{"id":2677,"date":"2023-09-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myutmostforprd.wpenginepowered.com\/modern-classic\/the-sacrament-of-sacrifice\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:31:35","slug":"%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be-%d0%b6%d0%b5%d1%80%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%88%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%8f","status":"publish","type":"modern-classic","link":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/%d1%81%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%8f-%d0%ba%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b8%d0%ba%d0%b0\/%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be-%d0%b6%d0%b5%d1%80%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%88%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0422\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0436\u0435\u0440\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043f\u0440\u0438\u043d\u043e\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus didn\u2019t say, \u201cWhoever believes in me, every blessing they receive will be theirs to keep.\u201d He said, \u201cWhoever believes in me, every blessing they receive will <em>escape<\/em> from them.\u201d Our Lord\u2019s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose isn\u2019t to develop our personal qualities. It\u2019s to make us exactly like him\u2014and his chief characteristic is self-sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>If we believe in Jesus, it isn\u2019t what we gain but what he pours through us that counts. God doesn\u2019t turn us into beautifully rounded grapes; he squeezes sweetness out of us. Spiritually, we can\u2019t measure our lives by success. We can only measure them by what God pours through us\u2014and we can\u2019t measure that at all.<\/p>\n<p>When Mary of Bethany broke a box of precious perfume and poured it over Jesus\u2019s head, no one else thought the act necessary. Even the disciples were scornful. \u201c\u2018Why this waste?\u2019 they asked\u201d (Matthew 26:8). But Jesus commended Mary for her extravagant act of devotion. He said that wherever his gospel was preached, \u201cwhat she has done will also be told, in memory of her\u201d (v. 13). Our Lord is carried away by joy whenever he sees any of us acting as Mary did, abandoning ourselves to him with no thought of the cost.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhoever believes in me . . .\u201d<\/em> If we believe in Jesus, hundreds of lives will continually be refreshed through us. It\u2019s time to break our ceaseless craving for personal satisfaction. God poured out the life of his Son so that the world might be saved. Are we ready to pour out our lives for him?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus didn\u2019t say, \u201cWhoever believes in me, every blessing they receive will be theirs to keep.\u201d He said, \u201cWhoever believes in me, every blessing they receive will escape from them.\u201d Our Lord\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2228,"template":"","collection":[38],"class_list":{"0":"post-2677","1":"modern-classic","2":"type-modern-classic","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"collection-obedience"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}