經文: 「弟兄們，我們既因耶穌的血，得以坦然進入至聖所，是藉著祂給我們開了一條又新又活的路從幔子經過，這幔子就是祂的身體。」— [聖經·希伯來書 10章19-20節]
在聖殿裡，聖所和至聖所之間有個幔子，外院的祭壇要洒上犧牲的血，作為贖罪祭，好讓祭司能進到至聖所，向上帝獻香敬拜；但至聖所只能一年進去一次，那幔子代表人的罪性。雖然我們的罪已得赦免，但要進到上帝面前完全的敬拜卻是不可能。
耶穌死的時候，殿中幔子裂成兩半，祂為我們開了一條又新又活的路，讓我們能夠靠著祂進到上帝面前。信徒都能像加拉太書5章24節所說的：「凡屬基督耶穌的人，是已經把肉體，連肉體的邪情私慾，同釘在十字架上了。」進到上帝面前的每一步都帶著耶穌十字架的烙印，這血肉的幔子不僅象徵著耶穌和祂的受難，也代表著我們要在祂的苦難上有份。
為什麼很多基督不能享有與上帝親密契合的關係？這是因為沒有把老我看成可咒詛的仇敵，也沒有把其上的邪情私慾釘在十字架上，他們是很想進到至聖所，卻隨從自己的私慾偏行己路。耶穌呼召我們恨惡生命，捨棄老我與祂同死，並藉著上帝應許來倚靠聖靈大能，就能與祂一起向上帝而活。
要過一個與上帝緊密契合的生活，唯一之法就是藉著耶穌的血肉幔子進到上帝的面前。感謝上帝，靠著聖靈祂可以幫助我們將老我釘死在十字架上，使我們向著世界是死的，並且能抵擋誘惑，過著得勝的生活。
—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月28日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
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『 The Veil of The Flesh 』
Scripture: “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh.” — [Hebrews 10:19-20]
In the temple there was a veil between the holy place and the most holy. At the altar in the court the blood of the sacrifice was sprinkled for forgiveness of sins. That gave the priest entrance into the holy place to offer God the incense as part of a holy worship. But into the most holy, behind the veil, the High Priest alone might enter once a year. That veil was the type of sinful human nature; even though it had received the forgiveness of sin, full access and fellowship with God was impossible.
When Christ died, the veil was rent. Christ dedicated a new and living way to God through the rent veil of His flesh. This new way, by which we now can enter into the holiest of all, ever passes through the rent veil of the flesh. Every believer “has crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof” (Galatians 5:24). Every step on the new and living way for entering into God’s holy presence maintains the fellowship with the cross of Christ. The rent veil of the flesh has reference, not only to Christ and His sufferings, but to our experience in the likeness of His sufferings.
Have we not here the reason why many Christians can never attain to close fellowship with God? They have never yielded the flesh as an accursed thing to the condemnation of the cross. They desire to enter into the holiest of all, and yet allow the flesh with its desires and pleasures to rule over them. God grant that we may rightly understand, in the power of the Holy Spirit, that Christ has called us to hate our life, to lose our life, to be dead with Him to sin that we may live to God with Him. There is no way to a full abiding fellowship with God, but through the rent veil of the flesh, through a life with the flesh crucified in Christ Jesus. God be praised that the Holy Spirit ever dwells in us to keep the flesh in its place of crucifixion and condemnation, and to give us the abiding victory over all temptations.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 28 June 」
