Today We Give Praise And Thanks O Lord

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

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.