Topic: A Living Sacrifice
Text: I Corinthians 6:15-20

The object of Christian holiness is so important that we cannot afford to handle it with levity. God has made enough provision for your holiness of sanctification. You must hanker after the experience until you have attained it. To be sanctified is good but it takes serious efforts to keep the blessing. How do we remain sanctified? We are to do two simple things. The first thing to do is to love your Husband as much as He loves you. Of course you Husband is Jesus Christ. He loves you with all His heart, all soul, strength and mind. All that He is asking from you is that you should return the love. Jesus Christ said in John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” We must love Jesus so much that we should be ready to die for Him. Like the Christian lady who was ready to die for Christ instead of denying Him so as to get married, or those who were ready to call the name of Jesus Christ even at the face of the gun of the enemies. Another way that can show Jesus that you are ready to die for Him and live according to His will is recorded in Romans 12:1. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Present your body as a living sacrifice. What is a living sacrifice? Let us give an illustration. A living sacrifice is like the goat we used to give the witch doctors in those days when we used to visit them, in order to appease gods for us. The goat is kept in the witch doctor’s yard. You do not have a right to ask for your goat back. He can do whatever he likes with the goat, He can decide to rear it, sell it or kill it. The goat is what is called a living sacrifice. The goat is alive but it can be dealt with in anyway the witch doctor considers. In the manner, when you become a living sacrifice to your Husband, you are telling the Lord that He can do whatever He likes with you. This is another way of saying that you are ready to lay down your life for Him. The second thing you are to do to remain sanctified is to love yourself, not because of yourself, but because you belong to your Husband, because you are His favourite and you are set apart for Him. You belong to Him.

Memory Verse: Romans 12:1 - “I beseech you therefore, brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”