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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Your Strength Comes from God's Grace (Hebrews 13:9-17) NLT


9    So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your strength comes from God’s grace, not from rules about food, which don’t help those who follow them.
10  We have an altar from which the priests in the Tabernacle have no right to eat.
11  Under the old system, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp.
12  So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make his people holy by means of his own blood.
13  So let us go out to him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace he bore.
14  For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.
15  Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.
16  And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need. These are the sacrifices that please God.
17  Obey your spiritual leaders, and do what they say. Their work is to watch over your souls, and they are accountable to God. Give them reason to do this with joy and not with sorrow. That would certainly not be for your benefit.

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