Sacrifices That Please God—Part IV

“Sacrifices That Please God—Part IV” “…for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” Hebrews 13:16b The second meaning of doing good is doing acts that are good. This usually involves others. We could easily name a hundred ways we could help our fellow man. We are told in Proverbs 3:27, “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. ” Bro. James tells us, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17). If offering praise and thanksgiving and doing good pleases God, then not doing so would displease Him. What can you do today to please God? Sacrifices are costly; they are sometimes difficult, and they require some loss or discomfort on our part. Whatever we know about sacrifice, we have learned from God. He made the first sacrifice in Genesis three, when He killed some animals, perhaps lambs, and used their skins to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve. God’s ultimate sacrifice occurred about two thousand years ago, when He “…spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all” (Rom. 8:32). God put the sins of every sinner on His perfect, spotless Son, and then poured out His wrath on Jesus. Why? “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all ” (Isa. 53:6). That is sacrifice!! (cont.) — R.C.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” March 27th, 2020 devotional by author DR. REX COBB, Baptist Bible Translators, Bowie, TX. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.