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To: O'Hara who wrote (1020)	10/25/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: O'Hara	Respond to of 4775

><>...He began to wash the disciples' feet...><> — John 13:5 The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still doing for them much that is analogous to washing their soiled feet. Their poorest actions he accepts; their deepest sorrow he feels; their slenderest wish he hears, and their every transgression he forgives. He is still their servant as well as their Friend and Master. He not only performs majestic deeds for them, as wearing the mitre on his brow, and the precious jewels glittering on his breastplate, and standing up to plead for them, but humbly, patiently, he yet goes about among his people with the basin and the towel. He does this when he puts away from us day by day our constant infirmities and sins. Last night, when you bowed the knee, you mournfully confessed that much of your conduct was not worthy of your profession; and even tonight, you must mourn afresh that you have fallen again into the selfsame folly and sin from which special grace delivered you long ago; and yet Jesus will have great patience with you; he will hear your confession of sin; he will say, “I will, be thou clean”; he will again apply the blood of sprinkling, and speak peace to your conscience, and remove every spot. It is a great act of eternal love when Christ once for all absolves the sinner, and puts him into the family of God; but what condescending patience there is when the Saviour with much long-suffering bears the oft recurring follies of his wayward disciple; day by day, and hour by hour, washing away the multiplied transgressions of his erring but yet beloved child! To dry up a flood of rebellion is something marvellous, but to endure the constant dropping of repeated offences—to bear with a perpetual trying of patience, this is divine indeed! While we find comfort and peace in our Lord's daily cleansing, its legitimate influence upon us will be to increase our watchfulness, and quicken our desire for holiness. Is it so? Spurgeon, Charles

To: O'Hara who wrote (1020)	10/25/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: O'Hara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4775

><>...JESUS the CHRIST...><> E. His Priestly Office. While the Old Testament prophet represented God before the people, the priest represented the people before God. So Christ represents His people before the Father (Heb. 3:1; 4:14). The Bible tells us that a priest must be appointed by God. He must act on man's behalf in things that pertain to God. For example, He must make sacrifices and offerings for sins, intercede for the people He represents, and bless them (Heb. 5:1; 7:25; cf. Lev. 9:22). Jesus presented Himself as a priestly sacrifice. The Old Testament sacrifices were expiatory (because they “put away” sin, thus restoring the worshiper to the blessings and privileges God intended for him) and vicarious (because another life was offered for sin instead of the life of the worshiper). Christ's once-for-all sacrifice was both expiatory and vicarious, and it gained for His people eternal salvation. Christ reconciles the sinner to God. God expressed His love for mankind by sending Christ to redeem us from our sins (John 3:16). In every event, God has attempted to bring His creatures back to Him. So when Christ came into the world, there was no change in God Himself, only a change in His relation to sinners. Christ's sacrifice covered the guilt that stood between sinners and God. Christ also intercedes for His people (Heb. 7:25). He entered the Holy Place of heaven by means of the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice that He offered to the Father. In so doing, He represented those who put their faith in Him and reinstated them before the Father (Heb. 9:24). In the presence of God, Christ now answers the constant accusations of the devil against believers (Rom. 8:33–34). Our prayers and services are tainted with sin and imperfection; Christ perfects them in the eyes of the Father, speaking constantly to the Father in our behalf. Finally, Christ prays for believers. He pleads for the needs we do not mention in our prayers—things that we ignore, underestimate, or do not see. He does this to protect us from danger and sustain us in faith until we attain victory in the end. He also prays for those who have not yet believed. He constantly does this intercessory work. Nelson's illustrated manners and customs of the Bible