Genuine worship requires sacrifice and surrender, not just emotion or song. The speaker uses Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac to argue that the altar is where we meet God, and suggests that today's most powerful sacrifice is giving up money.
The act of sacrifice, I think all worship involves, right? Because even if you worship the Lord just listening to worship music and you're standing there with arms lifted and crying your eyes out, there's an act of surrender. There's an act of sacrifice as far as I'm taking up my cross, I'm letting it all go, I'm following you, you know, I'm just pouring it all out onto your altar. That's sacrifice, right? That's where the sacrifice was. You brought things to the altar and you sacrificed it. Abraham built an altar to sacrifice Isaac on. So sacrifice at the altar, that meeting place with God. And one of the best ways— God knows that there is this struggle for us to part with money above and beyond anything else on this earth. So what better way to sacrifice to the Lord is to sacrifice the thing that has a grip on so many human beings on planet Earth? Sacrifice that thing.
