The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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God. Whoever in faith accepts
of the blood He shed as His
boldness of entrance, must accept, too, of the way He opened up
as that In which he walks.
And what was that way? The way through the veil, that
is, His flesh. The veil is the flesh. The veil that separated
man from God was the flesh, human nature under the power of
sin. Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh, and dwelt with
us here outside the veil. The Word was made flesh.
He also
Himself in like manner fiartook offlesh and blood. In the days
of His flesh, He was tempted like as we are ;
He offered prayer
and supplication with strong crying and tears. He learned
obedience even to the death. Through the rent veil of His
flesh, His will, His as life, yielded up to God in death, He
entered into the Holiest. Being made in likeness of men,
He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death. Where
fore also God highly exalted Him. Through the rent veil He
rose to the throne of God. And this is the way He dedicated
for us. The very path in which, as our Substitute, He accom
plished redemption, is the path which He opened for us to walk
in, the path of obedience unto death.
Christ suffered for you,
leaving you an example that ye should follow His steps."
Christ our High Priest is as literally and fully Leader and
Forerunner as He is Substitute and Redeemer.
His way is our way. As little as He could open
the Holiest for us, except in
and enter
His path of suffering and obedience
and self-sacrifice, as little can we enter in unless we walk in
the same path. Jesus said as much of His disciples as of Him
self: Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it
abideth alone. He that hateth his life in this world shall keep
it unto life eternal. Paul s law of life is the law of life for
every believer : Bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus,