"For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." (Hebrews 10: 2)
I read in a post critical of AA: "If AA does not work, then do you have something better?"
That is a good point, and the answer is Yes!
Yes: the Blood of Jesus Christ, Our High Priest, who enacts the New Covenant:
I am now learning that it is not enough to tell people what not to do. There is no life or power in such hollow admonitions:
We have something better in Christ:
"How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" (Psalm 119: 103)
and now
"But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." (Hebrew 6: 9)
and
"For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God." (Hebrews 7: 19)
and also
"By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." (Hebrews 7: 22)
and next
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"But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." (Hebrews 8: 6)
and finally
"And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." (Hebrews 12: 24)
There is a better way than AA - through Christ and His Finished Work at the Cross.
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21And having an high priest over the house of God; 22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." (Hebrews 10: 19-22)
The blood of Jesus has granted us a new and living way, the New Covenant (Hebrews 8: 10-12)
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