The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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pensations of God s grace, or two stages in the Christian life,
a lower and a higher. Into the Holy Place every priest
might come daily to do there the service God had appointed.
Into the Most Holy he might not enter till Christ had opened
it for all believers. Many believers never in experience
enter into this life of the inner sanctuary, the more complete
and abiding nearness to God. They have, in the outer court,
seen the altar, and received the pardon of sin ; they have entered
upon the service of God, they seek to do His will, but the joy of
His presence as their abiding portion they know not. And very
often they do not know that there is a better life, that there is
an entering within the veil, a real dwelling in the secret of God s
presence the need that the ; Holy Spirit signify to them, work
in them the conviction that to them the way into the Holiest
hath not yet been made manifest. They need oh let us,
if we
have not yet entered in, let us give ourselves to pray for the
discovery that there is an inner chamber ;
that there is still the
veil of the flesh, the life of the carnal Christian, that prevents
the access
;
that only the possession of the Pentecostal blessing,
the Spirit that came from the throne when Jesus had rent the
veil, that reveals Him and links to Him, is what will bring
When He has signified this
us in.
to us, and we yield ourselves to
the full conviction that we are still without the veil, and strong
desire has been awakened at any cost to enter in, the same
Spirit who at Pentecost, when our High Priest had just entered
with His blood, came forth from the Holiest of All, will come to
us in power and bring us in too. As He reveals Jesus Himself
as having gone in for us ;
as He makes us willing for that
perfect surrender, in which nothing less than the direct and
continual fellowship with God can satisfy us; our hearts will
open to the wondrous mystery, that what is
impossible
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