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Thank you for listening to our How about the

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bride walking down the aisle? What happens when

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the bride is unveiled? Now the groom has full

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access. Into what? Intimacy. We have to remove

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the veil. It's okay to celebrate guys It's okay

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to get happy about the Word of God It's okay

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to celebrate good news of Jesus There we go Thank

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you friend Luke chapter 23 I want us to look

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at the moments before Jesus's death on the cross.

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Let's just look at the buildup here for a moment.

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He's betrayed. He's abandoned. He's arrested.

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He's denied. He's blasphemed. He's mocked. He's

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beaten beyond the appearance of man. And he's

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nailed to a cross. Now look at his last moments.

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The word says, it was now about the sixth hour.

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And there was darkness over the whole land until

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the ninth hour. While the sun's light failed

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And the curtain of the temple was torn in two

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Somebody say then Jesus Calling out with a loud

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voice Said father into your hands. I commit my

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spirit And having said this he breathed his last

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Jesus suffers through everything And finally

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when the veil is torn, it's in that moment, it's

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like he's saying on the cross, okay Father, my

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work here is done. He was waiting for the veil

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to be torn. The last thing that had to happen

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for him to accomplish everything. Do you see

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how much it matters about us being in the presence

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of God? Do you see how much He desires to be

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close to us? No longer does He want some high

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priest coming in to represent you. Just once

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a year, just to pay for your sins, just to atone

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for your sins. No, no, no, He wants more. I want

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to give it to Him. Hebrews chapter 6 verses 19

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to 20 says this We have this as a sure and steadfast

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anchor of the soul a hope that enters into the

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inner place behind the curtain Where Jesus has

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gone as a forerunner on our behalf? Having become

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a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek

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The only one, the only priest to enter through

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the curtain In perfection was Jesus. Every priest

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before him, they had to atone for their own sins

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first. What happens when Jesus comes in with

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no sins of his own? The perfect one, he tore

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the veil. Why? So we can enter by his perfection.

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and into his perfection. Y 'all ever wonder why

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Jesus was baptized? Was there an old hymn that

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he had to let down under the water? No, he said,

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I must do this to fulfill all righteousness.

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What's the reason for that? Now when we're baptized

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we're baptized into his righteousness We get

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to leave behind all unrighteousness All the dirty

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stuff and we get to come up perfected This is

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why the word says in Hebrews 10 This is for by

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a single offering He has perfected for all time

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those who are being sanctified You have already

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been perfected Doesn't say He will perfect you.

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We have been perfected, even as we're being sanctified.

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That means when we look at ourselves in the mirror,

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we see a process of sanctification. When Jesus

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looks at us, He sees His perfected work. How

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do you want to see you? Give me your eyes Jesus.

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I want to see myself as you see me. I want to

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see people as you see them. Show us Lord. Open

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our eyes. You see how you enter his presence?

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Is how you will see his face. And how you see

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his face? Is how you know him. I can always tell

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how somebody knows the Lord. By the way, they

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read his word. You ever get a text message from

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somebody? and you can't tell the tone of what

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they're saying? Are they mad at me? Is this just

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a joke? Are they actually saying it in a sweet

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voice? When you don't know the person, you can't

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tell. If I don't know the person who wrote this,

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I can't tell the tone or the context of his words.

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How you enter his presence matters. I don't want

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to enter his presence and meet a false Jesus.

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How can that happen? If I don't know him, I will

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never know. How we enter matters. Let's go to

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Hebrews chapter 10, verses 19 to 22. It says,

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therefore, brothers, since we have confidence

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to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

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by the new and living way that he opened for

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us through the curtain. Look. that is through

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his flesh and Since we have a great priest over

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the house of God Let us draw near with a true

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heart in full assurance of faith look with our

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hearts sprinkled clean From an evil conscience

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and our bodies wash with pure water So brothers,

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having the freedom to enter the holy place through

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the blood of Jesus Christ, through the new way

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that he opened us through the veil, this is of

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his flesh, and having a great priest over the

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house of God, let us approach with a sincere

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heart, in full certainty of faith, purifying

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the hearts of evil conscience and washing the

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bodies with pure water. When I read this scripture

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I pick up on one thing We can only enter his

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presence on his terms. No longer my terms. No

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longer my filter. No longer my veil. No, I only

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enter through Jesus. The word says the curtain

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is his flesh. Can you imagine this just for a

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second? He says from now on you enter the holy

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places through my flesh, through my blood. What

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does it look like to enter the presence of God

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by the blood of Jesus? The way I picture this

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is like a waterfall coming down. You ever seen

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the movies where there's like a little cave underneath

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the waterfall? And you can like walk through

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the waterfall into the cave? I pictured it like

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this with Jesus. It's like He's inviting us in.

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But before I can even get in, I have to go through

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His blood. So what do I look like when I get

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to Him? I look perfected. I look like Jesus.

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I look like the fullness of who I was supposed

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to be. Now what happens when I get there? I can

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look at myself and see now I've been perfected

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How does that help me see him now? It helps me

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see him rightly No longer do I come in bound

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by the spirit of slavery, that would cause me

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to fall back into fear. No, this is why we enter

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by confidence. This is why the word says we can

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come to the throne with boldness. I can't do

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that when I enter through my sin, my friends.

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The only way I can do it is when I enter through

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the blood. Brings a whole new meaning to John

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14 When Jesus says I am the way the truth and

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the life No one comes to the father except through

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me. Well, if you want to get into the presence

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of my Father, the only way you get in is when

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you're perfected. The only way you're perfected

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is through me. I want an untainted experience

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with the Lord. I don't wanna bring my sin in.

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Why bring in debt that he's already paid for?

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Sometimes we just have a receipt of our debt.

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And we bring it in with us waving it around.

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What that thing does is it blocks our view of

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a perfected version of him. If I can't see Him

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rightly, I will never see myself rightly. And

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I will walk this earth all the days of my life.

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I struggle with my identity. I think the struggle

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of identity has to come to an end in the church.

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Is it okay that we're a work in progress? The

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more I see you, Jesus, the more I'll look like

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you. Enough of this stuff where it's like, I

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just don't look like Jesus yet. You're good.

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There's a perfected version coming. It's only

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unlocked when you see Him rightly. What does

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it look like for us to be with Jesus? With our

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hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience.

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You guys can, let's stand up all across this

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room. Close your eyes please. Here's where intimacy

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forms my identity. When I look at Jesus, I get

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to see how he is looking at me. Ask God to give

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you the spirit of wisdom and revelation. In the

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knowledge of Jesus So that your eyes may be opened

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And your heart be enlightened I want to see you

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rightly Jesus Think about it When you come through

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Jesus to get to Jesus, we finally get to hear

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his thoughts. I finally get to know the right

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tone of his voice. I can reject all of my own

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thoughts. I can reject everybody else's thoughts

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about me. And I can hear what he has to say about

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me. Righteous. Holy. perfected, my child, my

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beloved, my bride, my delight is in her. Jesus

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open up our ears today. Let us hear your voice

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now more than ever Lord. Remove the veil fully

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Jesus. Let us enter in by your terms. Let us

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enter through by your blood. I want to see you

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perfectly Jesus. The day