shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 6 5" Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.-Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." 1 John xiv, 23. 2 John xv, 7. 3 John xvi, 23. 4 Matt. xviii, 19, 20. 5 Matt. vii, 7, 8. 6 John xiv, 13, 14. 7 John xvi, 24. Chapter Thirty-eighth. REDEMPTION. The shadow of good things to come. 2 "THE Lord said unto Moses :-'Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Aaron shall make an atonement once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements. Thus shall he come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. And he shall wash his flesh in water, and put on the holy garments. "On the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. And he shall take two goats, and shall cast lots upon them; one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot foll, and offer him for a sin offering, and bring his blood within the vail, and sprinkle it upon and before the mercy seat. And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, and he shall lay both his hands upon his head, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. "And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.'-And Aaron did as the Lord commanded Moses." 1 Lev. xvi, 2. 2 Ex. xxx, 10. 3 Lev. xvi, 3, 4. 4 Lev. xxiii, 27. Ancient ceremonies passed away. 2 "We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Without shedding of blood is no remission, and Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, not by the blood of goats and calves; 3(for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins;) but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 5 Christ died for our sins; he was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. And he is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God. "The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, could never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect; but Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 9 and if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." 1 Rom. v, 11. 2 Heb. ix, 22, 11, 12. 3 Heb. x, 4. 4 Heb. ix, 12. 51 Cor. xv, 3, 4. 6 Heb. ix, 24-28. 7 Heb. x, 12, 1. 81 Cor. v, 7. Heb. ix, 13, 14, 15. Christ our passover sacrificed for us. "The band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus in Gethsemane, and bound him, and led him away to Annas, who sent him unto Caiaphas the high priest. Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus to put him to death, but found none. "And as soon as it was day, they came together, and led him into their council. And the high priest said unto him, 'I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.' Jesus saith unto him, 'Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.' Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, 'He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? What think ye?' They answered and said, 'He is guilty of death.' And "Then did they spit in his face,-buffeted him, mocked him, and smote him. when they had blind-folded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, 'Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?' And many Ꮓ |