Mark 15 this morning in verse
33. I was speaking with someone. I think maybe Wednesday evening
after the message. About the passage of scripture
that Brother Bob just read. And. We were rejoicing together in
the fact that the prodigal son mentioned twice when he came
back, I've seen. I've sinned. I'm not worthy to
be called your son, but the father never even acknowledged that. The father hugged his neck, kissed
him, and said, bring the best. Never acknowledged it. If that
would have been us now, we'd have been glad to see our son
come home, but we'd have said, well, you know, I'm gonna have
to have some assurances now if you're gonna come back If you're
gonna live under my roof, you know. I'm glad our father's not
like that. Now the other son brought it
up, didn't he? The self-righteous one. He said, how can you treat
him so well after what he did to you? And here, I've been with
you all this time. I never did any of that. Well,
the father never brought it up. Mark 1533, and when the sixth
hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the
ninth hour. In the middle of the day now,
there was darkness. And this darkness is mysterious. We don't know We can only wonder at what this
represents. I know this is symbolic of what
was taking place on that cross. Our Lord, you know how he describes
hell in this book? Being cast into outer darkness. And that's what's taking place
on the cross. The Lord Jesus Christ is suffering
hell for his people. Hell is a place. There's no doubt about that,
but that's not the essence of it. For us to understand what
hell is, we gotta think beyond the location. My home is located
at 5009 Guardian Court, but that's not, that's just where our home
is. That's not our home. You know
what I mean? We can move somewhere else and still be home. And hell is not just a bad place,
or as some people say, the bad place. You're going to the bad
place, you know. Well, verse 34, here in our text describes
what hell looks like. This right here is as much hell
as you, if you're a child of the king, if you're a child of
God, this is as close as you're ever gonna get if God reveals
to you what happened right here. This is the most hell you're
ever gonna experience right here. if the Lord enables you by His
grace to understand something of what happened that would cause
the Son of God to cry out as He did here. Forsaken of God
and not just an absence of God now. He is forsaken in the midst
of torment. It's positive torment. People People talk about hell as though
it was a place that God sort of apologizes for. Have you ever
noticed that in religion? They say, well, you know, there
is a hell. We believe that there's a hell,
but God doesn't want anybody to go there. Why do you think
He made hell? Who do you think made it? Who do you think puts people
in it? Who do you think has the keys of hell? The Lord Jesus
Christ said He did. The only way to describe hell
really is it's God doing his absolute worst to you. Pouring out his complete and
utter unrestrained wrath upon you. People say my life is a
living hell. You don't know what hell is. And I don't either. And I don't
want to know. This is as close as I'm going
to get to knowing right here and I thank God for that. Who do you think made hell? God
made hell in order to put people in it. That's why he made it. And again, we're talking about
it like it's a place, and it is, but it is the place of God's
wrath. Think about this, omnipotence,
all power, combined with perfect justice and perfect wrath. Omnipotence and wrath combined
as God annihilates you and he don't apologize for it He's not
embarrassed about it The scripture says and it pleased the Lord
to bruise his son It says that in Isaiah 53 And the word bruise
there, if you look up the original Hebrew word for bruise, it means
to crush or shatter or break in pieces. It's translated destroy in Job
34, 25. And there it's describing what
God is going to do to the wicked. That's what he did to his son
because he took the place of a wicked sinner like me. He did
it to his son when his son bore my sin in his own body on that
tree. He took my sin and so he took
the penalty for it. The consequences of it. God's
wrath which it richly deserved. The son willingly submitted to
this. It says it pleased the father
to bruise him. It pleased the son too to be bruised in this
sense. for the joy that was set before
him. That's why he endured the cross
willingly, willingly. He agreed to it beforehand for
the joy that was set before him. What is his joy? Well, we don't
have to speculate about that. Read the scriptures. His joy
was due in the will of his father. I have meat to eat that you don't
know about. My meat is to do the will of
Him that sent me. That's what fulfills me. That's
what sustains me. That's what pleases me. And I'll
tell you this, the joy that was set before Him was redeeming you and me if you're
His. God so loved, God in all of His
persons, so loved that He gave. He laid down his, greater love
hath no man than this. That he do what? Lay down his
life for his friend. That's what our Lord's doing
here. He's putting on display the greatest love that there
ever was. This is God so loving us. This picture of wrath and torment
and agony and unspeakable terror. There's no way I can use any
language this morning to impress upon you the absolute horror
of what we're reading here. No way. The Lord's gonna have
to show it to us. God forsook his son in this unspeakable
hour of torment. You know why he forsook his son? He did it so he could say to
me, I will never leave you. nor forsake you." It's no coincidence that the
word forsaken is used in both of those scriptures now. Why
hast thou forsaken me? And God says to me, a vile, wretched
sinner. He forsook his holy, spotless
Son and said to a vile, wretched sinner like me, I'll never forsake
you. You want to see that in Psalm
22, look at it, verse 1, Psalm 22. I don't even feel worthy to speak
these words. I'm just gonna say them. I don't know what else
to do. I'm not gonna try to say them
the way he said them. That'd be ridiculous, wouldn't
it? I'm not gonna shout them real loud, you know, so that
maybe it'll impress it upon you more. God's gonna have to tell
us what this says. My God, my God. Why hast thou forsaken me? Why
would God forsake his own son in this hour, the hour of great
need and agony and trouble? Why are you so far from helping
me and from the words of my roaring? Oh my God, I cry in the daytime
and you don't hear me. You refuse to hear me. It's not
that God couldn't hear him. He wouldn't hear him. Thou hearest
me not. and in the night season and am
not silent. And here's the answer to the
question, why have you forsaken your son? Because you're holy.
And your son is bearing all the sins of his people for all time. You are holy, oh you that inhabit
the praises of Israel. And no wonder he does, no wonder
we praise him. He destroyed his son for us because
he loved us that much. Now look at this, this is what
we're saying now. Our fathers trusted in you, they trusted,
and you saved them. Here's the Lord Jesus Christ
looking for help in trouble and not getting any. But he's saying
these wretched, vile, despicable sinners They cried to you for
help and you saved them. And that's why, because he forsook
his son. They cried unto thee, verse five,
and they were delivered. They were saved, they trusted
in you and were not confounded. But I am a worm. That's why now. He saved us because we're made
the righteousness of God in Christ. And he forsook his son because
he was made a worm. No man a reproach of men. That's us now by nature, no man. You say, oh, I'm a self-made
man and what a man I am and all that. You're not even a man if
you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ. There's just one man. Pilate said, behold the man. They're not but one. Us squirming
around here, passing for men, calling ourselves men, you know
what we are? Worms. But my Savior became a worm that
I might be made the righteousness of God. In him. In the very hour in which he.
Is forsaken for us there in Psalm 22. He mentions that we won't
be. When we cry will be heard because he wasn't. Well, my Lord
describes. His vicarious agony for his people. Vicarious just means in the place
of another. And that's the way he died, in
the place of another, in my place. He describes that agony in Psalm
69 20 this way, reproach hath broken my heart. There again, we say we talk about
hell like we know what it is, and we talk about, we don't know. What a broken heart is either,
do we? Say, well, I've had my heart
broken. I know somebody that did. I'm not sure I ever have.
Pretty sure, pretty sure I don't even know what that is. Reproach
hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked
for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters,
but I found none. Now think again about the language
here. I looked for somebody to comfort me. I looked for a comforter,
and I didn't find one. Because he had no comfort, I'm
able to say with David, yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for thou art with
me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
me. Now we need to understand that
this is actual suffering. He wasn't pretending to suffer.
Actual death. It wasn't as though he was dead.
The Son of God died. Now that's mysterious now. But he died. He actually suffered
and he actually died. And I'll tell you this, neither
the suffering, the death, nor the result are potential or contingent
upon anything. Christ bore my sin and its consequences
so that I, though sinful, never will. I'm never gonna be held
accountable for my sin. Nor will I ever suffer any consequence
for my sin. And the reason I won't is not
because I walked an aisle. The reason I won't is because
Christ Jesus died for my sins according to the scriptures.
Now that's just the truth from God's Word. That's why. And it's just plain, isn't it?
I won't bear the consequences for my sin because He bore the
consequences of my sin. And He either did or He didn't.
God's not gonna hold two accountable for the sin of one. Christ died
for my sin and I never will. He died so that He can say to
me, you'll never die. He said, he that liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. He obtained eternal redemption
for me and I am eternally redeemed. He was made sin and I am made
righteousness. That's why he was made sin, to
make me righteousness. And he either accomplished it
or he failed. My Savior accomplished eternal redemption. and made
me the righteousness of God by taking my sin on himself. He
was forsaken and I never will be. He was comfortless and I
never will be. He said, I will not leave you
comfortless. That's his exact words in John
14, 18. I will not leave you comfortless. I'll come to you.
We didn't come to him when he needed comfort. Even his own
father, he found no comforters, not even in his own father. But
we'll never be without The comfort of God. None of this is contingent
upon my faith in Christ. Faith in Christ is God's gift
to me, whereby I personally experience all that Christ accomplished
for me on Calvary. It's not a contingency plan.
It's an accomplishment. It's a victory won. Now look at verse 35 in our text
again. And 36 with it this time. Mark
15. He cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, which is being interpreted, my
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood
by when they heard it said, behold, he calleth Elias. Because he
said the words Eloi, Eloi. They said he's calling for Elijah
to come save him. It's hard to miss here a picture,
a stark picture of the utter cluelessness of most people,
and all of us now by nature. I say all of us are clueless
as to what happened on Calvary. By nature, none of us have any
idea what happened there, and this is a picture of that, isn't
it? They completely misunderstood what he said, and in misunderstanding
what he said from the cross, they misunderstood what happened.
He's telling them what happened. God forsook his son there. And
there's a reason why he did. But they completely misunderstood
that, and so they completely missed the point of it all. So
does everybody else, until God turns the light on. And they still do, don't they?
And this is a remarkable thing that this is the most universally
known event of all time. Wouldn't you agree with that?
That Jesus Christ died on a cross. Nothing has ever happened that's
been more universally known as far as being aware of it. Nothing
has ever happened before or since or ever will that compares in
that regard. But at the same time, It's the
most universally unknown event that ever happened. Relatively very, very few understand
what took place on the cross. Again, this is not the Son of
God creating another chance for you. You know, we had our shot
in the garden and, you know, he came unto his own and his
own received him not. And man has always rejected him
from the beginning of time. And they're still going to be
trusting their own works, even on the day of the Lord. He said,
they're going to say, well, look at our wonderful work. Nobody
has ever trusted him. Or he said, all we like sheep
have gone astray. We're all gone our own way. He
looked down to see if there were any that did understand. And
there weren't any. But he's going to give us one more chance by
dying on the cross. Really? Is that what he did?
I'm pretty sure God's not that naive. We don't need another
chance. We need a savior. We need a redeemer. We need our sins put away, and
that's what he did. That's what he accomplished there. They don't know who, they don't
know what, and they don't know why. Now nobody knows how. Nobody
knows how. I don't know how, do you? How
did God forsake God that day? How in the world does that happen? Martin Luther said, God forsaking
God? I cannot understand that, but
I can believe it, because God said it. God said it. How did
life die? How does that happen? The Lord
Jesus Christ is not just alive. He is he that liveth and was
dead. And behold, he said, I'm alive
forevermore. But he's not just alive. He's life. He's the one
that breathes life into us. Life died. Peter preached boldly,
you killed the prince of life. How do you do that? How does
that happen? Anybody care to explain that?
How does God become a man to begin with? How does God bleed? How does God get thirsty? How
does the one that made water get thirsty? How does my sin
get put away you think about that how does my sin get put
away by God punishing the only innocent man that ever lived. I know that my sin was laid on
him I know that I know that he bore it in his own body on the
tree but how does that work. Very few have I ever heard try
to explain that, and the ones that did made fools of themselves.
How? How? How can it be? I don't know, but I know who. Don't
you? By God's grace, I know who. And
because I know who, I know what. If it was God that did it, then
it's done, isn't it? If it was God that died for me
and he died to save me, then you know something about me,
don't you? If God did this and he did it
to save me, then I'm saved. We're talking about God. He said,
I do as I please in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants
of the earth and none can stay my hand or even question me.
He said, my hand is not shortened that it cannot say. If God wants
to save me, what's gonna stop him? You, me, Satan? I know who. It was God that died
that day. It was God's Christ. It was the
one whom the Father trusted to redeem his people. I reckon he was worthy of that
trust, don't you? God's Christ, God's anointed.
It was the son of God. It was the victorious redeemer
that died that day. And I know what he died to accomplish. I know what he did. He died to redeem me. He died
to put my sins away. And if he did not, if he died
to put my sin away that day, and he didn't do it, then he's
a failure. That's the one they're talking about down here. We don't
talk about him except just to scorn him. Got no use for a would-be
savior. Got no use for a failure. I need
somebody to save me, not give me a helping hand, save me. And
that's what he did. He saved his people. His name
is, he will save his people from their sins. And that's what he
did. And I know why he did it. He did it for the same reason
he does everything he does. He did it for his own glory.
You thought I was gonna say he did it for me, didn't you? Well,
he did. He did. But he did it for his own glory,
primarily. And then, of course, he did it
because he couldn't do without a wretched sinner like me. He
had to have me. He loved me so much that he could
not let me go. My Savior loved me so much that
trying to save me wouldn't have cut it for Him. He did it. He did it. He didn't leave it
up to me. He did it. He accomplished my
salvation. Now, what happened in verse 38?
Look at verse 38 with me, Mark 15. The veil of the temple was rent
in twain from the top to the bottom. Of course it was from
the top to the bottom. Man can't do anything about that.
The veil of the temple, that's the veil that separated the holy
place from the most holy place. That's the veil that shut off
the place from access where God dwelt between the cherubim. It
was a picture of banishment from the presence of God. A clear
one. An effective one. It was a heavy
veil that made it so we can't see God. But God ordained that
once a year a man called the High Priest would enter into
that veil, would go beyond that veil into the very presence of
God. And he wouldn't go in there without blood. incense. And what happened here when our
Lord Jesus Christ died, we can't do anything about the fact that
we are banished from the presence of God. By the deeds of the law
shall no flesh be justified. You are not going to gain access
to God by anything you do, or say, or think. But God from the
top to the bottom has rent that veil into And now his people
have full access to his presence, to his blessing, to his favor,
to his glory. And what happened on that cross,
what happened in verse 38, there is a picture of what happened
on the cross. He was dying there so that I would have access to
God. The very thing that I lost in
the Garden of Eden. Banished from God's presence,
but I'm coming back You know why because Christ died the just
for the unjust that he might bring me to God. That's why I'm
not coming back on my own That's why as we said just the other
night I think the shepherd doesn't just wait for the sheep to come
home. He's going to fetch him Because he knows sheep And Christ died the just for
the unjust, not so that I would wander my way back home someday,
but so that he might bring me to God. That's what he did. And
this is a picture of that access to God. The veil is torn in two. First Peter 3.18 is what I just
quoted. Christ also has suffered once
for sins, the just for the unjust. Now think about this. We've been
talking about why he died. Here's why he died. that He might
bring us to God. And He said, I won't lose a single
one. If He does lose a single one, then He's a failure. All
that the Father giveth me shall come to me. Because He died to bring us. Being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit. Turn to 2 Corinthians 3. 2 Corinthians
chapter 3. verse 7 now talking about the law in
verse 7 he says this if the ministration of death written and engraven
in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could
not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
countenance which glory was to be done away how shall not the
ministration of the spirit be rather glorious For if the ministration
of condemnation be glory, and it's called that, the law is
called the ministration of condemnation because that's all the law can
do to you, is condemn you. If you're a sinner, they're not
ever going to justify you. The only thing the law can do
to a sinner is condemn you and kill you. But the ministration,
we weren't left there at Sinai. Much more does the ministration
of righteousness exceed in glory, the end of verse nine. For even
that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect
by reason of the glory that exceleth. You know what the glory that
exceleth is? The gospel, Christ, the grace of God. For if that
which is done away was glorious, much more. The new covenant is
what he's talking about. And you know that's Christ. This
cup, this blood is the new covenant, he says. For if that, verse 11, which
is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is
glorious. Seeing then that we have such
hope, we use great plainness of speech. I want to be clear
about this this morning. I want to be clear about who
died on Calvary. I want to be clear about what
he accomplished there. And I want to be clear about
why he did it. Not as Moses, which put a veil
over his face that the children of Israel could not steadfastly
look to the end of that which is abolished. You know why they
couldn't look? Why they couldn't behold the
glory of God? Because they were sinful. God said, nobody can
see me and live because you're sinful. His very holiness would
kill us. His very countenance would destroy
us. And Moses just spent some time
with him and they couldn't look at Moses. That's how glorious
he is and how wretched we are. But their minds were blinded
for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in
the reading of the Old Testament which veil is done away in Christ. And we're talking about a veil
here. And this is a picture here in this passage of the veil of
their ignorance. But you see how beautiful a picture
it is in connection with the rending of the true veil. Because
the veil of our ignorance, what is it that keeps us from accessing
the glory of God in the sense of our understanding and hoping
in Him, and trusting in Him, and resting in Him, and believing
on Him? There's a veil that keeps us from doing that. Why? Because
He's holy and we're wretched, we can't see. Except you be born
again, you can't see, you can't enter in. But in Christ, that
veil is rent. When I behold the face of the
Son of God, I see God's glory in his face. How can a sinner
see the glory of God? You can't see the glory of God,
you're a sinner, but in Christ you can. God, who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. That's where, in Christ, that
veil is rent, just like the actual veil is rent. And even that actual
veil was a picture of true access to God Almighty. But even under this day, when
Moses is read, verse 15, the veil is upon their heart. Those
who are blind, those who are seeking acceptance with God by
their works, Romans chapter 11, which describes the Jews in general,
They seek an acceptance with God by the deeds of the law.
Veil, shut out, no access. You're not going to gain access
to God that way. It still hangs over their heart.
Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, that's repentance,
isn't it? When the Lord turns their hearts,
the hearts of kings are in his hand and he turns them whithersoever
he will. And when they turn to the Lord
because the Lord turns them, that veil will be taken away.
They'll understand, they'll see God's glory, they'll have communion
and access to God in their hearts. Now the Lord is that spirit,
and where the spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom, liberty,
access. But we all, with open face, beholding
as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.
That veil there, I wanted to read about that because what
the efficacy of Christ's blood accomplished in the taking away
of that which bars our access to God. Pictured by that veil
being gripped. He took away that which bars
our access to God. The revelation of him to the
individual sinner accomplishes that in the sinner. It's Christ
crucified in here and in here that gives me access to God in
here and in here. You see what I'm saying? Peace, comfort, security, joy,
every experienced blessing that is ours in Him comes that way
by Christ crucified being revealed to my heart. The veil is taken
away from their hearts, verse 15 of what we just read there,
and their minds, verse 14 of what we just read there. That
is they can see Him now, and seeing Him they realize they
experience access to the very presence and favor of God by
faith in their heart. And the veil is said to be the
same in that it is an inability to behold the glory of God. But
the veil is on the minds and hearts of those who, being blind
to his glory, being unborn again, being unregenerate, being lost
sinners, they cannot see the kingdom of God. They can't see
how that Christ fulfills all of the types, all of the pictures. This is the Jews. Now they don't
see Christ being the fulfillment. They still trusting in the types
and pictures and ceremonies and the law. The law was our schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ, not to trust in the law. The law tells
us to trust in him. It drives us to trust in him
by revealing our wretchedness. But they can't see that. They
can't see how that he fulfills every type, every picture, every
ceremony and all of the law. They can't see how that Christ
is the answer to how God can be just and justify the ungodly. But that veil is taken away in
Christ, just like our actual access to God is no longer barred
because of his sacrifice. We have reconciliation through
Christ's blood, the access of our experiencing His salvation
is no longer barred because He's revealed Himself, He's given
us life, He's quickened our spirits, He's given us understanding by
that same precious blood applied to the heart. Now our text refers
directly to the veil of the temple. Look at Hebrews 9, let's talk
about that for just a minute. Hebrews 9.1, the actual veil
of the temple, the physical veil that God commanded be constructed to bar access to the most holy
place where he dwelt between the cherubim, Hebrews 9.1. Then
verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service
in a worldly sanctuary, for there was a tabernacle made, The first
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread,
which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the
tabernacle, which is called the holiest of all, that chamber
where God's presence was, which had the golden censer and the
Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had manna, Aaron's rod that budded in the
tables of the covenant all pictures of Christ that we've seen so
clearly before and Over it the cherubims of glory shadowing
the mercy seat of which we cannot now speak particularly Now when
these things were thus ordained the priests went always into
the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of God but into the
second into that holy most holy place and went to high priest
alone only once a year don't don't you dare go without blood
without the shedding of blood there's no access to God there's
no no remission of sins and therefore no access which he offered for
himself and for the errors of the people the Holy Ghost this
signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet
made manifest do you see what happened on the cross see what
that veil pictures The way to God is barred, but not in Christ. Not if what he accomplished on
that cross was for you. Not if he represented you. Not
if he's your high priest. If he's your high priest, there's
no veil. While as yet the first tabernacle
was standing, which was a figure for the time then present, in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not
make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the
conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse
washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time
of reformation, until Christ came. But Christ. being come and high
priest of good things to come by greater and more perfect tabernacle
not made with hands that is to say not of this building neither
by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood he entered
in once into the holy place and he didn't just sneak in there
under the veil like the priest did he tore up the veil showing
that he went in and so will all of us who are in him, all of
us who represented him. We have free access to God now,
to his blessing, to his presence, to his peace, to his love and
favor. He entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained, that's what happened on the cross. He
redeemed my wretched soul there eternally. He obtained eternal
redemption for his people. Because he did, the veil, that which we lost in the garden
is restored, and more than restored. Listen to Romans 5.1, therefore
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand and we rejoice in the hope of the
glory of God. Now you think about everything
that verse said. We're justified by faith and
have peace with God. I have perfect, I'm not guilty
of any sin. That's what justified means.
Justified, not guilty. I'm not guilty of any sin. I'm
at perfect peace with God. I have experienced and am experiencing
the saving grace of God. And I am rejoicing in the hope
that is the certain expectation of being glorified and forever
beholding his glory. All because of Christ and what
he did for me on Calvary. That's who, what, and why. In the Old Testament, let me
try to be as concise and as clear as I can and summon this up.
In the Old Testament, everything in and around the tabernacle
had to do with access to God. Everything. And this is what
we lost in the garden. God banished us from his presence,
from his garden, from that paradise where we enjoyed his favor and
communion with him. Access to him, fellowship with
him, the veil pictures that, our being barred from that, from
his presence and blessing. And all that took place around
there had to do with getting inside of that veil. There was
an altar of sacrifice. Why? Because without blood, you
didn't go inside that veil. There was an altar. There was
a brazen labor for cleansing because you didn't go in there
without that. There was an altar of incense
because you must have that gold. There was a golden censer and
incense and an altar of incense because you did not go in there
without that. And all of these things picture
our Lord Jesus Christ. The incense is his intercession.
The blood is his blood. The washing is his holiness. The high priest is Christ our
high priest. All pictures of our Lord Jesus
Christ. And the high priest gained access
into the very presence of God Via these things, an atonement
was made. At-one-ment. That's what atonement
is. It's what our Lord talked about
in John 17. We are one and they are one in
us. We're all one. At-one-ment. I'm at one with
God. Because of my Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the Old Testament picture now. And when Christ fulfilled
all of those types, he acted as our high priest. He prayed
that high priestly prayer in John 17. He shed his precious
blood. He interceded for us by virtue
of his holiness as our high priest. And by virtue of him being God's
spotless lamb, which takes away sin, by the shedding of that
precious blood for us, the same thing was accomplished as in
picture in the Old Testament, but was accomplished here in
reality. I am at one with God, at one
man is made. I am redeemed from my sins with
his precious blood. I have full access To the very
glory of God, I have his communion and blessing and fellowship.
Everything I lost and then some. Because my high priest entered
into the veil with an offering. And because he was a better high
priest with a better offering. He just had to do it one time. And now the veil is gone. Ripped
from top to bottom. And all of those whom he represented
as their high priest have full and open access to God and every
blessing of God. Thank God we have a high priest. And thank God because he's my
high priest, because he accomplished my salvation,
my redemption. The veil is torn in two. God did it. And now I'm at one with him by
the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Let's pray.