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Hebrews 10:19-25

"So, friends, we can now—without hesitation—walk right up to God, into "the Holy Place." Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The "curtain" into God's presence is his body. So let's do it—full of belief, confident that we're presentable inside and out. Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching."

The Holy of Holies: The place where God dwells. The glorious and magnificent throne room where for years we have confidently been entering to find His undeserved and undying mercy and grace for the days, the months and the years ahead of us. The form and the songs may have changed and evolved over the years but the beauty and adoration that flows out of a heart that has been loved back to life by Jesus, is as miraculous and captivating today as it was when the first person knelt at the feet of Jesus way back at the beginning of time. Because the precious intimate Saviour King we get to walk with and worship today is the same saviour who rescued the hearts of our grandparents and our parents. We worship the same Jesus - the same Precious and Holy Spirit as you, as me, as the thousands of generations who have gone before us, who have paved the way, and the same Jesus for those ones who are to come.

Our generation has had the privilege of looking back. We grew up watching and learning from our parents and grandparents of the faith, sing and love on the King. We stand in awe as we watch these pillars of the church with loyalty and faithfulness clutch the hand of Jesus in worship and adoration. It is because of this fierce love for Him - a love that sticks by Jesus despite all the obstacles and weathers of life -that we know He must be real. It is because we have held the hands of previous generations that we have dared to enter for ourselves the throne room of the Almighty King. Because of what has gone before us we know that He is real, and further more, we ourselves have fallen in love with Him in our own unique and deep way.

And so we look ahead. We take where we have come from, and the thread that makes us 21st Century “twenty –somethings” unique to the Father, we look into His eyes, find all the love that we need in this loveless, broken world, and we, too, bow in awe before our personal and wonderful King. We sing our songs, we express to Him our love, and once again, just as He captivated the hearts of those before us, He takes our hearts for Him alone.