The sacrifice that God wants\par is an humble spirit. {\cf2\super [306]} \par God, you will not turn away a person\par who comes with an humble, submissive heart. {\cf2\super [307]} \par
“Then you must make a lampstand. Use pure gold and hammer it to make the base and the shaft. [184] Make flowers, buds, and petals from pure gold. Join all these things together into one piece.
There were six branches—three branches coming out from each side of the shaft. And there was a flower with buds and petals below each of the three places where the branches joined the shaft.
At that time, a ten-acre field of grapes will make only a little wine. {\cf2\super [50]} And many sacks of seed will grow only a little grain. {\cf2\super [51]} ”
It is my own body that I hit. I make it my slave. I do this so that I myself will not be thrown out \{by God\} after I have told other people \{about his blessings\}.
So put all evil things out of your life: sexual sinning, doing evil, letting evil thoughts control you, wanting things that are evil, and selfishly wanting more and more. This wanting really means to live serving a false god.