Here in America
Abraham Lincoln declared Thanks Giving a national holiday on October 3 in 1863. The last Thursday of November we give thanksgiving and praise to our Lord.
We have much to be thankful for and for this we offer up all our praise today.
Naked we came into this world and naked we leave. What we do with our lives here does go with us. How we conducted ourselves toward others does go with us.
Hebrews 9:26-28
J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)
Christ has achieved the real appearance before God for us
23-28 It
was necessary for the earthly reproductions of heavenly realities to be
purified by such methods, but the actual heavenly things could only be
made pure in God’s sight by higher sacrifices than these. Christ did not
therefore enter into any holy places made by human hands (however truly
these may represent heavenly realities), but he entered Heaven itself
to make his appearance before God as High Priest on our behalf. There is
no intention that he should offer himself regularly, like the High
Priest entering the holy of holies every year with the blood of another
creature. For that would mean that he would have to suffer death every
time he entered Heaven from the beginning of the world! No, the fact is
that now, at this point in time, the end of the present age, he has
appeared once and for all to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And just as surely as it is appointed for all men to die and after that
pass to their judgment, so it is certain that Christ was offered once to
bear the sins of many and after that, to those who look for him, he
will appear a second time, not this time to deal with sin, but to bring
them to full salvation.
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