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Sons of God Through Christ’s Blood, August 9
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated
for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
Hebrews 10:19, 20
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Christ was nailed to the cross between the third and sixth hour, that is
between nine and twelve o’ clock. In the afternoon He died. This was the
hour of the evening sacrifice. Then the veil of the temple, that which hid
God’s glory from the view of the congregation of Israel, was rent in twain
from top to bottom.
Through Christ the hidden glory of the holy of holies was to stand
revealed. He had suffered death for every man, and by this offering, the
sons of men were to become the sons of God. With open face, beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, believers in Christ were to be changed
into the same image, from glory to glory. The mercy seat, upon which the
glory of God rested in the holiest of all, is opened to all who accept Christ
as the propitiation for sin, and through its medium, they are brought into
fellowship with God. The veil is rent, the partition walls broken down, the
handwriting of ordinances cancelled. By virtue of His blood the enmity is
abolished
The simple story of the cross of Christ, His suffering and dying for
the world, His resurrection and ascension, His mediation in the sinner’s
behalf before the Father, subdues and breaks the hard and sinful heart, and
brings the sinner to repentance. The Holy Spirit sets the matter before him
in a new light, and the sinner realizes that sin must be a tremendous evil
to cost such a sacrifice to atone for it.... How grievous must sin be that no
less a remedy than the death of the Son of God could save man from the
consequences of his guilt. Why was this done in behalf of man?—It was
because God loved him, and was not willing that any should perish, but
that all should come to repentance, believe in Jesus as a personal Saviour,
and have life eternal
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19
Letter 230, 1907
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20
The Youth’s Instructor, January 19, 1893
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