Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday April 19, 2017 |
Morning Time: 11:08 AM PST
"Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the
bottom." --Matthew 27:51
No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but
it was not intended merely as a display of power--many lessons were herein
taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out
vesture, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished,
because all fulfilled in Him, and therefore the place of their presentation was
marked with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden
things of the old dispensation: the mercy-seat could now be seen, and the
glory of God gleamed forth above it. By the death of our Lord Jesus we have a
clear revelation of God, for He was "not as Moses, who put a veil over his
face." Life and immortality are now brought to light, and things which have been
hidden since the foundation of the world are manifest in Him. The annual
ceremony of atonement was thus abolished. The atoning blood which was once
every year sprinkled within the veil, was now offered once for all by the great
High Priest, and therefore the place of the symbolical rite was broken up. No
blood of bullocks or of lambs is needed now, for Jesus has entered within the
veil with his own blood. Hence access to God is now permitted, and is the
privilege of every believer in Christ Jesus. There is no small space laid open
through which we may peer at the mercy-seat, but the rent reaches from the top
to the bottom. We may come with boldness to the throne of the heavenly grace.
Shall we err if we say that the opening of the Holy of Holies in this marvellous
manner by our Lord's expiring cry was the type of the opening of the gates of
paradise to all the saints by virtue of the Passion? Our bleeding Lord hath
the key of heaven; He openeth and no man shutteth; let us enter in with Him into
the heavenly places, and sit with Him there till our common enemies shall be
made His footstool.
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