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What the Bible says about Sacrifice of Human Nature
(From Forerunner Commentary)
As a converted man, David understood that animal sacrifices were really not doing anything except setting a pattern. Certainly, they were tutors to those who understood. The Israelites could sacrifice thousands of animals and not get a thing out of it, but David understood. He writes, "For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart."
That costs a man something! A person sacrifices of himself when wild human nature is being cut away, when he, by the exercise of his will due to his faith in God, determines to do or not to do something, even as Jesus later did. By the force of His will, buttressed by His faith, He would make himself do something, or keep Himself from doing something, that every fiber of His passionate being yearned to do the opposite. "These, O God, You will not despise."
John W. Ritenbaugh
Preparing to Be a PriestRelated Topics: Animal Sacrifices | David's Repentance | Repentance | Sacrifice of a Contrite Heart | Sacrifice of Broken Spirit | Sacrifice of the Self | Self Sacrifice
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