living sacrifice in His temple of clay.
Jesus said, Be ye therefore perfect, even as
your Father which is in heaven is perfect
(Matthew 5:48). Through Christ’s blood and
the fire of the Holy Ghost, a person can be a
perfect, living sacrifice.
What Kind of Sacrifice Are You?
Remember that the two requirements necessary
to make a sacrifice pleasing unto God
are blood and fire. One without the other is
not sufficient. The body is to be the temple
for the Holy Ghost to abide within; and when
the body has been sanctified unto the Lord by
divine blood, a holy altar dwells within the
soul. Then a fire lit by the Holy Ghost is to
continually burn there.
Paul said, What? know ye not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God, and
ye are not your own? For ye are bought
with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God’s
(I Corinthians 6:19,20). Spirit-filled children
of God must always remember that they
are not their own. God means business; and
through Christ’s divine blood and the fire of
the Holy Ghost, their lives are to belong to
God, and their will is to be submitted to the
will of God. Like Jesus, they are to be perfect,
living sacrifices.
One definition of sacrifice is an act of offering
something precious to deity. What is most
precious to you? Is it the Lord or family and
friends? Is it a career and financial security
or the treasures of God? Is it self’s desires or
God’s will? Have you surrendered all to the
Lord on the altar of your soul so that the fire
of the Holy Ghost can blaze within you daily?
Paul said this is your reasonable service
unto God.
Another definition of sacrifice is
the destruction or surrendering of
something for the sake of something
else. Have you become a
perfect, living sacrifice on Earth
so you may inherit eternal life in
Heaven? Jesus said, For whosoever
will save his life shall lose
it; but whosoever shall lose his
those sacrifices could not take away the people’s
sins and keep them free from sin. Animal
blood could not give a person a born-again
experience. That is why God sent Jesus into the
world to provide His own sacrifice. It was made
once and for all so that whosoever believeth
upon Him and His sacrifice would be saved.
Jesus Was the Perfect Sacrifice
The next day John seeth Jesus coming
unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world (John 1:29). For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).
Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, holy and
without spot or blemish. He came into this
world to reconcile the human race to the heavenly
Father after they had been separated from
Him by the sins of Adam and Eve. Through
Christ’s divine blood, a person is made holy
and acceptable to God; and the fire of the
Holy Ghost can burn on the altar of their soul.
Jesus was not only a perfect sacrifice in
death, He was also a perfect, living sacrifice.
Wherefore when he Jesus cometh into
the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering
thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then
said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book
it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God
(Hebrews 10:5–7). Jesus came not only to die
for our sins but to show us how to live, overcome
this world and please the heavenly Father.
The Lamb of God declared, I am the light
of the world: he that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light
of life (John 8:12). The fire of the Holy
Ghost burned within that perfect,
sacrificial Lamb; and as He cried,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because he hath anointed
me (Luke 4:18), a powerful,
holy light shined forth through
Him. Divine blood flowed
in Jesus, and the fire of the
Holy Ghost burned within
Him to produce a perfect,
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