Matthew 27:51

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split.

From Background Notes [BN] for March 2nd & 3rd written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The curtain signaled distance and separation, and under the previous arrangement only one man (the High Priest) would dare pass the curtain into the holiest room of the temple. Jesus (the Great High Priest) did more than did that one man, though he himself was but one man. He was the only man to make that passage into God’s presence, while forever rending the curtain, allowing for permanent and regular access to the presence of God.

 
Jesus didn’t just go there, he brought us there. Worship on the Lord’s Day ought to look like that, and when visitors to our services witness how we worship God, they should be struck by the fact that we worship with confidence in a form that is “new and living,” in a way that is “opened for us,” while not closed to them.  [BN, 6]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am