PrayerBits for Wednesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Wednesday

Hebrews 9:11-14 The ultimate sacrifice

Scripture lesson: Jesus' sacrifice eliminated all lesser sacrificial practices. The cleansing, purification of humanity occurred in an once and for all finality through Jesus. Even though the concept of “sacrifice” is foreign to us (because of its being ended) this passage gives us an inkling as to why it was no longer needed.

Time to reflect: Meditate on the phrase “purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!”

Scripture:

Hebrews 9:11-14

11 But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come,* then through the greater and perfect* tent* (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), 12he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit* offered himself without blemish to God, purify our* conscience from dead works to worship the living God!