Tag: sacrifice
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Epistle from the Council of Jerusalem – Acts 15:20
The Council of Jerusalem has come to a decision. They will write an epistle of instruction to the gentile churches. Let’s focus for a moment on a HOT TOPIC of A.D. 50 on which future missions of the apostles hinged. (HOW will JEWS worship with other CULTURES?) Church leaders ANSWERED with an EPISTLE from their…
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The Gardener, the Shepherd and the Hunter: a shepherd
Once upon a time there was a man named Kahyin Smith. (His friends called him Cain, a nickname long forgotten since his time near the beginning.) Now I know that if you think back to ACT 1, SCENE 1 or most recently SCENE 2 of our story that you might think of Cain in Moses’…
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SHAKEN 3 a great cloud of witnesses over our head
TODAY we move forward in time from about 520 B.C. to around A.D. 100 and ‘a great cloud of witnesses’ from the New Testament book of Hebrews. This cloud of witnesses, however, goes back to the Old Covenant and continues until this day. Previously in SHAKEN 2 “Think carefully about your ways we found political…
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CRUCIFIXION! – The Pangs of Sin
So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified. John 19:16 NASB Tarrying on the road of Suffering “Father, the hour is come,” the Lord Jesus had prayed in a most personal prayer just hours before. Then in the darkness of Gethsemane Jesus had asked Peter, “Am I not to drink the cup the…
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Hebrews 10- Sacrifice and Offering
I waited patiently for the LORD; 40:6 זֶ֤בַח וּמִנְחָ֨ה לֹֽא־חָפַ֗צְתָּ אָ֭זְנַיִם כָּרִ֣יתָ לִּ֑י עֹולָ֥ה וַ֝חֲטָאָ֗ה לֹ֣א שָׁאָֽלְתָּ׃ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. Psalm 40:6 Masoretic Text; NKJV The Perfect Sacrifice The author of Hebrews states that in Christ we…
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Behold the Light of a New Covenant Rises from an Empty Tomb
The Solid Promise of a Covenant And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you. Genesis 9:9a And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. Exodus 24:8 The LORD works miracles for those He…
