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God called this a new agreement, so he has made the first agreement old. And anything that is old and worn out is ready to disappear.

The Holy Tent was set up for this. The first area in the Tent was called the Holy Place. In it were the lamp and the table with the bread that was made holy for God.

But only the high priest could go into the second room, and he did that only once a year. He could never enter the inner room without taking blood with him, which he offered to God for himself and for sins the people did without knowing they did them.

How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God.

For this reason Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people. Those who are called by God can now receive the blessings he has promised, blessings that will last forever. They can have those things because Christ died so that the people who lived under the first agreement could be set free from sin.

He said, "This is the blood that begins the Agreement that God commanded you to obey."

Christ did not go into the Most Holy Place made by humans, which is only a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself and is there now before God to help us.

The law is only an unclear picture of the good things coming in the future; it is not the real thing. The people under the law offer the same sacrifices every year, but these sacrifices can never make perfect those who come near to worship God.

Then I said, ‘Look, I have come. It is written about me in the book. God, I have come to do what you want.'" Psalm 40:6–8

Then he said, "Look, I have come to do what you want." God ends the first system of sacrifices so he can set up the new system.

But after Christ offered one sacrifice for sins, forever, he sat down at the right side of God.

let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Let us hold firmly to the hope that we have confessed, because we can trust God to do what he promised.

There is nothing but fear in waiting for the judgment and the terrible fire that will destroy all those who live against God.

So what do you think should be done to those who do not respect the Son of God, who look at the blood of the agreement that made them holy as no different from others' blood, who insult the Spirit of God's grace? Surely they should have a much worse punishment.

We know that God said, "I will punish those who do wrong; I will repay them." And he also said, "The Lord will judge his people."

It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised.

It was by faith that Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. God said he was pleased with the gifts Abel offered and called Abel a good man because of his faith. Abel died, but through his faith he is still speaking.

It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven so he would not die. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. Before he was taken, the Scripture says that he was a man who truly pleased God.