The Life of Virtue - Sacrifice


	The Life of Virtue - Sacrifice

Efrain Alvarado

7-24-2009 10:15 PM

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Efrain Alvarado says:

"In the Old Testament sacrifice derived its expiatory power from the blood of the victim but in the New Testament we read “you know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18-19)."

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