JESUS CHRIST THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT
OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF;
OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF PRESS;
OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE,
AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.”

THE GREAT AWAKENING=THE ABILITY FOR TRUTH TO COME IN, THE LIGHT BEING INTRODUCE TO the darkness;
GREAT DELIVERANCE!

WE USE THESE VERSES FOR QUICK CONFESSION AND ALSO WE GO TO ANY NUMBER AND THEN RETURN TO OUR WEEKDAYS DEVOTIONAL

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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS LOVE. HE WAS WITH LOVE IN THE BEGINNING. THROUGH HIM ALL THINGS WERE MADE; WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT HAS BEEN MADE. IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THAT LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF ALL MANKIND. THE LIGHT SHINES IN the darkness, AND the darkness HAS NOT OVERCOME IT.
THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN. HE CAME AS A WITNESS TO TESTIFY CONCERNING THAT LIGHT, SO THAT THROUGH HIM ALL MIGHT BELIEVE. HE HIMSELF WAS NOT THE LIGHT; HE CAME ONLY AS A WITNESS TO THE LIGHT.
THE TRUE LIGHT THAT GIVES LIGHT TO EVERYONE WAS COMING INTO THE WORLD. HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THOUGH THE WORLD WAS MADE THROUGH HIM, THE WORLD DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM.
HE CAME TO THAT WHICH WAS HIS OWN, BUT HIS OWN DID NOT RECEIVE HIM. YET TO ALL WHO DID RECEIVE HIM, TO THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN HIS NAME, HE GAVE THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD–CHILDREN BORN NOT OF NATURAL DESCENT, NOR OF HUMAN DECISION OR A HUSBAND’S WILL, BUT BORN OF GOD.
THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND MADE HIS DWELLING AMONG US. WE HAVE SEEN HIS GLORY, THE GLORY OF THE ONE AND ONLY SON, WHO CAME FROM THE FATHER, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.
(JOHN TESTIFIED CONCERNING HIM. HE CRIED OUT, SAYING, “THIS IS THE ONE I SPOKE ABOUT WHEN I SAID, ‘HE WHO COMES AFTER ME HAS SURPASSED ME BECAUSE HE WAS BEFORE ME.'”) OUT OF HIS FULLNESS WE HAVE ALL RECEIVED GRACE UPON GRACE [SPIRITUAL BLESSING UPON SPIRITUAL BLESSING, FAVOR UPON FAVOR,
AND GIFT HEAPED UPON GIFT].
JOHN 1:1-16
FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN TO MOSES;
SO THAT ALL PEOPLE COULD SEE HOW SINFUL THEY WERE:
[THE ENTIRE NATURE OF MAN WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT].
ROMANS 5:20
BUT
GRACE AND TRUTH CAME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD, BUT THE ONE AND ONLY SON, WHO IS HIMSELF GOD AND IS IN CLOSEST RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER, HAS MADE HIM KNOWN.
JOHN 1:17-18

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THE IMAGE OF JESUS=YESHUA ON THE CROSS
FOR GOD SO LOVED ME, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT I WHO BELIEVE IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN ME, BUT THAT I MIGHT BE SAVED THROUGH HIM.
JOHN 3:16-17
THAT DAY, THE FATHER TURNED HIS FACE AWAY FROM YOU SO
THAT HE COULD TURN HIS FACE TOWARD ME MY LORD JESUS=YESHUA WHEN YOU CRIED OUT:
“MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?
WHY ARE YOU SO FAR FROM SAVING ME,
SO FAR FROM MY CRIES OF ANGUISH?
MY GOD, I CRY OUT BY DAY, BUT YOU DO NOT ANSWER,
BY NIGHT, BUT I FIND NO REST.

YET YOU ARE ENTHRONED AS THE HOLY ONE;
YOU ARE THE ONE ISRAEL PRAISES.
IN YOU OUR ANCESTORS PUT THEIR TRUST
THEY TRUSTED AND YOU DELIVERED THEM.
TO YOU THEY CRIED OUT AND WERE SAVED;
IN YOU THEY TRUSTED AND WERE NOT PUT TO SHAME.

BUT I AM A WORM AND NOT A MAN,
SCORNED BY EVERYONE, DESPISED BY THE PEOPLE.
ALL WHO SEE ME MOCK ME;
THEY HURL INSULTS, SHAKING THEIR HEADS.
“HE TRUST IN THE LORD.,” THEY SAY,
“LET THE LORD RESCUE HIM,
LET HIM DELIVER HIM,
SINCE HE DELIGHTS IN HIM.”

YET YOU BROUGHT ME OUT OF THE WOMB;
YOU MADE ME TRUST IN YOU, EVEN AT MY MOTHER’S BREAST.
FROM BIRTH I WAS CAST ON YOU;
FROM MY MOTHER’S WOMB YOU HAVE BEEN MY GOD.

DO NOT BE FAR FROM ME,
FOR TROUBLE IS NEAR
AND THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP.”
PSALM 22:1-11

“MANY BULLS SURROUND ME;
STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN ENCIRCLE ME.
ROARING LIONS THAT TEAR THEIR PREY
OPEN THEIR MOUTHS WIDE AGAINST ME.
I AM POURED OUT LIKE WATER,
AND ALL MY BONES ARE OUT OF JOINT.
MY HEART HAS TURNED TO WAX;
IT HAS MELTED WITH ME.
MY MOUTH IS DRIED UP LIKE POTSHERD,
AND MY TONGUE STICKS TO THE ROOF OF MY MOUTH;
YOU LAY ME IN THE DUST OF EARTH.

DOGS SURROUND ME,
A PACK OF VILLAINS ENCIRCLES ME;
THEY PIERCE MY HANDS AND MY FEET.
ALL MY BONES ARE ON DISPLAY;
PEOPLE STARE AND GLOAT OVER ME.
THEY DIVIDE MY CLOTHES AMONG THEM
AND CAST LOTS FOR MY GARMENT,

BUT YOU, LORD, DO NOT BE FAR FROM ME.
YOU ARE MY STRENGTH; COME QUICKLY TO HELP ME.
DELIVER ME FROM THE SWORD,
MY PRECIOUS LIFE FROM THE POWER OF THE DOGS.
RESCUE ME FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LIONS;
SAVE ME FROM THE HORNS OF THE WILD OXEN.”
PSALM 22:12-21

THUS MY LORD JESUS=YESHUA,
WHAT WAS WRITTEN HAS COME TO PASS:
“SEE MY SERVANT SHALL PROSPER,
HE SHALL BE RAISED HIGH
AND GREATLY EXALTED.”
EVEN AS MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT YOU-
SO MARRED WAS YOUR LOOK BEYOND THAT OF MAN,
AND YOUR APPEARANCE BEYOND THAT OF MORTALS–
SO SHALL YOU STARTLE MANY NATIONS.
BECAUSE OF YOU KINGS SHALL STAND SPEECHLESS;
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD SHALL SEE,
THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL PONDER.
ISAIAH 52:13-15

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THEREFORE, HAVING BEEN JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, I HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH MY LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM ALSO I HAVE ACCESS BY FAITH INTO THIS GRACE IN WHICH I STAND, AND REJOICE IN HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD. AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT I ALSO GLORY IN tribulations, KNOWING THAT tribulation PRODUCES PERSEVERANCE; AND PERSEVERANCE, CHARACTER; AND CHARACTER, HOPE. NOW HOPE DOES NOT disappoint, BECAUSE THE LOVE OF GOD HAS BEEN POURED OUT IN OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WAS GIVEN TO US.
FOR WHEN I WAS STILL WITHOUT STRENGTH, IN DUE TIME CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY. FOR SCARCELY FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN WILL ONE DIE; YET PERHAPS FOR A GOOD MAN SOMEONE WOULD EVEN DARE TO DIE. BUT GOD DEMONSTRATES HIS OWN LOVE TOWARD ME,
IN THAT WHILE I WAS STILL A SINNER, CHRIST DIED FOR ME. MUCH MORE THEN, HAVING NOW BEEN JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, I SHALL BE SAVED FROM wrath THROUGH HIM. FOR IF WHEN I WAS an enemy I WAS RECONCILED TO GOD THROUGH THE DEATH OF HIS SON, MUCH MORE, HAVING BEEN RECONCILED, I SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE. AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT I ALSO REJOICE IN GOD THROUGH MY LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM I HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE RECONCILIATION.
WHEN ADAM SINNED, SIN ENTERED THE WORLD.
ADAM’S SIN BROUGHT DEATH, SO DEATH SPREAD TO EVERYONE,
FOR EVERYONE SINNED.
YES, PEOPLE SINNED EVEN BEFORE THE LAW WAS GIVEN. BUT IT WAS NOT COUNTED AS SIN BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT YET ANY LAW TO BREAK. STILL, EVERYONE DIED–FROM THE TIME OF ADAM TO THE TIME OF MOSES–EVEN THOSE WHO DID NOT DISOBEY AN EXPLICIT COMMANDMENT OF GOD, AS ADAM DID. NOW ADAM IS A SYMBOL, A REPRESENTATION OF CHRIST, WHO WAS YET TO COME. BUT THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADAM’S SIN AND GOD’S GRACIOUS GIFT.
FOR THE sin OF THIS ONE MAN, ADAM, BROUGHT death TO MANY. BUT EVEN GREATER IS GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE AND HIS GIFT OF FORGIVENESS TO MANY THROUGH THIS OTHER MAN, JESUS CHRIST. AND THE RESULT OF GOD’S GRACIOUS GIFT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE RESULT OF THAT ONE MAN’S sin. FOR ADAM’S sin LED TO condemnation, BUT GOD’S FREE GIFT LEADS TO OUR BEING MADE RIGHT WITH GOD, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE GUILTY OF MANY sins. FOR THE sin OF THIS ONE MAN, ADAM, CAUSE death TO RULE OVER MANY. BUT EVEN GREATER IS GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE AND HIS GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR ALL WHO RECEIVE IT WILL LIVE IN TRIUMPH OVER sin and death THROUGH THIS ONE MAN, JESUS CHRIST.
YES, ADAM’S ONE sin BRINGS condemnation FOR EVERYONE,
BUT CHRIST’S ONE ACT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BRINGS A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND NEW LIFE FOR EVERYONE. BECAUSE ONE PERSON disobeyed GOD, MANY BECAME sinners.
BUT BECAUSE ONE OTHER PERSON OBEYED GOD,
MANY WILL BE MADE RIGHTEOUS.
AND GOD’S LAW WAS GIVEN SO THAT ALL PEOPLE COULD SEE HOW SINFUL THEY WERE. BUT AS PEOPLE sinned MORE AND MORE, GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE BECAME MORE ABUNDANT. SO JUST AS sin RULED OVER ALL PEOPLE AND BROUGHT THEM TO death, NOW GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE RULES INSTEAD, GIVING US RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD AND RESULTING IN ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
ROMANS 5:1-21

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I DO BELIEVE WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD!
TO ME HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED!
MY LORD JESUS-YESHUA,
GREW UP LIKE A SAPLING BEFORE HIM,
LIKE A SHOOT FROM THE PARCHED EARTH;
THERE WAS IN HIM NO STATELY BEARING
TO MAKE PEOPLE LOOK AT HIM,
NOR APPEARANCE THAT WOULD ATTRACT US TO HIM.
HE WAS SPURNED AND AVOIDED BY MEN,
A MAN OF SUFFERING, ACCUSTOMED TO INFIRMITY,
ONE OF THOSE FROM WHOM MEN HIDE THEIR FACES,
SPURNED, AND THEY HELD HIM IN NO ESTEEM.
YET IT WAS MY INFIRMITIES THAT HE BORE,
MY SUFFERINGS THAT HE ENDURED.
WHILE THEY THOUGHT OF HIM AS STRICKEN,
AS ONE SMITTEN BY GOD AND AFFLICTED.
BUT MY LORD JESUS WAS PIERCED FOR MY offenses,
CRUSHED FOR MY sins,
UPON HIM WAS THE CHASTISEMENT
THAT MAKES ME WHOLE,
BY HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED.
I HAD GONE ASTRAY LIKE A SHEEP,
FOLLOWING MY OWN WAY;
BUT THE LORD LAID UPON HIM MY GUILT.
THOUGH HE WAS HARSHLY TREATED,
HE SUBMITTED AND OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH;
LIKE A LAMB LED TO THE SLAUGHTER
OR A SHEEP BEFORE THE SHEARERS,
YESHUA WAS SILENT AND OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH.
OPPRESSED AND CONDEMNED, HE WAS TAKEN AWAY,
AND WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ANY MORE OF HIS DESTINY?
WHEN MY LORD JESUS WAS CUT OFF FROM THE LAND
OF THE LIVING, AND SMITTEN FOR MY SIN,
A GRAVE WAS ASSIGNED HIM AMONG the wicked!
A BURIAL PLACE WITH evildoers,
THOUGH HE HAD DONE NO WRONG
NOR SPOKEN ANY FALSEHOOD.
BUT THE LORD WAS PLEASED TO CRUSH HIM IN INFIRMITY.
IN GIVING HIS LIFE AS AN OFFERING FOR SIN,
MY LORD JESUS, SAW HIS DESCENDANTS,
YESHUA, SAW ME IN A LONG LIFE,
AND THE WILL OF THE LORD HAS BEEN
ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH HIM.
BECAUSE OF HIS AFFLICTION
YESHUA, HAS SEEN THE LIGHT IN FULLNESS OF DAYS;
THROUGH HIS SUFFERING,
JESUS, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD,
HAS JUSTIFIED ME.
AND MY GUILT HE BORE.
THEREFORE THE LORD HAS GIVEN YESHUA
HIS PORTION AMONG THE GREAT,
AND HE HAS DIVIDED THE SPOILS WITH THE MIGHTY,
BECAUSE HE SURRENDERED HIMSELF TO DEATH
AND WAS COUNTED AMONG THE WICKED,
AND HE TOOK AWAY MY SIN,
AND WIN PARDON FOR MY OFFENSES.
BECAUSE OF THIS, GOD GREATLY EXALTED HIM
AND BESTOWED ON HIM THE NAME
THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME,
THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS-YESHUA-
YADVEH VADVEH-THE WORD OF GOD
EVERY KNEE SHOULD BEND,
OF THOSE IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH
AND under THE EARTH,
AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS THAT
JESUS CHRIST-YESHUA HAMASHIACH-
YADVEH VADVEH-THE WORD OF GOD IS LORD,
AND THAT I AM GOD=I AM LOVE,
SON, DAUGHTER OF THE MOST HIGH GOD,
TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.
ISAIAH 53, PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11
THUS LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL THAT THE LORD SAVES
NOT BY SWORD AND SPEAR AND WITH A SHIELD,
BUT BY HIS OWN PRECIOUS BLOOD!

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EVERY HIGH PRIEST IS SELECTED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE AND IS APPOINTED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE IN MATTERS RELATED TO GOD, TO OFFER GIFTS AND SACRIFICES FOR SINS. HE IS ABLE TO DEAL GENTLY WITH THOSE WHO ARE IGNORANT AND ARE GOING ASTRAY, SINCE HE HIMSELF IS SUBJECT TO WEAKNESS. THIS IS WHY HE HAS TO OFFER SACRIFICES FOR HIS OWN SINS AS WELL AS FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. AND NO ONE TAKES THIS HONOR ON HIMSELF, BUT HE RECEIVES IT WHEN CALLED BY GOD, JUST AS AARON WAS.
IN THE SAME WAY, CHRIST DID NOT TAKE ON HIMSELF THE GLORY OF BECOMING A HIGH PRIEST. BUT GOD SAID TO HIM,
“YOU ARE MY SON;
TODAY I HAVE BECOME YOUR FATHER.”
AND HE SAYS IN ANOTHER PLACE,
“YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER,
IN THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.”
DURING THE DAYS OF JESUS’ LIFE ON EARTH, HE OFFERED UP PRAYERS AND PETITIONS WITH FERVENT CRIES AND TEARS TO THE ONE WHO COULD SAVE HIM FROM death, AND HE WAS HEARD BECAUSE OF HIS REVERENT SUBMISSION. SON THOUGH HE WAS, HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE FROM WHAT HE SUFFERED AND, ONCE MADE PERFECT, HE BECAME THE SOURCE OF ETERNAL SALVATION FOR ALL WHO OBEY HIM AND WAS DESIGNATED BY GOD TO BE HIGH PRIEST IN THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.
HEBREWS 5:1-10
FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGS SALVATION HAS APPEARED TO ALL MEN, TEACHING US THAT, DENYING ungodliness and worldly lusts, WE SHOULD LIVE SOBERLY, RIGHTEOUSLY, AND GODLY IN THE PRESENT AGE, LOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE AND THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF OUR GREAT GOD AND OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US, THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM every lawless deed=all iniquity AND PURIFY FOR HIMSELF HIS OWN SPECIAL=PECULIAR PEOPLE, ZEALOUS FOR GOOD WORKS.
TITUS 2:11-14
TO SERVE NOT UNDER OBEDIENCE TO THE OLD CODE
OR WRITTEN REGULATIONS, BUT UNDER OBEDIENCE TO THE PROMPTINGS OF THE SPIRIT IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.
ROMANS 7:6
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“GOD, WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE IN TIME PAST TO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS; WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH, HAVING BECOME SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, AS HE HAS BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY.”
HEBREWS 1:1-4
FOR TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS DID GOD EVER SAY,
“YOU ARE MY SON;
TODAY I HAVE BECOME YOUR FATHER”?
OR AGAIN,
“I WILL BE HIS FATHER,
AND HE WILL BE MY SON”?
AND AGAIN, WHEN GOD BRINGS HIS FIRSTBORN INTO THE WORLD,
HE SAYS,
“LET ALL GOD’S ANGELS WORSHIP HIM.”
HEBREWS 1:5-6
IN SPEAKING OF THE ANGELS HE SAYS,
“HE MAKES HIS ANGELS SPIRITS,
AND HIS SERVANTS FLAMES OF FIRE.”
BUT ABOUT THE SON HE SAYS,
“YOUR THRONE, O GOD, WILL LAST FOR EVER AND EVER;
A SCEPTER OF JUSTICE WILL BE THE SCEPTER OF YOUR KINGDOM.
YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED wickedness;
THEREFORE GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS SET YOU ABOVE YOUR COMPANIONS BY ANOINTING YOU WITH THE OIL OF JOY.”
HEBREWS 1:7-9
HE ALSO SAYS,
“IN THE BEGINNING, LORD, YOU LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS.
THEY WILL PERISH, BUT YOU REMAIN;
THEY WILL ALL WEAR OUT LIKE A GARMENT.
YOU WILL ROLL THEM UP LIKE A ROBE;
LIKE A GARMENT THEY WILL BE CHANGED.
BUT YOU REMAIN THE SAME,
AND YOUR YEARS WILL NEVER END.”
HEBREWS 1:10-12
“TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS DID GOD EVER SAY,
“SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND
UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES
A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET”?
ARE NOT ALL ANGELS MINISTERING SPIRITS SENT
TO SERVE THOSE WHO WILL INHERIT SALVATION?”
HEBREWS 1:13-14

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THE SCROLL AND THE LAMB
AND I SAW LYING ON THE OPEN HAND OF HIM WHO WAS SEATED ON THE THRONE A SCROLL WRITTEN, WITHIN AND ON THE BACK, CLOSED AND SEALED WITH SEVEN SEALS;
AND I SAW A STRONG ANGEL ANNOUNCING IN A LOUD VOICE,
WHO IS WORTHY TO OPEN THE SCROLL?
AND WHO IS ENTITLED AND DESERVES
AND IS MORALLY FIT TO BREAK ITS SEALS?
AND NO ONE IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH OR under the earth, the realm of the dead, hades WAS ABLE TO OPEN THE SCROLL OR TO TAKE A SINGLE LOOK AT ITS CONTENTS.
AND I WEPT AUDIBLY AND BITTERLY BECAUSE NO ONE WAS FOUND FIT TO OPEN THE SCROLL OR TO INSPECT IT.
THEN ONE OF THE ELDERS, OF THE HEAVENLY SANHEDRIN,
SAID TO ME,
“STOP WEEPING!
SEE, THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THE ROOT, THE SOURCE OF
DAVID, HAS WON, HE HAS OVERCOME AND CONQUERED!
HE CAN OPEN THE SCROLL AND BREAK ITS SEVEN SEALS!”
AND THERE BETWEEN THE THRONE AND THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND AMONG THE ELDERS I SAW A LAMB STANDING, AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, WITH SEVEN HORNS AND WITH SEVEN EYES, WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD, THE SEVENFOLD HOLY SPIRIT, WHO HAS BEEN SENT ON DUTY FAR AND WIDE INTO ALL THE EARTH.
HE THEN WENT AND TOOK THE SCROLL FROM THE RIGHT HAND OF
HIM WHO SAT ON THE THRONE.
AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE SCROLL, THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES AND THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS PROSTRATED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LAMB. EACH WAS HOLDING A HARP, AND THEY HAD GOLDEN BOWLS FULL OF INCENSE, WHICH ARE THE PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE, [WE, THE SAINTS.]
AND NOW THEY SING A NEW SONG, SAYING,
“YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE SCROLL
AND TO BREAK THE SEALS THAT ARE ON IT,
FOR YOU WERE SLAIN, YOU WERE SACRIFICED, AND WITH YOUR
BLOOD YOU PURCHASED MEN UNTO GOD FROM EVERY TRIBE AND
LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE AND NATION.
AND YOU HAVE MADE THEM A KINGDOM, A ROYAL RACE,
AND PRIESTS TO OUR GOD, AND THEY SHALL REIGN, AS KINGS, OVER
THE EARTH!”
THEN I LOOKED, AND I HEARD THE VOICES OF MANY ANGELS ON EVERY SIDE OF THE THRONE AND OF THE LIVING CREATURES AND THE ELDERS, AND THEY NUMBERED TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND AND THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS,
SAYING IN A LOUD VOICE,
“DESERVING IS THE LAMB, WHO WAS SACRIFICED, TO RECEIVE ALL THE POWER AND RICHES AND WISDOM AND MIGHT AND HONOR AND MAJESTY (GLORY, SPLENDOR AND BLESSING)!”
AND I HEARD EVERY CREATED THING IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH AND under the earth [in hades, the place of departed spirits] AND ON THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN IT, CRYING OUT TOGETHER,
“TO HIM WHO IS SEATED ON THE THRONE AND TO THE LAMB BE ASCRIBED THE BLESSING AND THE HONOR AND THE MAJESTY, GLORY, SPLENDOR, AND THE POWER, MIGHT AND DOMINION, FOREVER AND EVER, THROUGH THE ETERNITIES OF THE ETERNITIES!
AND THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES KEPT SAYING, “AMEN.” AND THE ELDERS FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPED [HIM WHO LIVES FOREVER AND EVER].
REVELATION 5

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“I SEE HIM, BUT NOT NOW;
I BEHOLD HIM, BUT NOT NEAR.
A STAR WILL COME OUT OF JACOB;
A SCEPTER WILL RISE OUT OF ISRAEL.
HE WILL CRUSH THE FOREHEADS OF MOAB,
THE SKULLS OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF SHETH.
EDOM WILL BE CONQUERED;
SEIR, HIS ENEMY, WILL BE CONQUERED,
BUT ISRAEL WILL GROW STRONG.
A RULER WILL COME OUT OF JACOB
AND DESTROY THE SURVIVORS OF THE CITY.”
NUMBER 24:17-19
“BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAT,
THOUGH YOU ARE SMALL AMONG THE CLANS OF JUDAH,
OUT OF YOU WILL COME FOR ME
ONE WHO WILL BE RULER OVER ISRAEL,
WHOSE ORIGINS ARE FROM OF OLD,
FROM ANCIENT TIMES.”
MICAH 5:2

“THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN:
THE VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE AND GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND WILL CALL HIM IMMANUEL-GOD WITH US.”
ISAIAH 7:14
“I WILL SEND MY MESSENGER, WHO WILL PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME. THEN SUDDENLY THE LORD YOU ARE SEEKING WILL COME TO HIS TEMPLE; THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT, WHOM YOU DESIRE, WILL COME,
SAYS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
MALACHI 3:1

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THEN MOSES SAID TO GOD, “INDEED, WHEN I COME TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND SAY TO THEM, ‘THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS HAS SENT ME TO YOU, ‘AND THEY SAY TO ME,
‘WHAT IS HIS NAME?’ WHASHALL I SAY TO THEM?”
AND GOD SAID TO MOSES, “I AM THAT I AM.” AND HE SAID,
“THUS YOU SHAL SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, ‘I AM HAS SENT ME TO YOU.’
EXODUS 3:13-14
AND IT CAME TO PASS:
“GREETINGS, YOU ARE HIGHLY FAVORED!
I AM THAT I AM IS WITH YOU.”
LUKE 1:28
“DO NOT BE AFRAID, MARY;
YOU HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH I AM THAT I AM.
YOU WILL CONCEIVE AND GIVE BIRTH TO A SON,
AND YOU ARE TO CALL HIM I AM-JESUS.
HE WILL BE GREAT AND WILL BE CALLED
THE SON OF I AM THAT I AM.
I AM THAT I AM WILL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF HIS
FATHER DAVID, AND HE WILL REIGN OVER JACOB’S
DESCENDANTS FOREVER;
HIS KINGDOM WILL NEVER END.”
“HOW WILL THIS BE,”
MARY ASKED THE ANGEL,
“SINCE I AM A VIRGIN?”
THE ANGEL ANSWERED,
“THE I AM THAT I AM WILL COME ON YOU,
AND THE POWER OF THE I AM THAT I AM WILL
OVERSHADOW YOU. SO THE HOLY ONE TO BE BORN
WILL BE CALLED THE SON OF I AM THAT I AM.
EVEN ELIZABETH YOUR RELATIVE IS GOING TO HAVE A CHILD IN HER OLD AGE, AND SHE WHO WAS SAID TO BE UNABLE TO CONCEIVE IS IN HER SIXTH MONTH.
FOR NO WORD FROM I AM THAT I AM WILL EVER FAIL.”
“I AM THE SERVANT OF I AM THAT I AM,”
MARY ANSWERED,
MAY YOUR WORD TO ME BE FULFILLED.”
THEN THE ANGEL LEFT HER.
LUKE 1:28-38

IT AMAZES ME HOW GOD GRANT US HUMAN BEING
TO IDENTIFY OURSELVES WITH HIM EVERY TIME WE SAY:
“I AM ……”

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“JOSEPH SON OF DAVID,
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO TAKE MARY HOME AS YOUR WIFE,
BECAUSE WHAT IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS FROM I AM THAT I AM-THE HOLY SPIRIT. SHE WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND YOU ARE TO GIVE HIM THE NAME I AM-JESUS, BECAUSE HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.”
MATTHEW 1:20-21
THEN AT THE APPOINTED TIME:
DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY WHICH WILL BE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE; FOR TODAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID THERE HAS BEEN BORN FOR YOU A SAVIOR, WHO IS CHRIST-THE I AM. THIS WILL BE A SIGN FOR YOU, YOU WILL FIND A BABY WRAPPED IN CLOTHS AND LYING IN A MANGER. SUDDENLY A GREAT COMPANY OF THE HEAVENLY HOST APPEARED WITH THE ANGEL,
PRAISING GOD AND SAYING,
“GLORY TO I AM THAT I AM IN THE HIGHEST HEAVEN,
AND ON EARTH PEACE TO THOSE ON WHOM HIS FAVOR RESTS.”
LUKE 2:10-14
FOR
THE PEOPLE WHO WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT. UPON THOSE WHO DWELL IN THE LAND OF GLOOM A LIGHT HAS SHONE. I AM THAT I AM, YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM ABUNDANT JOY AND GREAT REJOICING.
AS THEY REJOICE BEFORE YOU AS AT THE HARVEST,
AS MEN MAKE MERRY WHEN DIVIDING SPOILS.
FOR THE YOKE THAT BURDENED THEM,
THE POLE ON THEIR SHOULDER,
AND THE ROD OF THEIR TASKMASTER
I AM THAT I AM, YOU HAVE SMASHED,
AS ON THE DAY OF MIDIAN.
FOR EVERY BOUT THAT WAS TRAMPLED IN BATTLE,
EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD, WILL BE BURNED AS FUEL
FOR FLAMES. FOR UNTO US I AM-A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US
I AM-A SON IS GIVEN, UPON HIS SHOULDER-WE THE BODY OF CHRIST, HIS CHURCH-DOMINION RESTS. THEY NAMED I AM: WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, GOD-HERO, FATHER-FOREVER, PRINCE OF PEACE. HIS DOMINION IS VAST AND FOREVER PEACEFUL. FROM DAVID’S THRONE, AND OVER HIS KINGDOM, WHICH HE CONFIRMS AND SUSTAINS BY JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE, BOTH NOW AND FOREVER.
THE ZEAL OF-I AM THAT I AM-THE LORD OF HOSTS
HAS DONE THIS:
ISAIAH 9:1-6

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SOVEREIGN LORD, AS YOU HAVE PROMISED,
YOU MAY NOW DISMISS YOUR SERVANT IN PEACE.
FOR MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOUR SALVATION,
WHICH YOU HAVE PREPARED IN THE SIGHT OF ALL NATIONS:
A LIGHT FOR REVELATION TO THE GENTILES,
AND THE GLORY OF YOUR PEOPLES ISRAEL.”
LUKE 2:29-32
AND THE CHILD GREW AND BECAME STRONG;
HE WAS FILLED WITH WISDOM,
AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS ON HIM.
HE WAS OBEDIENT TO THEM.
AND I AM GREW IN WISDOM AND STATURE,
AND IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND MAN.
LUKE 2:40, 51-52

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IN THOSE DAYS, JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME,
PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS OF JUDEA AND SAYING,
“REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN HAS COME NEAR.”
THIS IS HE WHO WAS SPOKEN OF THROUGH THE PROPHET ISAIAH:
“A VOICE OF ONE CALLING IN THE WILDERNESS,
‘PREPARE THE WAY OF I AM-THE LORD,
MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS FOR HIM.'”
JOHN’S CLOTHES WERE MADE OF CAMEL’S HAIR, AND HE HAD A LEATHER BELT AROUND HIS WAIST. HIS FOOD WAS LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY. PEOPLE WENT OUT TO HIM FROM JERUSALEM AND ALL JUDEA AND THE WHOLE REGION OF THE JORDAN. CONFESSING THEIR SINS, THEY WERE BAPTIZED BY HIM IN THE JORDAN RIVER.
BUT WHEN HE SAW MANY OF THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES COMING TO WHERE HE WAS BAPTIZING, HE SAID TO THEM:
“YOU BROOD OF VIPERS! WHO WARNED YOU TO FLEE FROM THE COMING WRATH? PRODUCE FRUIT IN KEEPING WITH REPENTANCE. AND DO NOT THINK YOU CAN SAY TO YOURSELVES, “WE HAVE ABRAHAM AS OUR FATHER.’ I TELL YOU THAT OUT OF THESE STONES I AM THAT I AM CAN RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR ABRAHAM. THE AX IS ALREADY AT THE ROOT OF THE TREES, AND EVERY TREE THAT DOES NOT PRODUCE GOOD FRUIT WILL BE CUT DOWN AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE.
I BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER FOR REPENTANCE. BUT AFTER ME COMES ONE WHO IS MORE POWERFUL THAN I, WHOSE SANDALS I AM NOT WORTH TO CARRY. HE WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE. HIS WINNOWING FORK IS IN HIS HAND, AND HE WILL CLEAR HIS THRESHING FLOOR, GATHERING HIS WHEAT INTO THE BARN AND BURNING UP THE CHAFF WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE.”
THEN I AM-JESUS CAME FROM GALILEE TO THE JORDAN TO BE BAPTIZED BY JOHN. BUT JOHN TRIED TO DETER HIM, SAYING, “I NEED TO BE BAPTIZED BY YOU, AND DO YOU COME TO ME?”
I AM-JESUS REPLIED, “LET IT BE SO NOW; IT IS PROPER FOR US TO DO THIS TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
THEN JOHN CONSENTED.
AFTER BEING BAPTIZED, I AM-JESUS
CAME UP IMMEDIATELY FROM THE WATER;
AND BEHOLD, THE HEAVENS WERE OPENED,
AND HE SAW THE SPIRIT OF I AM THAT I AM
DESCENDING AS A DOVE AND LIGHTING ON HIM,
AND BEHOLD, A VOICE OUT OF THE HEAVENS SAID,
“THIS IS I AM-MY BELOVED SON,
IN WHOM I AM WELL-PLEASED.”
MATTHEW 3:16-17

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WHO THEN IS THIS WHOM EVEN WIND AND SEA OBEY!
FOR I AM REBUKED THE WIND
AND SAID TO THE SEA, “QUIET!, BE STILL!”
“THE WIND CEASED AND THERE WAS GREAT CALM.”
MARK 4:39
“THIS IS MY SON,
MARKED BY MY LOVE,
FOCUS OF ALL MY DELIGHT.”
2 PETER 1:18
YOU BELIEVE THAT-I AM THAT I AM IS ONE; YOU DO WELL.
EVEN THE DEMONS BELIEVE–AND TREMBLE!
JAMES 2:19
I AM, EVEN THE DEMONS ARE SUBJECT TO US IN YOUR NAME!”
LUKE 10:17
AND DEMONS ALSO CAME OUT OF MANY, CRYING, “YOU ARE-
I AM-THE SON OF GOD!” BUT HE REBUKED THEM AND WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO SPEAK, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT HE WAS-I AM-THE CHRIST.
LUKE 4:41
AND WHENEVER THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS SAW I AM,
THEY FELL DOWN BEFORE I AM AND CRIED OUT,
“YOU ARE I AM-THE SON OF GOD.”
MARK 3:11
REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION; SHOUT, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM: BEHOLD, THY KING COMETH UNTO THEE: HE [IS] JUST, AND HAVING SALVATION; LOWLY, AND RIDING UPON AN ASS, AND UPON A COLT THE FOAL OF AN ASS.
ZECHARIAH 9:9
ON THE NEXT DAY MUCH PEOPLE THAT WERE COME TO THE FEAT, WHEN THEY HEARD THAT JESUS WAS COMING TO JERUSALEM, TOOK BRANCHES OF PALM TREES, AND WENT FORTH TO MEET HIM, AND CRIED, HOSANNA: BLESSED [IS] THE KING OF ISRAEL THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. AND JESUS WHEN HE HAD FOUND A YOUNG ASS, SAT THEREON; AS IT IS WRITTEN, FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF SION: BEHOLD, THY KING COMETH, SITTING ON AN ASS’S COLT. THESE THINGS UNDERSTOOD NOT HIS DISCIPLES AT THE FIRST: BUT WHEN JESUS WAS GLORIFIED, THEN REMEMBERED THEY THAT THESE THINGS WERE WRITTEN OF HIM, AND [THAT] THEY HAD DONE THESE THINGS UNTO HIM. THE PEOPLE THEREFORE THAT WAS WITH HIM WHEN HE CALLED LAZARUS OUT OF HIS GRAVE, AND RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, BARE RECORD. FOR THIS CAUSE THE PEOPLE ALSO MET HIM, FOR THAT THEY HEARD THAT HE HAD DONE THIS MIRACLE. THE PHARISEES THEREFORE SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, PERCEIVE YE HOW YE PREVAIL NOTHING? BEHOLD, THE WORLD IS GONE AFTER HIM.
JOHN 12:12-19

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JESUS WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN,
AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELLETH AMONG US AND WE HAVE SEEN HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE FATHER’S ONLY SON FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH,
LUKE 1:26-38, MATHEW 1:18-28,
HE LIVED A BLAMELESS, SINLESS LIFE,
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21, JOHN 1:1-18
PREACHING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,
AND WE SEE HOW GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND POWER AND HOW HE WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL THOSE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL FOR YOU FATHER LOVE WAS WITH HIM,
MARK 4:17, MARK 11:12, LUKE 17:20-21, MATTHEW 13:44-46, MATTHEW 13:51-52, MATTHEW 20:1-25, MARK 3:20-26, LUKE 11:21-22, ISAIAH 26:19, 06:18-19, 35:5-6, 42:7, 18, 61:1, LUKE 7:18-23, JOHN 3:5-8, 11:21, LUKE 102-12, MATTHEW 19:15
JESUS SUFFERED, HE BORE THE CROSS, HE BLED,
HE DIED AND WAS BURIED;
FOR MANY, THE SERVANT OF GOD BECAME AN OBJECT OF HORROR; MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIM. HIS FACE AND HIS WHOLE APPEARANCE WERE MARRED MORE THAN ANY MAN’S,
AND HIS FORM BEYOND THAT OF THE SONS OF MEN.
BUT JUST AS MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIM,
SO SHALL HE STARTLE AND SPRINKLE MANY NATIONS, AND KINGS SHALL SHUT THEIR MOUTHS BECAUSE OF HIM; FOR THAT WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TOLD THEM SHALL THEY SEE, AND THAT WHICH THEY HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL THEY CONSIDER AND UNDERSTAND,
ISAIAH 53, LUKE 23:3-8, JOHN 19:16-42, MARK 15:21-41, MATTHEW 27:32-66
FOR ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN
IN FULFILLMENT OF THE SCRIPTURES,
MATTHEW 28:1-7, MARK 16:1-8, LUKE 24:1-12, JOHN 1:10
JESUS CRUSHED SATAN’S HEAD
AND TOOK BACK FROM HIM
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,
GENESIS 1:14-15, REV 1:18
JESUS BURST HELL WIDE OPEN!
FOR
THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WAS WITH GOD MOVES
JESUS DEFEATING DEATH, HELL, AND THE GRAVE,
HAS SET ALL CAPTIVES FREE.

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BEHOLD! THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD
JOHN 1:29

FOR CHRIST DID NOT COME TO ABOLISH THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS,
HE CAME NOT TO ABOLISH THEM BUT TO FULFILL THEM.
MATTHEW 5:17

BUT NOW APART FROM THE LAW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD HAS BEEN MADE KNOWN, TO WHICH THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS TESTIFY. THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS GIVEN THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST TO ALL WHO BELIEVE. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE, FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, AND ALL ARE JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT CAME BY CHRIST JESUS. GOD PRESENTED CHRIST AS A SACRIFICE OF ATONEMENT-PROPITIATION, THROUGH THE SHEDDING OF HIS BLOOD–TO BE RECEIVED BY FAITH. HE DID THIS TO DEMONSTRATE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE IN HIS FORBEARANCE HE HAD LEFT THE SINS COMMITTED BEFOREHAND UNPUNISHED–HE DID IT TO DEMONSTRATE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AT THE PRESENT TIME, SO AS TO BE JUST AND THE ONE WHO JUSTIFIES THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN JESUS.
ROMANS 3:21-26

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EVERY HIGH PRIEST IS SELECTED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE AND IS APPOINTED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE IN MATTERS RELATED TO GOD, TO OFFER GIFTS AND SACRIFICES FOR SINS. HE IS ABLE TO DEAL GENTLY WITH THOSE WHO ARE IGNORANT AND ARE GOING ASTRAY, SINCE HE HIMSELF IS SUBJECT TO WEAKNESS. THIS IS WHY HE HAS TO OFFER SACRIFICES FOR HIS OWN SINS AS WELL AS FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. AND NO ONE TAKES THIS HONOR ON HIMSELF, BUT HE RECEIVES IT WHEN CALLED BY GOD, JUST AS AARON WAS.
IN THE SAME WAY, CHRIST DID NOT TAKE ON HIMSELF THE GLORY OF BECOMING A HIGH PRIEST. BUT GOD SAID TO HIM,
“YOU ARE MY SON;
TODAY I HAVE BECOME YOUR FATHER.”
AND HE SAYS IN ANOTHER PLACE,
“YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER,
IN THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.”
DURING THE DAYS OF JESUS’ LIFE ON EARTH, HE OFFERED UP PRAYERS AND PETITIONS WITH FERVENT CRIES AND TEARS TO THE ONE WHO COULD SAVE HIM FROM DEATH, AND HE WAS HEARD BECAUSE OF HIS REVERENT SUBMISSION. SON THOUGH HE WAS, HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE FROM WHAT HE SUFFERED AND, ONCE MADE PERFECT, HE BECAME THE SOURCE OF ETERNAL SALVATION FOR ALL WHO OBEY HIM AND WAS DESIGNATED BY GOD TO BE HIGH PRIEST IN THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.
HEBREWS 5:1-10

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THEREFORE FATHER LOVE I PRAY THAT WE YOUR BELOVED MOVE BEYOND THE ELEMENTARY TEACHINGS ABOUT CHRIST AND BE TAKEN FORWARD TO MATURITY, NOT LAYING AGAIN THE FOUNDATION OF REPENTANCE FROM ACTS THAT LEAD TO DEATH, AND OF FAITH IN GOD, INSTRUCTION ABOUT CLEANSING RITES, THE LAYING ON OF HANDS, THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND ETERNAL JUDGMENT.
AND GOD PERMITTING, WE WILL DO SO.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ONCE BEEN ENLIGHTENED, WHO HAVE TASTED THE HEAVENLY GIFT,
WHO HAVE SHARED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO HAVE TASTED THE GOODNESS OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE POWERS OF THE COMING AGE AND WHO HAVE FALLEN AWAY, TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO REPENTANCE. TO THEIR LOSS THEY ARE CRUCIFYING THE SON OF GOD ALL OVER AGAIN AND SUBJECTING HIM TO PUBLIC DISGRACE. LAND THAT DRINKS IN THE RAIN OFTEN FALLING ON IT AND THAT PRODUCES A CROP USEFUL TO THOSE FOR WHOM IT IS FARMED RECEIVES THE BLESSING OF GOD. BUT LAND THAT PRODUCES THORNS AND THISTLES IS WORTHLESS AND IS IN DANGER OF BEING CURSED. IN THE END IT WILL BE BURNED.
EVEN THOUGH WE SPEAK LIKE THIS, FATHER LOVE, WE ARE CONVINCE OF BETTER THINGS IN OUR CASE–THE THINGS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH SALVATION. YOU FATHER GOD ARE NOT UNJUST; YOU WILL NOT FORGET OUR WORK AND THE LOVE WE HAVE SHOWN YOU AS WE HAVE HELPED YOUR PEOPLE AND CONTINUE TO HELP THEM. I PRAY THAT EACH OF US THE CHURCH TO SHOW THIS SAME DILIGENCE TO THE VERY END, SO THAT WHAT WE HOPE FOR MAY BE FULLY REALIZED. I PRAY THAT WE DO NOT BECOME LAZY, BUT TO IMITATE THOSE WHO THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE INHERIT WHAT HAS BEEN PROMISED.
WHEN GOD MADE HIS PROMISE TO ABRAHAM, SINCE THERE WAS NO ONE GREATER FOR HIM TO SWEAR BY, HE SWORE BY HIMSELF, SAYING, “I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND GIVE YOU MANY DESCENDANTS. AND SO AFTER WAITING PATIENTLY, ABRAHAM RECEIVED WHAT WAS PROMISED.
PEOPLE SWEAR BY SOMEONE GREATER THAN THEMSELVES, AND THE OATH CONFIRMS WHAT IS SAID AND PUTS AN END TO ALL ARGUMENT. BECAUSE GOD WANTED TO MAKE THE UNCHANGING NATURE OF HIS PURPOSE VERY CLEAR TO THE HEIRS OF WHAT WAS PROMISED, HE CONFIRMED IT WITH AN OATH. GOD DID THIS SO THAT, BY TWO UNCHANGEABLE THINGS IN WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE,
WE WHO HAVE FLED TO TAKE HOLD OF THE HOPE SET BEFORE US MAY BE GREATLY ENCOURAGED. WE HAVE THIS HOPE AS AN ANCHOR FOR THE SOUL, FIRM AND SECURE. IT ENTERS THE INNER SANCTUARY BEHIND THE CURTAIN, WHERE OUR FORERUNNER, JESUS-YESHUA, HAS ENTERED ON OUR BEHALF. HE HAS BECOME A HIGH PRIEST FOREVER, IN THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.
HEBREWS 6

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THIS MELCHIZEDEK WAS KING OF SALEM AND PRIEST OF GOD MOST HIGH. HE MET ABRAHAM RETURNING FROM THE DEFEAT OF THE KINGS AND BLESSED HIM, AND ABRAHAM GAVE HIM A TENTH OF EVERYTHING. FIRST, THE NAME MELCHIZEDEK MEANS “KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS”‘ THEN ALSO, “KING OF SALEM” MEANS “KING OF PEACE.” WITHOUT FATHER OR MOTHER, WITHOUT GENEALOGY, WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS OR END OF LIFE, RESEMBLING THE SON OF GOD, HE REMAINS A PRIEST FOREVER.
JUST THINK HOW GREAT HE WAS: EVEN THE PATRIARCH ABRAHAM GAVE HIM A TENTH OF THE PLUNDER!
NOW THE LAW REQUIRES THE DESCENDANTS OF LEVI WHO BECOME PRIESTS TO COLLECT A TENTH FROM THE PEOPLE–THAT IS, FROM THEIR FELLOW ISRAELITES–EVEN THOUGH THEY ALSO ARE DESCENDED FROM ABRAHAM. THIS MAN, HOWEVER, DID NOT TRACE HIS DESENT FROM LEVI, YET HE COLLECTED A TENTH FROM ABRAHAM AND BLESSED HIM WHO HAD THE PROMISES. AND WITHOUT DOUBT THE LESSER IS BLESSED BY THE GREATER. IN THE ONE CASE, THE TENTH IS COLLECTED BY PEOPLE WHO DIE; BUT IN THE OTHER CASE, BY HIM WHO IS DECLARED TO BE LIVING. ONE MIGHT EVEN SAY THAT LEVI, WHO COLLECTS THE TENTH, PAID THE TENTH THROUGH ABRAHAM, BECAUSE WHEN MELCHIZEDEK MET ABRAHAM, LEVI WAS STILL IN THE BODY OF HIS ANCESTOR.
IF PERFECTION COULD HAVE BEEN ATTAINED THROUGH THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD–AND INDEED THE LAW GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED THAT PRIESTHOOD–WHY WAS THERE STILL NEED FOR ANOTHER PRIEST TO COME, ONE IN THE ORDER OF MECHIZEDEK, NOT IN THE ORDER OF AARON? FOR WHEN THE PRIESTHOOD IS CHANGED, THE LAW MUST BE CHANGED ALSO. HE OF WHOM THESE THINGS ARE SAID BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT TRIBE, AND NO ONE FROM THAT TRIBE HAS EVER SERVED AT THE ALTAR. FOR IT IS CLEAR THAT OUR LORD DESCENDED FROM JUDAH, AND IN REGARD TO THAT TRIBE MOSES SAID NOTHING ABOUT PRIESTS. AND WHAT WE HAVE SAID IS EVEN MORE CLEAR IF ANOTHER PRIEST LIKE MELCHIZEDEK APPEARS, ONE WHO HAS BECOME A PRIEST NOT ON THE BASIS OF A REGULATION AS TO HIS ANCESTRY BUT ON THE BASIS OF THE POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE.
FOR IT IS DECLARED:
“YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER,
IN THE ORDER OF MECHIZEDEK.”
THE FORMER REGULATION IS SET ASIDE BECAUSE IT WAS WEAK AND USELESS. (FOR THE LAW MADE NOTHING PERFECT), AND A BETTER HOPE IS INTRODUCED, BY WHICH WE DRAW NEAR TO GOD.
AND IT WAS NOT WITHOUT AN OATH! OTHERS BECAME PRIESTS WITHOUT ANY OATH, BUT HE BECAME A PRIEST WITH AN OATH WHEN GOD SAID TO HIM:
“THE LORD HAS SWORN
AND WILL NOT CHANGE HIS MIND:
“YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER.”
BECAUSE OF THIS OATH, JESUS HAS BECOME
THE GUARANTOR OF A BETTER COVENANT.
NOW THERE HAVE BEEN MANY OF THOSE PRIESTS, SINCE DEATH PREVENTED THEM FROM CONTINUING IN OFFICE;
BUT BECAUSE JESUS LIVES FOREVER, HE HAS A PERMANENT PRIESTHOOD.
THEREFORE HE IS ABLE TO SAVE COMPLETELY THOSE WHO COME TO GOD THROUGH HIM BECAUSE HE ALWAYS LIVES TO INTERCEDE FOR THEM.
SUCH A HIGH PRIEST TRULY MEETS OUR NEED–ONE WHO IS HOLY, BLAMELESS, PURE, SET APART FROM SINNERS, EXALTED ABOVE THE HEAVENS. UNLIKE THE OTHER HIGH PRIESTS, HE DOES NOT NEED TO OFFER SACRIFICES DAY AFTER DAY, FIRST FOR HIS OWN SINS, AND THEN FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. HE SACRIFICED FOR THEIR SINS ONCE FOR ALL WHEN HE OFFERED HIMSELF. FOR THE LAW APPOINTS AS HIGH PRIESTS MEN IN ALL THEIR WEAKNESS; BUT THE OATH, WHICH CAME AFTER THE LAW, APPOINTED THE SON, WHO HAS BEEN MADE PERFECT FOREVER.
HEBREWS 7

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NOW THE MAIN POINT OF WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS THIS:
WE DO HAVE SUCH A HIGH PRIEST, WHO SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF THE MAJESTY IN HEAVEN, AND WHO SERVES IN THE SANCTUARY, THE TRUE TABERNACLE SET UP BY THE LORD,
NOT BY A MERE HUMAN BEING.
EVERY HIGH PRIEST IS APPOINTED TO OFFER BOTH GIFTS AND SACRIFICES, AND SO IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THIS ONE ALSO TO HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER. IF HE WERE ON EARTH, HE WOULD NOT BE A PRIEST, FOR THERE ARE ALREADY PRIESTS WHO OFFER THE GIFTS PRESCRIBED BY THE LAW. THEY SERVE AT A SANCTUARY THAT IS A COPY AND SHADOW OF WHAT IS IN HEAVEN. THIS IS WHY MOSES WAS WARNED WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO BUILD THE TABERNACLE: “SEE TO IT THAT YOU MAKE EVERYTHING ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.”
BUT IN FACT THE MINISTRY JESUS HAS RECEIVED IS AS SUPERIOR TO THEIRS AS THE COVENANT OF WHICH HE IS MEDIATOR IS SUPERIOR TO THE OLD ONE, SINCE THE NEW COVENANT IS ESTABLISHED ON BETTER PROMISES.
FOR IF THERE HAD BEEN NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT FIRST COVENANT, NO PLACE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR ANOTHER. BUT GOD FOUND FAULT WITH THE PEOPLE AND SAID:
“THE DAYS ARE COMING, DECLARES THE LORD,
WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT
WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
AND WITH THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH
IT WILL NOT BE LIKE THE COVENANT
I MADE WITH THEIR ANCESTORS
WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND
TO LEAD THEM OUT OF EGYPT,
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT REMAIN FAITHFUL TO MY COVENANT,
AND I TURNED AWAY FROM THEM,
DECLARES THE LORD.
THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL ESTABLISH WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
AFTER THAT TIME, DECLARES THE LORD.
I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR MINDS
AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS.
I WILL BE THEIR GOD,
AND THEY WILL BE MY PEOPLE.
NO LONGER WILL THEY TEACH THEIR NEIGHBOR,
OR SAY TO ONE ANOTHER, ‘KNOW THE LORD,’
BECAUSE THEY WILL ALL KNOW ME,
FROM THE LEAST OF THEM TO THE GREATEST.
FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR WICKEDNESS
AND WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE.”
BY CALLING THIS COVENANT “NEW,” HE HAS MADE THE FIRST ONE OBSOLETE; AND WHAT IS OBSOLETE AND OUTDATED WILL SOON DISAPPEAR.
HEBREWS 8

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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. OTHERWISE, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE STOPPED BEING OFFERED? FOR THE WORSHIPERS 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
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 DESIRE,
BUT A BODY YOU PREPARED FOR ME;
WITH BURNT OFFERINGS AND SIN OFFERINGS
YOU WERE NOT PLEASED.
THEN I SAID, ‘HERE I AM–IT IS WRITTEN ABOUT ME IN THE SCROLL–
I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL, MY GOD.'”
FIRST HE SAID, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS, BURNT OFFERINGS AND SIN OFFERINGS YOU DID NOT DESIRE, NOR WERE YOU PLEASE WITH THEM”–THOUGH THEY WERE OFFERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW. THEN HE SAID, “HERE I AM, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.”
HE SETS ASIDE THE FIRST TO ESTABLISH THE SECOND.
AND BY THAT WILL, WE HAVE BEEN MADE HOLY THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL.
DAY AFTER DAY EVERY PRIEST STANDS AND PERFORMS HIS RELIGIOUS DUTIES; AGAIN AND AGAIN HE OFFERS THE SAME SACRIFICES, WHICH CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY SINS.
BUT WHEN THIS PRIEST HAD OFFERED FOR ALL TIME ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, HE SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, AND SINCE THAT TIME HE WAITS FOR HIS ENEMIES TO BE MADE HIS FOOTSTOOL. FOR BY ONE SACRIFICE HE HAS MADE PERFECT FOREVER THOSE WHO ARE BEING MADE HOLY.
THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST HE SAYS:
“THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM
AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD.
I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS,
AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS,”
THEN HE ADDS:
“THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS
I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.”
AND WHERE THESE HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,
SACRIFICE FOR SIN IS NO LONGER NECESSARY.
HEBREWS 10:11-18

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DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT UP AGAIN.
JOHN 2:19

BUT WHEN CHRIST CAME AS HIGH PRIEST OF THE GOOD THINGS THAT ARE NOW ALREADY HERE, HE WENT THROUGH THE GREATER AND MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE THAT IS NOT MADE WITH HUMAN HANDS, THAT IS TO SAY, IS NOT A PART OF THIS CREATION.
HE DID NOT ENTER BY MEANS OF THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND CALVES; BUT HE ENTERED THE MOST HOLY PLACE ONCE FOR ALL BY HIS OWN BLOOD, THUS OBTAINING ETERNAL REDEMPTION.
THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND BULLS AND THE ASHES OF A HEIFER SPRINKLED ON THOSE WHO ARE CEREMONIALLY UNCLEAN SANCTIFY THEM SO THAT THEY ARE OUTWARDLY CLEAN. HOW MUCH MORE, THEN, WILL THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT OFFERED HIMSELF UNBLEMISHED TO GOD, CLEANSE OUR CONSCIENCES FROM ACTS THAT LEAD TO DEATH, SO THAT WE MAY SERVE THE LIVING GOD!
FOR THIS REASON CHRIST IS THE MEDIATOR OF A NEW COVENANT, THAT THOSE WHO ARE CALLED MAY RECEIVE THE PROMISED ETERNAL INHERITANCE–NOW THAT HE HAS DIED AS A RANSOM TO SET THEM FREE FROM THE SINS COMMITTED UNDER THE FIRST COVENANT.
HEBREWS 9:11-15

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IN THE CASE OF A WILL, IT IS NECESSARY TO PROVE THE DEATH OF THE ONE WHO MADE IT, BECAUSE A WILL IS IN FORCE ONLY WHEN SOMEBODY HAS DIED; IT NEVER TAKES EFFECT WHILE THE ONE WHO MADE IT IS LIVING.
THAT IS WHY EVEN THE FIRST COVENANT WAS NOT PUT INTO EFFECT WITHOUT BLOOD. FOR WHEN MOSES HAD PROCLAIMED EVERY COMMANDMENT OF THE LAW TO ALL THE PEOPLE, HE TOOK THE BLOOD OF CALVES AND GOATS, ALONG WITH WATER, SCARLET WOOL, AND HYSOPP, AND SPRINKLED THE SCROLL AND ALL THE PEOPLE, SAYING, “BEHOLD THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, WHICH GOD HAS COMMANDED YOU TO KEEP.” IN THE SAME WAY, HE SPRINKLED WITH THE BLOOD BOTH THE TABERNACLE AND EVERYTHING USED IN ITS CEREMONIES.
IN FACT, THE LAW REQUIRES THAT NEARLY EVERYTHING BE CLEANSED WITH BLOOD, AND WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS.
IT WAS NECESSARY, THEN, FOR THE COPIES OF THE HEAVENLY THINGS TO BE PURIFIED WITH THESE SACRIFICES, BUT THE HEAVENLY THINGS THEMSELVES WITH BETTER SACRIFICES THAN THESE.
FOR CHRIST DID NOT ENTER A SANCTUARY MADE WITH HUMAN HANDS THAT WAS ONLY A COPY OF THE TRUE ONE; HE ENTERED HEAVEN ITSELF, NOW TO APPEAR FOR US IN GOD’S PRESENCE. NOR DID HE ENTER HEAVEN TO OFFER HIMSELF AGAIN AND AGAIN, THE WAY THE HIGH PRIEST ENTERS THE MOST HOLY PLACE EVERY YEAR WITH BLOOD THAT IS NOT HIS OWN. OTHERWISE CHRIST WOULD HAVE HAD TO SUFFER MANY TIMES SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. BUT HE HAS APPEARED ONCE FOR ALL AT THE CULMINATION OF THE AGES TO DO AWAY WITH SIN BY THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF.
JUST AS PEOPLE ARE DESTINED TO DIE ONCE, AND AFTER THAT TO FACE JUDGMENT, SO CHRIST WAS SACRIFICED ONCE TO TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF MANY HE WILL APPEAR A SECOND TIME, NOT TO BEAR SIN, BUT TO BRING SALVATION TO THOSE WHO ARE WAITING FOR HIM.
HEBREWS 9:11-28

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AND THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME, THAT I SHALL LOSE NONE OF ALL THOSE HE HAS GIVEN ME, BUT RAISE THEM UP AT THE LAST DAY. FOR IT IS MY FATHER’S WILL THAT EVERYONE WHO LOOKS TO THE SON AND BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY.
JOHN 6:39-40

BUT NOW APART FROM THE LAW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD HAS BEEN MADE KNOWN, TO WHICH THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS TESTIFY. THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS GIVEN THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST TO ALL WHO BELIEVE. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE, FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, AND ALL ARE JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT CAME BY CHRIST JESUS.
GOD PRESENTED CHRIST AS A SACRIFICE OF ATONEMENT, THROUGH THE SHEDDING OF HIS BLOOD–TO BE RECEIVED BY FAITH. HE DID THIS TO DEMONSTRATE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE IN HIS FORBEARANCE HE HAD LEFT THE SINS COMMITTED BEFOREHAND UNPUNISHED–HE DID IT TO DEMONSTRATE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AT THE PRESENT TIME, SO AS TO BE JUST AND THE ONE WHO JUSTIFIES THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN JESUS.
ROMANS3:21-26

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WHEN ADAM SINNED, SIN ENTERED THE WORLD.
ADAM’S SIN BROUGHT DEATH, SO DEATH SPREAD TO EVERYONE,
FOR EVERYONE SINNED. YES, PEOPLE SINNED EVEN BEFORE THE LAW WAS GIVEN. BUT IT WAS NOT COUNTED AS SIN BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT YET ANY LAW TO BREAK. STILL, EVERYONE DIED–FROM THE TIME OF ADAM TO THE TIME OF MOSES– EVEN THOSE WHO DID NOT DISOBEY AN EXPLICIT COMMANDMENT OF GOD, AS ADAM DID. NOW ADAM IS A SYMBOL, A REPRESENTATION OF CHRIST, WHO WAS YET TO COME. BUT THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADAM’S SIN AND GOD’S GRACIOUS GIFT.
FOR THE SIN OF THIS ONE MAN, ADAM, BROUGHT DEATH TO MANY. BUT EVEN GREATER IS GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE AND HIS GIFT OF FORGIVENESS TO MANY THROUGH THIS OTHER MAN, JESUS CHRIST. AND THE RESULT OF GOD’S GRACIOUS GIFT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE RESULT OF THAT ONE MAN’S SIN. FOR ADAM’S SIN LET TO CONDEMNATION, BUT GOD’S FREE GIFT LEADS TO OUR BEING MADE RIGHT WITH GOD, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE GUILTY OF MANY SINS. FOR THE SIN OF THIS ONE MAN, ADAM, CAUSE DEATH TO RULE OVER MANY. BUT EVEN GREATER IS GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE AND HIS GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR ALL WHO RECEIVE IT WILL LIVE IN TRIUMPH OVER SIN AND DEATH THROUGH THIS ONE MAN, JESUS CHRIST.
YES, ADAM’S ONE SIN BRINGS CONDEMNATION FOR EVERYONE, BUT CHRIST’S ONE ACT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BRINGS A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND NEW LIFE FOR EVERYONE. BECAUSE ONE PERSON DISOBEYED GOD, MANY BECAME SINNERS. BUT BECAUSE ONE OTHER PERSON OBEYED GOD, MANY WILL BE MADE RIGHTEOUS.
AND GOD’S LAW WAS GIVEN SO THAT ALL PEOPLE COULD SEE HOW SINFUL THEY WERE. BUT AS PEOPLE SINNED MORE AND MORE, GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE BECAME MORE ABUNDANT. SO JUST AS SIN RULED OVER ALL PEOPLE AND BROUGHT THEM TO DEATH, NOW GOD’S WONDERFUL GRACE RULES INSTEAD, GIVING US RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD AND RESULTING IN ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
ROMANS 5:6-21

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FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE GREAT FISH, SO WILL THE SON OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH.
MATTHEW 12:40

FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO SHOW TO HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE MUST GO TO JERUSALEM, AND SUFFER MANY THINGS FROM THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES, AND BE KILLED, AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY.
MATTHEW 16:21

THE SON OF MAN MUST BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF SINFUL MEN, AND BE CRUCIFIED, AND THE THIRD DAY RISE AGAIN.
LUKE 24:7

THEREFORE MY FATHER LOVES ME, BECAUSE I LAY DOWN MY LIFE THAT I MAY TAKE IT AGAIN. “NO ONE TAKES IT FROM ME, BUT I LAY IT DOWN OF MYSELF. I HAVE POWER TO LAY IT DOWN, AND I HAVE POWER TO TAKE IT UP AGAIN. THIS COMMAND I HAVE RECEIVED FROM MY FATHER.”
JOHN 10:17-18

HE SAID TO THEM, “THIS IS WHAT I TOLD YOU WHILE I WAS STILL WITH YOU: EVERYTHING MUST BE FULFILLED THAT IS WRITTEN ABOUT ME IN THE LAW OF MOSES, THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS.”
THEN HE OPENED THEIR MINDS SO THEY COULD UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES. HE TOLD THEM, “THIS IS WHAT IS WRITTEN: THE MESSIAH WILL SUFFER AND RISE FROM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY, AND REPENTANCE FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS WILL BE PREACHED IN HIS NAME TO ALL NATIONS, BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM.
LUKE 24:44-47

DAVID SAID ABOUT HIM:
“I SAW THE LORD ALWAYS BEFORE ME.
BECAUSE HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND,
I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN.
THEREFORE MY HEART IS GLAD AND MY TONGUE REJOICES;
MY BODY ALSO WILL REST IN HOPE.
BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON ME TO THE REALM OF THE DEAD,
YOU WILL NOT LET YOUR HOLY ONE SEE DECAY.
YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE PATHS OF LIFE;
YOU WILL FILL ME WITH JOY IN YOUR PRESENCE.”
ATCS 2:25-28

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IN BRINGING MANY SONS TO GLORY, IT WAS FITTING FOR GOD, FOR WHOM AND THROUGH WHOM ALL THINGS EXIST, TO MAKE THE PIONEER OF THEIR SALVATION PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERING.
HEBREWS 2:10

BUT WE SEE JESUS, WHO WAS MADE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, NOW CROWNED WITH GLORY AND HONOR BECAUSE HE SUFFERED DEATH, SO THAT BY THE GRACE OF GOD HE MIGHT TASTE DEATH FOR EVERYONE.
HEBREWS 2:9

FOR THE JOY SET BEFORE YOU YOU ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING ITS SHAME, AND SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD.
HEBREWS 12:2

AFTER THE LORD JESUS HAD SPOKEN TO THEM, HE WAS TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN AND SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
MARK 16:19