The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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maintaining that life. The warning has a deeper significance
than we think : Take heed lest there be in any one of you an
evil heart of unbelief."
It is this thought our text seeks to enforce : But exhort one
another day by day, lest any one of you be hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin. Christians are bound to exhort one another ;
it is their duty and their right. It is
implied in the whole con
stitution of the body of Christ, that the members care for one
another. Its life is entirely dependent on the Spirit of Christ,
who pleased not Himself, and that Spirit is a love that seeketh
not its own, but has its very being in loving and blessing others.
As each member humbly yields himself to be helped and to
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help, the safety and the vigour of all will be secured.
munion of saints in all our Church circles must be proved in the
cultivation of a practical ministering love and care for each other.
Exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called
To-day. We saw what solemn meaning there was in the Holy
Spirit s call, To-day, if ye hear His voice. We sought to apply
that personally. Here we are taught that all the urgency that
call implies must by each one of us be applied to our neighbour
as well as ourselves. We must think of the danger of delay, of
the time when it will be no longer To-day for those around us, who
are forgetting it, and exhort them day by day. To-day I The
work is urgent and must be done immediately. It may be
difficult He who commands will enable. Our conscious unfitness
must drive us to Him who can fill us with the love and the
boldness, and the wisdom we need. Day by day. The work is
slow, and must be done unceasingly,
"so
long
as it is called
To-day."
The Spirit of Jesus can give us grace and patience
and faith to persevere. In due time we shall reap
if we faint
not"