![]() THE PRAYER: Lord, thank You for taking my place and setting me free. Because you trust in Me, you are forgiven and safe and free forever." Your death has become My death, and My resurrection will be your life. It is as if He said to us, "I am yours and you are Mine. He came to do for us what we could never do-fulfilling God's Law perfectly, and then setting us free from all the guilt and shame and death that we had brought on ourselves. We know that the Law is good, but we are not good, we are broken, and the Law just proves that again and again to us. So this meant a trip to Jerusalem, about six miles away.Īs human beings, we, too, come under the Law-the Ten Commandments, the basic knowledge of right and wrong, and most of all, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" (Mark 12:30). And Jesus, as a firstborn son, had to be presented to God at the temple as well. Mary had to make a sacrifice at the temple after childbirth. ![]() When He was forty days old, His family had more requirements of the Law to carry out. ![]() From that point on, He would be under the Law of Moses. It marks the day Jesus turned eight days old, when all Jewish boys had to be circumcised as a sign that they were part of God's people. January 1 is the Feast of the Circumcision. and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." (Luke 2:21a, 22, 24) ![]() And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord. And at the end of eight days, when He was circumcised, He was called Jesus. ![]()
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