Enter Into HIs Gates With Thanksgiving!

Psalm 100:4 (NKJV) ⁴Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving.”  The term “enter” here is to go in by a direct line.  The challenge was to enter the temple or tabernacle directly with thanksgiving, with a direct confession of thankfulness.  This individual would be speaking words of personal praise.

The courts were the outer area of the temple or tabernacle where there would be public assembly for worship.  The Israelites were being commanded here to be bringing praise.  They were to be speaking positive words of excellence about their God, words that would cause others to wonder.  As men would express these praises extoling the Heavenly Father by making public confession of His attributes and acts of power they would be expressing their thankfulness.

When they blessed God they extoled Him for His greatness and goodness; this was part of the command.

Please notice, these worshipers only had access to the courtyard it was the priest who would get to go directly through the veil into the Holy of Holies.

Today those of us who have repented of our sin trusting in the blood of Christ to cleanse us of our sin have access directly to the Father because Jesus has now given us direct access to the Mercy Seat where the blood of atonement was applied.  That offering that represented the covering of our sins.

Hebrews 10:10–22 (NKJV) ¹⁰By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹²But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. ¹⁴For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. ¹⁵But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, ¹⁶“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” ¹⁷then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” ¹⁸Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. ¹⁹Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹and having a High Priest over the house of God,

²²let 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.

I trust you will understand the privilege we have because of Jesus Christ and “boldly” enter with thanksgiving. (Heb. 4:16)

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