”Hebrews 5:8

What was it that pleased God about

Jesus’ sacrifice?

We implore you on behalf of Christ,

be reconciled to God.2 Corinthians 5:20

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Understanding Our Salvation

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With What Shall I Come Before Jehovah?Micah 6:6-8

Compiled and Presented by:Dave Stewart2015 March 1

www.churchofchristmiranda.com

Synopsis: In this lesson we consider the purpose of sacrifice, learning that sacrifice is not about the sacrifice itself, for God is not pleased with the blood, rather it is about our obedience. Jesus demostrates for us the importance of this obedience in His life and death thus providing salvation for us.

“Let all that you do be done with love.”

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