7.1 Sprinkled with Blood
© 2018 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Therefore brethren, having already a freely bold entrance into the Holiest inside the blood of Jesus consecrating for us a newly sacrificed as well as a living way through the veil, that is, through His flesh; and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us approach [everything inside the Holiest] with a true heart, in full assurance of faith; having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil consciousness; and having our bodies washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:19-22).
Although all the writers of the gospel use the tabernacle of Moses as the structure of the gospel, the writer of Hebrews spends more time with that tabernacle than the others. What does it mean, then, for you to have entered into the Holiest? What does the Holy of Holies represent in the gospel experience?
Inside the Holiest. When you entered through the Gate into the outer court, your life was transformed. For the first time you KNEW God and you knew that Jesus lived in your heart. When you entered through the Door into the Holy Place, your life was transformed. For the first time you KNEW the realms of Spirit and you knew that the Jesus alive in your heart was a living Spirit Word.
When you enter through the Veil into the Holy of Holies, your life is transformed. For the first time you KNOW Christ as the only life you are. Living inside of the Holy of Holies is living inside of all the reality and meaning of pure and perfect union with Christ Jesus.
The Veil Wide Open. At this stage in your journey into knowing God, you can see that God has merged the meaning of two metaphors for us, the cross and the veil. For those who live in the Holy of Holies, Cross and Veil are behind them. For those who refuse to live inside the Holy of Holies, inside of Jesus as the only life they are, the Cross and Veil stand as an impenetrable barrier keeping them out, that is, in their imagination.
Here is the first thing you must know about that Veil, remembering that the Cross and the Veil speak to us of the same reality. The moment Jesus died upon the cross – Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51).
How Do We Enter? The entrance into living inside of all that the fulness of Christ is and means is wide open. Nothing keeps anyone out except false imagination and unbelief.
Now, this book is about Knowing Jesus As He Is, that we are just like Him inside the Pro-Knowing of God. Living in the Holy of Holies is you living inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of you. Living in the Holy of Holies is living inside of John 14:20. In that day [Today] you shall know that I am in the Father and you in Me and I in you. All the knowledge of God is found only here.
How, then, do we enter, and how do we live inside this largest of all places, inside of Jesus?
You CANNOT! The first half of this little book brought you to living in John 14:20, inside of Jesus, your full union with all that Christ is. The second half of this book is all about living inside and out from John 14:20, all the fulness of Christ, the Holiest of All.
But let’s stop right here. You CANNOT enter into union with the Lord Jesus Christ. You are incapable of doing such a thing. Try for ten billion years, and you will never know Jesus as He is.
Salvation is one thing and one thing alone. Jesus enters into union with you. You will never know Jesus in His power until you first accept Him as having already come unto union with all of your human weakness and inability. Jesus Himself lives as you.
A True Heart. Look at the main subject/verb of the one long sentence that is Hebrews 10:19-22. Let us approach [everything inside the Holiest] with a true heart.
If you were to dig, you would find arrogance, a desire for superiority, as the underlying heart of all those who seek to enter into union with “Christ.” But when you look at the heart of those who, in tears, accept Jesus having already come into union with their human weakness, you will find true hearts, hearts that desire to bless.
There is only one true heart that will enter into living in Jesus in us in all our present humanity – a heart filled with Jesus, Jesus alive in your heart.
The Precious Blood of Christ. It would take writing a very large book to attempt to convey everything that can be found in Hebrews 10:19-22. Here we must limit ourselves to just a few things.
First, briefly, the WAY into the Holiest is both a newly sacrificed as well as a living way. These are referring to the two goats on the Day of Atonement, that is, the Lord Jesus as He is both your sins dead upon the Cross as well as your living Savior carrying all your present sinfulness inside His empty grave. Simply put, the Jesus who lives in your heart is the Way in.
Notice that this Way is consecrated, that is, made holy or devoted to God by the Blood of Christ, as Peter said – You were… redeemed… with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (1 Peter 1:18-19).
Sprinkled Clean. The writer of Hebrews states that you possess four things that take you through the Veil into living only inside of God. Those four things are boldness of freedom, a High Priest, a heart sprinkled clean, and a body washed.
Having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil consciousness. The Blood is mentioned first as that which consecrates this entire Way into all the knowledge of God; here the Blood, though not mentioned, is front and center. It is the Blood that is “sprinkled” upon your heart, making your heart clean from all thinking of evil. Sprinkled clean from an evil consciousness is just the first thing the Blood Sprinkled does to your heart, yet we must begin here.
No Consciousness of Sins. What does the writer of Hebrews mean by an “evil consciousness?” Please read Hebrews 10:1-25 in the Jesus Secret version, as well as the New King James, several times. In Verse 3 the writer states that to be cleansed means having NO more consciousness of sins. Then, in Verse 10 – By [God’s] desire, we are already made holy [belonging only to God] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And in Verse 14 – For by one offering, He has perfected those who are continuously being made holy [by God]. We must bring in one more line – through Himself purification of sins having made, He sat down… (Hebrews 1:3). Or, as the NKJV puts it – When He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down…
Temptation Repeated. There are few places where the evil one presents his temptation more strongly and with more devastating results than here.
“But you sinned. What you did was wicked, and you know it.” That is not yet the temptation, however. When you believe in Jesus, it is an easy thing to say to another, “I’m sorry; what I did was wrong. Please forgive me.” Forgiving one another our ongoing foolish mistakes is part of living together inside of Jesus, inside of completion. No consciousness of sins is something entirely different.
God says, “Jesus already purged your sins – sprinkled from an evil consciousness.” And the serpent says, “Your sins can be purged if you weep before God and promise to do better next time.”
All Things Are Pure. When you look inside yourself, inside your heart, all through the motivation of your flesh, at your face in the mirror, you have an option of seeing one of two things. You can see sin, always falling short of God, deceitful and wicked. – OR – You can see Jesus, pure and complete, with no thought or consciousness of sins.
To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure (Titus 1:15). The word “pure” means “no mixture.” So, in a very rough sense, those who see only evil inside themselves are “pure” in that very limited sense. Impurity is the practice of seeing Jesus AND sin in yourself.
Utterly Clean! Finally – Having our bodies washed with pure water. The physical body, in this context, represents also everything in your ongoing daily life in this present age, everything of your natural life.
Here is what God told Peter. “What God has cleansed you must not call common or unclean” (Acts 10:15). To live inside of Christ is to live inside of sinless perfection, regardless of your ongoing human mistakes.
We are not just to enter into Christ through faith, but we are to do so BOLDLY. Only one way of thinking and seeing will allow us to live inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of us. – NO consciousness of sins; washed utterly CLEAN!