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There Is No Success Without Sacrifice
There is no Success without Sacrifice There is no success without sacrifice because as we know Jesus gave the most excellent sacrifice! He gave his life so we can have life. (He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world). 1 John 2:2 Forgiveness is the key to a great ministry and being an effective Christian, (believer). (This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins). 1 John 4:10
Gen:22:1-3 Reads…This is the story of when God commanded Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice..God knew what he had planned for Abraham, knowing he was not going to allow Abraham to kill Isaac…God wanted to see if

Question: If we claim Christ and Christ alone, how is it that we hold things against our fellow believers and even the unsaved? One reason is because we don’t take the time to examine ourselves. The human nature loves to hold on to things, Material, and emotional. We are selfish and possessive. This is why Gods Word admonishes us in 2 Timothy3:1-9 1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. 6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly

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