COMPANIONS OF CHRIST IN THE HOLIEST

^[p. 87] COMPANIONS OF CHRIST IN THE HOLIEST

I said a little on Leviticus 8: 22, etc. The consecration came after all the offerings necessary for approach to God were offered up. In announcing the Lord’s death, we recall what He went through here, and with His death fresh before our hearts, we, as the consecrated company, are in the holiest of all, His companions. As we recall Him in death here, He in the assembly makes Himself known to us in glory. He was here in the lowest place for us, we remember Him there, but we are with Him even now in the assembly, in the highest place, in the presence of God.

I have seen it stated that we are companions of Christ in the wilderness. That is not correct. He is not in the wilderness. He would not be a priest if He were on earth. We are called to be companions with Him in the holiest, the consecrated company, as Aaron’s sons with their father. If it be meant that we are to walk here in the wilderness as He walked, I agree, but that is not companionship; and if we are companions with Him it must be on the other side of death, and unless we are, we cannot walk here as He walked.

So many do not see that until you have been purged from your sins, you cannot understand the priesthood of Christ. It is as the consecrated company we are introduced into the holiest where communion and the deep things of God are enjoyed.

Jesus is in the holiest as High Priest, and we are with Him there. In Him we stand a heavenly band; and as to Himself He is also there as Moses — king of glory — to carry out in person all God’s purposes on earth. I feel I enjoy a gleam of the wondrous place in which God has set me. Love likes to have my company, and shares with me its own greatest joys. This is the church’s place, and no other company has this place and portion.