The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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And if
you would know why so few Christians enjoy this
rest, it is because they do not know Jesus as their Joshua. We
shall see later how Aaron was only a type of Christ in His
work on earth. Melchizedek is needed as a type of His work
in heaven, in the power and joy of the heavenly life.
Moses and
Aaron both shadow forth the beginning of Christ s work His
work on earth ;
Melchizedek and Joshua His work in heaven.
They show us clearly how, as in the type God ordained, so in
reality there are two stages in Christian knowledge and experi
ence. All the feebleness of our Christian life is
owing to one
thing : we
do not know Jesus in heaven ;
we do not know that
Jesus has entered in for us (vi. 20, ix. 12, 14),
and that this
secures to us boldness and the power of entrance into a heavenly
state of life; that He there sits upon the throne as our High
Priest in power, maintaining in us His own heavenly life ;
keep
ing us in personal fellowship with the living Father, so that
in Him we too enter the rest of God. It is because we do
not know Jesus in His heavenly
life and power that our life
is feeble ;
if we learn to know Him as He is to be revealed in
this Epistle, as our heavenly Joshua, actually bringing
us and
our inmost nature into the rest of God, we cannot but enter into
that rest. When Joshua went before, the people followed at once
in fellowship with him. Entering the rest of God is a personal
practical experience of the soul that receives the word in living
faith, because in it it receives Jesus on the throne.
Let us do what Israel did in crossing Jordan ; they allowed
Joshua to bring them in ; they
followed him. Let us follow
Jesus in the path He trod. In heaven God s will is all. On
earth Jesus made that will all. He lived in the will of God, in
suffering and doing, in meeting trial, in waiting for the Father s
guidance ; in giving up everything to it, He proved that God s