All things must come to an end, and there are two alternatives before us. they are life and death; and every one of us will have to go to his own particular place. There are two different coinages, so to speak, in circulation, God's and the world's, each with its own distinctive marking. Unbelievers carry the stamp of this world; while the faithful in love bear the stamp of God the Father, through Jesus Christ.Unless we are ready and willing to die in conformity with His Passion, His life is not in us.
But how you show the correct coinage?
If we are still living in the practices of our old lives, like Judaism/Moralism/Lawlessness, it is an admission that we have failed to receive the gift of grace. For in the local body of the Church Universal we can see how former adherents of the ancient customs have since attained to a new hope; so that they (former Jews) have given up keeping the Sabbath (which means Saturday - the 7th day of the week), and now order their lives by the Lord's Day (Sunday) instead.
But what should we now believe?
I want you to be unshakably convinced of the Birth (Incarnation), the Passion (Christ's Atoning death on the Cross), and the (Bodily) Resurrection which are the true and indisputable experiences of Jesus Christ, our Hope, in the days of Pontius Pilate's governorship. God grant that none of you may ever be turned aside from that Hope.
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