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CHRIST’S SACRIFICE ONCE FOR ALL

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming- not the

realities themselves.

For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly

year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers

would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty

for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it

is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not … Continue Reading

THE SPIRITUAL

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

So it is written: “The first man became s living being”,

the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

The spiritual did not come first, but the natural and after

that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth,

the second man from heaven.

As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and

as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall

we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

(I. Corinthians … Continue Reading