New and living way

Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Where there is a remission of sin, where there is a remission of iniquities = there is NO more offering for sin. Why? Because the sins and iniquities are remembered no more. You need no offering for something that isn't remembered.


If you are lucky enough to have someone forget your trespasses against them, that person isn't going to punish you because they have forgotten you deserve punishment. How many children breathe a sigh of relief when their parents have forgotten to exact some promised punishment? Most if not all, right? Well, God will choose to remember no more our sins and iniquities if His Son's blood covers us. He understands that the price has been paid for our sins and He will remember them NO MORE. The price having been paid means NO payment is needed. We know all about paying something ahead of time, don't we? We can put $100,000,000.00 into a bank account and then electronically have it set up so that our bills are paid out of that account. For the rest of our lives (as long as we are very frugal people and live as the average middle class American *g*) we won't have to worry about paying our bills ever again. We know we have the money in that account sufficient to cover the bills- the money we put there a long time ago. We put the money in there ONCE, so we don't have to put any more money in there even though we continue to have bills. So until the bills are done away with and we can live bill free- we are covered. Christ's sacrifice for sin was sufficient to cover all the sins of those who have faith in Him, for those who believe in Him. There is NO need for any more offering for sin, the perfect offering was made. Our sins and iniquities will be remember no more- and where there is a remission- a pardon- a forgiveness- of our sins and iniquities- we need no other offering for those sins.


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Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus


Boldness to enter into where?


Boldness to enter into the HOLIEST.


Where is the holiest? In the Heavenly Sanctuary, not into the holy play, but into the holiest place- the most holy place. We are represented by our Savior who has entered in the holiest. Because our Savior has entered into the holiest, we with boldness enter the holiest by His blood.


Before Christ's sacrifice who was allowed into the earthly most holy place once a year? Only the High Priest. We're the common people allowed into the most holy place? NO. The common people remained outside the temple in the court. Our Savior did away with the earthly sanctuary but entered the heavenly sanctuary and because we are to be one with our Savior we too can spiritually enter into the most holy place, enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.


Only the arrival of the true can do away with the type. Only the arrival of the perfect can do away with the lesser, imperfect example. Christ - God's Son - sacrificed Himself for us. All the sacrifices made over the years all pointed towards the perfect sacrifice, realized in our Savior.


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Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God


We can boldly enter into the holiest by Jesus' blood. A new way of life was to take a place of the old way. A new and LIVING way. Christ's way- Christ's death and resurrection- the new way. The full revelation of life is found in our Savior. The new way was made holy by our Savior, by the sacrifice of His life- through His death in the flesh. Christ offered His life's blood, Christ offered His very body- His humanity- His flesh and through this most amazing of sacrifices the way to Him is forever revealed to us.


We have - PRESENT TENSE - a high priest over the house of God.


Read that again… WE HAVE - PRESENT TENSE - A HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD.


A high priest.


We serve and dedicate our lives to our high priest.


If we put that on a different level- if I say there are people who worship the earthly elements and they've elected a high priest and to that high priest they dedicate their lives promising to serve him- it sounds all wrong, doesn't it? We ARE NOT to serve any earthly high priest! However, you could picture that scenario couldn't you? A group of people surrounding a man possibly dressed in high priestly attire, bowing down to that man, worshipping that man, venerating that man. It became instantly more real because we put an earthly common man into the role, and we put a group of fictitious people that we aren't a part of, around that man. We quickly believe those *followers* of that earthly high priest are duped, they're a bunch of suckers, they're people easily swayed and easily deceived. Yet we can imagine the reality of the situation, can't we?


Now, we have to ask ourselves can we picture as a reality, Jesus as our heavenly high priest? Can we picture ourselves in all reality bowing down to Him? Can we picture ourselves worshipping our High Priest? We need to, we really do need to. Christ has to be a REALITY to us. We have to be willing to get down on our knees before our Savior. We have to be willing to defer to Him in all things. This has to be a reality to us. Too many of us are too proud. Too many of us don't want to think about the reality, but would rather keep our Savior out of reach of our reality, leaving Him in heaven and giving Him a mythical existence. He's not a myth!!! My Savior is real! My Savior is living! My Savior, my High Priest is in heaven right now and I am told this...


Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.


We are to DRAW NEAR with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
Our hearts are to be sprinkled from an evil conscience.
Our bodies are to be washed with pure water.


Our hearts sprinkled clean from evil.
Our flesh washed with pure water.


Only Christ's blood, only our Savior's sacrifice, only our High Priest can sprinkle our hearts free from an evil conscience and wash our flesh with pure water. By His grace! By His mercy! Let us boldly enter into the most holy place and come before our High Priest who alone can forgive us and cleanse us free of all sin!


In His amazing love!


Amen.