Old School: Timeless Lessons from the Old Testament
Week 5: Sacrifice
February 27th, 2022
Pastor Kyle Johnson

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But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” —2 Samuel 24:24 (NIV)

all

Reveal Answer

up

When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the Lord, “I have sinned; I, the shepherd, have done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall on me and my family.” —2 Samuel 24:17 (NIV)

But God

makes a way

Reveal Answer

for us

On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad. —2 Samuel 24:18-19 (NIV)

Although there are no

Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. Your Majesty, Araunah gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the Lord your God accept you.” —2 Samuel 24:22-23 (NIV)

There is a

this is called a

Reveal Answer

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. —2 Samuel 24:24b-25a (NIV)

This set the

for what was to

Reveal Answer

So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site. —1 Chronicles 21:25 (NIV)

What is our

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Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. —Romans 12:1 (NIV)

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Notes:

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Discussion Questions:

1 – What are your thoughts about the Old Testament sacrificial system?

2 – What are your thoughts about sin?

3 – When something doesn’t cost us anything how does it impact our value of it? How does this affect what Jesus has done for us and our sin?

4 – Read Romans 12:1. What does it mean for you to offer your body as a “living sacrifice”?