Draw Near with a True Heart Hebrews 10:22

There is a “high priest over the house of God” according to the writer of Hebrews, and in chapter ten and verse twenty-two of Hebrews the writer shares about “draw near with a true heart” where we read:

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having

our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

The verse begins, “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,...”. The writer began with the words, “Let us draw near” or “Allow the writer of Hebrews and his readers come, approach and assent” “with a true heart” which means “alongside the center of all physical and spiritual life in a manner that is opposite to what is fictitious, counterfeit, imaginary, simulated or pretended” “in full assurance” or “in most certain and entire confidence” “of faith” which means “conviction of the truth with the predominate idea of trust whether in God or in Christ which springs from faith in the same”. Because the writer and his readers were given access to God, they were to “approach” Him with “true hearts” which were “filled with conviction of the truth and trust in God”.

The verse continues, “...having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”. The writer added the words, “having our hearts sprinkled” which is the Greek phrase “rhantizō kardia rhantizō” which means “the center of all physical and spiritual life has been cleansed and purified” “from an evil” which means “out of , since and separated apart from a wicked and bad ” “conscience” or “the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good and bad which prompts to do the former and shun the latter while commending one and condemning the other”, “and our bodies” which refers to “the writer and his readers' living body or corpse” “washed” or “bathed and cleansed” “with pure water” which means “with clean and purified by fire water”. Those who believe in Jesus' sacrifice for their sins have had their “evil consciousness” and “bodies” “cleansed” with the “purified” water from God.

When we consider these words in Hebrews, we see the invitation by the writer to simply “draw near” to God. Since we have access to Him, we have no need to fear Him if we have received His Son Jesus Christ as our “Savior and Lord”. The Lord Jesus has “cleansed and purged” us from our “sins”, and we have the “full assurance of faith” to make entry before God Almighty, and those who are wise will do so.

Next time the writer tells his readers to “hold fast the profession of our faith”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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