Jesus is God’s Only Answer. And it is an incredible answer. It is a wondrous, infinite, bottomless, miraculous answer. Jesus is wonderful, and He is yours. He is your altar that gives real life.

2. An Altar
That
Sustains Us

3. Hebrews 13:8-9 (NLT)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
today, and forever. 9 So do not be
attracted by strange, new ideas. Your
strength comes from God’s grace,
not from rules about food, which
don’t help those who follow them.

4. Hebrews 13:10 (NLT)
We have an altar from which the
priests in the Tabernacle have no
right to eat.

5. 2 Corinthians 9:8 (NLT)
And God will generously provide
all you need. Then you will
always have everything you
need and plenty left over to
share with others.

6. Altars Are About the
High Cost of Living!

7. Altars Are About the High Cost of
Living!
Genesis 35:1 (NLT)
Then God said to Jacob, “Get ready
and move to Bethel and settle
there. Build an altar there to the
God who appeared to you when
you fled from your brother, Esau.”

8. Altars Are About the High Cost of
Living!
Leviticus 7:31-33 (NLT)
Then the priest will burn the fat on
the altar, but the breast will belong
to Aaron and his descendants. 32
Give the right thigh of your peace
offering to the priest as a gift.

9. All of This Was About
Jesus!

10. All of This Was About Jesus!
John 6:33-34 (NLT)
The true bread of God is the one
who comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.” 34
“Sir,” they said, “give us that bread
every day.”

11. All of This Was About Jesus!
John 6:35 (NLT)
Jesus replied, “I am the bread of
life. Whoever comes to me will
never be hungry again. Whoever
believes in me will never be
thirsty.

12. All of This Was About Jesus!
Numbers 11:6 (NLT)
But now our appetites are gone.
All we ever see is this manna!”

13. All of This Was About Jesus!
Numbers 21:5 (NLT)
and they began to speak against God
and Moses. “Why have you brought us
out of Egypt to die here in the
wilderness?” they complained. “There is
nothing to eat here and nothing to drink.
And we hate this horrible manna!”

14. All of This Was About Jesus!
1 John 2:15 (NLT)
Do not love this world nor the
things it offers you, for when you
love the world, you do not have
the love of the Father in you.

15. All of This Was About Jesus!
1 John 2:16 (NLT)
16 For the world offers only a craving
for physical pleasure, a craving for
everything we see, and pride in our
achievements and possessions. These
are not from the Father, but are from
this world.

16. All of This Was About Jesus!
1 John 2:17 (NLT)
17 And this world is fading away,
along with everything that people
crave. But anyone who does what
pleases God will live forever.

17. Sacrifices That Make
Your Future!

18. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
Hebrews 13:8-9 (NLT)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
today, and forever. 9 So do not be
attracted by strange, new ideas. Your
strength comes from God’s grace, not
from rules about food, which don’t
help those who follow them.

19. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
Hebrews 13:10-11 (NLT)
We have an altar from which the priests in
the Tabernacle have no right to eat. 11
Under the old system, the high priest
brought the blood of animals into the Holy
Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of
the animals were burned outside the camp.

20. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
Hebrews 13:12-13 (NLT)
So also Jesus suffered and died outside
the city gates to make his people holy
by means of his own blood. 13 So let us
go out to him, outside the camp, and
bear the disgrace he bore.

21. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
Hebrews 13:14 (NLT)
For this world is not our
permanent home; we are
looking forward to a home yet
to come.

22. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
Hebrews 13:15-16 (NLT)
Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a
continual sacrifice of praise to God,
proclaiming our allegiance to his name.
16 And don’t forget to do good and to
share with those in need. These are
the sacrifices that please God.

23. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
2 Corinthians 12:8-9 (NLT)
Three different times I begged the Lord
to take it away. 9 Each time he said, “My
grace is all you need. My power works
best in weakness.” So now I am glad to
boast about my weaknesses, so that the
power of Christ can work through me.

24. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
2 Corinthians 12:10 (NLT)
That’s why I take pleasure in my
weaknesses, and in the insults,
hardships, persecutions, and
troubles that I suffer for Christ. For
when I am weak, then I am strong.

25. Sacrifices That Make Your Future!
Your Sacrifice of Strength
Your Sacrifice of Pride
Your Sacrifice of Praise To God.
Your Sacrifice of Good Toward
Others.

26. Jesus Is Enough.
BECAUSE OF JESUS’ SACRIFICE,
THE SACRIFICES WE MAKE
SUSTAIN US AND CARRY US
INTO OUR FUTURE.

27. An Altar
That
Sustains Us