You who wanted no sacrifice or oblation

[MoreCoffee]

Bulls’ blood and goats’ blood are useless for taking away sins, and this is what Christ said, on coming into the world:
You who wanted no sacrifice or oblation,
prepared a body for me.
You took no pleasure in holocausts[SUP]*[/SUP] or sacrifices for sin;
then I said,
just as I was commanded in the scroll of the book,
‘God, here I am! I am coming to obey your will.’
Notice that he says first: You did not want what the Law lays down as the things to be offered, that is: the sacrifices, the oblations, the holocausts and the sacrifices for sin, and you took no pleasure in them; and then he says: Here I am! I am coming to obey your will. He is abolishing the first sort to replace it with the second. And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of his body made once and for all by Jesus Christ.

* Holocausts are burnt offerings.

 

[Wilhemena]

Amen! Praise Him!

 

[MoreCoffee]

Amen! Praise Him!

That's a good reply.

 

[popsthebuilder]

Yet are we not to sacrifice the wants of the flesh? Those worldly indulgences, greed?

Another good op.

peace

faith in selfless unity for good

 

[MoreCoffee]

Yet are we not to sacrifice the wants of the flesh? Those worldly indulgences, greed?

Another good op.

peace

faith in selfless unity for good

The faithful offer a perfect oblation - a sacrifice of praise to the Lord our God.

 

[popsthebuilder]

The faithful offer a perfect oblation - a sacrifice of praise to the Lord our God.

But what vanity is it to act as if praise and thanks is sacrifice all while knowingly not giving up, offering up, wholly sacrificing ones own wants?

Don't get me wrong; I sin, but it eats away at me and shames me. I can't even bring myself to ask for forgiveness for particular things that I feel I very well may continue in.

I'm sorry. I'm not disagreeing. I ask these things because they are pertinent to my situation. And you people here have so very much more experience and knowledge when it comes to Christianity.

peace



faith in selfless unity for good

 

[MoreCoffee]

But what vanity is it to act as if praise and thanks is sacrifice all while knowingly not giving up, offering up, wholly sacrificing ones own wants?

Don't get me wrong; I sin, but it eats away at me and shames me. I can't even bring myself to ask for forgiveness for particular things that I feel I very well may continue in.

I'm sorry. I'm not disagreeing. I ask these things because they are pertinent to my situation. And you people here have so very much more experience and knowledge when it comes to Christianity.

peace

faith in selfless unity for good

"A sacrifice of praise" is not sacrificing praise. I can see how such confusion can arise. A sacrifice of praise is the sacrifice of Jesus offered to God by the people for whom that sacrifice is made. The praise is praise of God in Christ for the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross. But the sacrifice is Jesus Christ himself. And because the people for whom Christ died are united to him in baptism and have become his body their faithful submission to him is part of the sacrifice made on Calvary.