The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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their sins are pardoned. Nor even to be satisfied with having
entered the Holy Place, and there doing the service of the taber
nacle, while the veil still hinders the full fellowship with the
living God and His love. It calls to enter in through the rent
veil, into the place into which the blood has been brought, and
where the High Priest lives, there to live and walk and
work always in the presence of the Father. It is a call to all
doubting, thirsting believers, who long for a better life than they
have yet known, to cast aside their doubts, and to believe that
this is what Christ has indeed done and brought within the
reach of each one of us : He has opened the way into the Holiest !
This is
the salvation which He has accomplished, and which He
lives to apply in each of us, so that we shall indeed dwell in the
full light of God s countenance.
Enter into the Holiest. This is, in one short word, the fruit
of Christ s work, the chief lesson of the Epistle, the one great
need of our Christian life, the complete and perfect salvation
God in Christ gives us to enjoy.
Enter into the Holiest, What Holiest? To the reader
who has gone with us through the Epistle thus far, it is hardly
needful to say, No other than that very same into which
Christ, when He had rent the veil in His death, entered through
His own blood, to appear before the face of God for us. That
Holiest of All is the heavenly place. But not heaven, as it is
ordinarily understood, as a locality, distinct and separate from
this earth. The heaven of God is not limited in space
in the
same way as a place on earth. There is a heaven above us,
the place of God s special manifestation. But there is also a
spiritual heaven, as omnipresent as God Himself. Where God
is, is heaven the heaven of His
; presence includes this earth
too, The Holiest into which Christ entered, and into which He