“But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.”
In the Old Testament, the high priest was the only one who could go into the tabernacle for the forgiveness of sins for himself and the people, and because it was here on earth and the tabernacle was built by people like us, it couldn’t work, because we all have sin in our lives. The high priest also had to bring blood. The only way it could work, is for God to use blood, which is why Jesus had to be born a man on this earth with no sin (God can not be around sin, that is why Jesus had no sin) and then die, but the covenant had to be made in heaven and not on earth (ref “not made with hands”). There is absolutely nothing we can do in works or in the flesh to receive salvation.
Our reality should be heaven and what has been done in heaven, where God the Father and Jesus is now. Whatever shall be done in heaven shall be done on earth “Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven” Matthew 6:10. We should automatically go to, or get into the habit of thinking, that what has already been done for us in heaven, shall be done on earth, instead of listening to the negativity and pulling down of what people say in this world. These things that are talked about in the world that go against what God says (things that already have been finished in heaven), come from anywhere, including believers, which is why we have to be so careful with what we hear and accept from others. The devil is very subtle, his ultimate goal is for you to believe the wrong thing – especially getting believers not to believe God for everything and not go to Him first in everything. He will try and get us to think of going everywhere else first and with our sinful nature, it is so easy for us to go there.
That is why we need to renew our minds – we are a new creation now and thank you God that we have His spirit inside of us to confirm what He says and what has been done! He is the one that will bring heaven into reality in our lives here on earth. The Holy Spirit is the most important person on this earth and sad to say the most ignored. He is the one we need to go to first. He is with us every second of the day – how often would we just stop our own selfish thoughts and talk to Him?
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