The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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before the very face of God. And now, in the vision of the
heavenly glory to which he has given us access, as we have it
later in the Epistle, we find in heaven not only God the Judge
of all, and Christ the Mediator of the new covenant, but also
the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that
of Abel.
Everywhere we see, besides and along with Jesus Christ,
the living One Himself, in His resurrection, in His entering
heaven, in His sitting on the throne, as a separate existence and
power, the blood, the symbol of the death in which we have our
ransom and redemption.
Through His own blood. Let us specially note how the
blood is connected with the heavenly priesthood of Christ. We
are too apt to think only of the fulfilment of the type of Aaron,
the blood-shedding on earth. The Epistle does not speak of
it. Where it mentions the blood, it is in connection with the
resurrection and the entrance into heaven, as it works in the
power of an endless life. It is as the Holy Spirit reveals this to
the soul, the heavenly power of the blood, as ministered by our
Melchizedek, the minister of the heavenly sanctuary, that we
see what a power that blood must have, as so sprinkled on us
from heaven, in the power of the Holy Spirit, at once to give us
a real, actual, living access into the presence of God.
His own blood. I know of no word in the Bible or in human
speech that contains such !
mysteries In it are concentrated the
mysteries of the incarnation, in which our God took flesh and
blood ;
of the obedience unto death, in which the blood was shed ;
of the love that passeth knowledge, that purchased us with His
own blood ;
of the victory over every enemy, and the everlasting
redemption of the resurrection and the entrance into heaven ;
;
of the atonement and the reconciliation and the justification
that came through
it ;
of the cleansing and perfecting of the