How can we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God?
We offer ourselves as a living sacrifice by presenting our bodies to God daily, from morning until night, not as a command but as a willing response to His mercy. It is done by Him—through the crucified Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection—as Hebrews 13:15 directs.
Les explains that the living sacrifice is not an Old Testament ritual but a daily presentation of your body from the time you get up in the morning until you lay your head on the pillow at night. Hebrews 13:15 is the verse to take with you. Because God has poured out mercy and done everything that needs to be done if we simply believe it, He is not demanding or commanding this sacrifice—He is asking for it. The word beseech means asking or begging. We offer it by Him, the crucified Christ, by virtue of His death, burial, and resurrection on our behalf.
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
See the restBy him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
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Who is the "Him" we offer our sacrifice of praise by?
The appeal to offer this sacrifice is made "by Him," that is the crucified Christ of Hebrews 13:12-13, by virtue of His death, burial, and resurrection on our behalf.