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May 21 - Hebrews 8 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Wednesday, it's the 21st of
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  May and it's a special day because not only have you tapped
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  on play, but you have done so on this International Tea Day.
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  This is my kind of day. There are so many people in
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  Australia for whom coffee is just the go to and I often feel
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  like a little bit of a loser, a little bit left out as someone
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  who doesn't drink coffee but who loves tea.
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  So it was with great delight that I read.
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  Did you realise that tea, way more than coffee, is the
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  preferred hot beverage in the world today?
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  That everyone. Second, there are 25,000 cups of
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  tea consumed around the world. That's over 2 billion with AB
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  cups of tea made every single day for the last 5000 years.
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  We've been enjoying tea since Emperor Shen Hung discovered tea
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  when the wind blew and the leaves blew from a tree into his
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  pot of boiling water, as the legend goes.
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  And since that fateful day, we people of the earth have been
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  drinking tea. And of course, my favourite poem
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  in the world is about tea and it says drink your tea slowly and
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  reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth
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  revolves slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
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  Live the actual moment, only this moment is life.
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  Thank you tick nut hard for that beautiful reflection on tea.
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  Enjoy your cup of tea today, friends.
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  But more than that, let us enjoy meditating on God's words that
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  are going to unpack everything Jesus has done for us as our
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  high priest. Reading together Hebrews chapter
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  8. Here is the main point.
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  We have a high priest who sat down in the place of honour
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  beside the throne of the majestic God in heaven.
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  There he ministers in the heavenly Tabernacle, the true
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  place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human
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  hands. And since every high priest is
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  required to offer gifts and sacrifices, our high priest must
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  make an offering too. If he were here on earth, he
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  would not even be a priest. Since there already are priests
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  who offer the gifts required by the Law, they serve in a system
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  of worship that is only a copy, a shadow of the real one in
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  heaven. For when Moses was getting ready
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  to build the Tabernacle, God gave him this warning.
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  Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have
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  shown you here on the mountain. But now Jesus, our high priest,
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  has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old
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  priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better
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  covenant with God based on better promises.
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  If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been
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  no need for a second covenant to replace it.
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  But when God found fault with the people, he said, the day is
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  coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with my
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  people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like
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  the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by
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  the hand and LED them out of the land of Egypt.
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  They did not remain faithful to my covenant.
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  So I turn my back on them, says the Lord.
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  But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of
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  Israel on that day, says the Lord.
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  I will put my laws in their minds and I will write them in
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  their hearts. I will be their God and they
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  will be my people. And they will not need to teach
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  their neighbours, nor will they need to teach their relatives,
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  saying, you should know the Lord.
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  For everyone from the least to the greatest will know me
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  already, and I will forgive their wickedness, and I will
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  never again remember their sins. Now when God speaks of a new
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  covenant, it means He has made the first one obsolete.
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  It is now out of date and will soon disappear.
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  Oh Jesus, you certainly did achieve so much for us.
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  You have come to replace the old way of being and to give us an
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  entirely new way of interacting with God, A way where you
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  mediate between US and the Father.
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  A way where you come with perfect grace that overshadows
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  and floods over all of our imperfection, our inability, and
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  our sins, so that what's left is US restored and renewed and
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  perfect in your sight. Thank you, Jesus, for your
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  transforming power. We are so dependent on it day by
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  day, and you are so consistent in your continued faithfulness
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  and patience with us. Oh Jesus, thank you.
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  We just praise you and lift you up, placing you on that highest
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  throne in our life that everything else would bow before
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  you. A wonderful, saving God.
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  We pray all of this in your name, Jesus, Amen.