The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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XXXII.
GIVE DILIGENCE TO ENTER INTO THE REST.
IV. 11. Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, that no
man fall after the same example of disobedience.
OUR Epistle is intensely practical. How it detains and holds us
us not to be content with the know
fast in hope of persuading
ledge or the admiration of its teaching, but personally to listen
to the message it brings from God by the Holy Ghost, and
indeed do the thing God would have us do
Let us give diligence to
enter into that rest.
enter into His rest
Let us give diligence. The word means, Make haste be
in earnest, put your whole heart into it, see that you do it ;
enter
into the rest. That no man fall after the same example of
disobedience. The danger
is imminent the loss will be ter
rible. God has sworn in His wrath that unless we hearken and
obey, we shall not enter His rest Let us give diligence to
enter in. All the wonderful teaching the Epistle contains farther
on, as to the Holiest that is
opened for us as the place where
God wants to receive us into His rest and live, as to the great
High Priest who has opened the way and entered in and lives as
our Joshua to bring us in, will
profit us nothing, unless there be
the earnest desire, the willing readiness, the firm resolve, to