Sacrifices

Front matter
Connections List
 * JC death atonement
 * Mosaic Sacrificial Law
 * Salvation
 * Priest
 * JC death house
 * Worship
 * Mercy not sacrifice
 * Altar
 * Cross Event
 * JC Firstborn
 * Obedience
 * Death to Sin
 * Book of Hebrews
 * Hebrews 10
 * Fire
 * Atonement vocab

Scope
 * Sacrifices
 * Sacrificial lifestyle, outpouring
 * Leaving everything for Jesus

Topics
 * Definition
 * Pagan sacrificial
 * Israel sacrificial law (see connection)
 * JC sac for us (see JC house)
 * OT sac
 * Sacrificial lifestyle
 * Leave everything
 * Devotion

Definition
 * Sacrifice - Functionally innocent (receiving greater punishment than it deserves) object which
 * 1) takes punishment for another, guilt imputed
 * 2) is devoted / destroyed / given over to the authority to make a good relationship, curry favor, etc

General sac mech

 * Sacrifice is always a good thing
 * Sac as offering pleasing aroma vs. atoning payment substitute...
 * Are we purified by jc then sanctified? Death to self, take on jc, then sac w him.

OT sac mech
OT sac e.g.
 * Sacrifice is ugly in order to represent ugly sin. Damage taken.
 * Blood does not medically cleanse.
 * Purposes
 * Cleanse objects
 * Pay for sin - put hand on head of animal to transfer sin
 * Sanctification
 * Devotion - return to heaven, give over to God (see Sacrifices section)
 * The heart still matters Ps 40:6 and other I desire Mercy not sacrifice
 * Abraham sacrifice Issac
 * Jer 46:10 God offers sacrifice to himself when Egypt is slaughtered by Nebby
 * Animal skins in garden
 * Barabbus exchanged for JC

Sacrificial lifestyle

 * Imitate JC in his sacrifice. We sacrifice unto God as JC did in obedience. We sac for others in evang. Physical, mental, spiritual exhastion in work, evang, extroversion/loving other people
 * Sacrifice as a method of sanctification. Sort of goes with testing. Allow body to be burned, dross removed. See image "You must be slain to be cleansed": jc bleeds down onto head which passes over/through flayed body, washing out blackness from next to the bones, down to grate at bottom where burned.
 * We are the sacrifice Rom 12, God is the fire. Song "you provide the fire, I'll provide the sacrifice". Also occurs with Carmel, covenant with Abraham, pentecost. Sort of connected to sex (semen is fire, the woman is medium object), similar to JC and HS lives in us (though we are also in him JC house). God is fire Heb 12. God is light. See "Fire". We are made of dust/earth (material/medium to be sacrificed).

Leave everything

 * Hate father mother brother, own life for me Luke 14:26.
 * Elisha sacrifices his oxen and burns yoke for Elijah 1 King 19
 * We have left everything to follow you Matt 19:27, Mark 10:28. Also left nets and follow at call. Also take nothing with you but cloak.

Devotion

 * In OT, devotion is total giving over to God. E.g. conquest of cannan burn the cities.
 * We are to be devoted to God, on the altar with JC as a living sacrifice
 * Our home is in heaven

Pagan sacrificial practices

 * Molech
 * Jeremiah 3:24 "From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fuits of our ancestors' labor - their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters."
 * Egyptian
 * Moabite
 * Ammorite
 * Philistine
 * Baals
 * Ashera and other fertility