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In Exodus, after Israel received the Law at Mt. Sinai, God told them to depart from there and go up to the promised land, and that God would send His angel before them to drive out the inhabitants of the land. But He Himself would not go up in their midst because they were an obstinate and sinful people. Lest He destroy them along the way. He was talking about the near presence of God. He is a consuming fire!
When the people heard this, they went into mourning and removed any of the ornaments they still had from when they were in Egypt. Moses then interceded for the people.
The presence of God was clearly with Moses. He had pitched a tent a good distance away from the camp of Israel. He called it the tent of meeting. Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would stand at the entrance and God would speak to Moses there.
There at the tent of meeting, Moses interceded for the people and God responded, “I will go with you and I will give you rest.” That meant so much to Moses that he said, “If your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.”
The presence of God is the key to our life as well and the book of Hebrews shows us the power of the presence of God like no other book.
Hebrews gives some of the richest, most beautiful insights into what God has done for us through His Son Jesus Christ. Because of Jesus, we have the power of the presence of God in our lives. That is the foundation of faith.
He was writing to Hebrews, Jews, who believed in Jesus Christ as the Messiah. But they were struggling in their faith. They were being pressured by the other Jews to go back to the ways of the Old Testament, back to the laws of Moses, back to the shadow of the thing, of which Christ is the reality, the substance.
Line by line, he shows them that Jesus is superior in every way. Jesus is greater than Moses, He is greater than Solomon, greater than Jonah, greater than even Abraham. He is greater than the angels, He is greater than all the priests of the Old Testament, He is greater than the Sabbath and he is even greater than the temple itself.
Why go back to the old life when what you have in Christ is superior to anything else? There is nothing better than Christ. There is no greater truth, there is no greater salvation.
They were being pressured to go back to the old life and the old ways that were only a shadow of what they now have in Christ. Instead of falling backward, he challenges them to press forward, to draw nearer to God with a sincere heart and in full assurance of faith.
This applies to many people today. Many are stuck in what I call the ‘miserable middle.’ They believe Jesus purchased salvation for them on the cross and received the offer of life, but the pressures of life, the worries and cares of the world and the desires for other things come in and choke their spiritual life and they find themselves in the miserable middle. He calls them to live nearer to God.
When you understand what a great salvation you have and what God has done for you through His Son, Jesus Christ, you should press forward, you should draw nearer to God; with a sincere heart and with full assurance of faith.
I. God Wants You to Draw Closer
 The writer spent the last several chapters saying that Jesus is far superior to the old law in every way.
 The law was weak and useless and could make nothing perfect and has therefore been set aside.
 We have a better hope, through which we draw near to God, that hope is an anchor for our soul. Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
 Verse 19, however, opens the door to one of the deepest and greatest truths about the nearness of God because of what Jesus has done for us when he offered Himself as a sacrifice on the cross.
A. We can enter the holiest place
 The place nearest to God in the Temple was the Holy of Holies.

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