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Verse 19 “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,”

Confidence

  • Hebrews 4: 16 – Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
  • Hebrews 12:28 – Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,
  • Galatians 4:6-7 – And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
  • Ephesians 3: 12 – in whom (“Christ Jesus our Lord” v.11) we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
  • 1 John 3: 19-21 – By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reas’sure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
  • 1 John 4: 17 – By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
  • Hebrews 7:25 – Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Blood, Access & Entrance

  • Hebrews 9: 3, 7-8, 12 – Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
  • Hebrews 9:23-25 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,
  • Romans 5:2 – Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Ephesians 2: 18 – For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Verse 20 “by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,”

New and Living Way

  • John 17:7 – Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
  • John 17:9 – I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
  • John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Through the Curtain “through the heavens” Heb. 4:14

  • Hebrews 6:19 – We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
  • Matthew 27:51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.
  • 1 Timothy 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
  • 1 Peter 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Verse 21 “and since we have a great priest over the house of God,“

Great Priest

  • Hebrews 2:17 – Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
  • Hebrews 3:1 – Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
  • Hebrews 4:14-16 – Since then we have a great high priest who has paused through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
  • Hebrews 7:26 – For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
  • Hebrews 8:1 – Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

House of God

  • Hebrews 3:3-5 – For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses-as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
  • 2 Corinthians 6:16-17 – What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
  • Ephesians 2:19-22 – So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
  • 1 Timothy 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Verse 22 “let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Draw Near

  • Hebrews 4: 16 – Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
  • Hebrews 7: 19 – (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
  • James 4:8 – Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

True Heart

  • Psalm 51:10 – Create in me a clean heart, 0 God, and renew a right spirit within me.
  • Psalm 119:2 – Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
  • 1 Chronicles 28:9 – “And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and.with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Sprinkled

  • Hebrews 9: 13 -14 – For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
  • Hebrews 12:24 – (We ‘ve come) to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
  • 1 Peter 1:1-2 – Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion …. according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Bodies Washed

  • Leviticus 8:6 – And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
  • Ezekiel 36:25 – I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
  • John 13:8-10 – Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”
  • 2 Corinthians 7:1 – Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
  • Ephesians 5:25-26 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Verse 23 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.”

Hold Fast

  • Hebrews 3:6 – but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
  • Hebrews 3:14 – For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
  • Revelation 3:11 – I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

He Who Promised Is Faithful

  • Hebrews 6:18 – so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
  • Heb 11:11 – By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:9 – God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Titus l:2 – in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:24 – He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

Verse 24 “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,”

Consider

  • Hebrews 13:13 – Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
  • Romans 15:1-2 – We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
  • Galatians 6:1 – Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
  • Colossians 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Provoke

  • 2 Corinthians 9:2 – for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.

Love

  • Hebrews 6:10 – For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
  • Hebrews 13:1 – Let brotherly love continue.
  • Galatians 5:13 – For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • 1 John 3:18 – Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Verse 25 “not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”

Forsaking & Neglecting

  • Acts 2:42 – And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
  • Acts 20:7 – On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:4 – When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Encourage

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
  • Hebrews 3:13 – But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Day Drawing Near

  • Romans 13:11-13 – Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
  • Philippians 4:5 – Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
  • 1 Peter 4:7 – The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
  • 2 Peter 3: 14 – Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.