Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

XLbe Ibollest of BU 363
t/iaf the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
The way into the Holiest is the way of the rent veil, the way of
sacrifice and of death. There is no way for our putting away
sin from us but the way of Jesus ;
whoever accepts His finished
work accepts what constitutes its Spirit and its power
;
it is
for every man as for the Master—to put away sin by the sacrifice
of self. Christ's death was something entirely and essentially
new, and so also His resurrection life; a life out of death,
such as never had been known before. This new death and
new life constitute the new and living way, the new way of
living in which we draw nigh to God.
Even as when Christ spoke of taking His flesh as daily food,
so here where the Holy Spirit speaks of taking the rent veil
His flesh as our daily life, many say: This is a hard saying
who can bear it? Who then can be saved f To those who are
willing and obedient and believe, all
of
things are possible, because
it is a new and living way. A new way. The word means
ever fresh, a way that never decays or waxes old (viii. 13) but
always retains its first perfection and freshness. A living way.
A way always needs a living man to move upon it ; it does not
impart either life or strength. This way, the way of obedience
and suffering and self-sacrifice and death, however hard it
appears, and to nature utterly impossible, is a living xvay. It
not only opens a track, but supplies the strength to carry the
traveller along. It acts in the power of the endless life, in
which Christ was made a High Priest. We saw how the Holy
Spirit watches over the way into the Holiest, and how He, as
the Eternal Spirit, enabled Christ, in opening the way, to offer
Himself without spot unto God ; it is He whose mighty energy
pervades this way, and inspires it with life divine. As we are
made partakers of Christ, as we come to God through Him, His