The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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The light of the sun is there, but clouded.
When the clouds are
gone the heavens are bright and clear. God s word speaks of
our sins rising up as a cloud, as a smoke before Him. Our sins
are come up before Him, are in His presence, written in His
book of remembrance, calling for vengeance. God says to Israel :
/ have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as
a cloud thy sins. Just as the tabernacle had to be sprinkled
and cleansed and hallowed from all the uncleanness of the
children of Israel, so the heavenly things themselves by the
blood of Christ.
As the blood was brought in, every vestige of a
thought of sin was removed out of God s presence the heavens
;
were cleansed; the heavens are now clear and bright, and the
love of God can shine out in noonday glory.
And this because Christ is not entered into the Holiest, made
with
hands, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the
face of God for us.
the teaching of the heavenly priesthood
This is the great consummation to which all
sanctuary, and the blood of the covenant leads up.
of Christ, and the true
Heaven itself
is now opened up to us. Christ has entered, not simply on His
own behalf, but entirely to appear
before the face of God for us.
Yes, for us, His entering in has obtained for us boldness to
enter in. His entering in was through the rent veil ;
there is no
veil now between God and us. We are called to draw nigrh o in
the fulness of faith. We are taught, Ye are come to the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to God. Before the face of God, in the presence
of God, is now the home of the soul. Heaven is not only a
locality, with its limitations, but a state of life, that condition of
spiritual existence in the full
enjoyment
of God s love and
fellowship, into which Christ entered. Christ passed through
the heavens, was made higher than the heavens. He
ascended far above all the Juavens, that He might fill all things.