Before the Holy Spirit came to be with us always, the Jews had a total different experience of God's presence. We didn't experience the huge change God made and might find it difficult to understand the impact. (You'll have to listen if you want to know what an arc welder is doing in my pictures!)
Last week was the successful Easter program and meal that we hosted for the wider community of Keremeos. Some photos were posted to the facebook page.
Last week was the successful Easter program and meal that we hosted for the wider community of Keremeos. Some photos were posted to the facebook page.
   | John 12:31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. NIV Colossians 2:15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. NIV Exodus 25:8 "Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. NIV Hebrews 9:7 But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. Hebrews 10:19-22 NIV 19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Mark 15:38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. NIV Revelation 21:16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. NIV Hebrews 9:24-26 24 For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. 25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. John 14:16, 26 NIV 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. |