THE HOLIEST

^[p. 18] THE HOLIEST

Reading on Hebrews 10 You must get into the holiest before you can come to the Father; Ephesians 2. Hebrews gives liberty to go in - not what you find when you do go in. Conscience is the sense that God has a demand upon me. If you talk of sins it shows you are not clear of them. The assembly is not where you meet the Saviour (i.e., a believer’s meeting), but where you meet the Son of God in the ‘out-of-the-world’ condition. Infirmity even - not only sin - may hinder us in the presence of God. Baptism is brought in to correct doctrine, and the Lord’s supper to correct conduct, levity, laxity.

One side of the veil was inside the holiest - God’s presence; and one side outside - Christ’s flesh. “Having an high priest” (verse 21), i.e., you go in in company with the great High Priest.

The Supper is the remembrance of death, that is on earth. Millennial saints will remember His death as the ground of their benefits. We show forth His death, not sufferings - when death came the sufferings were over. In 1 Corinthians 10 the communion of His blood and body is that we are identified with His death. I go out from the Lord’s supper and have to encounter sin in this very world where my Lord died.

Worship in Hebrews 10 is very much connected with the assembly. In John 4 worship is beyond.

John 17 gives me the best idea of what the holiest is.