. Amen.

1. To abide in Christ is to dwell in the Holiest of all. Christ is
not only the Sacrifice, and the Way, and the Great Priest, but
also Himself the Temple. 'The Lamb is the Temple.' As the Holy
Spirit reveals my union to Christ more clearly, and heart and
will lose themselves in Him, I dwell in the Holy Presence,
which is the Holiest of all. You are 'holy in Christ'--draw
near, enter in with boldness, and take possession--have no home
but in the Holiest of all.

2. 'Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He
might sanctify it.' _He gave Himself!_ Have you caught the
force of that word? Because He would have no one else do it,
because none could do it; to sanctify His Church, _He gave
Himself_ to do it. And so it is His own special beloved work to
sanctify the Church He loved. Just accept Himself to do it. He
can and will make you holy, that He may present you to
_Himself_ glorious, without spot or wrinkle. Let that word
_Himself_ live in you. The whole life and walk in the House of
God is in His charge. _Having_ a Great Priest, let us draw
near.

3. This entrance into the Holiest of all--an ever fresh and ever
deeper entrance--is, at the same time, an ever blessed resting
in the Father's Presence. Faith in the blood, following in the
way of the rent flesh, and fellowship with the Living Jesus,
are the three chief steps.

4. Enter into the Holiest of all, and dwell there. It will enter
into thee, and transform thee, and dwell in thee. And thy heart
will be the Holiest of all, in which He dwells.

5. Have we not at times been lifted, by an effort of thought and
will, or in the fellowship of the saints, into what seemed the
Holiest of all, and speedily felt that the flesh had entered
there too? It was because we entered not by the new way of
life--the way through death to life--the way of the rent veil
of the flesh. O our crucified Lord! teach us what this means;
give it us; be it Thyself to us.

6. Let me remember that my access into the Holiest is as a Priest.
Let me dwell before the Lord all the day as an Intercessor,
offering, unceasingly, pleadings which are acceptable in
Christ. May God's Church be like her of whom it is written,
'She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings
and prayers