Since you call on a father who judges each man's work impartially, live you lives as strangers here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
Every time I ignore what I know to be right and good and true to pursue my own pleasure or gain...I am in essence pouring out the cup of Christ's sacrificial blood on the ground and stomping through it. How sick. How wretched. How astounding that He would continue to pursue me. Praise God for His unfailing love!
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