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Thus, through his intervention, a new covenant has been bequeathed to us; a death must follow, to atone for all our transgressions under the old covenant, and then the destined heirs were to obtain, for ever, their promised inheritance. (Hebrews 9, 15)
Where a bequest is concerned, the death of the testator must needs play its part; (Hebrews 9, 16)
a will has no force while the testator is alive, and only comes into force with death.✻ (Hebrews 9, 17)
What the law contains is only the shadow of those blessings which were still to come, not the full expression of their reality. The same sacrifices are offered year after year without intermission, and still the worshippers can never reach, through the law, their full growth. (Hebrews 10, 1)
It was in faith that Abel offered a sacrifice richer than Cain’s, and was proved thereby to be justified, since God recognized his offering; through that offering of his he still speaks in death.✻ (Hebrews 11, 4)
When Enoch was taken away without the experience of death, when God took him and no more was seen of him, it was because of his faith; that is the account we have of him before he was taken, that he pleased God;✻ (Hebrews 11, 5)
by faith that Jacob, on his death-bed, made reverence to the top of Joseph’s staff, as he blessed his two sons in turn;✻ (Hebrews 11, 21)
When that has come about, passion conceives and gives birth to sin; and when sin has reached its full growth, it breeds death. (James 1, 15)
let him be sure of this; to bring back erring feet into the right path means saving a soul from death, means throwing a veil over a multitude of sins.✻ (James 5, 20)
It was thus that Christ died as a ransom, paid once for all, on behalf of our sins, he the innocent for us the guilty, so as to present us in God’s sight. In his mortal nature he was done to death, but endowed with fresh life in his spirit, (1 Peter 3, 18)
He sits, now, at the right hand of God, annihilating death, to make us heirs of eternal life; he has taken his journey to heaven, with all the angels and powers and princedoms made subject under his feet.✻ (1 Peter 3, 22)
Remember that we have changed over from death to life, in loving the brethren as we do; whereas, if a man is without love, he holds fast by death. (1 John 3, 14)
