Reminders of Sins
Hebrews 10:3
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.


As they in the time of the Law had many sacrifices to put them in remembrance of sin, so we in the time of the Gospel have many remembrancers of sin — sundry monitors to admonish us that we are sinners. The rainbow may be a remembrance of sin to us, that the world was once drowned for sin, and that it might be so still but for the goodness and mercy of God. Baptism daily ministered in the Church putteth us in mind of sin; for if we were not sinners we needed not to be baptized. The Lord's Supper puts us in mind of sin: "Do this in remembrance of Me," that My body was broken for you and My blood shed for you on the Cross. The immoderate showers that come oft in harvest and deprive us of the fruits of the earth may put us in mind of sin; for they be our sins that keep good things from us. Our moiling and toiling for the sustentation of ourselves with much care and wearisome labour; for if we had not sinned it should not have been so. The sicknesses and, diseases that be among us, the plague and pestilence that hath raged among us, the death of so many of our brethren and sisters continually before our eyes, &c., may put us in mind of sin; for if we had not sinned we should not have died. There be a number of things to put us in mind of sin; but there is nothing that can take away sin but Jesus Christ " the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world." Therefore let us all fly to this heavenly Physician for the curing of us.

(W. Joules, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

WEB: But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.




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