Boldly Enter God's Presence

Alrighty, well, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we're at Hebrews chapter 10. We're going to be looking at verses 19 through 25, 19 through 25. Let's have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into God's word.
This is not coffee today. Now you got a little bit of decaffeinated black tea. And I've got some dandelion root tea. One of the ladies at church said, here, you should try this. They say it's just as good as coffee. Should I believe it? Maybe, probably not. It's not as bad as I thought it might be, but it's not, it's not as good as coffee, but it's not bad.
All right, let's pray and we'll get into God's word. God, we thank you so much for this day. We do thank you for your word, and we pray that your spirit would please help us to understand. Please teach us, Lord, in Jesus's name. Amen. All right, let's go ahead and read. Dandan, can you read verse 19? Yes. Right here. You want to read that first verse?
Brethren, having All right being able to enter the holy Yeah, having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and a living way, which he consecrated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh. Having a high priest over the house of God, 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. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. and let us consider one another, to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as you see the day approaching."
Okay, so we've got three questions. A, what is this? B, what's this? And C? Alright, so what's this about? So I'm going to switch over here and I'm going to show you what I think this is about. So we're going to switch over to Logos here. And as I'm in Logos, this is the Tabernacle, right? So this is produced by Faithlife. I hope I'm not violating their copyright by doing this. I don't think I am. But this is their infographic here and you're able to see that they have This is like the wall around everything and then you have the sacrifices they would bring in and the altar where they would offer the animals and the basin where they would do their washing and Then here's the first veil And do you see inside here?
This is the holy place. And here is the holiest place. The holy of holies. And so the high priest would come through the veil. And he could come through this first veil. And he would make sure that the lights were still lit on the lamp stand. And make sure that there was show bread on the table. And he would burn the incense in the holy place. And then once a year, he could go through this veil into the inner, the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was. And there he would make a sprinkle on the Day of Atonement once a year.
And so you think that would be fun? Well, guess what? The whole point of this part of the book of Hebrews is that Jesus is a better high priest than Aaron, and he has a better tabernacle than this one. And guess where that tabernacle is? That's right. It's up, up, and away. It's in heaven. And so we get to approach God in the heavenly tabernacle. And remember that curtain, that veil? That's what this is talking about here. Did you notice he talked about a veil?
Therefore having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus. So we don't go to the holy place now in heaven by the blood of bulls and goats. We go by the blood of Jesus. This is a better way, a new way, a living way. I mean, just don't go once a year we go. Yeah, every time we pray we get to go through that veil. That's right. Did you notice that?
Which He consecrated us. He's the one who set us apart, holy for this, through the veil. And what is that veil? The new veil isn't made of a curtain, but it's of Jesus's flesh. Right? We go through Jesus. That's how we enter into the presence of God.
Yeah, you're right, when Jesus died, the veil in the temple was ripped in two, from top to bottom. You're right, God himself ripped that veil in half. In verse 21, having a high priest over the house of God. Who is that high priest over the house of God? Jesus, that's right. It's Jesus who's that high priest.
So since all that's true, verse 22, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. Do we have to go fearful that God's going to strike us down dead for entering into the holy place? Yes, definitely. No, no. Right. We have the blood of Jesus. Right.
We've had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. So before Aaron could become a priest, he had to be washed from head to toe, and then he had all the priestly garments put on him, and then they took blood and they put it on his ear, and on his thumb, and on his toe, and he was sprinkled with blood. you would like robes and getting washed on you on a spa day. I don't think it was exactly that.
But the point was, right, is that now we, we have been washed in the blood of Jesus and consecrated. Our consciences have been made clean. And so verse 23 through 25, Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promised is faithful. Jesus said that this is what he was doing and this is what he did.
And it's not just about me. It's about us. Let us not consider one another in order to stir up love and good works. We don't want to forsake one another. No, we want to meet with each other. We want to exhort one another. Even as we see the day approaching, we know that Jesus is going to return. And so we're able to encourage each other with these truths, meet together. So this is one of the reasons why we worship every week. We get together and Daddy exhorts people and I encourage them and we encourage and exhort each other. Remember Jesus. Remember what he's done. Remember who he is and who we are because of him. So, all right, you gotta walk out of this room in a second, and mom's gonna ask, Dandan, what did you, what was that about? What do you think you would tell her? I would tell her it was about getting washed. Getting washed, okay.
I think it's about entering into the most holy place because we've been consecrated and sprinkled in the blood of Jesus, our high priest. It's a better priest, better sacrifice, better entrance, better promises, better everything. It's a new covenant, a better covenant. So, in my Bible for Beth's verse, I have 19 and 22 underlined in my Bible.
Last, seek calling. What do you think this calls you to do? What do you think, Dan? What does this call you to do, or how does this teach you about Jesus Christ, or even about the covenant? I think it tells us that we can go into that whenever we want to.
Okay, yeah, so go to the heavenly tabernacle whenever you want and pray to your Father who's in heaven. Not like once a year. Yeah, it's better than praying just once a year. You get to go in regularly, right? So yeah, I would say definitely go and pray.
Remember Jesus is your high priest. But I would also say encourage each other, right? We need to provoke each other to love and good deeds. Yeah, no not provoke each other with teasing provoke to love and good deeds right we should get together and encourage each other Okay, you ready to pray? Well one of us I'm not gonna pray half a prayer if I'm gonna pray a prayer. I'm gonna pray a whole prayer.
Yeah, okay, then you'll pray go ahead We often and thank you that we're praying right now and please hope that we have a good day. Amen. May the Lord bless you. May you rest in Jesus. May you enjoy time with the Lord. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.