Monday, November 18, 2013
One Sacrifice instead of Many
Dear Friends,
A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (10:1-18):
Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices that they offer continually each year. Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer have had any consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is only a yearly remembrance of sins, for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins.
For this reason, when [Jesus] came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in. Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.’” First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law. Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Every priest stands daily at his ministry, offering frequently those same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But this one offered one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat forever at the right hand of God; now he waits until his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are being consecrated.
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying: “This is the covenant I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord: ‘I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them upon their minds,’” he also says: “Their sins and their evildoing I will remember no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer offering for sin.
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My cold is going away slowly but I do cough now and then. I went for a walk yesterday afternoon as it was very mild and sunny. I enjoy walking and if I can, I go once a day.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord, the Son of God, given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words:
“Come to My cross and see the eternal sacrifice I offered for you, My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters who believe in Me. The sacrifices of the Old Testament could not really take away sins and the Father did not want these sacrifices of bulls and goats. However, My eternal sacrifice offered once and for all to the Father takes away all the sins committed by all the people of the world if they repent of their sins and believe in Me. Come to the cross and relive in your heart what I went through out of love for you. It is through My sacrifice on the cross that I established the New Covenant in My blood. A new era began when I died in great suffering for all of you. I am now in heaven sitting at the right hand of the Father and I have authority over all the people of the earth. I am the only Savior and all have to come to Me if they wish to be saved. Come and repent of your sins, and receive My forgiveness and be My disciple. I will lead you every day. I love you all.”
Father Melvin