Sanctuary 5 - Sprinkled Blood 

Study given by W. D. Frazee - August 8, 1969

Once again it is our privilege to study the Word of God concerning the wonderful work Jesus is doing in the heavenly sanctuary. In our last study we closed with Hebrews 10:18. In this study we are beginning where we left off.

"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; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;)" Hebrews 10:19-23.

Notice we are to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. This is sanctuary language. It is interesting that the word "holiest" is literally both the holy place and the most holy place. Jesus is inviting us to share with Him all the way through.

This becomes of special interest when we remember that in the ancient service nobody but the priest could go into the holy place, and only the high priest could go into the most holy place. But here we are invited to come into the holiest and share with Jesus.

Why is this? He has opened up the way. He has consecrated for us a new and living way through the veil, that is to say, His

flesh. The veil is taken as a representation of the flesh that Jesus took.

At Mount Sinai God told Moses to make a sanctuary that God might dwell among them. God wants to dwell with men. He came down and dwelt with Israel. But He told Moses to hang up some veils. He wanted to dwell with them, and He came where they were, but the veils covered His glory. It is true that the glory shone out above the veil into the court, and even into the camp. Yet the people could not look upon the unveiled presence of God.

When the high priest went into the sanctuary he went in covered with a cloud of incense, and with trembling presented himself before the holy Presence. But in the new covenant Jesus says the veil is open to come on in. No longer does the veil stand there to obscure. The rent veil is a token of access.

Something happened the day Jesus was crucified that represented this in a very graphic way. He was crucified at a place called Calvary which was outside the city. As the hour drew near when He was to die, it was the hour of the evening sacrifice. It is interesting that Jesus was put on the cross in the morning at the hour of the morning sacrifice. He gave up His Spirit to God in the evening at the hour of the evening sacrifice. Notice what happened as this took place:

"Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" Matthew 27:50,51.

God was responsible for the rending of that veil. It was rent from the top to the bottom by an unseen hand. The priest and the people were in panic as this supernatural event happened. The priest was standing there with uplifted hand about to slay the lamb. In the confusion the lamb escaped. That lamb didn't die. That Man out there on Calvary died instead of the lamb. That was the end of the sacrificing of lambs. The true Lamb had come. The true sacrifice had been offered. And at the moment of that supreme sacrifice the veil was rent in twain, torn from the top to the bottom.

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rent. It no longer stands there to say you must not come in. The door was open. It was no longer shut. The invitation to you is, Come in.

The high priest went in with trembling in the ancient service. Paul tells us we can enter in with boldness. That doesn't mean the brash, bold, irreverent spirit that is so characteristic of so many today. It simply means with confidence, not uncertainty, holding back wondering if we are accepted. Come in, He says, The door is open.

When the prodigal son came back home he found his father running down the road as fast as his feet could carry him to welcome that dear son. Where did the father take him? To the barn? The attic? The basement? Oh, no. He took his son into the parlor and had a reception for him.

God is seeking to show you and me how much He loves us. And what is this most holy place where Jesus has entered for us? It is the throne room of heaven. It is the supreme court of the universe. Oh, how wonderful our Lord is, and how glad we should be to make Him happy by coming in where He has invited us to come.

How do we enter in? By the blood of Jesus. In the ancient service the high priest could not enter unless he carried the blood.

"But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people" Hebrews 9:7.

The high priest had to bring the blood. If you and I are to approach that sacred ark where the holy law of God is enshrined we must bring the blood. This is the only way we can enter with confidence. This is the only way we have access. Let us bring that precious offering and present it as the reason why we should receive blessings.

If we wait to come to God until we think we are good, or until we think we are worthy, we miss the whole point. Our only hope of acceptance is the blood of Jesus. "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,

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through the veil, that is to say, His flesh."

The veil represents the flesh of Jesus. In the sanctuary God said, I am going to dwell with you, but hang up the veil. I want to come as near as I can to you, yet My glory must be veiled.

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth" John 1:14.

Another version says, "Tabernacled among us." Just as God dwelt with Israel in that sanctuary, so God came in Christ and tabernacled among us. His human flesh was the tabernacle in which the glory of God was revealed, yet concealed. If He had come with all the glory that was His in past eternity it would have blinded and destroyed men.

So God's glory must be veiled. Yet again and again from His childhood that glory shown out. The Word was made flesh and tabernacled among us.

It was necessary that Jesus must be rent just as that veil at the temple was rent. That was what happened to Him at Calvary. At the very moment the veil was torn at the temple the heart of Jesus was broken.

Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.

In the sacramental service as we receive the broken bread Jesus speaks to us saying, This is My body which is broken for you. As the veil was rent that the glory might shine out and men might have access, the heart of Jesus was broken. Because that heart was broken, you and I have access to God.

When we understand that this is the reason we have access to God we will never wait until we feel worthy. We will come bringing our sins and offer the blood of Jesus as the reason why we should receive blessings.

Nothing can for sin atone, nothing but the blood of Jesus; In my hand no price I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling.

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Oh, let us rejoice that we may enter in through this new and living way - the blood of Jesus. Through His body broken for us we may come into the holiest. What a fellowship with God. What a wonderful Saviour we have. Aren't you glad He loves you that much? Aren't you glad He loves your loved ones that much? Aren't you glad He loves the world that much? Let's spread the good news.

We are told that these super highways that are threading their way over the country, making it possible for millions to travel, have cost a million dollars a mile. They are expensive. But think of the cost of the highway that leads from earth to heaven. It cost the sacrifice at the cross; the offering of the blood of Jesus. That is an expensive way. Thank God, it is freely offered to us. He has paid the price.

What is the greatest way we can show our gratitude to Jesus? To walk in the way He has paid for. What is the greatest insult man can offer to a God who has made such a provision? To ignore or reject this wonderful way. What a shame it would be to miss it.

When these men went to the moon everything else had to be put aside and forgotten. When Jesus gave Himself to open up this way for us He had to leave everything else aside. That is what it cost Him to provide it. That is what it will cost you and me to walk in it.

"And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, . . ." Let us draw near and come on in with a true heart in full assurance of faith. This means the assurance that comes from exercising faith.

How do you exercise faith? Just like you exercise your muscle. You exercise faith by the decision of your will. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God, but it comes by acting upon what we hear. And the way to develop faith in what we are studying is to see what Jesus has done, accept His work, act upon it, and come on in. Then believe that the blood of Jesus covers our sins and is sufficient to save us.

Let's draw near in full assurance. Not just hope so, maybe Sanctuary 5 - page 5

so, but I know so. Father, I stretch my hands to Thee. I do believe that Jesus died for me, and that He shed His precious blood from sin to set me free.

"Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." In baptism we receive the water that represents the blood. Not only our bodies are to be washed, but our hearts are to be sprinkled. Some people get this back- wards. There is no call for that. The bodies are to be immersed, but the hearts are to be sprinkled. What with?

"And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel" Hebrews 12:24.

"For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you" Hebrews 9:19,20.

We have noticed in previous studies that the blood was sprinkled on the horns of the brazen altar in the court, on the golden horns of the altar of incense in the holy place, and on the mercy seat in the most holy place. But here is a sprinkling of blood not only in the sanctuary but on the people.

Must the blood be sprinkled on me? Yes. That is what Paul says - "having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience."

Did you ever have an evil conscience? Were you ever conscious of the fact that sin was in your life? How are you going to get rid of it? Are you going to carry that guilty conscience all the time? Well, if you do one of two things will happen to you. It will either drive you to desperation, or with the devil's help you will find some kind of tranquilizer so you won't feel so bad.

This tranquilizer is not necessarily something you swallow. The devil has all kinds of tranquilizers to keep people from feeling so much guilt. There are all sorts of amusements and fiction - novels, movies, TV programs, dancing, partying. All sorts of things to silence the accusations of the guilty con- science.

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If you have an ulcer in the stomach, no matter what you take so you don't feel it, it is still there eating away. So the guilt on your conscience keeps eating away in your mind. You may not feel it because of something that is diverting your attention.

There is a way to get rid of that guilty conscience. What is it? Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

Why does the sprinkling of blood take away the sense of guilt? It means Someone has paid my debt, therefore I don't have to pay it. Thank God, it means He died to take away my sins,

therefore the load is gone. So as you see that blood for you in the courts above, let it also be sprinkled on and heart.

"Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first- born should touch them" Hebrews 11:28.

sprinkled your mind

This is speaking of Moses as he led the children of
forsake Egypt and start on the way to Canaan. Back there in that first Passover service God told the Egyptians that unless they let Israel go the angel of death was going to come through at midnight, and the firstborn of every home would be slain. But to His people who would listen and believe He said, Take a lamb. Slay it on the evening before that midnight hour. Sprinkle the blood above the door and on the side. When the angel of death comes through to visit every home and sees that blood he will pass over you. Your dear ones will be safe.

Tell me, was it enough back there that the lamb should be slain? No. The blood must be sprinkled. So it is in the sanctuary service. The sacrifice must be made, but the blood must be sprinkled within the veil. So it is with the individual. Each soul must know in his own heart the sprinkling of the blood.

Dear parents, is the blood sprinkled on the doorpost? The following poem was in a reader I used to read when I was a boy in elementary school. The scene is Goshen land. The time is the night when the angel of death comes through. Here is a little girl, the firstborn in that home.

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Israel to

THE FIRST PASSOVER

"`Father, I cannot sleep; the prophet's words ring in my ears; They fill my heart with fear; for am I not the firstborn, And the one on whom the destroying angel's shaft will fall were not the token on the lintel found? Thrice have I named the patriarchs, and once the creatures great and small that Noah drove before him in the ark, but all in vain. I cannot sleep. O Father, art thou sure the blood is sprinkled as God gave command?'

`Peace, peace, my child; just as the evening fell the fairest lamb of all the flock was slain, and roasted then with purifying fire, with bitter herbs, and bread devoid of leaven. In haste we ate the Lord's appointed feast. Nor were the means of saving thee forgot; scarce was the yearling slain ere I gave word for sprinkling of the blood upon the door. Sleep then, my firstborn. God's avenging one will see the signal, and pass over thee.'

Thus on that dark night which God had chosen for passing throughout all fair Egypt's land, to smite on every side the loved firstborn, sparing not e'en the firstlings of the flock, a Hebrew father soothed his restless child. Restless himself, as now with girded loins, sandals upon his feet, and staff in hand he waited for that solemn midnight hour when God's almighty arm should break the chain that bound his people to proud Pharaoh's throne.

The night wore on and yet the pleading voice was heard, `Father, sleep will not come. Before my eyes I see the angel pass, and at our door pause sadly, as though he wept to enter, yet dared not pass unavenging by. O Father, if the blood has been removed, or if the herd boy heeded not thy voice, then never shall my weary eyes behold the land of Canaan, with its waving fields.'

`Rest little one. Faithful our Jared is. Not only on the side post of the door should be the stain, but on the one above, so if some hungry dog should from its place one token lick, the others would remain. Sleep my sweet child for thou hast need of rest; the journey will be rough for little feet.'

The anxious voice was silent, for in that home obedience reigned supreme, though not as yet the law had sounded forth from Sinai's top. With patience dutiful she sought to woo soft slumber to her long unclosed eyes. Sleep came at last, but with it dreams of fright wherein she tossed, and moaned, and oft cried out.

The midnight hour drew nigh, unbroken still the darkness' solemn hush; the child awoke with a loud cry. `Father, I thought I heard the cock's shrill crow to greet approaching morn. My heart is beating with a sickening dread of danger near! Oh, take me to the door and let me see the red blood sprinkled there!'

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Lighting a torch the father gently took his firstborn in his arms, and bore her forth. Started and paled to see no paschal sign, no warning that their door should be passed by! With trembling hand he snatched the hyssop, then himself applied the blood in eager haste.

A long sigh of relief escaped the child. Almost before he placed her on the couch sweet sleep had fallen on her heavy lids. Nor when that great cry rose did she awake. That agonizing wail of men and beast reached not her ears with drowsy slumber sealed, and at the dawn they bore her, sleeping still, away from Egypt's darkness and despair.

Christ, our blest Passover, is slain for us. The blood of sprin- kling for our sins is shed. Have we the atoning sacrifice applied, made sure our entrance to the promised land?"

That is the question. Can we settle it? Ah, yes. Each for himself can. Each for himself will. The veil has been rent. The way is open. The blood has been shed. Christ will sprinkle it for us there and sprinkle it on us here if we will ask Him. Oh, what a glorious opportunity to give up our sins and accept His sacrifice to pay the debt.

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Continue by clicking on the study below

Study 1 The Holy Spirit & The Sanctuary  - The Sacrifice

Study 2 The Holy Spirit & The Sanctuary  - The Priest

Study 3 The Holy Spirit & The Sanctuary  - Day of Atonement

Study 4 The Holy Spirit & The Sanctuary  - Sanctuary Closed

Study 5 The Holy Spirit & The Sanctuary  - Sprinkled Blood

Study 6 The Holy Spirit & The Sanctuary  - House of God