Well, Monday we celebrated the glorious depths of Hebrews chapter 10 verses 19 to 20.

We now have confidence to enter the holy places.

We go right into the presence of God by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that

he opened for us through the curtain.

That is through his flesh.

And that means according to verse 22, we should now draw near to God with a true heart

in full assurance of faith, with our heart sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and

our bodies washed with pure water.

It's an incredible invitation.

And Pastor John said on Monday's episode, we can't repeat these claims too often that

all of our communion with God is done by direct access to him and access that Christ purchased

for us through his torn body, torn like the temple curtain top to bottom.

Thus we pray directly to God.

Christ is our mediator, our only mediator.

Our prayers don't require angels or priests or saints or even Mary or Hail Mary's.

For your prayers to be heard, you don't have to be on your knees or inside of a cathedral

or at a temple or near a holy shrine or even standing at a holy place in the holy land.

We need none of that to draw near to God.

The entire Book of Hebrews is given to us to celebrate this new access that we have been

given to God through Christ.

And there the phrase draw near is used over and over.

Draw near is actually one Greek word and that word appears seven times throughout the Book

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