Leaf473
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Are you saying that no laws have disappeared, no laws have achieved their purpose?Brother, we would like God to make it easier, either by overriding our will or allowing us to continue to sin, but He offers His repetitive growth cycle of forgiveness in the daily as our High Priest to separate sin from our character. Nothing disappears because what was before better illustrates what comes after, like the repetitive way that God separates sin from our character. Rather than repeatedly offering animals as sacrifices for our sins, we now repeatedly turn to the daily in the heavenly temple of our High Priest in prayer to forgive our past sins and have another chance to rise again as a falling child learning to walk without sin by many attempts that bring the child closer to the goal. It works! I don't repeat the misuse of God's name by quickly turning to God's forgiveness when I hear it from others.
Here is the main point: We have a High Priest who sat down in the place of honor beside the throne of the majestic God in heaven. There he ministers in the heavenly Tabernacle, the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands. And since every high priest is required to offer gifts and sacrifices, our High Priest must make an offering, too. If he were here on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there already are priests who offer the gifts required by the law. They serve in a system of worship that is only a copy, a shadow of the real one in heaven. For when Moses was getting ready to build the Tabernacle, God gave him this warning: “Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have shown you here on the mountain.” (Hebrews 8:1-5 NLT)
The laws against sin continue in Jesus. Now Jesus is our High Priest and we turn to Him daily in prayer to forgive our sins. This faster cycle of forgiveness is more efficient in separating us from our sins than the death of so many animals. Jesus' death is just the beginning of His daily in the heavenly temple. Jesus as our High Priest ultimately transfers through His blood our punishment for our confessed sins to Satan. Satan will pay not only for his sins, but also for our sins handed over to our High Priest to transfer, as shown in the earthly copy of the heavenly temple service with Jesus now as our High Priest. "A far better covenant with God" is that Jesus lives forever to complete the cycle of rapid growth that will ultimately separate all sin from our character, as illustrated earlier by repeated animal sacrifices.
But now Jesus, our High Priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God, based on better promises. (Hebrews 8:6 NLT)
United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
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