Hebrews:9:11-28
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How much more shall the blood of Christ ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God ,
purge your conscience from (
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From sins which proceed from death ,
and bring forth nothing but death .(:
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dead works to serve the living God ?
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For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead :
for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it ,
is aliue .
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For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people (
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As the Lord had commanded .(:
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according to the law ,
he took the blood of calves and of goats ,
with water ,
and scarlet wool ,
and hyssop ,
and He used to sprinkle .
sprinkled both the book ,
and all the people ,
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Saying ,
This is the blood of the Testament ,
which God hath appointed vnto you .
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Moreouer ,
he sprinkled likewise the Tabernacle with blood also ,
and all the ministring vessels .
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And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood ,
and without sheading of blood is no remission .
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therefore necessary that the (
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The counterparts of heavenly things were earthly ,
and therefore they were to be set forth with earthly things ,
as with the blood of beasts ,
wool and hyssop .
But under Christ all things are heavenly ,
and therefore they could not be sanctified with the offering of his living blood .(:
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patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these ;
but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these .
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And as it is appointed unto men (
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He speaks of the natural state and condition of man :
For though Lazarus and certain others died twice ,
that was no usual thing ,
but extraordinary :
and as for them that shall be changed ,
their changing is a kind of death . {{
See 1Co_15
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once to die ,
but after this the judgment :
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So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of (
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Thus the general promise is restrained to the elect only :
and we have to seek the testimony of our election ,
not in the secret counsel of God ,
but in the effects that our faith works ,
and so we must climb up from the lowest step to the highest ,
there to find such comfort as is most certain ,
and shall never be moved .(:
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many ;
Shortly by the way he sets Christ as Judge ,
partly to terrify those who are not trusting in the only sacrifice of Christ once made ,
and partly to keep the faithful in their duty ,
so that they will not go back .
and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation .
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