Lesson 7

Lesson 7

We Must Give Our Best To God

As we worship God, we give Him ourselves. Romans 12:1 says, "I beseech you therefore, brethern, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God which is your reasonable service." Under the Old Testament some of the Jews were not offering their best and were condemned for it. In Malachi 1:8 we read, "And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil?" Is it not just as evil today when we do not give God our best?

Under the New Testament we do not offer animal sacrifices as the Jews did under the Old Testament; but we give Him our lives in service to Him as a living sacrifice. In doing this we must give Him our all. Anything we do for God must be our very best. Jesus tells us in Matthew 22:37, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind." All our heart, soul, and mind, or in other words, our total being must be in our worship.

How do we show our love to God? Our Lord says in John 14:21, "He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me." We show our love to God when we keep His commandments. We do not show our love to God if we only keep the commandments we want to keep or if we add some of our own commandments.

In Matthew 28:18, before Christ ascended into heaven, He was giving His apostles some last minute instructions concerning those they would baptize. Jesus said, "Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you." Everything the Lord has commanded us is to be observed. We are to do all that God says and in the way He says to do it. Jesus says in Luke 6:46, "But why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

In worship we must do all God has commanded and we must not do anything He has not authorized. Our worship must be from the heart with all reverence and sincerity. We must give Him our very best. Then and only then will we be worshipping God "in spirit and in truth". The purpose and holiness of true worship to God is a precious privilege available only to those who are obedient to the will of God.

Questions Lesson 7

We Must Give Our Best To God
(click on the button of the answer of your choice)

1) (Romans 12:1) We are to give our bodies to God

After we die as a dead sacrifice.

Now as a living sacrifice.

As we please.

2) As we present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God, they must be holy and acceptable to God.

3) (Malachi 1:8) When we do not give God our best

It is evil.

It is good.

God will accept what we give Him.

4) God is well pleased even when we give less than our best to Him.

5) (Matthew 22:37) How must we love God?

When we feel like it.

Only partially.

With all of our heart, all of our mind, and all of our soul.

6) We must love God with our total being.

7) (John 14:21) We show our love for Christ by

Keeping His commandments.

Not keeping His commandments.

Keeping the commandments we want to keep.

8) Those who do not keep Christ’s commandments still love Him.

9) (Matthew 28:18) Those who are baptized are to be taught

The church’s creed.

Nothng else.

To observe all things Christ has commanded.

10) Everything Christ has commanded is to be observed.

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