to the Hebrews in chapter ten. And this is one of the most wonderful epistles in the New Testament, the epistles of the Hebrews. And please always notice very carefully whenever reading and studying it, to whom it is specially written. It was written in a time in the early days of Christianity to God's earthly people in particular. That is why it is addressed as being the epistles of the Hebrews. There's no introductory speaker at the beginning of it. It almost begins like the word of God at the beginning in the book of Genesis, God himself speaking. No human writer is attributed to being the author, though possibly we fully believe it must have been the Apostle Paul. Now the purpose of the epistle is well known if you've ever read and studied it. It was for the purpose of encouraging those early believers in the days of the early church who were chiefly Jewish and by the way of character and life. Most of us know without question of doubt when the church began in the book of Acts it consisted of Jews entirely at the beginning. And then as the days went by, as we well know, the spreading of the Gospels of the Gentiles. But there was a great difficulty in those early days of Christianity in relation to God's earthly people who made a profession of Christ. They were persecuted. They were undoubtedly many times despised because of leaving Judaism and the rituals of the Old Testament under the law of Moses and following the Savior. Now we can well understand that that would be the case when we realize how much the Lord Jesus was rejected, how he was despised by his own people, particularly above all others. We think of the words that we often read. As you know them well, in John chapter one, verse eleven, when John wrote to say, He came unto his own, and his own received him not. Thus we can recognize he was rejected, and there he left the world. He promised to his disciples they would also suffer tribulation, persecution, and even hatred because of their testimony for him. And we know that in the early church there was much of that manifested. But one of the difficulties amongst the professing believers in amongst the Jews, one of the great difficulties was to face that persecution and that opposition. And when Paul wrote this epistle, he wrote it particularly to encourage, not only to encourage, but even to warn. those professing believers in the Lord Jesus amongst the Hebrew people of the dangers they face, but together with the great contrast that God had now brought in Christ and Christianity as the present day testimony. Now let me very briefly, before we look in chapter ten at the portion we want to read and study, let me very briefly suggest, as the Apostle begins and continues in the message that he writes in this wonderful epistle. He contrasts the Old Testament teachings with their types, with their shadows, and with all their meaning. He contrasts them with the Lord Jesus Christ in his person. First of all, when you come into chapter one, very briefly I would suggest, you find the Lord Jesus is presented to us in the greatness of his person as being greater than all the angels. And you find that in chapter two. You find his greatness in relation to his deity and glory in chapter one. You find his greatness in chapter two in relation to his perfect humanity. And the Apostle writes, he was greater than all the angels. Now when you come to chapter three, you find that the Apostle brings out the Lord Jesus to being even greater than Moses. And you know, that's something to say. That's something to tell to Jews particularly. Moses was one of the most venerated biblical characters and still is amongst the people of God. But Paul writes, as he continues in the epistle, Christ was greater than even Moses. When you come to chapter four, You have the Lord Jesus presented as being greater than one of their greatest military leaders. And that was Joshua, who led the people of Israel, not only through the wilderness together with Moses, but after the death of Moses, led them in the conquest of Canaan, and the victories that they wrought under God's power and grace as they took over the land of Canaan. and the Lord Jesus greater than a commander like Joshua. So may I suggest to you, you find the Lord Jesus exalted better than all the angels, better, even better than Moses and better than Joshua. Now when you come to chapter five and on, you find the Lord Jesus is presented, and particularly at the end of chapter four, it is introduced, is better than all the priests in Israel, greater in his priesthood than all the priests of Israel, greater in his sacrifice, greater in all of his work of redemption, than all the Old Testament sacrifices, than all the great priesthood of old. And you have the Lord Jesus presented from chapter five, and particularly on going to the end of chapter ten, as being greater, both as a priest, and then, may I add, also as a sacrifice. Now, that was very important to emphasize to those Hebrew people. Many of them were still trusting, and at the time of the writing of the Epistle, they were carrying out the Judaistic testimony. The sacrifices were still going on. when Paul wrote the letter, the city of Jerusalem had not been destroyed. Later on it was destroyed, and may I add, carefully, and particularly to emphasize the fact, there has never been any sacrifice in Jerusalem since the days of its destruction in AD seventy. And one can recognize you and I as we sit here, and as we know the truth of the gospel, and the Savior's sacrifice for our sins. And you have the words, I believe you find them in chapter ten, where Paul mentions there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. It's not you. You can. You might try it. You might try it yet another, but it won't work. This one sacrifice has been made forever by the death of the Lord Jesus himself to put away sin. no other sacrifice. He has the hymn writer wrote, and well are the words. My faith has found a resting place, not in device nor creed. I trust the ever-living one. His wounds for me shall please. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died, and that he died for me. And I'm sure, as you and I are together this morning, we recognize we acknowledge and not only that we rejoice in the fact no other sacrifice will ever be made for the perfect complete sacrifice was made by the Lord Jesus and may I remind you what the Lord Jesus said when not on the cross the work was done in those hours of darkness and agony and judgment that he bore for our sins at the hand of God When it was finished, the penalty paid, he cried, It is finished. Nothing can be done. Let me quote the words of the wise man in Ecclesiastes chapter three in verse fourteen. I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God doeth it, that men may fear before him. Let me repeat the words and go over them carefully. I know, and it's a grand thing to be able to say I know, I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. And the death of the Lord Jesus, the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, was done once and for all, forever. And thus it was the work of divine and eternal perfection. The Old Testament sacrifices could never take away sin. They only temporarily covered it, made atonement until the death of the Lord Jesus completed the perfect work of sacrifice by himself upon the cross. But it's a work without any angelic or even human additions. Nothing can be taken from it and nothing can be put to it. Without any angelic or even human intervention. I can't add to it. You cannot add to it. No angel can have to. Remember the words you have in Hebrews one three. By himself. He purged our sins. He did it alone. And it's a perfect word. And done for human appreciation. And you and I who found the Savior, we rejoice in whom we appreciate it. Now when we come to chapter ten, let me read the words we would like to speak of, beginning at verse nineteen and go down through verse twenty-five. Perhaps the apostle has brought out the complete work of the Lord Jesus in this tenth chapter by his sacrifice upon the cross. Note the result of it. Verse nineteen. Having therefore, brethren, boldness, meaning liberty, to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he had consecrated for us, through the veil that is the sayest flesh, and having an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart, a full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession or the confession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful, that promise, and let us consider one another to provoke unto love unto two and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting or encouraging one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Now let me just point out to you, on the basis of the perfect sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. And will you go back in the chapter with me please? Let me please read these words with you. Verse seventeen and eighteen. And how precious these words are, when the Apostle writes, Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. That was impossible under the Old Testament sacrifice. But under the one sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, that's all that believes upon him. Their sins, God declares to them, and iniquities will I remember How often? No more. That ought to make you feel happy, as well as myself. For when you stop to realize, let me give you this thought quickly. Three thoughts. When God forgives sins. In the life of the Lord Jesus, he said to one man, in Matthew nine, verse two, led down through the roof with palsy. Before he healed his body, he said, Some, be of good cheer. Thy sins be forgiven thee. And when sins are forgiven by the Lord, what happens? First of all, he puts them out of sight. Let me quote the Psalms, chapter hundred and three. When the psalmist wrote, saying, As far as the east is removed from the west, so far has he removed our transgression from us. When God forgives sins, he removes them. out of reach. As far as the east, as the east is removed. Now let me give you the psalm. What does the psalmist mean as the east is removed from the west? Well, if you want to find where the east and the west meet, you'll have a hard time. You go around the equator in one circle, and you come back where you started. There's no beginning point. But if you want to find out where the north and the south meet, you'll find it. But the psalmist wrote, as far as the east is removed from the west. In other words, the poet wrote, the east and the west, the twain they never meet. And how precious to realize when God forgives sin, he puts the way they cannot be reached. Let me give you another thought. You've got it in Micah seven, verse nineteen. Lovely verse. God's going to do it for Israel as the nation, the believing remnant in the coming days. And he says, I will cast all their sins in the depths of the sea. And one can realize from the figure of speech, he not only puts them out of reach, but out of sight. As one dear old saint when she read those words and found out how the sea was so deep, in some places they knew not its depths. The dear old saint said, praise the Lord. My sins are down in the bottom of the sea. Praise the Lord. Nobody will ever be able to get them up. Well, it's a figurative speech, but it's a principle of truth. And here you have in our chapter. And it's a quotation from Jeremiah, thirty-one, thirty-four. Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. God puts them out of reach, out of sight, out of his mind. Now, maybe you might have a little difficulty. And I'll be sure, and I'm sure the devil will try to remind you of some of them. Not the Lord. I will remember them no more. Now that's God's perfect forgiveness. Now what does he do for us? Now as we look at our scripture we've just read. Please note, well let me see, read verse eighteen with you. Now where the remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. No other offering is needed, but the one offering that the Lord made himself. Now see the result. And I want you to note this crystal we have read. It reveals there are three things that we have. Through that atoning death of the Lord Jesus. Three things we have. And also, as you go down the little portion, you'll find five things we should do. Let me repeat it. Three things we have, and then five things we should do. Now look in verse nineteen. Let's see the beginning of what the Apostle writes as to what we have. Having therefore brethren boldness, and that means liberty, to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Now let's be a little careful and clear. in the meaning of these words. We have liberty to come where? We have liberty to enter where? Into the holiest. Now let me visualize with you from the Old Testament, which you may be well acquainted with, that in the tabernacle of old and in the temple of old, when that was erected and existing, there was the holiest of all. The center of that temple, the center of that tabernacle, was where the Shekinah, glory, cloud of God's presence was within that holiest of all. That holiest of all, there were no windows in that place. It was an area about ten cubic feet by ten cubic feet and square. And within it was only one article of furniture. And that was... the Ark of the Covenant, the Golden Ark, symbolic of the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the heart of God. And there in the holiest of all was the Ark of the Covenant, with the contents that Moses had placed within it, the tables of the law, and the rod of Aaron that had budded, together with some manner from the wilderness journey, that they had fed upon through their journey through the desert. But within that holiest was God's shekind of presence. Now there was only one person in Israel who but once a year could go into that holy place. It was the high priest once a year on the great day of atonement to make provision for the forgiveness of the sins of the nation. And he alone was privileged. You can read in Exodus chapter sixteen. I beg your pardon. Leviticus chapter sixteen. You read how we had to go into the presence of God. Once a year only. And you have the full account of it and what it meant. But no other person could enter. Only the high priest. And that but once a year. Into the holiest of all. Now let's raise a question. very carefully. Where is the holiest today? Where is the holiest? As you have your Bible, will you go with me please to John chapter four for just a moment. The fourth chapter of John's gospel. And I want you to notice something in the conversation of the Lord Jesus with the woman at the well at the well of Psycar. Let me begin reading, if I may. In verse nineteen, and note with you how the woman speaks to the Lord Jesus. She was a Samaritan. He was a Jew. She wondered why he ever spoke to her, for the Samaritans and Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. And the Lord reveals to her how much he knew about her. But in verse nineteen she said, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. You do say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Now near where she was, and the Lord of the times, there was a mouth called Mount Gerizim. And four hundred years before Christ came, the Samaritans had built a temple on that mountain. There they worshiped. But they never went to Jerusalem to worship. Neither would a Jew go to Gerizim in Samaria to worship. And so she says, our fathers built this temple. and worship in this mountain. You say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Now let's read verse twenty-one. And go with me, if you please, through verse twenty-four. Jesus said unto her woman, Believe me, be our cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Now let me be very clear to understand with you the meaning of the Savior's words. Jerusalem was, geographically, under Judaism, the place to worship. When you read the Old Testament, when you read the Gospel, you find that the Jews, they travel regularly on their feast days to worship at Jerusalem. It was God's appointed place. It was the appointed meeting place where God said he would meet with his people. And they had their feet. Seven of them in number, according to Leviticus twenty-three. But on every occasion, when it came to be worshipping, they had to come to Jerusalem. I remember in Israel that many years ago, I noticed that our guy was a man by the name of Moshe. That was really that's the name for Moses. And he evidently must have been a believer. He began to sing many Christian songs that we knew when we were on the bus traveling. But I never will forget. I never could find out if he was the real Christian. He wouldn't answer me. He wouldn't even tell me where he learned these songs. He was very non-committal on that. But every time we came back to Jerusalem, where we were stationed in one of the hotels, from any trip to any part of the country, As we went our way up the hill, the mountain, toward that city, it always begins singing that old song, the Holy City, Jerusalem. And we join in the chorus with them, Jerusalem. And one could realize the longing of a Jewish heart, knowing Jerusalem was the place where God said, that's my center that I'm going to make. The city of Zion, the center of the whole world, where my... son the king will reign someday and where David the son of where David also reigned at the beginning of the history of Israel as a mighty nation Jerusalem was the place but now know what the Lord Jesus says in verse twenty two ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship the salvation is of the Jews and it was but the our comers now know and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeks such to worship him. God is the spirit. They that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. And let me just emphasize one's truth. From the words of the Lord Jesus, you have no possible way of naming a geographical spot, a geographical place. to say, that's where you ought to go to worship. Well, if you could, maybe followers would never get there. It might be the other end of the world. Then where is the holiest today? Heaven is now. Go with me to... Let me see. In chapter nine, Of Hebrews. I'm where we are. Chapter nine of Hebrews please. Let me please notice. Notice these words. I want you to note the words. Verse twenty four of chapter nine. And I want you to note where Christ is. Now. For verse twenty four of chapter nine. Christ is not entered into the holy place that may revan. When he rose again. You know we left the earth. Where did he go? Not into any earthly building. Any place that is made with hands. But go on. Which are the figures or the types of the truth. But he went where? Into heaven itself. Now to appear in the presence of God for us. Where is he? In heaven. When we draw near to him. To whom do we draw near? Where do we draw near? In other words, the holiest is not on earth. Can I please say it? Say lovingly, earnestly. It's a precious fact and a blessed truth. There's no place on earth that you can say to any man, that's the only place you can worship. If you do, you're wrong. The only place, the holiest, is where Christ is. Heaven is not. Heaven is not. We enter by the Spirit into the presence of God. Can I please say it again? Look, since the temple was destroyed and Jerusalem was destroyed throughout the centuries of Christianity, God has not made a geographical spot and called it the Holy Assembly. Now let me give you an example. When our brother led us in prayer, where did he go? Where did his prayer go? Where did your prayer and mine go? Where does your worship and mine go? It's got to go to heaven. That's where the Lord is. It goes heavenward. Now go back to our tenth chapter and verse nineteen and see the joy that one of the first things we have is this. because of what he has done for us. Brethren, therefore, and when you look at that word, therefore, please try to know what is therefore. Every time you read the word, note before what has happened to bring it to pass. Therefore, brethren, we have liberty to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Now, please note very carefully. Now, let me just point out quickly. as you know from your Old Testament. No priest in Israel dared to go, dared to go into the presence of God without blood. That was the sacrifice. They had them every day. Morning and evening when the temple was in operation and the tabernacle long ago. Morning and evening, it was the morning and evening sacrifice together with many other sacrifices. But whenever the priest went into the holy place or into the holiest, he could never go without the blood of the sacrifice. And so when you and I come into the presence of God, always remember we enter only through the blood of God's Jesus. Oh, the joy of knowing. Remember the old hymn, I quote part of it. I must need to go home by the way of the cross. There's no other way but this. I shall never get sight of the gates of life. It's the way of the cross I miss. In other words, it's the blood of the Savior shed on Calvary that brings you and me into the presence of God. And what is it? We've got the liberty of doing it. Beloved, let me ask you this. Well, let me give you the contrast. When you go back to the days of Solomon when he dedicated the temple, On that great day of dedication, one of the things he prayed unto God was that if any of God's earthly people were scattered abroad, away from their land and their country and nation, and from the temple, wherever they were, he said, if they look toward Jerusalem, hear their prayer. And you remember Daniel, as you read of Daniel in chapter six of the book of Daniel, when King Darius unwittingly put himself in the position of getting Daniel into the lion's den, though he loved Daniel, didn't want him to be there. But he signed the decree that no man should worship God for thirty days. He could only come and worship the king and pray to the king if he needed anything. And poor Darius, he thought that was a great favor until he learned that it only conspired to put Daniel into the den of lions. Because what did Daniel do? Three times every day he opened his window toward Jerusalem, and in that direction he prayed. Say with Nehemiah, others, they prayed toward Jerusalem when he was scattered abroad. That was the center of God's presence there in the land of Israel. Today, well, as we said, you can't find the geographical part. And we lift our prayer, we enter into the holiest above, into heaven itself. Now look at the second thing, though. In verse twenty, we have. We have a new and a living way which he has consecrated for us through the veil. That is to say his flesh. In other words, listen. There is a new way. Contrary to the old way. There is a new way into the presence of God since the death of Christ. Through the veil, and note the expression, through the veil, and then following, that is to say, His flesh. Now I'm sure you can remember way back in the days of our Lord's crucifixion, as you have it in Matthew, as you have it in John's Gospel too, and the contemporary Gospel. We know that when the Lord, let me remind you again of what happens when the Lord Jesus finished the work of redemption and cried, it is finished. Well, go with me if you please. I think to John's Gospel chapter nineteen. I'd like you to note it. John chapter nineteen, if you please. No, I think I'd like to go to Luke's Gospel for it. I'll go to Matthew's Gospel. That'd be better still. Matthew's Gospel in the twenty-sixth chapter, or the twenty-seven chapter, and where you have the Lord Jesus crucified. Chapter twenty-seven of Matthew, let me read verse fifty and fifty-one. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, and Matthew doesn't repeat the words that John writes, he yielded up the ghost. The moment he dies, note next, Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two. And know from what direction? From the top to the bottom. And the earth did quaint and so on. The first thing that happened the moment the Lord expired, crying in a loud voice, it is finished. The veil of the temple was rent in twain. From top to bottom. We don't have time, but you could read in chapter twenty-six of the book of Exodus a description of that veil. Let me just tell you very briefly. It was a very heavy, thick curtain veil. Basically, the material was a fine twine white linen. And also, there were the colors of blue. and a scarf, circle, and a scarlet entwined within that veil. Let me repeat it again. The basic foundation of the veil in its material was fine twine white linen. And woven in it were the colors of blue and of scarlet and of purple, and then of scarlet. And woven in the whole thing were the figures of cherubim. And that curtain veil between the holiest of all, which only the high priest could enter once a year, thus tinned at anyone from coming into the presence of God. And may I give you the thought, with the cherubim upon that veil, thus also woven within it, indicated Beware who comes into the presence of God. Only on a specific occasion, once a year the high priest was permitted. But that veil represents, note in our chapter please, now go with me in Hebrews and stand, and note with our chapter what it says. He has consecrated this new and living way for us through the veil, and he describes what the veil is. That is the same. His flesh, the flesh of the Lord Jesus. Can I give you some precious thoughts about the Lord Jesus with the veil beautifully typified? First of all, it's basic material. Fine, twine, white linen. Pure. And you've got to confess there's only one person that lives a pure, sinless, holy life. the Lord Jesus Christ. You and I needed a sacrifice that was sinless in his own character. Fine, fine news, and let me give you the truth of it. You can learn it through the great Gospel of Luke. Luke presents the Lord Jesus as a perfect man from the beginning to the end in all the perfection of his humanity. Wherever you read the Gospel of Luke, the presentation of Luke's Gospel is presenting the Lord Jesus as the dependent man who did the will of God in full perfection, sinlessly, perfectly. And that's the purity of his life. And then also, when you think of the blue, well, you know blue is the color of the heavens. And you'll find that typically in the word of God. And he's not only a perfect man, but he came from heaven. He's the heavenly man, very God, the Son of God. Realize who he was, who he is. When you think of the sacrifice he made, think of who it was. Not only a perfect man, but also perfect God. No man has seen God at any time. But the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. And you read John's Gospel. And over it all, John would say, Behold your God. Luke would say, Behold a man. John would say, Behold your God. His deity, the whole book of John read, to prove that Jesus is what? The Son of God. And then there was not only... Blue, there was the purple. And purple was the emblem of the royalty of the king. And you've got that in Matthew's Gospel. You can't read Matthew's Gospel. You see Matthew is saying, Behold your king. His birth. His genealogy first. Then his birth. And then, proving his perfection as Satan kept him. And then, telling of his principles of government in the Great Sermon on the Mount, and proving by his miracles that he performed for Israel in the days of his flesh, he was truly their king, if they would only receive him. And yet at the end of it, they stay away with him. We'll not have this mandarin over us. But there he is, all in the kingly glory of his person. And even in Matthew's Gospel, he tells you more of the fact, I'm coming back. To be the king in another day. And he will. And then you've got not only purple, you've got scarlet. And that's another emblem of earthly glory. But it's like what you find in the Gospel of Mark. That is going to be not only the king of Israel. It's going to be the king over all other nations too. God's servant. Behold my servant. He writes in Isaiah fifty-two. And he's going to start on many nations when he comes. Very frightening. When the Lord Jesus comes back again, I want to tell you very frankly, when he comes back to the earth and his power and glory, those nations are going to be shaken. Start all. Why, this is the one who is God's earthly servant. But he's coming back to be the king over all the nations. Now look, when you see the veil in his tight, And Paul says, it's like his flesh. Well, there's no other person like him. And it's through him. The veil was red. And if it wasn't red, you and I couldn't come into God's presence. But we can come in. We have an entrance. Not the words in our chapter. Let me read that verse again. We have a new... And I like the next verse, word, and a living way, a living Savior, who had consecrated or dedicated Torah through the veil. That is the Savior's flesh. We've got a new and a living way. Please let me encourage every one of us who know the Lord. Please let me say, and I need it, and I try to enjoy it as much as I can daily. I wish I did it more. The joy of knowing, Lord, I can come into your presence many times. The way is open. You now know the third thing we have in verse twenty-one. And having an high priest over the house of God. Ah, this is not an earthly priest. This is the Lord Jesus himself. Go to chapter seven, please, will you? Let me go with you to chapter seven. Let me read from verse twenty-three. Well, let me, if I don't mind going back a little bit, I'll go back with you if you don't mind to verse twenty-one. Those priests in Israel were made without an oath. But this one, speaking of the Lord Jesus in his priesthood, with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swear and will not repent. Thou art a priest, and note the words, Forever, after the order of Melchizedek. a priest as well as a king. And how long for? Forever. Now read on. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament or covenant, and they truly were many priests in Israel, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death. The priests in Israel couldn't live forever, could they? They did not. Death came. And then you read on in verse twenty-four. But This man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Never ending. No, now let me repeat the joy of knowing what it means. As in the Old Testament, the priest represented God before the people. And the priest not only represented God before the people of Israel, the priest had to go into the holy place to represent the people before God. And the Lord Jesus is our priest, and then we read verse twenty-five, and his priesthood never changes. Wherefore, he's able also to save them to the uttermost. They come to God by him, seeing that he ever liveth to make intercession for us. We have a priestess living in the presence of God. Let me give you this thought. It illustrates what it means that he's the priest of his people in heaven above, on our behalf. Back in the Old Testament, when God instituted the priesthood of Heron, he gave them the priestly garments to wear, telling what they should be and what they were. And when he went into the holy presence of God on the behalf of the people, on that ephod that he wore, can priestly garments. On that ephod, a white linen, there was a breastplate. And on that breastplate, the names of each tribe in Israel. were named on the precious stones that were in the breastplate. There were twelve precious stones. Different they were in their character as to their substance, but there were precious stones on every one of them, and the name of a tribe in Israel engraved upon it. Also on his shoulders, on each shoulder, he had six stones, omit stones. And on those stones, the names of the tribes of Israel were engraved on. And when he went in the presence of God, representing the nation, with the names of the tribes upon him, you can recognize in the presence of God he brought the names of his people. For God's blessing, for God's remembrance. And let me just give you this suggestion. The Lord Jesus knows everyone who belongs to him. And your name and my name is written. Well, then Isaiah the prophet wrote, Now it's engraved in my name on the arms of thy hand. Remember the Lord Jesus made this statement in John's hand. I give unto my sheep, eat unto my life. They shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of what? My hand. And if you could open the hand of the Lord Jesus, you see the names of every believer. They're mine. I keep them. And thus as the priestly... representative of the people of God today. He represents them in the presence of God. And we have a high priest. And let me read on in this verse. Let me read verse twenty-five again. And because of it, he's able to keep us safe to the end. To the agamost. Somebody put it in another way said, even from the godamost. Well, truth. To the utmost. He's able to say to the end, to the end. I don't know when the end's coming from him, but I know what the end's going to be. My salvation is the shirk from beginning to the end. Thank God. Sometimes the bishop would hurry up an end, but nevertheless, it'll come. And he's able. And he's going to be able to keep me to the end. Saying why. He has a liver to make intercession for us. Oh, beloved, when you think of it, you and I come into the presence of God in prayer or in worship as the case may be.