Exodus chapter 26. It's great to meet with the Saints.
What a blessing. Let's begin reading in verse
31. And thou shalt make a veil of
blue and purple, and scarlet, and fine twine linen of cunning
work. With cherubims shall it be made, and thou shalt hang
it upon four pillars of chitum wood, overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold,
and upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up
the veil under the tashes, that thou mayest bring in thither
within the veil the ark of the testimony, and the veil shall
divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. And thou shalt put the mercy
seat upon the arc of the testimony in the most holy place and thou
shalt set the table without the veil and the candlestick over
against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the
south and thou shalt put the table on the north side. Now here we read of the veil. And this is the same veil that
was rent in two from the top to the bottom when our Lord died. This veil, as we just read, was
given for separation between the holy place and the holy of
holies. The key to understanding this
veil is it has something to do with separation. Separation. The tabernacle had two rooms,
the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies is
where the Ark of the Covenant was, where the mercy seat was
and the Shekinah glory of God. And this veil that we just read
of was the separation between the two rooms. Do you remember
how only once a year somebody was allowed to go into the Holy
of Holies? On the great day of atonement, Once a year, the high
priest would go in. Leviticus 16 tells us about that. And if anybody else but the high
priest came in, what did it mean? Death. And if the high priest himself
came in on some other day, what did it mean? Death. And you know, the high priest
had bells on his the bottom of his skirts. And when he would
go back there, they could hear the bells to know whether or
not he lived through what he was doing. If he did it wrong,
he died. And they would pull him out.
That's what those bells were for. The Holy of Holies. And this bell has something to
do with separation. Look in Leviticus chapter 16
for just a moment. Verse one and the Lord spake
unto Moses after the death. Of the two sons of Aaron, when
they offered before the Lord and died, you remember what those
two boys did in a dam in a bayou? They offered the scripture says
strange fire. It was fire that the Lord didn't
command them to offer up. It was incense the Lord didn't
command them to offer up. They thought, well, we're sincere.
We've run out of the right kind of incense. This will be just
as good. This'll do. As long as our heart is right,
we're sincere. So they offered it up. And the scripture says,
fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And Moses then told Aaron, don't
you mourn. Don't even mourn. Don't rend
your garments. They had it coming because of
this presumption of offering something other than the Lord
Jesus Christ, what he commanded. And look in verse two, and the
Lord said unto Moses, speaking to Aaron, thy brother, that he
come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before
the mercy seat, which is upon the ark, that he die not. If he comes in any old time,
he will die. There's only one time you could
come in and that was on the great day of atonement. Now this veil
has in its very name the idea of separation. The Hebrew definition
of the word is separatics. I don't know what that means,
but it has something to do with separation. A sacred screens,
a covering where you could not see. And this is the only word
that's used for this. You know, when you read of veils
like over women's faces and so on in the Bible, that's not the
word that's used here. The word veil here is used only
for this veil that separated the holy place and the holy of
holies. It means separation. It means
division. Now, question. What is it that
separates us from God? Why is it that we can't just
come into the holy of holies? What is it that made it to where
you couldn't just waltz in there? Well, there's two things. It's
really the same thing. The first thing that separates
us is the holiness of God. God is holy. Holy and reverend is his name. He is separate from us. There's nothing about him that
can be compared to us. He's altogether who he is. He is separate. Holy. That's what separates us. He
is other. He's other. I heard that as a definition
of holiness, and that's as good a definition as I've ever heard.
He's other. He's other. He's not like me
and you. He's really not. He's just not like us. What separates
us from God, His holiness, and our sinfulness? Would you turn
with me to Isaiah chapter 59 for a moment? I want to read
several verses of Scripture here. Isaiah 59. Verse one. Behold, the Lord's hand is not
shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it
cannot hear. Isn't that encouraging? I love
that verse of scripture. That always does something for
me. But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from
you that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with
blood, and your fingers with iniquity, your lips have spoken
lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for
justice, nor any pleadeth for truth. They trust in vanity,
and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring
forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrices' eggs,
adders' eggs, snakes' eggs, and they weave the spiders' web.
He that eateth their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh
out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves with their works. Their works
are works of iniquity, and the acts of violence is in their
hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Wasting and destruction
are in their paths the way of peace. They've not known. There's
no judgment in their goings. They've made them crooked paths.
Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is
judgment far from us. Now when Isaiah is giving this
description, he's talking about himself. He's not just talking
about you fellas out there. He's talking about himself. He's talking
about all men. Therefore judgment is far from us. Neither does
justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold
obscurity. For brightness, but we walk in
darkness. We grope for the wall like the
blind. We grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday
as in the night. We're in desolate places as dead
men. We roar like bears and we mourn
like, soar like doves. We look for judgment, but there
is none. For salvation, but it's far off from us. For our transgressions
are multiplied before thee. And our sins testify against
us. For our transgressions are with
us. As for our iniquities, we know them. In transgressing,
and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God,
speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from
the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward,
and justice standeth afar off. For truth has fallen in the street,
and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth. And he that
departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And the Lord saw that
it displeased him that there was no judgment. And he saw that
there was no man. and wondered that there was no
intercessor. Therefore, his arm brought salvation unto him and
his righteousness it sustained him. You see, with that description
of you and I, he saw there was no man, so his arm brought salvation. You know, when people argue with
the fairness of God's sovereignty and salvation, how could it be
fair for God to save some and pass by others? Why didn't he
save everybody? How can it be fair for God to select one and
pass by another? How in the world can that be
fair? And I've had that objection. You've had that objection. Why
didn't he save everybody? All we demonstrate when we say
something like that is we really don't believe what Isaiah chapter
59 just said. We don't believe that's a description
of us. If you and I really believe that we're sinners, that we're
evil before God, we have no problem with the sovereignty of God and
salvation. As a matter of fact, that's our only hope, that He
will save sovereignly. As long as we object to God's
sovereignty of salvation, we prove we don't really believe
we're sinners. We don't really believe that
Isaiah 59, that passage of scripture, describes us. Now let's look
at the New Testament commentary on this veil. Remember this veil
is about separation. We're separated. We can't get
into the very presence of God. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter
nine. Beginning in verse one. Then barely the first covenant
had also ordinances of divine service and of a worldly sanctuary.
This is talking about the tabernacle. For there was a tabernacle made,
the first wherein was the candlestick, the first room, the holy place,
which was the candlestick, the table, the showbread, which is
called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, that
veil we just read of, the tabernacle, which is called the holiest of
all, which had the golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid
round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna.
and Aaron's rod that budded the tables of the covenant, and over
it the cherubims of glory, showing the mercy seat, shadowing the
mercy seat of which we cannot now speak particularly. Now,
when these things were thus ordained, the priest went always into the
first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God, but into
the second, the holy of holies, went the high priest alone once
every year, not without blood. which he offered for himself
and for the heirs of the people, the Holy Ghost, this signifying
that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. While the first tabernacle was
yet 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, that's pertaining to
the conscience. It didn't really satisfy anybody's conscience,
which stood only in meats and drinks and divers wash sheets.
and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of Reformation. Now notice verse 8, the Holy
Ghost, by this tabernacle, the Holy Ghost, this signifying that
the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. That's what that veil tells us,
the way into God's presence is not yet made manifest. Now, there were several miracles
that surrounded our Lord's death. First, there was his death. The
fact that he died, I'm amazed by that. You know, it wouldn't
be amazing if I dropped down dead, would it? Wouldn't be amazing
if you died. I mean, we're flesh, we're weak,
we're sinful. There's nothing amazing about
our death. It's what we have waiting on
us. But there's something truly amazing about Jesus Christ the
Lord dying. The God-man dying. That's a greater miracle than
all these other miracles that we read about. When he was on
the cross, the sun quit shining. God turned off the lights. And
that reminds us that there's so much that we just don't understand
that was taking place. We just can't see it. This was
a transaction between Christ and his father. And there's just
so much that we don't understand. When he said it is finished and
gave up the ghost, three remarkable miracles took place. The earthquake,
And the rocks rent at the death of its creator. The veil in the
temple was rent, ripped apart into from the top to the bottom. I've read that. I don't know
where they get this information, but I've read that that veil
was some six inches thick. I don't know how thick it was,
but it was thick. And this was a miraculous thing.
This was a very large veil. It was 15 feet high, 15 feet
wide. I don't know how thick it was,
but it was a miracle. Can you imagine how those priests
that might have been in the temple at that time might have felt?
Here they were walking back and forth. All of a sudden, zip, it's ripped.
And they don't know what's going on. They're scared to death.
What's happening? And the scripture also points
out, as we just read, that when that veil in the temple rent,
all of a sudden graves were opened. And people got out, the saints
got out of those graves and started walking around Jerusalem. Now,
there's a lot of mystery behind that, isn't there? I don't much
know how to explain that, but I do know this. This is symbolic of when our
Lord died, he opened our grave. He opened our death. The reason
we live is because he died. When he died, the graves were
opened. People are raised up and walk
around. Now we have the gospel in the
rending of this veil. I pray that God will enable me
to preach the gospel as clearly as I am able. When was this rail rent? When was this veil rent? When? When he said, it is finished. Immediately upon him saying,
it is finished, this miracle took place. The veil was rent
in two. I love to think of those priests
going through the motions of religion. They didn't know what
was going on and they didn't even care anything about Christ
being crucified. All of a sudden that veil ripped
violently apart and they behold it. When Christ said it is finished,
it was ripped in two. Now it's pointed out specifically
that it was ripped from the top to the bottom. Not from the bottom
to the top. You see, this is not man's work.
This is God's work. It was rent from the top to the
bottom. This lets us know that salvation
is 100 percent God's work and not man's. I love being reminded
of that. It just takes the pressure off
of me. I like to hear it. I can't hear that enough. Salvation
is of the Lord. That means it's not of me. That
means I don't have to worry about saving myself. That means He
did it and He did it all. And I'm so thankful for that.
You know, if you believe What Isaiah 59 said, if you believe
it describes you, if you believe that you're a sinful human being
and that in of yourself you have no righteousness or merit that
can recommend you to God, you really believe that? You really
believe that? Doesn't it come as good news that salvation's
of the Lord? Aren't you glad he elected a
people? Nobody would be saved if he didn't. Aren't you glad
that Christ died for the elect and accomplished their salvation?
Aren't you glad that His grace toward everybody that Christ
died for and everybody that He chose is irresistible and invincible? If He puts His hand upon you,
He's going to have you. You can't resist. He overcomes you by His
grace. Aren't you glad that God's people
by His grace persevere all the way to the end salvation? Every
aspect of salvation is of the Lord. Now that's true for two
reasons. First, because God is God. Anything less would be beneath
the character and dignity of God. That's why salvation is
of the Lord, because God is God. And the second reason that salvation
is of the Lord is because man is sinful and if any part of
salvation is dependent upon man, upon me or you, nobody will be
saved. You believe that? If any part
of salvation is dependent upon me or you, nobody will be saved. So thank God salvation is all
of grace. It was rent from the top to the
bottom, showing us that this is God's work and not man's. Now, the rending of this veil
tells us that the entire Old Testament economy is over. It's done away with. Now, have
you ever folded up something and put it away? Why did you
fold it up and put it away? Because you thought you might
use it again. You know, I've got in my closet different sizes
of pants. for different waist sizes I've
had. I fold them up, I don't throw
them away. I think, well, if I gain 10 pounds,
I can wear those pants and I'll just fold these. I might use it again. But you
know this veil was not folded up and put away. It was ripped. It was ripped. What for? It wasn't
going to be used anymore. Now if I take some clothes and
rip them, it's because I'm not going to wear these things anymore.
Never done that, but maybe I should. I remember one time my dad, I had this old work a chambray
shirt on, and I wore it, I guess, every day. This was when I was
in high school. I wore that thing every day. Just, you know, it
was getting dry rod. My dad came up one time and just zipped,
just, he didn't, just ripped it, just ripped it to shreds,
you know, and ripped it off of me. Well, that's the old, rip
that veil. It's never to be used again.
Now, here is the point. Christ is the end of the law. for righteousness. He's the end.
It's over. We don't go back to these laws. We don't go back. The Old Testament
economy is done away with. It's done away with. We're looking
at it now, rejoicing in what it teaches us, but as far as
a law, we're not under the law. We're under grace. Thank God
for that. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believes it's been ripped
up and done away with. And this rending of this veil
also exposes the phoniness of man's religion. Now, how is that? When that veil was ripped, you
know what was behind it? The Ark of the Covenant hadn't
been around for centuries. They were just going through
the motions. They didn't have the true Ark of the Covenant.
They didn't have the true vessels of the temple. When that veil
was ripped, there was nothing there. And it exposed that these
guys were a bunch of fakes. They were a bunch of phonies.
There wasn't really anything to their religion at all. They
were phonies. Now here's the point I want to
try to make. Somebody that does not believe the gospel of God's
grace, the gospel that's revealed in the scripture. Salvation is
of the Lord. Somebody that does not believe
that. I don't care how sincere they may appear. I don't care
how religious they may appear. I don't care how much you might
be impressed with them or intimidated by their supposed devotion and
so on. They're phonies. And nothing
more. They've lost all credibility.
They're not true to the Word of God. And they're phonies. And that was exposed when that
veil was ripped. All their religion was nothing
but fake and phoniness. And anybody who doesn't believe
the Gospel Their religion is phony. It's not real. It's not sincere. If they were
sincere, they would believe what God's word says. That's what
that rending of the veil signified. But here's the main teaching
of the rending of the veil. The separation is no longer there. The separation is no longer there. Now what separates us? Our sins. We just read that from
Isaiah 59. Your sins have separated you. That's what separates me from
entering into the Holy of Holies, my sin. And I want to look at
a few scriptures on this. Turn to 1 John chapter 3. Verse
4. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth
also the law. For sin is the transgression
of the law. And you know that he was manifested
to take away our sins. Beloved, did he do it? Did he
take them away? When He said it is finished,
they were taken away. That means they're not here anymore.
And here's how powerful and true that is. Here's how effectual
His taking away of sin is. It says in verse 5, and you know
that He was manifested to take away our sins. And in Him is
what? No sin. I have No sin. If you're a believer, you have
no sin. Now, the only way you're gonna
be able to get ahold of that is by faith. Because the fact
of the matter is you've sinned today, haven't you? You've sinned
in the last five seconds. Last time you breathed, you sinned.
And the only way you're going to be able to get a hold of that
is by faith, but it is most real. I have in him. If I'm in him,
I have no sin. The reason for separation has
been taken away. The barrier has been removed. Now here's the old, the new Testament
commentary on this turn to Hebrews chapter 10. Verse 19. Having therefore brethren boldness
to enter into the holiest. By the blood of Jesus. And do you hear what that says?
Now we've been talking about the Holy of Holies. That was
a dangerous place. And he says we actually have boldness. absence of fear, confidence to
enter into the very presence of God, into the very Holy of
Holies with boldness. How? Well, notice this word,
therefore, having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into
the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Let's go to the beginning in
this chapter, chapter 10. Verse one. For the law, Having a shadow
of good things to come has a shadow of the gospel. It has a shadow
of the good things to come of the Lord Jesus Christ. And not
the very image of the things can never, with those sacrifices
which they offered year by year, continually make the comers there
into perfect. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered. You wouldn't have to have another sacrifice
over and over and over again if it made anybody perfect. wouldn't
be necessary, because that the worshippers, once purged, should
have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices,
there's a remembrance again made of sins every year, for it is
not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins. Now, if an animal was slain for you, the blood
of a bull or a goat, would you have a clear conscience that
my sin is taken care of? You'd see the animal slain. But
it'd have to be slain again. Next year, next year, next year,
it would tell us that really sin is not taken away. Your conscience
could not be satisfied with that. You see, there's only one thing
that satisfies the conscience, and that is the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, the blood of Christ, Lord
knows if I'm telling the truth, I'm telling you I'm telling the
truth. Lord knows if I'm telling the truth, my conscience that
is guilty all the time. I always feel bad about something.
I run on guilt. I always feel, I wish I wasn't
like that, but I am. But there's only one thing that
actually satisfies my conscience. That's the blood of Christ. And
I, I'm satisfied. God's satisfied. I'm satisfied too. I'm satisfied
with what God's satisfied with. And I, I don't have a guilty
conscience. I know, you see, an accusing
conscience is miserable. A seared conscience is just as
bad. That's where your conscience is so bad you don't even know
to feel guilty if you've so given over to sin. I mean, we can go
on and on with the different kinds of conscience, but the
only kind of conscience that's a good conscience is one that
doesn't have anything to feel guilty about. In Christ, I do
not have anything to feel guilty about. I'm as pure as the driven
snow in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now that says now the law couldn't
do that verse 5 Hebrews chapter 10 wherefore when he cometh into
the world he saith Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not.
You weren't just looking for the blood of bulls and goats,
but a body hast thou prepared me in burnt offerings and sacrifice
for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come In the
volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will, O God. And when he said sacrifice, above
when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offerings
for sin, thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein, which
are offered by the law. Then said he, lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He takes away the first, the
first covenant, that old covenant, that he may establish the second
by the witch will, by God's will, we are sanctified. That means holy. Not it's as if we were sanctified.
We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. When he died, God said regarding
Poor old Todd Nobertson, he's holy. He is holy. And notice it says we're sanctified
once for all. It's not a sanctification we
can lose. Perfectly completed, never to be repeated. It's done. I am sanctified. Verse 11, and every priest standeth
daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices
which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of
God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool for by one offering he hath perfected for Ever! Then they're sanctified. Somebody once asked Brother Mahan,
what are you preaching on? He said, I think I'm going to
preach on Hebrews chapter 10. He said, if you just read it,
it'll be good. Just read it. It's good, isn't it? Verse 15. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is
a witness to us. What do you witness to us of? that by one offering, He hath
perfected forever them that are sanctified. You believe that,
don't you? You believe that by His one offering, He actually
perfected everybody He died for, everybody He sanctified. I'm
perfect in Christ Jesus. I can't get any more loved, can't
get any more accepted, can't get any more holy than I am in
the Lord Jesus Christ right now. I'm perfected forever, and that's
what the Holy Ghost bears witness to. whereof the Holy Ghost also
is a witness to us. For after that he'd said, this
is the covenant that I'll make with them after those days, saith
the Lord. I'll put my laws in their hearts and in their minds
will I write them and their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more. Now here I see two separations.
My sins and iniquities and my wicked heart. My sins and iniquities
make me ugly before the law of God and my natural heart It can't
get any better. But here's what God says He's
going to do about that to take away this separation. He puts
His laws, His nature, His new nature. It's being born again
is what that's talking about. I'll put them in their minds,
write them in their hearts. I'll give them a new nature,
a holy nature. And their sins and iniquities,
I'm not going to remember them anymore. You know, there's so many things
I can remember. I can remember so, I wish I could
forget him. I wish I could forget him. Things I'm so ashamed of about
myself. I'm not talking about going way
back in the past. I'm talking about in the last
24 hours. He doesn't remember. And there's only one way that
he can not remember him. Because there's nothing there
for him to remember. God's got a mighty good memory. He can remember all the stuff
that I forgot. But in Christ Jesus, you think
of this. Apart from Christ, you think
of sins you've committed that at the time you felt horrified
and scared about. But you haven't thought about
them for years. You used to feel so guilty about him, you haven't
even thought about him for years. But he remembers him. If I'm
outside of Christ, he remembers everything. But in Christ, there's
nothing there to remember. Their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more. See, the separation has been
taken away. My bad heart, my sins and iniquities,
all the reason for his separation has been removed. Now, verse
18, now, where remission of these is, There is no more offering
for sin, so don't you dare try to offer one. The offering has
already been made. Having therefore brethren boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. We Can Enter Into The Very Presence
Of A Thrice Holy God Right Now. I'm Talking About Right Now.
I'm Not Talking About One Of These Days. I'm Talking About
Right Now. I'm In The Very Holy Of Holies Through The Blood Of
The Lord Jesus Christ And I Have Boldness Caught. I Have Boldness
In His Blood. I Have Freedom To Enter. You Know This Thing Of Entering
In, Entering In. Now, If I Come Into Your House, I'm Welcome. I'll walk around. But if I start
opening up drawers, I don't have any freedom to do that. Better
watch out. Maybe I'm doing it. I'm just kidding. You know, people,
I love that commercial where that guy opens up that medicine
cabinet and all those marbles fall out. You know, he was in
somebody's house and they were just doing that to, so he'd get humiliated
by it. But the point I'm making is if
you're in somebody else's house, you don't have freedom to enter,
do you? You can't just go waltz into one room or one room and
open up the door. You don't have that freedom, do you? It's somebody
else's house. But in your own home, listen,
nothing in my, I can open it right up. I have complete freedom
to enter into anything in my home. I've got liberty to do
that. Now, in Christ Jesus, I have liberty to enter into everything,
all the fullness of the gospel. I've got freedom to enter by
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. You believe His blood's that
powerful that gives you actual freedom? Always access. I'm always
welcome. Even if I don't feel welcome,
I'm always welcome through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Come on in, son. You've done a good job. Well
done, thou good and faithful servant. As someone says, I can't
imagine the Lord saying that to me. Imagine it! In Christ,
you have done well. His righteousness, that's your
righteousness. You have every right to believe
that because of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's
go on reading. Having therefore, brethren, boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new,
and what that word new means is freshly slaughtered. You see, the blood of Christ
is always new to the father. You've committed the same old
sins, haven't you? How many times have you just
repeated the same old sin? And you think, how can he have
anything to do with me? Here's how come the blood of
Christ is always new, freshly slaughtered by a new and a living
way. It's not just a dead animal.
It's the living Lord Jesus Christ by a new living way, which he
had consecrated for us through the veil. that we've been talking
about, that is to say His flesh. When His flesh was ripped apart
on the cross, the entrance was made, all separation was taken
away. I'm now welcomed to the veil
of His flesh. And having an high priest over
the house of God, let us draw near. with a true heart, not
religious put on, not a phony, but with a true heart in what? Full assurance of faith. You know where full assurance
comes from? I want full assurance, don't
you? I want to have full assurance.
As soon as I say I've got full assurance, I get a little question
mark about it. I've got full assurance. I never
doubt. Well, I'm lying when I say that.
I don't get assurance by thinking
I've got full assurance, but when the Lord gives me the grace
to look to Christ, I have full assurance of His favor. You see,
His blood has put away all sin. There's no barrier. Let us draw
near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. The blood of Christ
quiets our conscience and our bodies washed with pure water,
the water of the word, the sanctification of the spirit. Let us hold fast
the profession of our faith. Christ is all without wavering
for he is faithful, the promised, and let us consider one another
to provoke unto love. and do good works. Now do you
see how through the rending of the veil every believer is granted
complete access? Aren't you thankful for the rending
of the veil? It teaches us something of the gospel. Let's pray together.