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Heb 10:21,22 Drawing Near to God
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Jan 15, 2025, 5:25:06 AMJan 15
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Drawing Near to God
Heb 10:21,22 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Ever avoid coming to God because of feeling guilty? Or ever come to him pretentiously and not in sincerity overlooking your sinfulness? Well now that Christ has dealt with the guilt of our sin by his blood and become our mediator, we are free to come to God in sincerity of heart.
Here the Jews would most likely have understood "sprinkled" as an allusion to the sprinkling of the blood of the sacrifices as the Law commands. Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words." Ex 24:8 Although while this sense is its predominant use in the Old Testament, there is one case in Ezekiel where it is used of water, but which may be relevant here, "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws." Eze 36:25-27
Thus the washing likely refers to the effect of regeneration upon ones desires and behavior. "He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit." Titus 3:5b
Heb 10:21,22 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Ever avoid coming to God because of feeling guilty? Or ever come to him pretentiously and not in sincerity overlooking your sinfulness? Well now that Christ has dealt with the guilt of our sin by his blood and become our mediator, we are free to come to God in sincerity of heart.
Here the Jews would most likely have understood "sprinkled" as an allusion to the sprinkling of the blood of the sacrifices as the Law commands. Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words." Ex 24:8 Although while this sense is its predominant use in the Old Testament, there is one case in Ezekiel where it is used of water, but which may be relevant here, "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws." Eze 36:25-27
Thus the washing likely refers to the effect of regeneration upon ones desires and behavior. "He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit." Titus 3:5b
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