The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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take away. But when they are not believed they cannot be
enjoyed : faith is in its very nature a resting in the promise and
the promiser until He fulfil it in us. Only faith can enter into
rest. The fulness of faith enters into the full rest.
For we which have believed do enter into rest. It is not,
shall enter. No. To-day, even as the Holy Ghost saith,
now and here, we which have believed do enter into
To-day,"
rest. It is with the rest of faith here as with what we heard
of being partakers of Christ the blessing is enjoyed, if we
hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end.
The initial faith, that passes out of Egypt through the Red
Sea, must be held fast firm, then it comes to the fulness of faith
that passes through Jordan into the land.
Let every student of this Epistle realise how intensely per
sonal its tone is, and with what urgency
it
appeals
to us for
faith, as the one thing needful in our dealings with the word of
God. Without this the word cannot profit us. We may seek
by thought and study to enter into the meaning of the promise
God has sworn that we never shall enter into its possession, or
into His rest, but by faith. The one thing God asks in our
intercourse with Him and His word is the habit of faith, that
ever keeps the heart open towards God, and longs to enter in
and abide in His rest. It is the soul that thirsts for God, for
the living God, that will have the spiritual capacity for receiving
the revelation of how Jesus, the High Priest, brings
us into God s
presence. What is to be taught us later on of our entering into
the Holiest of All is
nothing but the clearer unfolding of what is
here called entering into rest. Let us in studying the Epistle
above everything have faith.
Would you enter into the rest ? Remember what has been
taught us of the two stages. They are represented by Moses
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