The Benefit of A Sacrifice

   “Now it came to pass the same night that the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it: Judges 6. 25

 

     God was the first One to make a sacrifice and when he made it He wanted to cover Adam and eve’s shame because after they fell into temptation they became possessed and found out that they were naked, God in his infinite mercy killed an animal and made clothes with the animal skin to cover them.

 

     Since then God had established the sacrifice in the world, not for His own benefit, but ours, so every time we sacrifice we are blessing our own life, because God doesn’t sacrifice the animal for Himself, He doesn’t eat, He doesn’t drink; “I will not take a bull from your house, nor goats out of your folds.” Psalm 50.9 Therefore, sacrifice is for our own benefit.

The boy in the wilderness who gave 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes, in the same day he took 12 baskets full of bread and fish; Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice, but God gave him a nation.

 

Bishop Carlos E Da Costa