Hebrews 9:17-28
17 The will goes into effect only after the person’s death. While the person who made it is still alive, the will cannot be put into effect.
18 That is why even the first covenant was put into effect with the blood of an animal. 19 For after Moses had read each of God’s commandments to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, and sprinkled both the book of God’s law and all the people, using hyssop branches and scarlet wool. 20 Then he said, “This blood confirms the covenant God has made with you.” 21 And in the same way, he sprinkled blood on the Tabernacle and on everything used for worship. 22 In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.
23 That is why the Tabernacle and everything in it, which were copies of things in heaven, had to be purified by the blood of animals. But the real things in heaven had to be purified with far better sacrifices than the blood of animals.
24 For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with human hands, which was only a copy of the true one in heaven. He entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf. 25 And he did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like the high priest here on earth who enters the Most Holy Place year after year with the blood of an animal. 26 If that had been necessary, Christ would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began. But now, once for all time, he has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by his own death as a sacrifice.
27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, 28 so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.
Tori's Comments -
"This blood confirms the covenant God has made with you."
This is SO CRAZY how so much of the old testament points to Jesus. I've read Hebrews before, and studying it through it slowly has helped me to find gems like this. Wow.
"who are eagerly waiting for him"-I assume this is talking a lot about the hope we have as Christians, the promises God has given us about our future.
Terrie's Comments -
I think we are all clear by now on the downfall of the old covenant and it's limitations, which were many. I would like to go straight to the end of this passage today.
Jesus IS COMING BACK! He is not coming back to deal with our sin.... did you catch that? He has already dealt with our sins at the cross so they don't need to be dealt with again! Praise God! He is coming back to bring salvation to us, who are EAGERLY WAITING for Him! He has already dealt with OUR SINS.... so we should be EAGERLY WAITING because we are not worried about being punished... Jesus has already taken all punishment for us!
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD! There is now no condemnation in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior!
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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Day 15 - Hebrews 9:6 - 9:16
Hebrews 9:6-16
6 When these things were all in place, the priests regularly entered the first room as they performed their religious duties. 7 But only the high priest ever entered the Most Holy Place, and only once a year. And he always offered blood for his own sins and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. 8 By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that the entrance to the Most Holy Place was not freely open as long as the Tabernacle and the system it represented were still in use.
9 This is an illustration pointing to the present time. For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them. 10 For that old system deals only with food and drink and various cleansing ceremonies—physical regulations that were in effect only until a better system could be established.
Christ Is the Perfect Sacrifice
11 So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world. 12 With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever.
13 Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. 14 Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. 15 That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.
16 Now when someone leaves a will, it is necessary to prove that the person who made it is dead.
Terrie's Comments -
The old covenant clearly had some limitations, and that is putting it lightly!
There is still a tabernacle which was raised up in heaven (probably on the third day after the death of Jesus like he said it would be)
The old covenant was all about rules and regulations that dealt mainly with cleansing the outward man it didn't have the power to cleanse inside the heart of man. But Jesus has secured our ETERNAL REDEMPTION.... how sweet it is :-) We are free and clear to worship the living God! When Jesus died he set us free from ALL PENALTY of the sin under the first covenant... He fulfilled it ... It is PAID IN FULL!
sidenote: I think for our next challenge we will base our verse break down on more than just the numbers :-)
Tori's Comments -
Again with the old system cleaning the outside and the new one cleaning the inside. WOOP WOOP.
Also- there's something about the assurance of 'forever' and 'eternal' and etc. that is repeated through this section and yesterday's. It's as if he's trying to get across that we shouldn't even worry about those things anymore (and we shouldn't). We're saved, we're loved and we're cleaned.
Take our personal comments or leave them. We would love to hear what stood out to you about today`s passage and how it encouraged you. Tell us in the comments below!
6 When these things were all in place, the priests regularly entered the first room as they performed their religious duties. 7 But only the high priest ever entered the Most Holy Place, and only once a year. And he always offered blood for his own sins and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. 8 By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that the entrance to the Most Holy Place was not freely open as long as the Tabernacle and the system it represented were still in use.
9 This is an illustration pointing to the present time. For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them. 10 For that old system deals only with food and drink and various cleansing ceremonies—physical regulations that were in effect only until a better system could be established.
Christ Is the Perfect Sacrifice
11 So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world. 12 With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever.
13 Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. 14 Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. 15 That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.
16 Now when someone leaves a will, it is necessary to prove that the person who made it is dead.
Terrie's Comments -
The old covenant clearly had some limitations, and that is putting it lightly!
There is still a tabernacle which was raised up in heaven (probably on the third day after the death of Jesus like he said it would be)
The old covenant was all about rules and regulations that dealt mainly with cleansing the outward man it didn't have the power to cleanse inside the heart of man. But Jesus has secured our ETERNAL REDEMPTION.... how sweet it is :-) We are free and clear to worship the living God! When Jesus died he set us free from ALL PENALTY of the sin under the first covenant... He fulfilled it ... It is PAID IN FULL!
sidenote: I think for our next challenge we will base our verse break down on more than just the numbers :-)
Tori's Comments -
Again with the old system cleaning the outside and the new one cleaning the inside. WOOP WOOP.
Also- there's something about the assurance of 'forever' and 'eternal' and etc. that is repeated through this section and yesterday's. It's as if he's trying to get across that we shouldn't even worry about those things anymore (and we shouldn't). We're saved, we're loved and we're cleaned.
Take our personal comments or leave them. We would love to hear what stood out to you about today`s passage and how it encouraged you. Tell us in the comments below!
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Day 14 - Hebrews 8:9 - 9:5
Hebrews 8:9-9:5
9 This covenant will not be like the one
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
and led them out of the land of Egypt.
They did not remain faithful to my covenant,
so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.
10 But this is the new covenant I will make
with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds,
and I will write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 And they will not need to teach their neighbors,
nor will they need to teach their relatives,
saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’
For everyone, from the least to the greatest,
will know me already.
12 And I will forgive their wickedness,
and I will never again remember their sins.”
13 When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.
Old Rules about Worship
9 That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship and a place of worship here on earth. 2 There were two rooms in that Tabernacle. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place. 3 Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place. 4 In that room were a gold incense altar and a wooden chest called the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. Inside the Ark were a gold jar containing manna, Aaron’s staff that sprouted leaves, and the stone tablets of the covenant. 5 Above the Ark were the cherubim of divine glory, whose wings stretched out over the Ark’s cover, the place of atonement. But we cannot explain these things in detail now.
Tori's Comments -
Verse 13 definitely stuck out to me. I love all of the connections between the old testament and Jesus that I never caught, although I know there's probably still hundreds out there waiting for me to find. I really like the term 'out of date' when describing the old covenant. As if we should just not think about it because it's so irrelevant.
What keeps popping in my head is that the old system only dealt with the exterior. The new one remodels the inside. And that fact should be such a source of joy for us, that we are made new in Christ.
I keep finding these particular verses that give me such hope and happiness. I'm thinking I should write them on sticky notes or something and put them in places where I will see them daily. Kind of like an attitude pit stop.
I don't understand verse 11, though. Thoughts?
Terrie's Comments -
The law is now in our minds and written in our hearts. I LOVE the verse Heb 8:10 in the last part where it says "I will be their God, and they will be my people." and the writer is clear that we KNOW God. EVERYONE not just the priest or judge or prophet, like it was with the old covenant. We do not need to be taught who God is because we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. The old covenant is obsolete... out of date... is not like the new one. So why is it that when God says that the old covenant was broken and obsolete that we want to hold onto it?
I believe one of the main reasons that the old covenant is obsolete is because it was made for worshiping our God who is in heaven from a tabernacle here on earth. The new covenant gives us direct access to His heavenly throne room through the perfected work on the cross, therefore the old covenant is outdated. It is valuable to know the old covenant to appreciate all that Jesus actually accomplished at the cross for us. It is out of this knowledge that our praise and worship can rise to heaven freely because we realize that we truly have been set free from the old covenant and have a much better covenant in the new.
Take our personal comments or leave them. We would love to hear what stood out to you about today`s passage and how it encouraged you. Tell us in the comments below!
9 This covenant will not be like the one
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
and led them out of the land of Egypt.
They did not remain faithful to my covenant,
so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.
10 But this is the new covenant I will make
with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds,
and I will write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 And they will not need to teach their neighbors,
nor will they need to teach their relatives,
saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’
For everyone, from the least to the greatest,
will know me already.
12 And I will forgive their wickedness,
and I will never again remember their sins.”
13 When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.
Old Rules about Worship
9 That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship and a place of worship here on earth. 2 There were two rooms in that Tabernacle. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place. 3 Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place. 4 In that room were a gold incense altar and a wooden chest called the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. Inside the Ark were a gold jar containing manna, Aaron’s staff that sprouted leaves, and the stone tablets of the covenant. 5 Above the Ark were the cherubim of divine glory, whose wings stretched out over the Ark’s cover, the place of atonement. But we cannot explain these things in detail now.
Tori's Comments -
Verse 13 definitely stuck out to me. I love all of the connections between the old testament and Jesus that I never caught, although I know there's probably still hundreds out there waiting for me to find. I really like the term 'out of date' when describing the old covenant. As if we should just not think about it because it's so irrelevant.
What keeps popping in my head is that the old system only dealt with the exterior. The new one remodels the inside. And that fact should be such a source of joy for us, that we are made new in Christ.
I keep finding these particular verses that give me such hope and happiness. I'm thinking I should write them on sticky notes or something and put them in places where I will see them daily. Kind of like an attitude pit stop.
I don't understand verse 11, though. Thoughts?
Terrie's Comments -
The law is now in our minds and written in our hearts. I LOVE the verse Heb 8:10 in the last part where it says "I will be their God, and they will be my people." and the writer is clear that we KNOW God. EVERYONE not just the priest or judge or prophet, like it was with the old covenant. We do not need to be taught who God is because we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. The old covenant is obsolete... out of date... is not like the new one. So why is it that when God says that the old covenant was broken and obsolete that we want to hold onto it?
I believe one of the main reasons that the old covenant is obsolete is because it was made for worshiping our God who is in heaven from a tabernacle here on earth. The new covenant gives us direct access to His heavenly throne room through the perfected work on the cross, therefore the old covenant is outdated. It is valuable to know the old covenant to appreciate all that Jesus actually accomplished at the cross for us. It is out of this knowledge that our praise and worship can rise to heaven freely because we realize that we truly have been set free from the old covenant and have a much better covenant in the new.
Take our personal comments or leave them. We would love to hear what stood out to you about today`s passage and how it encouraged you. Tell us in the comments below!
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