Hebrews 10:19-20- Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body....
Jesus, by his precious and wonderful blood made a way that we can enter into the heavenly Holy Place, which is the presence of our Father. We do not have to enter a tabernacle made by hands. We do not have to go behind a man made veil that is inside an earthly tent and offer the blood of a dead carcass and hope to somehow gain a moment with the Father. No, Jesus our beloved made a "new" way, not based on some old covenant of works, but one made by His own body and his own blood.
The blood offered from a animal for sacrificial purposes had to be blood that was warm and fluid. It could not be blood that had grown cold and coagulated. It had lost it's power or validity to somehow cover our sin if it had become old so the blood was to be offered as soon as it was shed. The word "new" used in this verse is used no where else in the New Testament. It means slain or killed, but it means so much more than that. It literally means "FRESHLY" slain, or recently or newly killed.
When you approach the Father and attempt to draw yourself into His presence, when you go to Him with sin and ask for forgiveness, it's as if He sees His Son being offered for you and His blood being "freshly" sprinkled to your heart at that very moment. He is not looking back to some event 2,000 years ago and remembering it. Jesus' blood as it were, is always warm and it is as if it is being "freshly" and recently shed. It is as a "fountain" that is always flowing. As if His veins are at this very moment being pierced and the Father is seeing His Son's blood beginning to flow at this very moment for you. It is as if it is happening NOW! You are standing at the foot of the cross and the blood that is flowing forth from His body is being splashed down upon you, wiping away all of your sins.
His blood is "new" and living. It is current. Jesus is alive and at the same time, His sacrificial blood is being poured out for you from the cross today in the eyes of the Father. You can go to Him right now and know with confidence that you are walking under a "freshly slain, currently flowing, fountain of warm and sprinkled blood" that is being shed for you at this very moment. Jesus body is the veil that has been torn and is also being offered at this moment to the Father on your behalf. That is why He is the past, the present and the future all wrapped up into one. Our ability of gaining access to the presence of God has come at a great price. May we never take it for granted. Enter today into the heavenly Holy Place and sit with Him.
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It is so hard to truly understand sometimes what God has done for me. That His work is complete and yet ongoing for me. But like many things I don't completely grasp I am unbelieveably grateful.
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