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As the thought of the passage moves toward the offering of Christ Jesus in our place, His Blood crying out for our ransom, the writer sets the boundaries of our thinking with some ideas about what that sacrifice was NOT. Forming our understanding with negative parameters is helpful to have some clarity about what is actually the work of Christ in our place as High Priest… the work which culminates in the great sacrifice and the offering of His own Blood as payment for our sin.

The sermon centers on the imperative to conduct every aspect of life, from mundane daily activities to significant spiritual endeavors, for the sole purpose of glorifying God. It argues that all events, whether favorable or adverse, ultimately serve to display divine sovereignty and glory. The preacher emphasizes that true faithfulness requires prioritizing God's honor over personal comfort, human approval, or self-interest. By examining examples such as biblical figures and church discipline, the message challenges believers to maintain pure motives even when doing so is unpopular or difficult. Ultimately, the call is to emulate Christ's submission to the cross, ensuring that all actions reflect devotion to God rather than self.

Is your faith about being entertained? Is your faith about the Gospel? Is your faith about Jesus? In a world filled with distractions, are we more concerned with the things that entertain us—or with being a testimony of the Gospel to the world around us? The church at Thessalonica had a testimony that could not be ignored. Their faith was evident not only in their church, but throughout Macedonia and Achaia. Their work of faith, labour of love, and patience of hope became an example to others. Can that same testimony 1Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; 4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. 5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. 6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. 9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to Go

The Tabernacle as a Type of Heaven