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“…let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled cleaned from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.” Wow! If all these perquisites involved in the ‘therefore’ are positive for us, we can draw near to God. God has…

“…and since we have a great priest over the house of God…” By His appointment as high priest over a new order of priest we, those He has made priest under Him, will now have certain benefits. That’s where this big ‘therefore’ is going, and we will see what it…

“…by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh…” The explanation of ‘therefore’ continues. The blood of Jesus opened the way to the holy places for us, and it was a new way. The old way had been by the…

“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus…” The, therefore, will be revealed in verse 22. Let’s focus our attention on the word confidence. No one living under the old covenant got near the holy places without fear and trepidation. Their historical…

“Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.” This one is relatively easy, isn’t it? If you are still offering sacrifices, then you must not have forgiveness. If you know your sins are forgiven, then you would not be offering sacrifices. To go back…

“Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Verse seventeen is a result of the previous verses. Once a person accepts the conditions of the new covenant and has them written on his or her heart or mind their sins, and lawless deeds are…

“And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us, for after saying, ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds…’” Verse 17 will finish the thought of what…

“For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.” Here is another summary statement comparing the old covenant method with the new covenant method. Jesus did not make offerings over and over. Those offerings did not make anyone perfect before God, which is…

“…waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.” This verse assures us that Jesus has accomplished the task given Him by God to provide salvation for the world. Once that salvation work was accomplished, Jesus was finished until the end of earth time.…

“But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God…” This verse and the previous one are obvious comparisons of how salvation was handled under the two covenants. The book of Hebrews is all about the superiority of…