Jewish High Priest & his garments - significance today - updated in April 2014

4/26/2014 1High Priest's Garments - Nirmal Nathan, Trichy, India

IMBALANCED VIEW –
TO VIEW US
VIEW OF OLD TESTAMENT BELIEVERS IN GOD:
• “I am a worm, I am a dead dog, I am dust…..”
SIMILAR VIEW OF NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVER:
• ROMANS 7th chapter problem – ‘i’, ‘i’, ‘i’ focus
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High Priest's Garments - Nirmal
Nathan, Trichy, India

IMBALANCED VIEW –
• AM ‘I’ ACCEPTABLE TO GOD? –
• A nagging doubt all the time.
• A guilt conscience about past failures all the
time.
• A guilt conscience about past life accusing us all
the time.
• A feeling of incompetence and dejection.
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• NECESSARY & CORRECT VIEW –
BETWEEN VIEW AS GOD SEES US &
VIEW OF OUR SELF ASSESSMENT
 “I AM A WORTHLESS WORM” “IN CHRIST”
 “I AM THE GREATEST OF SINNERS” AS WELL AS
“I TAKE REFUGE / PRIDE IN JESUS CHRIST”.
“I AM ACCEPTED BY FATHER AS RIGHTEOUS
IN JESUS CHRIST”.
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High Priest's Garments - Nirmal Nathan,
Trichy, India

WHAT DO THE SCRIPTURES ASK?
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VS
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• IT IS IN MY INTEREST TO KNOW
HOW JESUS CHRIST ‘LOOKS’ TODAY
SINCE GOD SEES ME “IN CHRIST”
• AS I LOOK & MARVEL AT JESUS – I RECEIVE
• NOT BY DEEDS BUT
• HENCE, I SURRENDER TOTALLY TO CHRIST -
THAN I TRY TO
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SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES AND SEE THAT:
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• ENTIRE CREATION DETAILS =
ONLY 1 CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF ‘GENESIS’
• BUT HIS SON JESUS’ TYPOLOGY IN THE BOOK OF
‘EXODUS’-REDEMPTION STORY = 10 CHAPTERS.
• OF WHICH 1 /10 CHAPTERS ABOUT
HIGH PRIEST’S GARMENTS – A ‘TYPE’ OF CHRIST.
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EXODUS 28:1
HIGH PRIEST
INTRODUCED.
COMMENCED
WITH
AHARON/AARON,
ELDER BROTHER
OF MOSHE /
MOSES.

• IN OLD COVENANT –
.
• AARONIC PRIESTHOOD – BASED ON MAN-
HENCE, INSECURE,
NO GUARANTEE OF ‘FAITHFUL’
SUCCESSOR.
• SONS MAY OR MAY NOT BE GOOD ENOUGH TO
SUCCEED AS HIGH PRIEST. (ELI, SAMUEL’S SONS
DID NOT QUALIFY TO SUCCEED).4/26/2014 11

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• CAME FROM HEAVEN AS ‘GOD’ –
RETURNED TO HEAVEN ‘PERFECT
MAN’, THOUGH HE IS
GOD.
• HENCE, IN TIMES OF NEED, WE ARE ABLE TO
APPROACH GOD’S THRONE FOR GRACE & FAVOUR
AS JESUS CHRIST IS OUR REPRESENTATIVE THERE.
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BURNING BUSH ON MOUNT HOREB.
MOSHE / MOSES MET WITH BY ANGEL OF GOD.
GOD SPEAKS TO MOSHE / MOSES.
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DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN
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WHY 40 DAYS & NIGHTS FOR JUST
A LIST OF INSTRUCTIONS ?
• BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT SIMPLY INSTRUCTIONS.
IN THE ‘TYPE’ OF
– TABERNACLE
– FURNITURE & UTENSILS
– PRIESTHOOD
– GARMENTS WITH ORNAMENTS
– SACRIFICES
– OFFERINGS
– FESTIVALS ….
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• IDENTITY OF PERSON WHOM HE REPRESENTS.
• Exodus 28:2 – MEANT FOR DISPLAYING
DIGNITY & GLORY, HONOUR
& SPLENDOUR.
• GOD DESIGNED THE GARMENTS.
• GOD DESCRIBED THE COLOURS
WITH A PURPOSE.
• GOD GIFTED WORKMEN TO
MAKE THESE GARMENTS.
• THESE ARE VISUAL AIDS OF INTRINSIC
TRUTHS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST.
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• A PROPHET REPRESENTS GOD TO MEN.
• AS A PROPHET OF GOD, JESUS SPOKE WITH MEN
• Exodus 28:2-3 – HIGH PRIEST IS FOR THE PEOPLE TO
MINISTER TO GOD.
• Exodus 28:3 – HIGH PRIEST IS REPRESENTATIVE OF
MEN TO SERVE GOD.
• HIGH PRIEST IS THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN US & GOD.
• HE IS THERE AS OUR HIGH PRIEST
FOR OUR BENEFIT.
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• AHAON /AARON DID NOT DIE
TILL HE REMOVED THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS.
• LATER DURING THE TRIAL OF JESUS CHRIST, WHEN
HIGH PRIEST ANNAS TORE HIS PRIESTLY ROBE –
LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD CAME TO AN END.
• AND MELCHIZEDEK ORDER OF ETERNAL
PRIESTHOOD COMMENCED WITH JESUS CHRIST.
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GARMENTS JESUS CHRIST
• THE PERSON OF JESUS IS BEHIND THE GARMENTS.
• WHITE
– HIS DIVINITY & ROYALTY
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• ENGRAVED NAMES OF 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
• OUR NAMES CANNOT BE ERASED.
• HE BEARS US – HE CARRIES US.
• HE IS OUR STRENGTH.
• SET IN GOLD –
WE ARE PRECIOUS IN GOD’S SIGHT.
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• MOST LUXURIOUS – MYSTERIOUS
• ‘B.P. OF JUDGEMENT’ –
BUT NOT TO JUDGE ‘ME’.
IT REVEALS HOW GOD SEES ME TODAY.
• IT IS FOR GOD, LOOKING AT HIGH PRIEST JESUS.
• GOD ASSESSES ME IN THE LIGHT OF HIS SON.
• JESUS CHRIST IS THERE FOR ME / FOR YOU /
FOR OUR BENEFIT
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JESUS, HIS
SON WAS
JUDGED
ON THE
CROSS
SINCE HE
TOOK
UPON
HIMSELF
OUR SINS.
SO THAT
WE CAN
BE
FORGIVEN
AND
GIVEN A
NEW LIFE
IN CHRIST

• JESUS THE ONLY SON OF GOD
IS THE DELIGHT OF GOD THE FATHER
• GOD WHO IS LOVE
WANTS US ALSO TO ENJOY HIS SON.
• SO AS PER HIS NATURE OF LOVE
HE SHARES HIS SON WITH US.
• LOVE SHARES, BUT AT A GREAT PRICE.
GOD PAID THE PRICE.
• SO GOD THE FATHER AND WE THROUGH
JESUS, HAVE COMMON JOY.
• AS HE IS, SO ARE ALSO WE IN THIS WORLD!
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• 9” X 9” SQUARE DOUBLE FOLDED.
• 4 ROWS OF 3 PRECIOUS STONES
SET IN GOLD.
• GOLD CHAIN – TYPIFIES THAT
GOD TIES US AROUND HIS SON.
• NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US
FROM THE LOVE OF GOD.
• 12 NAMES – WE ARE ENGRAVED
ON THE ‘HEART’ OF HIGH PRIEST.
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• OVER HIS HEART – LOVE
• WORKMANSHIP
• PRECIOUS
• LOVELY
• VALUABLE
• RIGHTEOUS
• IMPORTANT
• EACH UNIQUE, YET DIVERSE
• EQUAL
• INSEPARABLE FROM JESUS.
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• 12 PRECIOUS STONES REFLECT
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF GOD BACK TO HIM
WHEN GOD LOOKS AT THE NAMES ON THE STONES.
• THIS LIGHT REFLECTS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS &
DOES NOT EXPOSE OUR BLEMISHES.
• WE ARE ‘MADE’ HOLY – ‘PERFECTED’ BY GOD IN JESUS CHRIST.
HENCE, WE CAN APPROACH GOD.
• IT IS NOT ABOUT US –
IT IS ALL ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND WE ‘IN HIM’.
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• ‘SONG OF SOLOMON’ –
JESUS GAVE HIS GLORY TO US & IN TURN
GOD MADE US PART OF HIS GLORY.
• DEUTRONOMY CHAPTER 28:
OLD COVENANT: OBEDIENCE = BLESSINGS.
BUT NONE COULD OBEY.
• NEW COVENANT: =
SINCE JESUS CHRIST
OBEYED,
BY FAITH ‘IN HIM’, I AM / WE ARE BLESSED.4/26/2014 31

• WE RECEIVED BLESSING AND DIGNITY.
• HENCE,
”
• HENCE, COVENANT PROTECTION IS ASSURED FOR US.
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• LOST ADAM
ADAM BEFORE FALL WAS IN-CHARGE
OF A GARDEN IN EDEN (IN MODERN IRAQ).
• LAST ADAM (JESUS CHRIST)
‘IN CHRIST’ WE ARE IN-CHARGE OF WHOLE
UNIVERSE, AS HIS CO-HEIRS.
• HENCE, WITH JESUS WE CAN NEVER LOSE.
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EXODUS 28:31-35.
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• ‘ ’ ROBE = HEAVENLY MAN
• ALL OF BLUE – JESUS
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• NECK OPENING – WITH A WOVEN RING ON TOP
SO THAT THE GARMENT DO NOT TEAR = GOD
WANTS US TO HAVE SECURITY.
• JESUS CHRIST’S PRIEST-HOOD WILL NOT END.
IT IS ETERNAL FOR US IN HEAVEN.
• HENCE, HUMAN HIGH PRIEST CANNOT TEAR
THEIR HOLY GARMENTS (LEVITICUS BOOK
PROHIBITS RENDING OF GARMENTS)
• GRIEVING ‘ISRAELITES’ CAN REND / TEAR THEIR
GARMENTS BUT NOT AN ‘HIGH
PRIEST’, NOT EVEN WHEN
AARON’S 2 SONS DIED.
HIS PERSONAL EMOTIONS CANNOT OVER RULE
HIS MINISTRY REPRESENTING OTHER PEOPLE.4/26/2014 36

• NECK OPENING – WITH A WOVEN RING ON TOP.
• OLD TESTAMENT PRIESTHOOD OFFICE &
AUTHORITY OF CAN COME ONLY FROM ABOVE.
• NOT SELF APPOINTED BUT HEAVEN APPOINTED.
• NEW TESTAMENT COMMAND OF CHRIST:
MATTHEW 28:18-20 &
EPHESIANS 4:12
APPOINT EVERY ‘DISCIPLE OF HIM’ TO MINISTER
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POMEGRANATES BELLS
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POMEGRANATES OF BLUE, PURPLE & SCARLET RED ALL AROUND.
GOLDEN BELLS ALTERNATING WITH POMEGRANATES

–
ALTERNATE
• ACTS 2:32-33 “HOLY SPIRIT POURED OUT THAT
WHICH YOU & ”
• THIS IS A SIGN THAT JESUS CHRIST HAS GONE
INTO HOLY OF HOLIES.
• DECLARES THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD
THROUGH HIS SON.
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• GIFTS & FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
• 9 PRINCIPAL WINGS OF DOVE -
ON LEFT & RIGHT WINGS OF DOVE.
• BALANCED TO GIVE A BALANCE FLIGHT.
• BALANCED CHRISTIAN -
PERSONAL SANCTIFICATION = FRUIT &
EDIFICATION OF OTHERS = GIFTS.
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=
(SPOKEN)
 TONGUES
 INTERPRETATION
 PROPHECY
(THOUGHTS)
 WORD OF WISDOM (ABOUT FUTURE)
 WORD OF KNOWLEDGE (ABOUT PRESENT)
 DISCERNING OF SPIRITS
(TO DO SOMETHING)
 GIFT OF FAITH
 OF MIRACLES
 OF HEALINGS
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=
• LOVE + JOY + PEACE
(FOR MY BENEFIT- ENABLES ME TO DISCERN
WHETHER THE THOUGHTS ARE FROM GOD OR NOT)
• LONGSUFFERING + KINDNESS + GOODNESS
(FOR OTHERS BENEFIT- MY RELATIONSHIPS)
• FAITHFULNESS + MEEKNESS + SELF CONTROL
(TOWARDS GOD)
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WELL BALANCED
GIFT FRUIT
• WORD OF WISDOM - LOVE
• WORD OF KNOWLEDGE - JOY
• GIFT OF FAITH - PEACE...
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• MENORA ( THE GOLDEN LIGHT STAND)
IN OLD TESTAMENT TABERNACLE WAS 7 FOLD
• MENORA IN NEW TESTAMENT IS 9 FOLD (GIFTS &
FRUIT)
• THERE IS A BALANCE OF GIFTS & FRUIT THROUGH
THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST = HOLY SPIRIT
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• EXODUS 28: 35 “THE SOUND OF THE BELLS
SHALL BE HEARD WHEN HE GOES IN AND COMES
OUT, LEST HE DIE” –
• RESTORATION OF IMAGE OF
GOD, THAT WAS LOST BY MAN
WHEN HE SINNED.

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• EXODUS 28: 35 “THE SOUND OF THE BELLS SHALL
BE HEARD WHEN HE GOES IN AND COMES
OUT, LEST HE DIE” –
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• NECK TO ANKLE & WRIST.
• SEAM LESS WEAVE – PRECIOUS & BEAUTIFUL.
• REVEALS JESUS CHRIST AS HE IS:
PERFECT MAN
SINLESS
RIGHTEOUS
ABSOLUTE PURITY.
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• WHITE LINEN + 3 COLOURS.
• GIRDLE IS TRUTH / INSTRUMENT OF SERVICE.
• JESUS CHRIST SERVED HIS APOSTLES.
• IT WAS NOT MARTHA WHO SERVED,
BUT IT WASMARY WHO ALLOWED
HERSELF TO BE SERVED BY JESUS,
WHO PLEASED JESUS.
• HE SERVES HIS DISCIPLES EVEN NOW.

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GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE
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EXO 28:36-38 MITER- HOLY CROWN-
HEAD COVERING
• PURE GOLD SETTING ON FOREHEAD –
• GOLD – VERY HOLY - DIVINE RIGHTEOUSNESS
• ‘HOLY UNTO THE LORD’ (SET APART FOR GOD)
• JESUS CHRIST IS FOR OUR BENEFIT –
HENCE, THIS CROWN IS ALSO FOR OUR BENEFIT
• HENCE, THE OFFERINGS OF SINFUL PEOPLE
WERE ACCEPTED.
• OTHERWISE WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED.
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• EXO 28:36-38
(‘SO THAT THE OF THINGS..’’
CONTRADICTING EACH OTHER)
EX: GOD EXPECTS US TO
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT & TRUTH,
TO PRAY IN THE SPIRIT….
.
• HIGH PRIEST BEARS OUR
INEQUITIES IN HOLY THINGS &
MAKES THEM ACCEPTABLE TO HIS FATHER
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• BLUE CORD – HIS MIND IS OUR MIND.
HIS THOUGHTS ARE FOR US.
• THIS SHALL “ALWAYS” BE ON HIS FOREHEAD-
ETERNITY- SO THAT WE MAY BE ACCEPTED BEFORE
THE LORD.
• JESUS’ MINISTRY TODAY IS NOT ONLY HIS
PRAYERS, BUT HIS VERY BEING, IN THE PRESENCE OF
HIS FATHER GOD, IS ITSELF A MINISTRY FOR ALL FOR
US.
• WHAT HE IS, IS WHAT WE ARE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.4/26/2014 56
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DO YOU HAVE FAITH?
• IN OUR DIFFICULT SITUATIONS, ‘FAITH’ IN PRAYER
IS NOT FAITH i.e., “GOD WILL ANSWER MY PRAYER”
• FAITH IS NOT OUR SAVIOUR. JESUS IS OUR SAVIOUR.
• REVELATION / UNDERSTANDING OF WHO
BUILDS FAITH IN HIM.
• HENCE, BE CONFIDENT IN YOUR PRAYERS IN THE
REALITY OF THE ‘NAME’ OF JESUS YOUR HIGH PRIEST.
• HIS NAME REVEALS THE PERSON & ATTRIBUTES OF
JESUS CHRIST. HENCE, THIS PROMISE IS FOR US!
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• HENCE, GOD ACCEPTS ME BECAUSE OF THE
HOLINESS OF THE HIGH PRIEST.
• AS PER ‘TORAH INSTRUCTIONS’
LEPROSY MEANS SIN, INEQUITY.
NOT EVEN A PRIEST CAN TOUCH OR HEAL OR
PROCLAIM A LEPER AS CLEAN.
• BUT JESUS TOUCHES LEPERS & SAYS, “BE CLEAN”
• IN ‘TORAH INSTRUCTIONS’
DISEASE IS CONTAGIOUS.
• IN THE GOSPEL OF JESUS
CHRIST, HEALING IS
CONTAGIOUS.
• SINCE WE ARE ‘IN CHRIST’, WE LAY HANDS &
JESUS CHRIST HEALS.
WE ARE HIS COVENANT CHANNEL OF BLESSING !
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URIM & TUMMIM
• EXODUS 28:29-30
• INSIDE BREASTPLATE OF JUDGEMENT /
FOR DISCERNING GOD’S DECISIONS / GUIDANCE
• ‘URIM & TUMMIM’ SHALL BE OVER AARON’S
HEART WHEN HE GOES BEFORE THE LORD’.
– UR - SINGULAR = LIGHT.
– URIM - PLURAL= LIGHTS, SO SAY, JEWISH RABBIS
– THUM - SINGULAR = PERFECT.
– THUMMIM- PLURAL= PERFECTIONS, SO SAY, RABBIS
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FOR DECISION MAKING & GUIDANCE !
• (NUMBERS 27:21- COMMANDER JOSHUA GUIDED
BY ELEAZAR THE PRIEST USING
URIM & THUMMIM BEFORE THE BATTLE)
• EZRA 2:62-63. PRIESTS RETURNED FROM EXILE
COULD NOT PROVE TO EZRA THAT THEY WERE
PRIESTS BY LEVITE TRIBAL ANCESTRY.
• JUDAH’S GOVERNOR DECLARED THAT THESE MEN
COULD NOT EAT OF ‘MOST HOLY THINGS’ UNTIL
A PRIEST COMES UP TO PROVE THEIR CLAIM
‘USING URIM & TUMMIM’.
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• TODAY MANY CHRISTIANS CANNOT EAT THE ‘MOST
HOLY THINGS’ OF GOD
(CALLED AS “CHILDREN’S BREAD”) SUCH AS:
– BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
– GIFTS OF HOLY SPIRIT,
– HEALINGS IN BODY & SOUL,
– INTIMACY WITH GOD,
– LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF GOD,
– REVELATION FROM GOD ABOUT SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS
• THEY CAN ‘SEE’ THEM IN THE BIBLE, BUT THEY CANNOT
EAT IT AS THEY DON’T HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WITH
“LIGHTS & PERFECTIONS” TO APPROVE THAT THEY ARE
ELIGIBLE FOR THESE BLESSINGS.
• FROM EZRA’S TIME UNTIL JESUS CHRIST
CAME, THERE WAS NO HIGH PRIEST WITH
URIM & THUMMIM.4/26/2014 61

• WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS, SAYING
‘TETELESTAI / COMPLETED’, THE LIGHTS ABOUT
OUR COMPLETENESS IN CHRIST HAS COME.
• LIGHTS-
REVELATION ABOUT OUR PERFECT STANDING
‘IN CHRIST’ CAME & SO WE CAN NOW EAT OF
THE ‘MOST HOLY THINGS’ OF GOD.
• WE ARE THE NEW GENERATION OF PRIESTS
ACCEPTED BY GOD.
• WE ARE NOW CAPABLE OF GIVING LIGHT TO THE
PEOPLE OF THEIR PERFECT ACCEPTANCE BY GOD
THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
QUALIFYING THEM TO EAT OF THE MOST HOLY
THINGS OF GOD.
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THE GARMENTS OF HIGH PRIEST
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MARVELOUS WORK ON THE CROSS
• JESUS, became so
that can become
• JESUS, ON THE CROSS became WHAT WE WERE
to make us WHAT HE IS.
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BALANCED VIEW
OF MYSELF
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HE CALLS FOR REPENTANCE.
HE EXPECTS COMPLETE TRUST IN HIM.
HE CALLS FOR TOTAL COMMITMENT.
LET THIS BE THE
TURNING POINT MOMENT
OF OUR LIFE FOR A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST!
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