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Spilled Blood Split the Veil 
April 22, 2009unedited
P. John Love
Ephesians chapter two uses strong language describing our conditionbefore salvation. We were darkness. How's that? Someone asks you,how are you? darkness. We were one time darkness, but now are lightin the Lord. Col. 1:13, God has translated us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son.Eph 2:1 - you hath he quickened, who were dead in your trespassesand sins.Eph 2:5 - we who were FAR OFF have been brought near by the bloodof Jesus Christ.Now, there is nothing between us and God. All barriers have beenremoved. It was the once and for all sacrifice.Turn to Hebrews 10:19,20 - having boldness brethren, to enter intothe holiest. Where have we entered? The holiest. By the blood of Jesus...the new and living way...Think about this: We are to have boldness. This word often speaks of freedom of speech. There is nothing restraining us bec. of confidencein our hearts. Its the absence if fear. We are to have no fear when wecome into the holiest of holies.What was the holiest? Notice the veil. It is said to be his flesh, thebody of Jesus Christ. In the OT, there was an actual and literal veil. Itseparated the holy place from the holy of holies. It was a huge curtain,60 ft. tall, and 30 ft. wide. It was carefully put together. God gave theblueprint himself. It was placed between the holy place and holy of holies. In the holy of holies was where the glory of God was. You don'tgo in there unless you were high priest, and then only once a year.When you go in there, you better go in accord. to the law. They usedto tie a rope around the high priest. If he didn't come out, the otherpriests would say, I'm not going in to get him. Just pull him out. If hewas lifeless, then clearly, he was struck down by God. Imagine that!Imagine these words falling on the ears of the Hebrews. The veil wasChrist's body. Teh veil = Jesus. Whatever happened to the veil
 
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happened to the flesh of Jesus.A couple of weeks ago...our young people watched the passion of theChrist. As he was being beaten...there came a point when I couldn'tlook. I had to turn away. What was happening to him...his flesh wasbeing torn apart. I noticed the young people just drop their heads.They couldn't look either. Even God the father couldn't look. Duringthat time on the cross, Christ became sin for us. He bore the sins of the whole world on that tree. His flesh was torn by the whips, themetal, the nails, the thorns, the cross itself. The Bible says, this newand living way, through the veil...his flesh.Matt. 27:50-51. While Christ was crucified on the cross...and He said 7sayings on the cross. Then, he gave up His spirit to the father. In thetemple, the veil, that 60 ft. high, 30ft. wide curtain was torn in two,from top to bottom, at the very moment Christ died. God's msg topeople everywhere, You can come in. You can draw near. You whowere once far off, have now been brought near.The holy place, where the priests could come, and the holy of holies,only the high priest could come once a year. Jesus, our forerunner =Heb. 6. = pioneer. The priests would go in and out and in and out.When Jesus finished the work on the cross, he went in and said, comeand join me in the presence of God.When this country was founded, Lewis and Clark. They went out andfound this new land and then told us all to join them. Jesus did thesame thing. As our forerunner, He said, you don't need to bring anymore sacrifices. There is no need for any more bloodshed. That wassufficient. The only sacrifice now is praise and thanksgiving. That's thesacrif.Imagine the Jewish worshipper realizing that veil was torn in two. Toenter the presence of God without invitation meant death. Two of Aarons sons, Nadab and Abihu...they went in and they were killedinstantly. Moses said, Ex. 33:20, He asked God to show him his glory.God says, Alright! When you see Jesus, you see my glory.But, Moses said, I want to see your glory. God said, no one can seeme and live to tell about it. God hid him in the cleft of the rock...andpassed by.The veil said, this is as far as you can come and you can't come anyfurther. Don't step over that line, or you won't live to tell about it. For1500 hundred years the veil separated God from man and said, God isHOLY separate from sinner. God is perfectly holy and therefore he is
 
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unapproachable. We are not good. God is good.We see this all the time. You get around people and they discover youare religious...or a Christian. All the sudden, sometimes they evenapologize. They say, I'm so sorry. I didn't know you were religious.What are they saying? When they get near God, around the presenceof God, they sense there is danger bec. they know what they are. Thestory of the veil is God is on one side, He is holy, and we are unholy onthe other side. WE feel far from God.God came to us. He knew we couldn't approach him, so He came tous. He would come and live among us. He is the veil. His glory wasveiled by his humanity. He is the veil. The curtain makes us want tocry out like Job did, if there was a go between me and God. Jesus isthe one mediator. When he allowed his hands to be nailed to thatcross, he took the hand of man in one hand and the hand of God in theother and said, be reconciled. But, it took the tearing of the veil of hisbody. WE needed a mediator. Christ was that mediator.Matt. 27:50,51. The hands of heaven, of God himself, were on thatveil. When Christ gave up himself on the cross, all of heaven held theirbreath. The father had his hands on that veil, and with his hands, hetook that veil and tore it in half.When God takes this veil and with his hands, he grips it and tears itapart, the way is now made clear to come into the presence of God.We come into his presence and learn to live in His presence. God wassaying, no more barrier. No more priests necessary. We don't need apriest. WE are now priests unto Him. That's the grace of God. No moreanimal sacrifices. Think of all the blood of animals that was shed.When Jesus made atonement for us, in the pres. of God in heaven, hepresent his blood.I John 2:1,2; and I John 1:9 is all about this. The devil, in Rev. 12:10,accuses us day and night. He says, well Lord, looks like I have thegoods on one of your children. Then, in walks the LJC. He comes and,do you think he approaches the father and says, could you have a littlemercy...No? He turns to the father and reminds the father of thesufficiency of His sacrifice and the devil slithers out of that courtroomof heaven.Imagine these Hebrew Christians when this fell upon their ears. Nomore sacrifices. Just come into the presence of God. The barrier of sinis gone. The barrier of guilt, shame, gone forever. The consciousnessof sin has been removed forever.
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