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The other appearances of the risen Lord to individuals on the day of Resurrection are narrated with much particularity, and at considerable length. John gives us the lovely account of our Lord’s conversation with Mary Magdalene, Luke gives us in full detail the story of the interview with the two travellers on the road to Emmaus.

Source: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/maclaren/luke/24.htm

Peter is in Caesarea Maritima, the Roman capital of Samaria and Judea, at the home of Cornelius, a Roman centurion who devoutly follows the Jewish God. An angel appeared to Cornelius and told him to send for Peter. As his messengers approached the house where Peter was staying, Jesus sent Peter a vision explaining that Gentiles were welcome to follow Him, as well. Peter went with the messengers and found a household of people ready to hear his testimony of Jesus (Acts 10:1–33).

Source: https://www.bibleref.com/Acts/10/Acts-10-43.html

Shadow Work

Scripture Reading — Hebrews 8:1-13

They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven.
— Hebrews 8:5

If you walk along a city street on a bright, sunny day, you will come across shadows. The shadows won’t really affect your walk. For example, you can walk through the shadow of a light pole because you know it is just a shadow of the pole. But it does make you aware that there is a light pole near you.

The priests that God ordained under the old covenant served in a tabernacle (and later a temple), that was like a shadow, or a copy, of what is in heaven, says Hebrews. That tabernacle and those priests were there in order to point to the real tabernacle in heaven and the real High Priest, Jesus Christ, who works on our behalf to save us from our sin and gives us new life forever with God.

Jesus represents the new covenant, and his work is far superior to that of the priests of the old covenant. Jesus is the real deal. Unfortunately, people got lost looking only at the shadow instead of looking to the real work of God in their lives and worshiping him as the only true God.

Jesus Christ came into the world so that we would no longer need the temple priests to intercede for us; he himself intercedes for us.

And he has made the perfect sacrifice, providing forgiveness of sins once and for all. Instead of looking at shadows, we are called to look to Jesus.

Source: https://todaydevotional.com/devotions/shadow-work

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Paul adds two additional qualities about Christ in this verse. First, He calls Jesus "the beginning." This is most likely a reference to His role in creation (Genesis 1—2). In fact, in Hebrew, the book of Genesis is called Beresh*th, which is the first word of the text, and literally means "The Beginning." Second, Paul refers to Jesus as "the firstborn from the dead," a reference to His resurrection. Because Jesus rose from the dead, He is to be "preeminent." The Greek wording in this last phrase emphasizes Jesus as supreme in all things.

Source: https://www.bibleref.com/Colossians/1/Colossians-1-18.html

A true disciple of Christ is one that does follow him in duty, and shall follow him to glory. He is one that walks in the same way Christ walked in, is led by his Spirit, and treads in his steps, whithersoever he goes. Let him deny himself. If self-denial be a hard lesson, it is no more than what our Master learned and practised, to redeem us, and to teach us. Let him take up his cross.

Source: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/mhc/matthew/16.htm

The Cleansing Blood of Christ

Scripture Reading — Hebrews 9:11-14

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ . . . cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
— Hebrews 9:14

When our kids play outside and get a bit sweaty, we will often say to them, “OK, jump in the shower and do a quick rinse-off.” Other times, when they have played outside for hours and they need more than just a quick rinse—they need a deep-cleaning shower or a soak in the tub.

In some ways, the old cove­nant laws of cleansing after a time of uncleanness provided just a quick rinse. It wasn’t a deep-down cleaning. But the people needed to be cleansed through and through. We all need to be fully cleansed from our lives of sin.

What the old laws pointed to was someone who could provide a full, deep cleaning. That someone is Jesus Christ, whose death for our sake provided purification once for all.

The Old Testament law included ceremonial practices of washing to be clean. But the cleaning was never complete. People would get dirty again.

Jesus’ sacrifice for us, however, cleans us thoroughly, providing such a deep-down cleaning that we receive new life. As Hebrews 9:14 explains, the blood of Christ, shed for our sake, cleanses “our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!”

For all who trust in Christ, we are washed in his blood, fully cleansed from sin so that we may serve him!

Source: https://todaydevotional.com/devotions/the-cleansing-blood-of-christ

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Jesus' earliest ministry remained focused on Galilee, where He lived in the northern region of Israel. Scholars suggest there were 200 or more villages and towns located in the region of Galilee. The population may have been upwards of 300,000 people.

Source: https://www.bibleref.com/Matthew/4/Matthew-4-23.html

In the later ritual of the Passover, the cup of w**e (or rather, of w**e mingled with water) was passed round three times in the course of the supper. One such cup had been passed round early in the evening (Luke 22:17); now another becomes, under a solemn consecration, the symbol of a diviner truth than had yet been revealed to the listening and wondering disciples.

Source: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/ellicott/matthew/26.htm

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Eternal Inheritance

Scripture Reading — Hebrews 9:15-22

For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. . . .
— Hebrews 9:15

When we think of an inheritance, we usually think about something a person receives from a relative or friend who has died. The inheritance is given as part of the deceased person’s last will and testament.

Hebrews tells us that as a result of Christ’s death, “those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.” This inheritance is the “eternal salvation” and “eternal redemption” we heard about earlier in Hebrews 5:9 and 9:12.

Some people have described the “new covenant” in Christ in terms of a “last will and testament.” In some ways the language used here in Hebrews sounds like that of a last will and testament, especially when it talks about an inheritance.

In order for someone to receive an inheritance, a person has to have died. For us to receive “the promised eternal inheritance,” Jesus died for our sake. The idea that inheritance is tied to death is not only for the new covenant. In the old covenant there was also death: the death of sacrificed animals. Now that Christ has died for us, he has established the new covenant in his blood so that we can receive “the promised eternal inheritance.”

Think of it! Because of Jesus’ death for our sake, we have eternal life with him as our inheritance. And in Christ that new life begins even now!

Source: https://todaydevotional.com/devotions/eternal-inheritance

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