The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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own life experience, and, in entering into and opening up the
higher one for us, passed through
the lower. He entered into
the Holiest through the greater and more perfect tabernacle,
through the experience of that spiritual reality
of which the
tabernacle was the shadow. The Holiest is God s immediate
presence, the Holy Place a drawing nigh
to God with a veil
between. The flesh, man s fallen nature in its weakness and its
exposure to all the consequences of sin, is the veil. Christ has
dedicated for us a new and living way through the veil, that
is to say, His flesh. When He came in the likeness of sinful
flesh, that life in flesh, with its liability to temptation,
and its
weakness, with its possibility of suffering and death, with its life
of faith and prayer and tears, with its need of learning obedience
and being made perfect, with its subjection to the law and its
curse, was the Holy Place, the first tabernacle, through which He
had to pass to have the veil rent in His death, so to enter in and
appear before God. Christ lived with His people
in the Old
Testament; He passed through the first tabernacle as a spiritual
experience in perfect reality it was
; only with His resurrection
and ascension the New Testament began.
Place into the Holiest of All.
Yes, Christ passed from the Holy
When He died the veil was rent in twain ;
the two compartments
were made one. The priest who was in the Holy Place could
All that was in the Holiest, the
see, could enter into the Holiest.
light of God s presence between the cherubim, could shine
unhindered into the Holy Place. In Christ the veil of the flesh
was rent asunder and taken away. The free access to God was
opened up, not only as a thing of right and title in virtue
of our pardon, but as a thing of power and living reality. Ye
are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be the Spirit of Christ
dwelleth in you. When the veil was rent and Christ entered in,