The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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the flesh is. He knows what it costs to conquer it,
and how
little we are able to do it. He lives in heaven, able to succour
us ; sympathising with our weaknesses ; bearing gently with
the ignorant and erring; a High Priest on the throne, that we
may boldly draw nigh to find grace for timely help. He lives
in heaven and in our heart, to impart to us His own spirit of
obedience, so that His priesthood may bring
enjoyment of all He Himself has and is.
us into the full
7. Heard for His godly fear. How it becomes me then to pray In humble, holy reverence,
that I may pray in His spirit, and be heard too for His godly fear.
This was the very spirit of His
prayer and obedience.
2. He learned obedience through suffering. Learn to looh upon and to welcome all
suffering as God s message to teach obedience.
3. He learned obedience : This was the path in which Christ was trained for His priesthood.
This is the spirit and the power that filled Him for the throne of glory ; the spirit and the
power which alone can lift us there ; the spirit and the power which our great High Priest can im
part to us. Obedience is of the very essence of salvation. Whether we looh at Christ being
perfected personally, or at the merit that gave His death its value and saving power, or at the
work wrought in us obedience, the entrance into the will of God, is the very essence of
salvation.
4. He learned obedience. Jesus was obedience embodied, obedience incarnate. I have only
as much of Jesus in me as I haue of the spirit of obedience.