Hebrews 10:19-39 | Keep Going with Jesus

Why is it that we even can keep going? Well, the good news is that our perseverance in the Christian life does not depend solely on us.

In fact, it depends entirely on the character and the work of our high priest, Jesus.

And so verse 21 begins, therefore, brothers and sisters, this is the conclusion of all that the author has been saying about Jesus in his letter so far.

He says, Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, open to us through the curtain that is his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, notice there's two reasons that he gives.

First, there's Jesus' sacrifice.

Because Jesus' blood has washed us clean once and for all, we have confidence to enter the throne room of God.

The curtain in the temple, that physical barrier that served as a symbol of the spiritual barrier that separated us from God, the Berlin Wall, the dividing wall, a barrier, a division, never the two shall meet.

now through jesus sacrifice we can go through the curtain and not just can we go through we can go through and enter into god's presence with confidence so because of jesus blood we can belong with god and we can know with confidence that we can belong with god that's reason number one reason number two is jesus priesthood He says, not only is Jesus the perfect sacrifice that washes away our sin, but he is also the high priest who stands before God defending us.

So that no matter what anyone else might say about you, and no matter what you might think of yourself, Jesus says your name before God and says he or she is righteous.

And so there's the two reasons.

Since we have confidence to enter the most holy place through Jesus' blood, and since we have a great priest who defends us, because Jesus is both our sacrifice and our priest, verse 22, we get three lettuces.

Lettuce number one, let us draw near to God in faith.

Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

You see, it's because we've been washed internally and externally, hearts sprinkled, bodies washed, Our new normal can be that we don't run away from God, but that we run towards him.

We draw near to him.

You see, the default position of our lives is not to draw near to God, is it? When life is going great, what do we normally do? We forget about God.

And when life is hard, what do we do? We blame God or we think that God doesn't care for us.

When we sin, we think we know better than God.

When we wake up to our sin, we think we're not good enough for God.

No matter the situation, our default position is to actually move away from God.

But now, because Jesus is our perfect sacrifice and our high priest, in every situation, we can actually draw near to him.

He will not turn you away.

He will listen when you pray.

No matter what you've done, Jesus' sacrifice is sufficient.

And so we can keep going in confident faith.