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For at least a century, at special three-hour services on Good Friday, it has been the custom in many churches to reflect on the Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross. In this tradition, Fleming Rutledge here presents seven eloquent meditations on these final sayings of Jesus. Rutledge links the sayings from the cross with contemporary events and concerns, but also incorporates recent...

been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sin. But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. (Heb. 10:1–4) The animal sacrifices of the Old Testament were an imperfect method. They were “only a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities” (Heb. 10:1). These rituals were ordained by God in order to prepare his people to understand the perfect and
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