The New And Living Way

“Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a 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.” CH 10:19-22.

We know that the old way for the high priest to enter into the Holiest was with the blood of calves and goats. Only the high priest was allowed to enter with blood in order to atone for the sins of the people. This sanctified to the purifying of the flesh. The blood of Jesus, however, purges our consciences from dead works to serve the living God. Here is the difference between the old covenant and the new one that Jesus established.

When Jesus came into the world He said, “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’ Previously saying, ‘Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them’ (which are offered according to the law), then He said, ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.’ He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” CH 10:5-10.

Jesus made a covenant here with the Father that He would abolish the sacrifices in which He had no pleasure and offer His own body instead, in order to do the Father’s will. Sin, of course, has its origins in the body. Therefore, in order to do God’s will with this body, a sacrifice had to take place in the body. The sin which otherwise would have come out from His body had to be put to death there. In this way the devil lost the necessary points of contact through which to tempt and deceive. Through this death, Christ destroyed him who has the power of death, that is, the devil. It was a totally new death that Jesus brought, which is why it is called “the dying of the Lord Jesus.” 2 Cor. 4:10-11. We, too, are to carry about with us this dying in the body so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. Jesus has consecrated this new way for us in order that we should walk on it.