19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of God; (Hebrews 10:19-21)
We can enter into the holiest because of the blood of Jesus. What does it mean to do that? We can come into the presence of God. What does that mean? We can pray directly to God without a man between us. We have the ear of the ruler of the universe, in incredible privilege. Our sins are removed in some way, or we could not approach God.
The blood of Jesus makes us clean because his blood was spilled on our behalf, his life was taken to we could be given mercy.
The veil represents Jesus flesh according to verse 20. I don't understand the implications of that. Jesus way of coming before God was new, it did away with the old system which was a shadow of Jesus to come.
We do not need a high priest today except for Jesus, who is a perfect high priest that prays for us when we will come to him in our great need. Jesus is the hero, he does the work, all we can do is choose to accept the credit for it and become more like him or choose to resist and become worse and worse.
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