Christ —
the Consecrated Way
Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us . . .
through His flesh . . . let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance
of faith. Hebrews 10:19-22.
Perfection
in every respect is attained through the priesthood, the sacrifice, and the
service of our great High Priest in His ministry in the heavenly sanctuary
and the true tabernacle. This is the "new and living way" which
Christ, through the flesh, "hath consecrated for us"—for
all mankind—and by which every soul may
enter into the holiest of all. This new and living way He "hath
consecrated for us through the flesh;" that is, He, coming in the
flesh, identifying Himself with mankind in the flesh, has, for us who are in
this flesh, consecrated a way from where we are to where He now is, at the
right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens in the holiest of
all.
His
coming in the flesh--having been made in all things like unto us and having
been tempted in all points like as we are ( Hebrews 2:14; 4:15)—He
has identified Himself with every human soul just where that soul is. And
from the place where every human soul is, He has consecrated for that soul a
new and living way through all the vicissitudes and experiences of a whole
lifetime, and even through death and the tomb, into the holiest of all at
the right hand of God for evermore. "For both He that sanctifieth and
they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to
call them brethren," Hebrews 2:11.
The Consecrated Way to Christian
Perfection, pgs. 82, 83 |