Catching ball with Daddy

 

 

 

There is nothing like the delight

 

of a little boy
 

playing catch with

 

his Daddy

 

on a warm Autumn evening!

 

 

We are so blessed.

Hebrews 10

 

The Full Assurance of Faith

 

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers,

^[c] since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰ by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain,

that is, through his flesh,

²¹ and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

 ²² let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,

with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience

and our bodies washed with pure water.

 

 

 

 

 

²³ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,

for he who promised is faithful.

²⁴ And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

²⁵ not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some,

but encouraging one another,

and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
 

 

 

 

Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

 

Hebrews 10

Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

10 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come

 instead of the true form of these realities,

it can never,

by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year,

make perfect those who draw near.

 

² Otherwise,
would they not have ceased to be offered,

since the worshipers,

having once been cleansed,

would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

 

³ But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

 

⁵ Consequently,
when Christ^[a] came into the world, he said,
 

“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,

but a body have you prepared for me;

⁶ in burnt offerings and sin offerings

you have taken no pleasure.

⁷ Then I said,
‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,

as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
 

⁸ When he said above,

“You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices
and offerings

and burnt offerings

and sin offerings”

(these are offered according to the law),

⁹ then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.”

 

He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

 

 

 

¹⁰ And by that will we have been sanctified

through the offering of the body

of Jesus Christ once for all.

 

 

¹¹ And every priest stands daily at his service,

offering repeatedly the same sacrifices,

which can never take away sins.
 

¹² But when Christ^[b] had offered for all time

 a single sacrifice for sins,

he sat down at the right hand of God,

¹³ waiting from that time until his enemies

should be made a footstool for his feet.
 

 

¹⁴ For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

 

¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
 

¹⁶ “This is the covenant that I will make with them

after those days,

declares the Lord:

I will put my laws on their hearts,

and write them on their minds,”
 

¹⁷ then he adds,
 

“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
 

¹⁸ Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

 

 

 

Psalm 119:33-42

Psalm 119:33-42

 

ה

³³ Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees,

that I may follow it to the end.^[a]

³⁴ Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law

and obey it with all my heart.

 

³⁵ Direct me in the path of your commands,

for there I find delight.
 

 

 

³⁶ Turn my heart toward your statutes
 

and not toward selfish gain.

³⁷ Turn my eyes away from worthless things;

preserve my life according to your word.^[b]

 

³⁸ Fulfill your promise to your servant,

so that you may be feared.
 

³⁹ Take away the disgrace I dread,

 

for your laws are good.

⁴⁰ How I long for your precepts!

In your righteousness preserve my life.

ו

⁴¹ May your unfailing love come to me,
 

Lord,

your salvation, according to your promise;
 

⁴² then I can answer anyone who taunts me,


for I trust in your word.