Message Title: Consecration & Sacrifice – Week 2 of the Set Apart Series

Scriptures: Matthew 16:21-26 (NKJV); Romans 12:1 (NKJV)

Definitions:

Consecration is defined as devoting or setting apart anything to the worship or service of God.

Sacrifice is defined as something of value offered as an act of worship or devotion to God. Sacrifices were offered throughout the Old Testament (Gen. 4:3–5; 8:20–22), accompanied covenant making (Exod. 24:3–8), and were of various types.

Power Points:

God desires obedience from his creation.

Obedience is sometimes sacrificial.

Being sacrificial is not easy but requires that we deny our desires.

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Matthew 16:21 (NKJV)

21 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.

Matthew 16:22 (NKJV)

22 Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!”

Matthew 16:23 (NKJV)

23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

Self Denial

Matthew 16:24–26 (NKJV)

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Romans 12:1 (NKJV)

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.