For You

Hebrews 9:11-15

But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.

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don't call for your surgeon,
even he say's it late,
it not your lungs this time
but your heart holds your fate
don't give me my money back,
don't want it anymore
it's not that nursery mouth I came back for
it's not the way you stretched out on the floor
I've broken all your windows
and I rammed through all your doors
and who am I to ask you to fight my wars
and you should know that’s true
(I came for you)
you should know that too
(I came for you)

I came for you
I came for you
I came for you
I came for you
I came for you, for you, I came for you

"For You" by Bruce Springsteen, this arrangement by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Christ, the great high priest. He is God, yet came to life on earth not to take advantage of his divinity, but emptied himself taking human life humbling himself to death, even death on the cross. He did this so that every tongue would be able to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord for the glory of God the Father.

He did this for creation. He did this for us. He did this for you.

Christ the great high priest. He came as the high priest of the things to come, not the things that are today but the things to come. It used to be that to be made holy, acceptable to God, we would have to present a blood sacrifice. Some presented lambs, some presented rams, some presented bulls-each according to their ability to pay.

Christ presents himself. When the blood of the lamb of Christ is shed, what other blood could approach it? Our sacrifices of blood pale after the blood of the lamb.

Christ breaks down the barriers between the holy and the profane, making all holy again. Christ doesn't come to us because we are appealing, he doesn't come because we are worthy. He comes because we need him to come. It is Christ who has broken our windows, and crashed through our doors. Christ doesn't need us to fight his battles, because he has already won our battle.

Christ defeats death. Christ brings new life.

We should know that's true. He came for creation. He came for us. He came for you.