The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Ibolfest of BU 200
have direct access and direct intercourse with Him. They
would, in spiritual reality, draw nigh to God in the Holiest of
All.
This is
the new, the better covenant, of which Jesus was to
be the Mediator. It is
easy now to see of what importance
it is that the Epistle should here introduce this name and
function of our blessed Lord, the Mediator of the new cove
nant. When the message comes to us of drawing nigh
to God, of entering into the Holiest and abiding there, the
thought always comes that our sinful, faithless hearts render it
impossible.
It would be very easy, we say, and very blessed to
dwell all the day consciously in God s presence, if we eould all
But we cannot
the day remain occupied with spiritual things.
our earthly duties render unbroken communion an impossibility.
And if it be said that, if we trust this to Jesus, He will care for
be occupied with earthly things, the
us, even when we have to
answer comes again
: But oh, the sinfulness of our heart ! Ere
we know, tempers and dispositions come which must bring a
cloud ;
to abide always in the light of God, not only to enter
God s presence, but to continue there it is not possible !
Come and listen. But they continued not in My covenant.
This is the experience of the old covenant, to which there now
can be an end. The whole provision of the new covenant is to
fit us for continuing in it, for abiding continually. It is indeed
true that the sanctuary
is
the dwelling-place of the Holy One,
the Holiest of All, and that sinning clouds God s presence.
There must be correspondence, harmony, between the sanctuary,
with the God that dwells there, and the worshipper. But it is for
this very purpose that Jesus, the Minister of the true sanctuary,
is also the Mediator of the new covenant. He engages so to
reveal the power of His blood and the boldness of access it