Come Boldly to the Throne

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4:16

What is the throne of Grace

1.      Place of the presence of God

a.      Where God is in all his Glory

b.    The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,⁷ Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,

c.     Deterrent to coming : and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

2.    But that’s and old Covenant Declaration of God. Under the New Covenant:

a.    God describes Himself as:

b.    Merciful and gracious

c.     Longsuffering

d.    Abundant in goodness and truth

e.    Forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin

f.      But also just, “by no means clearing the guilty,” and visiting iniquity across generations

g.    🌟 New Covenant Echoes In the New Testament, especially through Jesus, God reintroduces Himself with a renewed focus on mercy and personal relationship:

h.    Hebrews 8:10–12 (quoting Jeremiah 31:31–34):

i.      “I will be their God, and they shall be my people... I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”

j.      John 1:14, 17: “The Word became flesh... full of grace and truth... grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

k.     Romans 3:25–26: God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement... to demonstrate His righteousness, so He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

l.      2 Corinthians 5:19: “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting people’s sins against them.”

m.   These passages reflect a shift: while God remains just, the New Covenant centers on individual accountability, mercy, and transformation through the Spirit, rather than inherited guilt

n.    Infact long before the post Law period God Says in Ez. 18:3

3.    ³ As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

a.    ⁴ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die

b.    ⁵ But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

Why mercy and why grace?

1.    Mercy so that we can forget the past and move on with our lives and know that this wrong that we have done or our fathers have done is not hanging over our heads

2.    Grace so that we can know that a bright new future awaits with new opportunities and possibilities.

This hymn was written by Samuel W. Gandy as it is believed that he struggled with personal doubts, guilt and self condemnation 1in 1780 to 1851.

I hear the accuser roar Of ills that I have done;I know them well, and thousands more; Jehovah findeth none.Sin, Satan, Death, press near, To harass and appal;Let but my risen Lord appear, Backward they go and fall.Before, behind, around, They set their fierce arrayTo fight and force me from my ground Along Immanuel's way.I meet them face to face Through Jesus' conquest blest;March in the triumph of His grace Right onward to my rest.There, in His book I bear A more than conq'ror's name,A soldier, son, and fellow-heir, Who fought and overcame.His be the Victor's name Who fought our fight alone:Triumphant saints no honour claim, Their conquest was His own.By weakness and defeat He won the meed and crown;Trod all our foes beneath His feet By being trodden down.He hell in hell laid low; Made sin, He sin o'erthrew;Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so, And death, by dying, slew.Bless, bless the Conq'ror slain! Slain in His victory!Who lived, who died, who lives again, For thee, His Church, for thee.

5 No condemnation now I dread;Jesus, and all in Him is mine!Alive in Him, my living Head,And clothed in righteousness divine,Bold I approach th'eternal throne,And claim the crown, through Christ my own. [Refrain]

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4:16.

There are quite a few stops before the throne of Grace

Time would fail me and not only would time fail me but I might fail in my attempt to get into the symbolism of all the junctions on the way to the most holy replace representative of the Throne of grace but we can identify three major stations

1.      The Altar of Burnt offerings also called the Brazen altar.  That was in the outer court, There is where sin was dealt with.

2.      Then the Inner court – Called the Holy place. There were the Table of Shew bread, the Lampstand, The Laver and The Altar of incense – All representing different stages of relationships to God,

3.      But finally, there was the Most Holy Place. Where you face to face with the divine presence of God. Where his Grace and mercy flows.

That’s where we are call to come boldly to because Christ has entered there And is now ready to give us not just mercy but Grace to help in time of need. And if ever we need him is NOW.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4:16