This week Bro. Leo continues us on a new study series focused on the ascension of Jesus Christ into Heaven and what His ascension means to Christians now and in the future, by studying the Biblical description of our “priority sacrifice of praise”.

Scriptures used in today’s study:

Heb 13:15  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 
Heb 13:16  But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 

Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 
Heb 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 
Heb 10:21  And having an high priest over the house of God; 
Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 

Heb 4:14  Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.  
Heb 4:16  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. 

1Pe 2:5  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 
1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 

Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 

Psa 145:18  The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 

Joh 12:32  And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 

Joh 16:8  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 

Rom 5:8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 
Rom 5:9  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 
Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 
Rom 5:11  And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. 

Joh 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

Psa 22:3  But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 

Psa 145:1  David’s Psalm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. 
Psa 145:2  Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 
Psa 145:7  They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness. 
Psa 145:8  The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. 
Psa 145:9  The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. 
Psa 145:14  The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 
Psa 145:17  The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 
Psa 145:18  The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 

Psa 103:1  A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 
Psa 103:2  Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 
Psa 103:3  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 
Psa 103:4  Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 
Psa 103:5  Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 
Psa 103:8  The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 
Psa 103:9  He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. 
Psa 103:10  He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 
Psa 103:11  For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 
Psa 103:12  As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 
Psa 103:13  Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. 
Psa 103:14  For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 
Psa 103:15  As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 
Psa 103:16  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 
Psa 103:17  But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; 

Rom 1:22  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 
Rom 1:23  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 
Rom 1:24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 
Rom 1:25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 

Psa 139:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 
Psa 139:2  Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 
Psa 139:3  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 
Psa 139:4  For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 
Psa 139:5  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 
Psa 139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Psa 139:13  For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 
Psa 139:14  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 
Psa 139:15  My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 
Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 
Psa 139:17  How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 
Psa 139:18  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.