Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

^be Ibollcst of Bll 109
of an apostle, as they were to be perfectly revealed in Christ
Jesus. And yet it was all only a shadow and a prophecy, a
testimony of things to come. For He hath been counted
worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that
built the house hath more honour than the house. For
every house is builded by some one ; but He that built all
things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his
house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were
afterwards to be spoken ; but Christ, as a Son over His house.
Moses was himself but a part of the house : Jesus Christ is the
builder, Moses was a servant in the house
;
Jesus was a Son
over His own house.
Whose house we are.
The true house, the true dwelling of
God, is His people. In Christ we are builded together for a
habitation of God in the Spirit. Of the Church, as His body, of
the individual soul, Christ says "
: We will come and make our
abode." It is the characteristic of spiritual things that each part
is also a living whole. Collectively and individually we are
Christ's house :
he that would know the faithfulness of Christ in
His house, must yield himself to be His house, must allow
Christ as Son over His house to be Master, to have the keys
alone, to hold undisturbed possession and rule.
Whose house we are. Later on we shall see how the great
work of Christ, as the great High Priest over the house of God,
is to open the way into the holiest of God's dwelling. His
living, loving presence. The word we have here to-day tells
us beforehand that the Holiest is not only with God, and that
we must enter into it ; it is also with us, and God will come in
to us too. God's heart is our habitation ; our heart is God's
habitation. When Jesus spake, " Abide in me, and I in you,"
He taught us that mutual relationship. The more my heart