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   From: dr.who@biosphere.orb   
      
   1 The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Since that   
   old "law plan" wasn't complete in itself, it couldn't complete those who   
   followed it. No matter how many sacrifices were offered year after year, they   
   never added up to a complete solution.   
      
   2 If they had, the worshipers would have gone merrily on their way, no longer   
   dragged down by their sins.   
      
   3 But instead of removing awareness of sin, when those animal sacrifices were   
   repeated over and over they actually heightened awareness and guilt.   
      
   4 The plain fact is that bull and goat blood can't get rid of sin.   
      
   5 That is what is meant by this prophecy, put in the mouth of Christ: You   
   don't want sacrifices and offerings year after year; you've prepared a body   
   for me for a sacrifice.   
      
   6 It's not fragrance and smoke from the altar that whet your appetite.   
      
   7 So I said, "I'm here to do it your way, O God, the way it's described in   
   your Book."   
      
   8 When he said, "You don't want sacrifices and offerings," he was referring   
   to practices according to the old plan.   
      
   9 When he added, "I'm here to do it your way," he set aside the first in   
   order to enact the new plan—   
      
   10 God's way—by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all   
   sacrifice of Jesus.   
      
   11 Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old   
   sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem.   
      
   12 As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it!   
   Then he sat down right beside God   
      
   13 and waited for his enemies to cave in.   
      
   14 It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very   
   imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to   
   be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process.   
      
   15 The Holy Spirit confirms this:   
      
   16 This new plan I'm making with Israel isn't going to be written on paper,   
   isn't going to be chiseled in stone; This time "I'm writing out the plan in   
   them, carving it on the lining of their hearts."   
      
   17 He concludes, I'll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins.   
      
   18 Once sins are taken care of for good, there's no longer any need to offer   
   sacrifices for them.   
      
   This is the explanation of the why the out of the old, and the in with the   
   new and better plan.   
      
   V7 also speaks as to whose book the scriptures are.   
   V5 speaks as to who it was that made a body for Jesus. Not. Created, but   
   made.   
      
   Created is to make something out of noting.   
   Made is to make out of things existing. Such as you, a result of the   
   collaboration between your birth parents.   
      
   This chapter explains also the freedom there is in Christ for those that are   
   Born Again. Even to the remake of ones attitude and expectancies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)