SACRIFICE OF PRAISE

Hebrews 13:15,16
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.



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Heb 13:16  ButG1161 to do goodG2140 andG2532 to communicateG2842 forgetG1950 not:G3361 forG1063 with suchG5108 sacrificesG2378 GodG2316 is well pleased.G2100
For as long as I can remember everyone around me “taught” that everything in the Old Testament but the Ten Commandments were nailed to the cross and that the things in the Old Testament did not apply anymore now that Yahushua Ha Mashiach had died on the cross and gave us a new covenant.


I always felt that something was missing from this picture that was painted and presented to me.

Yahushua himself said that he did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it:


Matthew 5:17 
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Yahushua and his disciples kept the scriptural Feasts as well as paul and the disciples after Ha Mashiach had ascended to heaven.

Act 18:21
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

 
There are prophecies in the Old Testament that are still to be fulfilled. So, if this is true how can one say things in the Old Testament do not apply to us in the present day?

Through much study I have come to believe that the only thing done away with at the cross was the sacrificial and ceremonial parts of the Feasts but not the feasts themselves.

Yahushua himself gave the example.

He was the last/final sacrifice  =  No more killing lambs
He was the bread of life         =  No more barley, wheat, bread
                                                Fruit Offerings
                                           =  Represented now by eating of
                                                unleavened bread, this is my body
                                                take, eat in remembrance of me.
He shed his own blood           = No more lamb, goat, heafer…etc
                                               Blood.
                                            = Represented now by the drinking
                                                of wine. Take, drink for this is my
                                                blood.

Instead we now replace these things (Sacraficial) with this:


Hebrews 13:15,16
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

What do we sacrifice? ---------- PRAISE to GOD CONTINUALLY
                                             We are sacrificing our time

What are our freewill offerings? -------The FRUIT of our LIPS GIVING
                                                      THANKS TO HIS NAME


Mat 9:13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

 Mat 9:13  ButG1161 goG4198 ye and learnG3129 whatG5101 that meaneth,G2076 I willG2309 have mercy,G1656 andG2532 notG3756 sacrifice:G2378 forG1063 I am notG3756 comeG2064 to callG2564 the righteous,G1342 butG235 sinnersG268 toG1519 repentance.G3341 


So, what this is saying is that he desires us to have compassion/love NOT to be having sacrifices.

The one thing our Father Yahuah has wanted from the beginning was someone to love and worship him because we truly wanted to do so. Because we wanted a personal, intimate, one-on-one, DAILY relationship with him and he with us.

The only way I know to relate this to our earthly sin nature we live in and our carnal way of thinking is the visual of when you and your mate or girl/boy friends were dating and fell in love. You wanted to constantly on a 24-7 basis be near that person to talk and do things with them. It was hard to say goodbye and leave or be the first to hang up the phone…….Remember?

This is how our Father Yahuah wants a relationship with us. Not the Sacrificial rituals, but a RELATIONSHIP! Our “SACRAFICE OF PRAISE”

What an AWESOME show of LOVE he gave all of us when he willingly gave his life on the cross.

More on the Feast days: http://ishallnotbesilent.blogspot.com/search/label/Biblical%20Feasts


Before starting any study pray that The Holy Spirit will come and teach and show you Truth.

I had to pray that all previous teachings by anyone else would be removed and the Holy spirit would teach me and for a large dose of discernment.

The last 3 of the Old Testament Festivals have not been fulfilled yet so what do we do? The above study of the feasts will help answer this question.

I believe through my studies that we no longer keep the sacrificial ceremonial part of the Old Testament but the feasts only and in place of sacrifices or freewill offerings we now offer up SACRIFICES of Praise and Worship and show compassion and love to each other as commanded.

I pray we all will be blessed and led by the Holy Spirit and our spiritual eyes and ears be opened to the TRUTH of Yahuah’s word and not lean to our own understanding and the teachings of man.

Have and awesome day and be Blessed!

p.s.  WE are the TEMPLE/HOUSE of GOD not the building!