The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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blessing of the new covenant, to which the Epistle to the
Hebrews very specially points the way. In Israel only the
priests might enter the Holy Place :
thence they went out again
to teach the people. Into the Most Holy only the High Priest
might come. In Christ every believer has access to the Holiest
of All. Christ hath redeemed us, not to bring us to Himself,
but to bring us to God. He is the door, in which we are not to
remain standing, but through which we enter to God Himself,
to His heart and His love. God, having spoken in past times
in the prophets, hath now spoken in His Son ;
in Him there is
an immediate living fellowship with the living God. All that
the Epistle has to teach of the rending of the veil, and our
boldness in the blood, and the entrance into the Holiest of All
it has all to do with this one thing, direct personal living
fellowship with the living God. As the Minister of the true
sanctuary Jesus sends the Spirit from thence to do the work
He has in our heart as Mediator of the covenant, and prepare
us to enter the sanctuary. As Mediator of the covenant He
then reveals Himself more fully as the Minister of the
sanctuary, who does indeed bring us nigh to God.
And how does He do this? In the way in which He
Himself entered there, the way of obedience. I will write My
law in their hearts, and they shall know Me. The law
written on the heart is the condition of fellowship with God.
Without holiness no man shall see the Lord."
the pure in heart for they shall see God."
Blessed are
will be done
on earth as it is in heaven." To be brought by the heavenly
High Priest within the veil, and dwell before God s face, we must
learn to do His will on earth as it is done in heaven. This is
the true heavenly-mindedness that renders us capable of fellow
ship with the God of heaven. Union with God s will was the