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Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,

21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

Christ or Judgment

26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

One of the obstacles to our faith is confidence, or the lack of confidence.

Could it be that we don’t believe or don’t accept that Jesus died for our sins and the power of the blood of jesus provides us the right right and privilege to enter the Holy place of God.

The blood of Jesus should encourage us to go into the presence of God like Moses did and have a real heart to heart talk and relationship with God.

Could it be that we think we are not good enough or holy enough, or deserving enough to have a serious conversation and fellowship with God.

Maybe we think our sin is too great for God to forgive or forget.

Maybe we think its because we have a generational curse on us from our forefathers and mothers.

You see that is a trick of the devil, because no matter what anyone who came before you did or did not do, it has nothing to do with you.

You are not bound by the sins of anyone else accept yours.

You see Jesus died fo ALL sins, even those we have yet to commit.

Satan wants you and I to believe that we can’t do what God says we can do.

He wants su to doubt who we are in Christ.

Thats what the adversary wants us to do.

He sows seeds of doubt, by having us compare and contrasts ourselves with others, so that we miss, because of his distraction that the Blood of Jesus guarantees us that we can with confidence boldly enter the Holy Place with God in a loving relationship.

The old ways we did things are not limiting us any longer the fear and shame of our mistakes, bad decisions and sins, no longer hold us captive.

The blood and the love of Jesus sets us free from our self-imposed bondage.

We listen to our head and not our hearts.

When we are in right relationship with God we can feel God speaking to our hearts.

Its that small still voice that empowers us to boldly go out into the world and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and embolden us to live our faith by how we live our lives.

The small still voice is telling you that I am God and i know you.

I know you have made some mistakes and know you have made some really bad decisions and have sinned against me, but I still love you.

My burden is light my yoke is easy.

Come and let me give you rest.

God is saying He wants you to be the best you He made you to be.

Repent, ask for forgiveness, accept God’s forgiveness and enjoy being you.

God gave His only begotten Son to crucifixion and death so that our sins are already paid for.

He just wants us to repent and ask Him through Jesus to forgive us our sins.

To repent means to be genuinely remorseful for our sins to be really and truly sorry for sinning.

The problem with being remorseful is that it can be a very depressing thing and the adversary will use it to keep us in a depressed state and alienate us from God’s forgiveness and love.

What satan wants us to do is to not believe that God can and has forgiven us because we asked in the name of Jesus.

When we ask for God’s forgiveness, He tells us in He removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

Sometimes the most difficult person to forgive is yourself.

We all want to do right and it does not feel good when we fall short and we can get down on ourselves to the extant that we almost give up hope and give up on God.

But there is no need to be down and depressed because you sinned and recognized that you separated yourself form God, because He forgives us our sins through the shed blood of Jesus.

I think that one of the reasons we get so down on our selves is that it is because we really care about our relationship with God.

If we didn’t care it wouldn’t bother us.

So understand the source of your feelings, its because you actually care about how you look in God’s eyes.

Forgiveness removes the ugly from us in God’s eyes and He only sees us as he created us to be.

You see He loves us just as we are.

It is this assurance of God’s love that drives our faith.

Its God’s guarantee to us to have faith and believe what He says in His Word.

God wants each of us to come of our own accord.

We ask others to pray for us, we ask the Pastor to pray for us and that’s all well, fine and good and there is nothing wrong with that.

I just want you to be aware of something that scripture points out to us.

We have have a Great Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart.

Do you remember in scripture in ”And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

the priests at that time went behind the veil into the Holiest of Holies to offer sacrifices for the people.

He was asking God to forgive their sins.

when that veil was torn because of Jesus’s death it allowed us direct access to God.

All of us.

there is no one in this church or on this planet who has more direct access to God than you .

Nobody.

But rather than emphasizing the miracle of it being rent because of its “thickness,” the Bible draws our attention to the “height” of the veil.

“And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.”

That was a long ways up there (30’), and then all the way down to the bottom (floor level).

No man has a reach that great, or the strength.

It had to have been someone much higher and greater than man to rip it in two.

Again there is nothing wrong in asking for prayers, but your prayers carry as much weight as anyones with God.

Jesus dying on the cross for our sins gave us direct access to God through Jesus.

Verse 22 tells us what we need to draw near to God and that is a sincere heart, and we need to define what a sincere heart is: It means proceeding from and characterized by genuine feelings; free from pretense or deceit.

We have to be true to God.

We need to stop trying to trick God with our trying to speak like we are holy, saved and sanctified.

We have to be open, honest and real with God.

We cannot pray to God like we are Pharisees.

It is our thoughts that will condemn us.

As the scriptures state it as having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

It is our thoughts that start us along the path to sin.

Its here where our fight with sin begins and ends.

When we are so in love with Jesus that even thinking about doing wrong convicts us, we are growing that much closer to God.

Now here is how we do it.

We consistently and steadfastly wash ourselves in the word of God.

I heard someone say that prayer is talking to God and reading the Bible is God talking to you.

We do a lot of talking at and too God but we are not doing a good job of listening to God talking to us.

Now ask yourself this question.

Have I talked to God more than I listened to God this past week?

And when you talked to Him did you ask Him for anything.

If you did then you may have missed the answer because you were not listening to God talking to you.

whenever we chose to not open our Bibles and talk to God, we are being led around like a cow with a ring in its nose.

Every relationship is built on 2-way communication.

If only one person is talking that’s a monologue.

a one way conversation.

god wants you and I to really hear what He is saying to us.

God’s Word tells us how he feels about us.

In his word we find out that He does not see us as the world sees us or even as we see ourselves.

He does not see us as less than or short, tall, skinny, fat or in between.

He says we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Now the definition of wonderful is: Surprisingly excellent, very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

Extremely impressive, everyone please say it with me, extremely impressive.

When was the last time anyone called you extremely impressive?

So then anytime anyone or any situation causes you to think badly about yourself, remember what God says about you and act accordingly.

What God wants us to hear from reading His Word is that we are all extremely impressive.