Thursday – Come on in!
Focus Passage: Hebrews 10:19-22
Read: Exodus 36:35-38; Romans 5; John 2:1-2; 3:19-21
Two of the most famous houses in the entire world are also the homes of two of the most powerful world leaders…the White House in Washington D.C. and Number 10 Downing Street in London, England (Home to the British Prime Minister).
One of the most famous features of the 10 Downing Street home is its front door. Uniquely, one of the most viewed doors in all of the UK (and possibly the world) has no keyhole on the outside. It can only be opened from the inside. A police officer is on permanent duty on the other side of the front door…always ready to open it for the Prime Minister or a close associate. You and I can’t just walk up to the front door and walk in. We don’t have that right. We would need secure permission. In fact, not even the guard at the outside of the door can get in without the officer on the inside.
We certainly have no right to walk into the front door of the throne room of heaven. The Prime Minister’s house is one thing…but the home of Christ? No way. Yet Christ has unlocked the door for us. He is beckoning us, “Look what I have done for you…please come in!” With a sincere heart and full confidence of faith we can “enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.”
1. What advantages do we have with access to “the holy places” compared to the Jews of the Old Testament?
2. How should our standing before God (10:22) affect our confidence in communing with Christ?
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