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Coffee With Jesus: Luke 22–23

...nt to the Jewish people as it points back to the very first Passover. Moses commanded the people to cover their doorposts in the lamb’s blood using bunches of hyssop (Exodus 12:22), and now during the final Passover sacrifice, the Lamb of God is offered a drink from a hyssop branch. To continue with the Kingdom theme, from Luke 23, one of the criminals crucified alongside Jesus asks to be remembered when Jesus comes into his kingdom, and what does Jesus say? Today he will be with him. Luke 23:42–43Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.” He replied, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” From this it wo...

Lent: Day 9 - Ignatius to the Philadelphians

...reach the Jewish law unto you, listen not to him” he urges, because if they do, Ignatius says, they are no better than “monuments and sepulchres of the dead” since they preach that which has passed away. He goes on to contrast the Old Testament with the New by saying that, “the priests indeed are good, but the High Priest is better” because “He is the door of the Father, by which enter in Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the prophets, and the apostles, and the Church”. Christ is now the way, and only way, to God the Father and as such they old ways of Judaism are no longer in effect. He emphasises this even more by pointing out that, “the Gos...