Tag: NewCovenant
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Better Than a Parted Sea – Hebrews 11:40
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. It is easy to romanticize the old stories. We think, “If only I could have stood there when the sea split open. If only I could have seen fire fall. If only I could have watched…
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Commended Before Completion – Hebrews 11:39
Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. After all the names, all the stories, all the victories, all the suffering, Hebrews brings us to this surprising line: they obtained a good report through faith, yet they did not receive the promise. That is a remarkable sentence. These…
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Mercy Over the Record — Hebrews 10:15–20
Hebrews 10:15–20 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will…
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Once for All — Hebrews 10:9–10
Hebrews 10:9–10 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. There is a holy finality in these verses. Jesus came to…