The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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XXIX.
THE REST OP FAITH.
4. Let us fear therefore, lest haply a promise being left us of entering
into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short of it.
2. For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also
they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because they were 1 not united
by faith with them that heard.
3. For we which have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath
said,
As I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
WE have seen that with Israel, after its
deliverance from Egypt,
there were two stages.
The one, the life in the wilderness, with its
wanderings and its wants, its unbelief and its murmurings, its pro
vocation of God and its exclusion from the promised
other, the land of promise, with rest instead of the desert wander
rest. The
ings, with abundance instead of want, and the victory over every
enemy instead of defeat: symbols ofthe two stages
in the Christian
life. The one in which we only know the Lord as the Saviour
from Egypt, in His work on the cross for atonement and pardon.
The other, where He is known and welcomed as the glorified
Priest-King in heaven, who, in the power of the endless life,
sanctifies and saves completely, writes God s laws in the heart,
and leads us to find our home in the holiest of God s pre
sence. The aim of the writer in this whole section is to warn
1 It was.