See Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Luke 22:14-23. This is language first used in Jeremiah's promise of rescue and renewal of the exiled people of God in Babylon. It promises a coming day when God would make a new covenant unlike the one which Israel had broken.
Smyrna was a large, important city on the western coast of Asia Minor, famed for its schools of medicine and science. Pastor Stewart McAlpine...
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Christ Jesus is our life. We have no other life; we have nothing but Chris Jesust, and we have everything in Christ Jesus.
