The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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XXVIII.
THE REST IN CANAAN.
III. 16. For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they
that came out of Egypt by Moses P
17. And with whom was he displeased forty years ? was it not with them
that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness ?
18. And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but
to them that were disobedient P
19. And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
IN the opening verses of the Epistle we saw that God has two
dispensations, or ways of dealing with man, and that these find
their counterpart in the Christian life. There are believers who
always walk in the twilight and bondage of the Old Testament ;
there are others, who truly know the joy and the power of the
New Testament, and have fellowship with God, not as through
the prophets, but truly and directly in the Son Himself.
In the words we are now to meditate on we have the same
truth in another aspect. The writer had spoken of Christ as
more than Moses. This gives him occasion to speak, in the
tone of solemn warning, of the people of Israel who came out of
Egypt. They did not all enter Canaan. There came a separa
tion among those that God had redeemed out of Egypt some
;
perished in the wilderness others did indeed enter and
; possess
the promised land. The cause of this failure to enter Canaan
was, we are told, disobedience, arising out of unbelief. When