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| Summary: Accepting the forgiveness won for us by Jesus Christ is one of the most difficult — yet also among the most essential — of Christian disciplines. |
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| Summary: The way in which we use words can confuse the meaning. This is certainly true about the word “sacrifice.” We may think of sacrificing as a way of paying back God, who, it turns out, is not interested in paybacks. The sacrifice of Jesus is far greater than any payback because it Jesus was more interested in bringing us to God, in making us holy, than he was in giving God a sacrifice. We are offered many quick fixes for a holy and satisfying life but there is only one genuine article. |
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| Summary: We are often willing victims of sin. It can take over our lives, even destroy us. The New Testament insists that we can be reconciled to God, can have our guilt dissipated, and know without a doubt that we are forgiven. God can heal us and make us whole persons. |
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| Summary: Jesus was not sacrificed to placate God. Jesus’ sacrifice did not make God love us more or make God willing to forgive us. God has always been willing to forgive us. Yet God was acting on the cross for our sakes, to heal our sins. In a way we can never fully explain, Christ’s sacrifice has taken away the guilt for our sin. The sacrifice changed the equation for our guilt. Jesus’ one-time sacrifice reconciled us to God. |
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| Summary: What happened on the cross completely overshadows anything done by ritual sacrifices, liturgy or ritual of any kind. Ritual sacrifices cannot free us from the bony clutch of the dark side of the human condition. But God does. The sacrifice that Christ made upon the cross has accomplished this. This difficult passage gestures toward that saving work. |
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| Summary: When we feel overwhelmed by the sin of the world, or when we experience the depth of our own sin, we can claim the promise of Hebrews that Christ’s sacrifice has defeated the power of sin. God will claim victory over sin. We live until that time in faith and endurance. |
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| Summary: These passages, remote as they may seem to modern and postmodern ears, reflect a reality about the human condition that speaks as insistently to us, today, as it did to the early church finding its identity in Christ. |
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