The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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XXXIX.
THE HIGH PRIEST LEARNING- OBEDIENCE.
V. 7. Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplica
tions, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him out of
death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
8. Though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he
suffered.
WE have already noticed with what persistence the writer has
sought to impress upon us the intense reality
of Christ s
humanity His being made like unto His brethren, His par
taking of flesh and blood in like manner as ourselves, His
being tempted in all things like as we are. In the opening
verses of our chapter he has again set before us the true High
Priest Himself compassed with weaknesses. He now once
more returns to the subject. In ver. 6 he has already quoted
the promise in regard to the order of Melchizedek, as the text
of his farther teaching, but feels himself urged to interpose, and
before repeating the quotation in ver. u, still more fully to
unfold what the full meaning
is of the blessed humiliation of
the Son of God. He leads us in spirit down into Gethsemane,
and speaks of the wondrous mystery of the agony there, as
last stage in the preparation and the perfecting of our High
Priest for the work He came to do.
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Let us enter this holy place
with hearts bowed under a consciousness of our ignorance,
but thirsting to know something more of the great mystery of
godliness,
the Son of God become flesh for us.