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color: rgb(255,153,51);"><A HREF="../html/the_calling_of_elijah_the_prop.html">The Calling of Elijah</A></SPAN></P> </LAYER></DIV><DIV ID="Text152LYR" CLASS="TextObject"><LAYER ID="Text152LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=201 LEFT=795 WIDTH=173 HEIGHT=20 Z-INDEX=5> <P>&nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;"> &nbsp; ÔçèÙÐÔ éÜ ÐÜÙÔÕ àÙêß</SPAN></P> </LAYER></DIV><DIV ID="Picture144LYR"><LAYER ID="Picture144LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=111 LEFT=126 WIDTH=34 HEIGHT=24 Z-INDEX=6><IMG ID="Picture144" HEIGHT=24 WIDTH=34 SRC="../assets/images/autogen/a_scrollcapweb_2.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="scrollcapweb" TITLE="scrollcapweb"></LAYER></DIV><DIV ID="LayoutRegion63LYR" STYLE="background-image: url('../assets/images/Scrollbannerbody2.bmp');"><LAYER ID="LayoutRegion63LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=311 LEFT=162 WIDTH=650 HEIGHT=6278 Z-INDEX=7 background="../assets/images/Scrollbannerbody2.bmp"> <FORM NAME="LayoutRegion6FORM" ACTION="" METHOD=POST> <DIV ID="Text1LYR" CLASS="TextObject"><LAYER ID="Text1LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=27 LEFT=38 WIDTH=585 HEIGHT=6243 Z-INDEX=1> <P><U><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;">Sacrifices (burnt or fire offerings)</SPAN></U></P> <P>Secularists are certain that Judaism is like all religions of the ancient world: the byproduct of the superstitions of the time in which it began. That burnt offerings of lambs and bulls were its temple worship s cornerstone practices is offered as one, if not the most major, point proving that. Moreover, that this in itself would expiate the wrath of God and atone for a sin is touted all the more as a sign that there is no God, else why would something of such shallow veneer cause him to forgive a person s sin; and why would he simply ape the other religions in the world? &nbsp; </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Evangelicals have even worked the crucifixion of Jesus into a complex scheme, in which they say the law of Moses required Christ s death in order to either do away with sins once and for all or, strangely, that it saves the Gentiles but the Jews can and should still sacrifice. Such an attitude proffers the point that Jesus is eternally offering himself as the sacrifice in order to appease God in heaven.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; All would be shocked to find out that God had nothing to do with the sacrifices of animals. His prophets of old doused people with the truth of it, but it never took hold. Therefore most modern evangelicals don t realize their mental illustrations and allegories have no foundation. Jesus most definitely did not come to fulfill some legalistic formality in the law.</P> <P>Let s start with one of the greatest early prophets: Samuel. In 1 Samuel 15:22 Samuel declared to King Saul: </P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,102);">And Samuel said, Hath the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><BR>Samuel well knew he spoke the truth. He had been trained under Eli, and what did God say to Samuel about Eli s sons and their constant wickedness? 1 Samuel 3:13 <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);">For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever. </SPAN><BR></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P>Sacrifices existed in an era before money, an era in which wealth was held in material and exchange was made by barter. <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">In the days of the patriarchs (and even after) it was the custom to make covenants by the shedding of blood. God communicated with man on his level, as in the case of Abraham. But God did not command such slaughters, nor institute them for sins. It was the custom, both of contract and expiation. He did not command a change in customs and the way in which contracts and business were consummated. He communicated accordingly. </SPAN>In such an era sacrifices also reflected the appropriate fines for a crime. Ancient Israel, like other cultures, did not separate between religious and civil or criminal law. A sin was purged in the land by sacrifice. It was essentially a monetary fine. </P> <P>Moses made the purpose of the law clear in Dev. 4. <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,102);">Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> God of your fathers giveth you. Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? </SPAN></P> <P>But sacrifices did not purge a sin of the soul nor make clean a wicked heart. <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Micah declared:</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);">Wherewith shall I come before the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?</SPAN> </SPAN></P> <P>LXX <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Wherewithal shall I reach the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>, <I>and</I> lay hold of my God most high? shall I reach him by whole-burnt-offerings, by calves of a year old? </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">7 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Will the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? should I give my first-born for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">8 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Has it <I>not</I> been told thee, O man, what <I>is</I> good? or what does the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> require of thee, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> thy God?</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">God never spoke so clear on the subject as through Jeremiah. Jeremiah 7:</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,153);"> &nbsp; &nbsp; Thus saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. . . </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Powerful words, correcting so many false attitudes today, both in Israel and amongst the nations. God s snide can even be detected: <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);">Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>But Jeremiah was not alone is relating God s opinions about the shallowness of sacrifices and how useless their appearances were. </SPAN></P> <P>Isaiah was just as strong:</P> <P>LXX <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">10 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Hear the word of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>, ye rulers of Sodoma; attend to the law of God, thou people of Gomorrha. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">11 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Of what <I>value</I> to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>: I am full of whole-burnt-offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">12 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">neither shall ye come <I>with these</I> to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? Ye shall no more tread my court. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">13 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Though ye bring fine flour, <I>it is</I> vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day; </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">14 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><I>your</I> fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">15 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">16 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities; </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">17 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">learn to do well; diligently seek judgement, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">18 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And come, let us reason together, saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make <I>them</I> white as wool. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">19 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">20 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> has spoken this.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>Masoretic Text</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);">Hear the word of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> hath spoken it. </SPAN><BR></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P>David openly proclaimed in a great Messianic prophecy:</P> <P><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;"> O L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-small;">ORD</SPAN> my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened unto thee: I declare and spoke: they exceeded number. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou hast prepared me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require. Then said I, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me I desire to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo! I will not refrain my lips; O L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-small;">ORD</SPAN>, thou knowest my righteouesness. I have not hid thy truth within my heart, and I have declared thy salvation; I have not hid thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;In Psalm 50 how blunt does the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-small;">ORD</SPAN> have to be? </P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><I>&nbsp;&nbsp; </I><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"> &nbsp; &nbsp; Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>Again, Psalm 51. Here is a man speaking with God s own heart:</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);">Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. </SPAN><BR></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Sacrifices therefore cannot be a foreshadowing of Christ s purpose or mission. They are only appearances that can be offered without any heart behind them. Once again, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; color: rgb(0,51,153);">Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou hast prepared me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require. Then said I, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me I desire to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;  Sacrifice and offering thou didst not require is then followed by  Behold, I come. Thus Christ s death on the cross has no foreshadow in sacrifices. This can be asserted with twofold evidence.</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">1.1</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">The Passover was instituted <I>before</I> the law. It was not a sacrifice. The blood of the lamb was to be placed on the lintels of the posts of the house to signify these were the children of the promise (whether Jews or Gentiles). Each man was to eat of the meat. No priest was involved and came between God and man. The bread was unleavened. No doctrines of man bring you to God. God is not obligated by rituals and formalities. This was a sign and a memorial. God would pass over us and bring us out of bondage. Thousands of Gentiles saw the mighty works of God in Egypt, and on that fateful night no doubt marked their lintels with blood. It is certainly written that the nations came up by mixed multitude with the children of Israel. Passover was for all who saw it, even then while uncircumcised. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">1.2 </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">When Moses spoke of  that prophet who was to come, the law had not been given yet. God had only spoken by voice when the children were first assembled and Moses and the elders went forward. In his book of <I>Job</I>, Moses made it plain in chapter 19 that the Redeemer would come and stand upon the earth at the latter day, making it plain Moses saw no redemption in the law, nor that it was even a foreshadow of the way in which God would bring redemption. (See <A HREF="../html/men___brethren.html">Men &amp; Brethren</A>)</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The Passover lamb is the true foreshadowing. Therefore there is no requirement of the law in view. God rose up his prophets early, he said, telling Israel where true penitence lay. But we would not hear. From Moses on, we would not hear. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; What God did, he planned to do long before the law, as was the Passover before the law. What he planned to do would be partaken of Israel, and not only of priests. It was to redeem from, not to redeem from the law which was not yet given. It was to redeem our bodies that we might see the resurrection. (See <A HREF="../html/grace_vs__works.html">Grace vs Works</A>). God saw his son Adam age and die. No father sacrifices his son. He determined to walk amongst us and show he would suffer worse and with this bring the resurrection, mankind then fully aware of what their creator really is like. How can it be anything else? We sought the Redeemer. The Lord s crucifixion, humiliating and painful, was not to forgive sins. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Luke 7:</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee s house, and sat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. And Jesus answering said unto him, <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,51,0);">Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee.</SPAN> And he saith, Master, say on. <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,51,0);">There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?</SPAN> Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,51,0);">Thou hast rightly judged</SPAN>. And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,51,0);">Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; <U>for she loved much</U>: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.</SPAN> And he said unto her, <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,51,0);">Thy sins are forgiven.</SPAN> And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? And he said to the woman, <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,51,0);">Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; <I>Before he went to the cross</I>, her sins were forgiven. It is the object of her faith, the feet upon which she cried, the one before whom she had humility. Just as David fell to his face and in Psalm 51 prayed before God because of his grave sin in causing Uriah the Hittite to perish. But beyond faith is love. Faith was not made so much of at Horeb. Why? We heard God speak; we saw his great fire. We needed no faith. God was evident. Faith one day shall fail; but love can never fail. In the resurrection, in the presence of God, was use is faith? But to love God shall never end. Therefore was it spoken and written at Horeb  Thou shalt love the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-small;">ORD</SPAN> thy God with all thy heart . .&nbsp; . Faith is but a seed, but it must be watered by love. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; The missionary from Tarsus understood (<I>Romans</I>):</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);">Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. </SPAN><BR></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; By this act he broke our hearts, that we might see him as he is; see his love for his creation; understand what is his pure nature. And by the Resurrection we shall live in our bodies for eternity. That is how important God s genius is. This creative wonder, this tabernacle in which dwells our souls, shall never perish. We shall rise from the dead. Not as ghosts and spirits. But we shall live as human beings again. But the most important thing is we shall live forever, knowing what God truly is like. We can never cry upon God s feet as he is. Thus he came and walked amongst us as we are. He always had the power to forgive sins. He did not come to forgive, but to redeem, that he might raise our souls to life again, and restore our bodies after death. How could anyone understand what God really is had he done it any differently? </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; With the Bible so omnipresent today, it is amazing how faith has not grown. The Scriptures are easily accessible to read time and time again: <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"> <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">For unto a child is born, unto us a son is given. The government will be upon his shoulders. He shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the expansion of his government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, to establish it and to sustain it with justice and righteousness from now on and forever more. The zeal of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts will do this.</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,153);">. . .Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> been revealed? For he grew up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of a dry ground; he had no form and he had no majesty that we should look at him, and had no attractiveness that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces, and we despised him, and we did not value him. Surely he has borne our sufferings, and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> has laid on him the iniquity of us all. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,153);">&nbsp;&nbsp; He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. From detention and judgment he was taken away and who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, he was stricken for the transgression of my people. Then they made his grave with the wicked, and with rich people his tomb although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,153);">&nbsp;&nbsp; Yet the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> was willing to crush him, and he made him suffer. Although (Because he) made his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring, and he will prolong his days, and the will of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> will triumph in his hand. Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light, and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore will I allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death and was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; The Law did not require this. His own soul did. He made his <I>soul </I>a sacrifice for sin. </SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Why can t Jews understand? It has nothing to do with guilt over carrying a key outside your door on the Sabbath day. The woman didn t weep for not walking under an eruv with her own baby in her arms on the Sabbath. The sins that inspire weeping and kissing of his feet he forgave. Carrying a key, were it a sin, is a little thing to forgive, and it inspires little love in return. He did not institute such vain, self-obsessed observances. Nor does he forgive them. Why do people seek an eruv for that which is not sin? Why do they seek to create petty sins, and yet do not repent for self-righteousness? </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Faith opens up the world in which you see God. And this is the picture he has painted of himself: perfect love and sacrifice. Not by compulsion. Love does not come by command or compulsion. But willingly he suffered and tasted of death, that he might destroy what he hates: death itself; that he might also teach what is the greatest thing there is: God s own nature. He requires, as always, that you believe that he has done this. <SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; color: rgb(0,51,153);">Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou hast prepared me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require. 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