In this episode James Bryan Smith’s thought from above is: “Jesus perfected you forever.” Over the last few episodes James has been teaching about what it means that Jesus sat down at the right hand of God. James opens the episode by reading from Hebrews 10:12-14. In this passage we see that the priest has to continuously sacrifice animals to pay for the sins of the people. He goes on to say that the reason that these sacrifices “cannot take away sins” is because they could only atone for the sins, not take them away.

Jesus, the author states is the ultimate priest, Jesus died for all of the sins of the world for all time – and he only had to offer his sacrifice once—not day after day like the other priests.

In closing, Smith states: “You and I have, by the work of Jesus, been made perfect forever. And now, by the work of Jesus we are being made holy. We have been forgiven so that we can be filled by the spirit. Until you rest in the finality of the cross, you cannot live in the reality of the resurrection.”

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