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For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
"I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty."
Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations -
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
and "A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense." They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
Then the four living creatures said, "Amen!" And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.
And God said: "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
"Then he shall let the living bird loose outside the city in the open field, and make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple.
Thus you shall say to them: "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens."
Behold, the noise of the report has come, And a great commotion out of the north country, To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.
O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
"And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.