Father Mike Schmitz

Our decisions make a difference.

They don't just echo in time.

They also echo in eternity.

And so we say, Lord, for all those things that I've done where I failed you, please cover me with your blood.

And that is Hebrews.

Oh my gosh.

How incredible is this?

How incredible is it?

That yes, there's judgment, but here in the letter to the Hebrews, we have this absolute declaration that Christ's blood takes away our sins.

Now here's an interesting part.

That's just, I don't know if you've ever noticed this.

We have the celebration of Christmas, obviously the incarnation, Jesus Christ becomes one of us.

We have the celebration of the passion.

and Easter, so you have Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday, so the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus, which is incredible, and just how, here's God's love for us.

But we also have the Feast of the Ascension, and so many of us, we underestimate the Ascension, and yet, here's what the Hebrews is all about.

It talks about the Old Covenant, right, and here's the Old Temple, and here's what the priests would do.

Once a year, they would go in to the temple, and in that place, they would offer up the sacrifice of blood and goats, of bulls and goats, that kind of thing.

But here is this absolute key in chapter nine, verse 11.

It says, but when Christ appeared as 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, meaning when he entered into heaven, he entered once for all into the holy place, not taking the blood of goats and calves, but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

What he just described there.