📖 New sermon
Holiness Runs Down from God and Never Back Up
The men haggling in the temple courtyard knew which oaths could be collected on. Swear by the gold and you're bound; swear by the temple and you can walk away. Jesus calls that blindness: holiness runs down from God to the thing and never back up, and the temple is holy only for Him who dwells in it. We do the same arithmetic with our years and our giving, wanting a righteousness we can audit. But the altar was holy before you got here, and the gift on it is Christ's own body and blood.
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▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/C3QLfHNvsTc
🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Holiness-Runs-Down-from-God-and-Never-Back-Up-Friday-of-Trinity-8-2026-e3moht9
🔗 https://sjrl.org/holiness-runs-down-from-god-and-never-back-up-friday-of-trinity-8-observed-2026/
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