Hebrews 9:11a

"But..." Now you have the flip-side! Yes, all that was as good as it could be, BUT it had now outworn its usefulness. Now we've got something 'far better,' as we've been seeing all through the Book of Hebrews.


Hebrews 9:11a

"But Christ (after the priesthood of Melchizedek) being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, (now I'm reading this slowly) not made with hands,...."


Well, if it's not made with hands, where is it? In heaven. In the heavenlies. There is a prototype and we showed that several weeks ago, that when Moses got instructions to build the tabernacle in the wilderness, what was it patterned after? The likeness of the one in heaven. Alright, and here it is again. That this Priest, Christ, the Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with silver and gold and animal skins and linens and so forth. But with materials of the Heavenlies and only God knows what that is.


My, aren't you getting kind of homesick for Heaven? I think every believer from the young ones to the old one should be - and you know what? We had to drop a television station a while back and we had kids that were eleven and twelve years old who called and cried, literally, bawled, because they were using our program every morning in their home schooling and wanted to know why in the world we had to drop the program? Well, I'll tell you that tears you up. But, on the other hand, it thrills us, that we do have a lot of kids listening and watching our program.


A couple of years ago, Iris and I were just beside ourselves because a mother and two kids came to one of our seminars and the kids came up; one was 14, and one was 12, something like that. And they hugged us like long lost grandparents! And the poor mother was so embarrassed. And she said, "Well Les, you've got to remember, they watch you every morning." Well you know, that thrills our hearts that we're not just appealing to the 'gray hairs;' we do have a large audience of kids, eight, nine, ten - in fact we've got one family, now their kids are 17 and 18 and they've been with us for almost seven or eight years every morning. So you keep praying that we'll keep reaching a lot of these younger folks.


But anyway, most of you understand that the tabernacle in the wilderness was made of earthly materials, but this tabernacle, this prototype, if I may call it that, is made in glory, with things that we can't comprehend. All I know is, it's glorious! It's going to be beyond human comprehension. Alright, so verse 11, finishing it.


Hebrews 9:11b

"...by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;" (creation). So it's not on this earth. Alright now verse 12, and here comes the whole meat or the substance of this portion of Scripture.


Hebrews 9:12

"Neither by the blood of goats and calves, (as we just saw in the previous verses in our last program) but by his own blood (the Blood of the Cross, on Calvary as the high priest entered behind the veil with the blood of an animal. This high Priest, Christ Jesus Himself) enters into the holy place, (in heaven. In other words into the presence of God the Father. Not with the blood of bulls and calves) having obtained eternal redemption for us."