Access is valuable and exclusive. It gives you special admittance to events, places, information, and people.
You can buy an all-access pass to your favorite theme park or to a backstage VIP event. With just a password, you can access files on an electronic device – both yours and someone else’s. Your connections with certain people give you access to a politician’s ear.
But access always has a cost.
You need financial resources to purchase an all-access pass … privileged information to login to a computer … relationships with the right people to connect with influencers.
Without access, you’re locked out.
Access to God: Complicated and Exclusive
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The escapade with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden blocked our direct access to the presence of God.
After that, access to God evolved into an exclusive and complicated system. Only the religious leaders – those with financial resources, know-how, and rank – could approach God in the Holy of Holies, and even then only once a year and with the proper sacrifice.
They had the means to access. Everyone else had to go through them.
But Jesus’ death and resurrection broke that access system and created a new one.
The Torn Veil Means Open Access
Caiaphas, the high priest, followed the complicated steps for access into the presence of God. He was preparing to move through the veil in the temple and enter the Holy of Holies at the very moment when Jesus breathed His final breath on the cross.
But the veil tore in two. At that instant, the old access system was destroyed.
That rip means you no longer need to pay for direct access to God (Jesus paid for your all-access pass) … you don’t need complex login credentials to connect with God (Jesus is your direct line) … you don’t need to know somebody important in order to have a relationship with God (Jesus makes it possible for you to have a personal relationship with God).
Access is still valuable … but it is no longer exclusive. The new system means your access to God is password-protected no more. Instead, it is free, simple, direct – and there for the taking.
Will you?
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