THURSDAY, March 12th, 2009

Last night was lots of fun! I hope you came and I definitely hope you plan to come next week for our St. Patricks day "Green" party!

Hebrews 10

1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come In the volume of the book it is written of Me To do Your will, O God.’”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them ” (which are offered according to the law),
9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,
13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

once again, this is a very deep passage, but not one that we should ignore... This passage goes all the way back to the old testament and reminds us that the sacrifice of the animals in the old testament, DID NOT TAKE AWAY SIN!!! There is NO WAY that the blood of an animal can pay for mans sin.

It kind of reminds me how we try to do things to pay for our sins, catholic people try to work and pay their way into Heaven with different methods, Jehovas Witness try to work their way into heaven, even some people who could care less about any kind of religion try to "do good things", so that they can work their way to heaven.

The fact is that NOTHING we can do will help us work our way to Heaven! We cannot earn a pass to Heaven. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE!!! The only way we can get there, is to place our complete faith and acceptance on Jesus Christ alone. He told us in His word: "I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the father, but by me!!" Wow! If you want to get to Heaven, then you must accept Christ!!

Have you accepted Christ as your savior?