The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF.
12. Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be In any one of you
III.
an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God.
THE great practical aim of the Epistle
is to call us to faith. It
is
with this view that it will show us what a sure ground we have
for it in the word and oath of God, in
the person and power of
our heavenly High Priest. It will remind us how unbelief has
been the cause of all falling away from God, and all failing of
entrance into the enjoyment of His promise and His rest, as
faith has in all ages been the one power in which God s saints
have lived and worked. It has already spoken of holding fast
our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm to the end it here
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uses the word believe for the first time in the call to beware of
an evil heart of unbelief.
An evil heart of unbelief. Think a moment of what the
expression means. And note first the place the heart takes
in religion. We have heard the warning (ver. 7), Harden
not your hearts. It is in the heart God speaks, and where
He longs to give His blessing. On that there followed God s
complaint, They do alway err in their heart ; they did not
know my It is a
ways."
heart that goes wrong that cannot
know God s ways. And so here again,
it is the evil heart
God. Do
that cannot believe, that falls
away from the living