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Cost of Sacrifice

2 Samuel 24

What has your faith cost you?

Define – Sacrifice

  1. Animal sacrifice – gave up their life

  2. Grain, meal sacrifice – to give that which cost you something

  3. Sacrifice – to give up something

  4. Dictionary - “The surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.”

David's sin – numbered the people – 10

The sacrifice – 24

  1. 21 – buy the threshing floor

  2. 22 – offered oxen, wood, everything for sacrifice

  3. 24 – No – I cannot offer that which cost me nothing

Sacrifice in the NT

  1. Romans 12:1 bodily sacrifice

  2. 1 Corinthians 10:20 do not fellowship demons

  3. Philippians 2:17 sacrifice of Philippians

  4. Hebrews 11:4 Able offered a more excellent sacrifice

  5. Hebrews 13:15 sacrifice of praise, fruit of our lips


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