1. Sacrificial

4.  God requires the best or none at all  Mal 1:6-14  “If I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.” 1 Cor 13:3

5.  God requires the best or none at all  God requires His first  Deut 26:2; Ex 22:29

6.  God requires the best or none at all  God requires His first  Real religion counts the cost  Luke 14:26-35

7. Some whose religion cost them:

8.  Who cannot be bought  Whose word is their bond  Who put character above desire  Who possess conviction and a will  Who will take risks  Who will be as honest in small things as in great  Who will make no compromise with wrong  Whose ambitions are not their own selfish desires  Who will stand for the truth  Who will say “No!” with emphasis when all the world is saying “Yes”

13.  "For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin." Rom 6:5-7

14.  "...for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live." Rom 8:13  "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts." Rom 13:14

15.  “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me." Gal 2:20  "Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." Gal 5:24

16.  "Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul." 1 Pet 2:11

18. Will you answer ?