The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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XL.
THE HIGH PRIEST, PERFECTED THROUGH OBEDIENCE.
V. 8. Though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which
he suffered;
9. And having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey hi,
the cause of eternal salvation.
OUR Lord Jesus learned obedience by the things which He
suffered. Through this obedience He was made perfect, and
became the cause of eternal salvation to all that obey Him.
So he entered heaven as our High Priest, a Son, perfected
for evermore.
The word perfect is one of the keywords of the Epistle. It
occurs thirteen times. Four times in regard to the Old Testa
ment, which could make nothing perfect. The law made
nothing perfect (vii. 19). Sacrifices that cannot, as touching
the conscience, make the worshipper perfect (ix. 9). The law
can never make perfect them that draw nigh (x. i).
That
apart from us they should not be made perfect (xi. 40). As
great as is the difference between a promise and its fulfil
ment, or hope and the thing hoped for, between the shadow
and substance, is the difference between the Old and New
Testament. The law made nothing perfect
: it was only
meant to point to something better, to the perfection Jesus
Christ was to bring. With the New Testament perfection
would come. Thrice the word is used of our Lord Jesus, who