The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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ledge of the living God is the ground of a living faith, a living
fellowship, a living service. As the living God, He is all, and
does all and fills all—the ever-present, ever-working God.
To serve the living God ! The glory of the creature is to
serve God, to be a vessel in which He can pour His fulness,
a channel through which He can show forth His glory, an
instrument for working out His purposes. This was what
man was created for in the image of God. The whole object of
redemption is to bring us back to a hTe in the living service of
God. It is for this the Holiest of All was opened to us by the
blood as the place of service. It is for this our conscience is
cleansed in the blood, as the fitness for service. A life in the
Hoh'est of All is a life in which everything is done under the
sense of God's glory and presence, and to His glory
;
has no object but the service of God.
a life that
It was thus with the priests in Israel. They were set apart
by the sprinkling of blood (Ex. xxix. 19, 20) The object of
this was (Deut. x. 8) to fit them ^0 stand before the Lord, to
minister unto Him, to bless in His name. One great reason
why many Christians never enter into the full joy and power of
redemption, into the life within the veil, is that they seek it for
themselves. Let us beware lest we seek the access into the
Holiest, the joy of unclouded fellowship with God, the power of
the blood to cleanse, only for the sake of our advance in holiness
or in happiness.
The whole apj)ointment of the sanctuary and
the priests was that there might be men who could come before
God to minister to Him. and t/iett go out and bless their fellowmen.
Christ entered through His blood within the veil, to go
and serve ;
to be a minister of the sanctuary in the power of the
blood, by which He could cleanse others and admit them too
within the veil. To know the power of the blood to cleanse and