Mark 3 : 31-35
Then His mother and His brothers came. As they stood outside, they sent someone to call Him. The crowd sitting around Jesus told Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are outside asking for You.”
He replied, “Who are My mother and My brothers?” And looking around at those who sat there, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers. Whoever does the will of God is brother and sister and mother to Me.”
Psalm 39 : 2 and 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11
With resolve I waited for the Lord; He listened and heard me beg.
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and be awed, and put their trust in the Lord.
Sacrifice and oblation you did not desire; this You had me understand.
Burnt offering and sin offering you do not require.
Then I said, “Here I come!”
In the great assembly I have proclaimed Your saving help. My lips, o Lord, I did not seal – You know that very well.
I have not locked up in my heart Your saving help, but have spoken about it – Your deliverance and Your faithfulness.
I have made no secret of Your truth and of Your kindness in the great assembly.
Hebrews 10 : 1-10
The religion of the Law is only a shadow of the good things to come; it has the patterns but not the realities. So, year after year, the same sacrifices are offered without bringing the worshippers to what is the end. If they had been cleansed once and for all, they would no longer have felt guilt and would have stopped offering the same sacrifices.
But no, year after year their sacrifices witness to their sins and never will the blood of bulls and goats take away these sins.
This is why on entering the world, Christ says : “You did not desire sacrifice and offering; You were not pleased with burnt offerings and sin offerings.” Then He said, “Here I am. It is written of Me in the scroll. I will do Your will, o God.”
First He says : “Sacrifice, offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor were You pleased with them – although they were required by the Law.” Then He says, “Here I am to do Your will.”
This is enough to nullify the first will and establish the new. Now, by this will of God, we are sanctified once and for all by the sacrifice of the body of Christ Jesus.
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