Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Delight » What the lord does not delight in
Feast of the new moon » Mere outward observance of, hateful to God
the anniversary Feasts » Rendered unavailing by the impiety of the jews
the anniversary Feasts » Called » Solemn meetings
Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.
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If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like
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" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
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You are observing days, months, seasons, and years! I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Hiding » Who the lord hides himself from
Hypocrites » Worship of, not acceptable to God
But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
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Incense » The jews » Not accepted in offering, on account of sin
Offerings » Useless when not accompanied by genuine piety
and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."
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Offerings » The jews often » Rejected in, because of sin
Ordinance » Insufficiency of, for salvation
If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like "You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations. Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.
For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.
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For neither circumcision nor the want of it is of any importance, but only a new creation.
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and through his human nature put an end to the feud between us, and abolished the Law with its rules and regulations, in order to make peace and create out of the two parties one new man by uniting them with himself,
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canceled the bond which stood against us, with its requirements, and put it out of our way when he nailed it to the cross.
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Even the first agreement provided regulations for worship, and a sanctuary that was fully equipped.
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In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing. And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God, since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.
Prayer » Whose prayer the lord does not hear
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.
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If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like
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" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
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You are observing days, months, seasons, and years! I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.
Requirements » What the lord does not require
Sacrifice » The lord not desiring sacrifices
But he heard it, and said, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor! You must go and learn what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for.' I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."
For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin? They really only serve to remind the people annually of the sins they have committed, read more.
for bulls' and goats' blood is powerless to remove sin. That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me. You never cared for burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin! So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' " At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"??ll of which the Law prescribes??9 and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.
for bulls' and goats' blood is powerless to remove sin. That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me. You never cared for burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin! So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' " At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"??ll of which the Law prescribes??9 and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.
national Sins » National worship rejected on account of
national Sins » Defile » National worship
Vanity » The worship of the wicked is
And when you pray, do not repeat empty phrases as the heathen do, for they imagine that their prayers will be heard if they use words enough.
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