How can we come into God's presence? How can a sinner stand uncondemned before God? The tabernacle shows the way.
The answer is given in simple form in Heb.9:23,24 when God tells us that this earthly tabernacle which was "the pattern of things in the heavens" was purified with the blood of "calves and goats" (v. 19) but "the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices," even Christ's precious blood. The high priest went alone once every year into the holiest of all, into God's presence, which is the picture of heaven itself, but "not without blood" (Heb. 9:7). The one absolute essential we must have to stand before God is not our church membership, baptism, confirmation, or good works. It is the blood of Christ. We must come to God "not without blood" for "without the shedding of blood is no remission" (v. 22). By faith, be sure you apply Christ's blood to your own heart and life so that God sees it as the atonement for your sins. In the Old Testament a lamb was offered to God as a picture of the Lamb of God paying for our sins. Christ suffered and died for our sins, and you can stand before God, completely washed from all sin, if you claim Christ and His sacrifice for yourself.
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