The door is open (and it cost everything)
There is a moment in the Good Friday story that most of us have read, nodded at, and moved straight past.
The moment the temple curtain tore.
Not a thin piece of fabric. This was a structure 60 feet tall and four inches thick - a densely woven barrier that separated ordinary people from the most sacred space in the whole world. Only one man could pass through it, once a year, after days of ritual preparation. For everyone else - the sick, the struggling, the sinful, the ordinary - it said clearly: you cannot come in here.
Until Good Friday changed that. For ever.
In this week’s sermon, I want us to slow down and really look at what happened in that moment. When the curtain tore from top to bottom - not from the ground up, as a human hand might, but from heaven toward earth - it meant something staggering. God himself tore it. God wanted the door open.
And Hebrews puts it plainly: because of the blood of Jesus, we can now enter boldly into God’s presence. Not tentatively. Not apologetically. Boldly.
Key takeaway: The door is not ajar for the spiritually sorted. It is torn wide open for everyone - including you, exactly as you are today.
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He has done it. It is finished. Walk through.
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