HOW DO YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS (From The Unshakable Truth Study Guide)
Is your faith actually in vain without Christ’s resurrection?
Christ’s death on the cross is all-sufficient even without his resurrection because he was such a perfect sacrifice.
Faith in Christ is in vain without his resurrection because if he didn't rise from the dead he wouldn’t be the Son of God.
I’m not sure about my answer.
Other:
Read Leviticus 16:15-19. Aaron, the high priest, went into the tabernacle’s most holy place to sprinkle animal blood as a sacrifice on the altar. Who instructed Aaron and the children of Israel to build the tabernacle, the most holy place, and the altar, and to follow the rituals of the blood sacrifice? And what was their purpose?“I would say the purpose of these specific instructions was to…
Read Hebrews 9:11-15,23-26.Where is the temple/tabernacle in which this sacrifice was offered? Who was the High Priest who offered the sacrifice?What was accomplished by this High Priest? Someone wrote a note that said,“I cannot fully agree with you that our faith is in vain without Jesus’ resurrection. Christ’s sacrificial death is not meaningless without his resurrection. A sacrifice like that could never be meaningless.”Is it true that Jesus’ sacrifice was not meaningless without his resurrection? Based on Hebrews 9, what point is this person missing about the necessity of Jesus’ resurrection?
Leviticus 16:15-19 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2016:15-19&version=CEV)
15 Aaron, you must next sacrifice the goat for the sins of the people, and you must sprinkle its blood inside the most holy place, just as you did with the blood of the bull. 16 By doing this, you will take away the sins that make both the most holy place and the people of Israel unclean. Do the same for the sacred tent, which is here among the people. 17 Only you are allowed in the sacred tent from the time you enter until the time you come out. 18 After leaving the tent, you will purify the bronze altar by smearing each of its four corners with some of the blood from the bull and from the goat. 19 Use a finger to sprinkle the altar seven times with the blood, and it will be completely clean from the sins of the people.
Hebrews 9:11-15,23-26 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%209:11-15,23-26&version=CEV)
11 Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here.[a] He also went into a much better tent that wasn’t made by humans and that doesn’t belong to this world. 12 Then Christ went once for all into the most holy place and freed us from sin forever. He did this by offering his own blood instead of the blood of goats and bulls.
13 According to the Law of Moses, those people who become unclean are not fit to worship God. Yet they will be considered clean, if they are sprinkled with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a sacrificed calf.14 But Christ was sinless, and he offered himself as an eternal and spiritual sacrifice to God. That’s why his blood is much more powerful and makes our[b] consciences clear. Now we can serve the living God and no longer do things that lead to death.
15 Christ died to rescue those who had sinned and broken the old agreement. Now he brings his chosen ones a new agreement with its guarantee of God’s eternal blessings!
23 These things are only copies of what is in heaven, and so they had to be made holy by these ceremonies. But the real things in heaven must be made holy by something better. 24 This is why Christ did not go into a tent that had been made by humans and was only a copy of the real one. Instead, he went into heaven and is now there with God to help us.
25 Christ did not have to offer himself many times. He wasn’t like a high priest who goes into the most holy place each year to offer the blood of an animal. 26 If he had offered himself every year, he would have suffered many times since the creation of the world. But instead, near the end of time he offered himself once and for all, so that he could be a sacrifice that does away with sin.
Colossians 3:2 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%203:2&version=CEV)
2 Think about what is up there, not about what is here on earth.
0 comments:
Post a Comment