A Living Sacrifice

There's another level that The Father is calling His children to. This level is not one that every born-again believer can sustain. Very shortly, there's going to be a major distinction between the Christians who simply go to church on Sunday mornings and the believers who have sold out for Christ. You may not be able to witness the difference right now, but very soon, there will be no question in terms of who the elect of God are. With that being said, before we cross over into the next dimension of the Kingdom of God, there is one more area of faith we must make sure we exercise.

God is now calling for Sacrifice. I'm sure many of you feel you've sacrificed enough, and I would be the last one to argue with you. But the Father is calling for a special sacrifice, a Living Sacrifice (Romans 12). When I reference this term "Living Sacrifice", I'm not just referring to sexual abstinence or fasting. I'm talking about the willingness to literally lay one's life down for the cause of Christ. A lot of times we think of this in the context of some sort of "martyr sydrome", but it's deeper than that. Yes, if we are called to physically die for the cause of Christ we should be willing to do that. However, the Plan that God has for us isn't restricted to that.

The Plan that God has always had for humanity is for Christ to live through us (Colossians 1). Somewhere along the way the Covenant Community got lost in the obsession of trying to keep the law, but this was never the Will of God (Hebrews 10). The Law was designed to serve as a template for how God wanted His Kingdom structured, but not how He wanted the hearts and minds of His people to be regulated (Hebrews 8). The Plan has always been the Manifestation of the Divine Image of God through the lives of God's people (Genesis 1). But here's the catch that Adam didn't receive and that Abraham did: in order for the Divine Image of God to be manifested in and through human vessels, humanity has to die. Man cannot remain self-contained and operate in the Divine Image of God. That's why very few human beings truly actualize their Divine Potential; they're not willing to Die for it. This is part of the reason why Jehovah allowed His Son to take on human flesh. Not just for the purpose of Salvation, but to also demonstrate the method and means of fulfilling the original human design that God made for humanity. I hope saints that we love God enough and are grateful and appreciative enough of the Sacrifice of His Son, to be willing to Honor the Father with the submission of our bodies, souls and spirits to serve as A Living Sacrifice.