If you receive blanket acceptance, you need no repentance. You just accept it. It fills you without humbling you. It relaxes you without upsetting you about yourself – or thrilling you about Christ. It lets you relax without reckoning with the anguish of Jesus on the cross. It is easy and undemanding. It does not insist on, or work at, changing you. It deceives you about both God and yourself. We can do better. God does not accept me just as I am; He loves me despite how I am. He loves me just as Jesus is; He loves me enough to devote my life to renewing me in the image of Jesus.
David Powlison

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  1. A part of defensive armour # 1Ki 22:34
  2. A part of the high priest’s dress # Ex 28:4
  3. FOR SOLDIERS 3a) Made of iron

    # Re 9:9

3b) Bright and shining # Re 9:17 4) FOR THE HIGH PRIEST 4a) Materials of # Ex 28:15 39:8 4b) Form and dimensions of # Ex 28:16 39:9 4c) Made from the offering of the people # Ex 35:9 5) Had names of the tribes engraved on precious stones # Ex 28:17-21 39:10,14 6) Inseparably united to the ephod # Ex 28:22-28 39:15-21 7) The Urim and Thummim placed in # Ex 28:30 Le 8:8 8) Worn as a memorial # Ex 28:29 Isa 49:16 9) ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE 9a) Righteous judgment of Christ # Isa 59:17 9b) Defence of righteousness # Eph 6:14 9c) Defence of faith and love # 1Th 5:8