Ep059-FtBT - 14 Nov 2021 - 25th Sunday after PENTECOST

Our focus for this week comes out from our Epistle reading; Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23

 

EPISTLE READING:                                                    Hebrews 10:11–25

 

    ¹¹Every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹²But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. ¹⁴For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

    ¹⁵And 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,”

 

¹⁷then he adds,

 

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

 

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

    ¹⁹Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, ²¹and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ²²let 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. ²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, ²⁵not 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.