I want to tell you tonight that the door to God the Father is open (right now, for any believer), and I want to show you exactly what opened it. Hear the text:
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.” (Hebrews 10:19–20, KJV)
Boldness to enter: by the blood
Look what you have as a settled fact: “boldness to enter into the holiest.” That word “boldness” is parrēsia: the freedom of a child walking straight up to his father to speak. And how do you enter? “By the blood of Jesus.” Not by water. By blood. It is “a new and living way”: new because it was purchased by His death, living because the One who opened it is alive forevermore.
God tore the veil from the top down
Under the old system a thick curtain kept everyone out; only the high priest went in, once a year, “not without blood” (Hebrews 9:7). Then Jesus died, and “the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom” (Matthew 27:51). From the top down, child of God: torn by God’s own hand, from His side, not ours. He was not waiting for us to find a way in; He tore the way open. The veil, the writer says, “is to say, his flesh”: His body given on the cross.
And notice what is not there
Now notice carefully: when the Book names the price of access in verse 19, water is nowhere in it. It is the blood. “By his own blood he entered in once… having obtained eternal redemption” (Hebrews 9:12); “made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:13); “through him we both have access… unto the Father” (Ephesians 2:18). Yes, verse 22 speaks of bodies “washed with pure water”, but that describes how we walk through the open door in sincerity, as the priests were washed before serving (Exodus 29:4); it never says the water tore the veil. So be baptized in glad obedience, and then rest your whole soul on the blood that opened the door. Come boldly. The way is open. Glory to God.
Related Teaching
- Study Outline: Access to the Father Through the Blood
- He Ever Liveth to Make Intercession (Hebrews 7:25)
- The Blood of Christ and Salvation
The Gospel, Stated Plainly
Everything I teach on this site rests on one message from Scripture. Read it in God’s own words from 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 1:16, and Ephesians 2:8-9.
“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (KJV)
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