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Devotional
…this confession right after Jesus breathes his last and the temple curtain tears, in verse 38. A centurion recognizes something a religious establishment, watching the same event, had refused to see throughout the…
Reading plan
…wisdom and folly as two builders, one building her house and the other tearing hers down with her own hands. The chapter treats the health of a household as evidence of the wisdom, or folly, that shaped it. Proverbs 15…
Devotional
…the holy place by the blood of Jesus, a new and living way through the curtain, His flesh. The access Uzzah did not have is freely given in Christ, but it is no less serious for being free.
Devotional
…firmly, to confirm as standing. Paul's point is structural: rather than tearing down the law's authority, the gospel of justification by faith actually explains why the law could never be kept well enough to justify…
Devotional
…man as well, before he speaks a word. Faith expressed through action, tearing open a roof to lower a mat, precedes the pronouncement of forgiveness. The title Son of Man that Jesus uses for himself here draws on Daniel…
Reading plan day
…wisdom and folly as two builders, one building her house and the other tearing hers down with her own hands. The chapter treats the health of a household as evidence of the wisdom, or folly, that shaped it. Proverbs…
Topic study
…would have landed hard on readers who knew the temple. Behind that curtain was the one room no ordinary Israelite entered. To say hope reaches in there is to say the barrier has been dealt with. Hebrews 6:18 the two…
Biblical concept
…cross. Peter says the church is a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9). The curtain torn at the crucifixion (Matthew 27:51) did not abolish the priesthood, it opened it, so that ordinary believers now bring sacrifices of…
Biblical concept
…(Hebrews 13:11-12). He is the scapegoat carrying guilt away, and the curtain that kept everyone out is torn as He dies. The difference is that the animal never chose. Jesus says no one takes My life from Me, I lay it…
Place in Scripture
…and for Israel gave way to a holy place for priests, and finally to a curtained holy of holies that only the high priest entered, once a year, with blood. Every wall and veil in that building was teaching the same…
Bible question
…believed it. Your prayers are heard because of who carries them The tearing of the temple veil at the crucifixion is a statement about access. The place that only one man could enter once a year is opened, and Hebrews…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.