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The Lord's Supper Proclaims Our Access to God


Hebrews 10:1922 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by
the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil,
that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near
with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil
conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
So then, the Lord's Supper is a Sermon that proclaims His death. We see this in the separation of
the elements, the breaking of the bread and the pouring out of the wine. But another thing that
the Table proclaims is our access to God.
Under the Old Covenant administration, as the writer to the Hebrews has been telling us in
Chapter 9, access to God had to be severely restricted, for the sake of His people. He dwelt in
the Tabernacle and then in the Temple in a place called the Holy of Holies, separated from the
Holy place by a veil. There, the Shekinah Glory, the emblem of His intimate presence among
His people, appeared over the mercy-seat that covered the Ark of the Covenant. Such is the
purity and holiness of God that any sinful man seeing this sight would be instantly consumed and
die. And so only the High Priest entered that room, and only once a year, bringing with him the
blood of the bull that had been slain as a sin offering. The first thing he would do on entering
behind the veil was to burn incense on a firepan of coals he was carrying, so that the smoke
would cover the mercy-seat from his view. So it was not an easy thing at all to enter the
presence of God in those days. In Hebrews 9:8, the writer tells us that as long as the temple was
set up in this manner, we were to understand that the way for us to enter the holy place had not
been disclosed.
Moving forward to the changes that were introduced through the death of Christ on the cross, the
writer to the Hebrews in our text wants us to understand that every true child of God now has full
and free access into His presence. What a turnaround! We may come confidently, he says,
having no fear, and it is all because Jesus died in our place, bearing our sins and receiving the
wrath of God that should have been directed to us. The writer even mentions the body and the
blood of Jesus as the reasons for our confident access!
We want to note especially, though, that the writer also tells us in verse 20 above that the veil in
the Temple that separated the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place was a type of the body of
Christ. When Christ died at the time of the evening sacrifice, we read in Matthew 27:51 that the
veil in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The result was that those who were
formerly shut out could now see in to the Most Holy Place - the way in to the presence of God
had been disclosed and it was through the torn veil, representing the broken body of Christ.
So when we take the Lord's Supper and the bread is broken, we should think about the torn
veil. When the wine is poured out, we should dwell on the fact that Jesus in His sacrificial death
opened for us a way to enter with confidence into God's own presence. Otherwise all we could
have been confident in was that we would be condemned for our sin and cast into the lake of fire.
Surely we should long to take the Supper and marvel at what Jesus accomplished for us - one

part of which is our access into the presence of the Lord God, Almighty through faith in His
blood and His broken body!
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