Welcome to Gospel and Life. This month on the podcast, Tim Keller is preaching through the book of Hebrews to answer this essential question. If God loves us so much, why is life so hard?

The scripture reading is taken from Hebrews, Chapter 9, verses 11 through 14, and chapter 10

verses 11 through 18.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through

the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, he entered once for all into

the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood,

thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of

goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,

how much more were the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without

blemish to God, purifying our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. And every priest

stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

waiting from that time until his enemy should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single

offering, he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us, for after saying,

This is the covenant that I will make with them.

After those days, declared the Lord, I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds.

Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their

lawless deeds no more. Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh.

And since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart

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