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  BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWAIN
  by C.H. Spurgeon
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Summary: The sermon explains how the death of Jesus Christ brought about
a new era of direct access to God, marking the end of the old law of
ordinances and the beginning of a new era of revelation and redemption.

Topics: "Access to God", "Fulfillment of the Law"
Scripture References: Matthew 27:51, Hebrews 10:19

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C.H. Spurgeon emphasizes the profound significance of the temple veil
being torn at Jesus' death, illustrating the end of the old law and the
fulfillment of sacrifices in Christ. This miraculous event not only
signifies the abolishment of the annual atonement but also reveals the
mercy-seat and the glory of God, granting believers direct access to
Him. The tearing of the veil symbolizes the opening of heaven's gates
for all saints, allowing them to approach God with boldness through
Jesus, our great High Priest. Spurgeon encourages believers to embrace
this privilege and enter into the heavenly places with Christ, who holds
the keys to paradise.

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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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