Chapter nine of Hebrews is summed up in four verses, 11-15.

“But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprikling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.“

Christ has come as our sacrifice to usher in the New Covenant and has come as the high priest to mediate the New Covenant.

He is are all in all.

We no longer strive for perfection, He is our perfection.  We no longer offer sacrifices, He is our final sacrifice.  We no longer find ourselves in shame, only grace.

Chapter 9 of Hebrews is a beautiful text that we cannot simply read over.  Instead, we must allow it to marinate within us, to remind us, to change us of all who Christ is and all that He has accomplished in his sacrificial death.

Today, allow yourself to be grasped by the text rather than grasping the text yourself.  This is not an easy, it works against our busy schedules.  Allowing the text to grab a hold of us causes us to slow down, it causes us to examined by the text rather than us performing the  examining procedure on it.  This task is one that is unnatural to our way of life and busy routines.  At first, it may seem uncomfortable or difficult to allow the text to work on us but it is one that is well worth it once we receive its benefits.

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