ENTER INTO THE HOLIEST

ENTER INTO THE HOLIEST

Heb. 10:19,22 ¶ Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Let us draw near…

This passage of scripture proved to be life changing for me several years after my conversion. I was going through an unusually challenging time in my Christian walk when this passage of scripture became real in my life. When I saw it, the news seemed too good to be true. I actually had access into a new way of life because of the death of Christ. Not just a ticket to heaven, but an introduction to a new quality of life. Life in the presence of God, the Christian life lived entirely behind the veil had become real to me. Of course this message is powerful in any season of your life but when your everyday circumstance seem to be unbearable, life behind the veil is the greatest of good news. This was better than a change of circumstances, this was an introduction to a whole new quality of life. Andrew Murray preached powerfully about this message in his classic commentary on Hebrews, The Holiest of All. Here is a snippet from his book.

“Enter into the Holiest. It is a call to the Hebrews to come out of the life of unbelief and sloth, that leads to a departing from the living God, and to enter into the promised land, the rest of God, a life in His fellowship and favor. It is a call to all lukewarm, half-hearted Christians, no longer to remain in the outer court of the tabernacle, content with the hope that their sins are pardoned. Nor even to be satisfied with having entered the Holy Place, and there doing the service of the tabernacle, while the veil still hinders the full fellowship with the living God and His love. It calls to enter in through the rent veil, into the place into which the blood has been brought, and where the High Priest lives, there to live and walk and work always in the presence of the Father. It is a call to all doubting, thirsting believers, who long for a better life than they have yet known, to cast aside their doubts, and to believe that there is what Christ has indeed done and brought within the reach of each one of us: He has opened the way into the Holiest! This is the salvation which He has accomplished, and which He lives to apply in each of us, so that we indeed dwell in the full light of God’s countenance.”

If you are dissatisfied with your current Christian experience, if deep in your heart there is the cry, “There must be more!”, this is where your search will end. There is a place of life, actually it is the place called heaven, that is actually available for all Christians in this life. It is what Paul called the pledge of the Spirit, the literal taste of the unspeakable life to come. This is why Jesus came. He is the Forerunner to life behind the veil.