The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

474 Hbe holiest of
to Enoch that he pleased God, was given to them all.
God was
not ashamed to be called their God, and to let them know it.
With all the difference between their faith and ours, in regard to
the clearness of the revelation and the actual possession of the
promise, in this their faith was one with ours the unseen God
revealed Himself to them and was their God.
They received not the promise, God having provided some
better thing concerning us, that they apart from us should not
be made perfect. The two words here, better and perfect, are
the words which characterise the new dispensation, the time of
the fulfilment of the promise. We said before, the word "better"
occurs thirteen times. Christ has inherited a better name ;
He
has brought us a better hope ;
He
covenant enacted in better promises;
is the surety of a better
in Him we have the better
country and the better substance. To them God spake
in the
prophets to us in the Son. To them was offered the rest of
;
Canaan ;
to us the rest of God. Their high priest was a man
who died ;
ours is a Priest for ever, in the power of an endless
life. Their sanctuary was on earth, and even that had its veil ;
ours is the true sanctuary, with the veil taken away. Theirs
was the old covenant, in which there was no power to continue ;
ours is the new, with the heart made new by the Spirit. Theirs
was the blood of bulls and of goats, ours is the blood of Jesus.
Theirs was a sanctifying cleanness of the flesh ;
ours is the cleans
ing of the heart from the evil conscience. Theirs a worship
which made nothing perfect ;
in ours we are perfected for ever
more. Their worship was a witness that the way into the
Holiest was not yet open ;
ours is the blessed experience that
in the new and living way we have living access into the very
presence and love of the Father. God hath indeed provided
some better thing for us.