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OUR DAILY BREAD                       Sunday, September 25, 1994
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READ: Hebrews 10:5-10



                           "ONE SACRIFICE"

                  "There is one God and one Mediator
               between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." 

                            1 Timothy 2:5


Journalist Jill Neimark wrote an article titled "Shaman in 
Chicago" about her very unconventional uncle. 

A well-educated, prosperous commodities trader, he has become a 
high priest in the Ifa religion, which practices animal sacrifice 
as its highest act of worship. Formerly an atheist, he is now a 
convinced believer in a divine energy that he insists cannot be 
experienced in traditional religion.

Neimark thinks her uncle is an extreme example of those millions 
of questing Americans who crave a firsthand experience with 
dynamic supernaturalsm. As one of Neimark's friends put it, "We 
want to dial God direct; we don't want to go through the 
operator." Or as Neimark says, we're "beating our own path to 
God."

We who know the truth, power, and joy of the gospel of Jesus 
Christ can be grateful for these truths: (1) There is no need for 
any further sacrifice, because Jesus offered Himself as the 
perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sin (Heb. 10:10). (2) 
There is no need for any other mediator between God and us, 
because Jesus, who is our mediator (1 Tim. 2:5), guarantees direct 
access to God. (3) There is no need to beat our own way to God, 
because Jesus is "the way, the truth, and the life" (Jn. 14:6).

-- Vernon C. Grounds

The cross of Christ is all we need
To take our sins away;
He is our perfect sacrifice --
The life, the truth, the way.

-- Sper

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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Salvation is achieved by Christ's atonement, not by our 
attainment.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezekiel 46-48

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