The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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the two abodes, what had been the dwelling of God, and what
had been the dwelling of the priests,
were thrown into one.
The eyes and the hearts of men might freely and boldly look
up and rise up and greet their God and Father in Christ ;
they
had their place before Him. All the light and love and holiness
of the Most Holy shone into the Holy Place. The Spirit of God,
as He was received by Christ from God the Father on His
ascension, passed down into the worshippers. The Pentecostal
gift brought down, from above, the higher life into which the
blessed Son had entered ; the Holy Spirit made the light and
love and holiness of the inner sanctuary not only a vision, a
revelation, but a possession and an experience.
The veil of the flesh has been rent ;
Christ has entered once
for all, having obtained everlasting redemption the ; dwelling of
God and man has been thrown into one ;
the Spirit of heaven has
been given to signify to us, and to give us the living experience,
that the way into the Holiest has been made manifest. Our
entering in, our dwelling in God s presence in the light and nearness
and holiness of the Most Holy,
is a spiritual, a heavenly reality It
can only be apprehended by the tender, by the perfect conscience,
which the Holy Spirit gives to him who is willing to give up all
to be saved completely, by the perfect whose senses are exer
cised to discern good and evil. But to all who are willing to pass
through the rent veil of Christ s flesh, to die with Him as He
died, and live with Him as He lived, the Holy Spirit
it ;
the way into the Holiest is opened up.
Christ having come, entered in once for all.
will show
Four thousand
years after man s loss of fellowship with God in paradise had to
pass. Fifteen hundred years the veil had to hang with its
solemn injunction not to draw near. Thirty-three years the Son
of God Himself had to live on this side of the veil. But at