The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Cbe Ibolfest of BU 139
the perfected One, as our life. His death is our death to sin,
His resurrection as the perfected One is our life, His righteous
ness is ours, His life ours ;
we are put in possession of all
the perfection which the Father wrought out in Him
through suffering and obedience. And once of the spiritual
sanctuary opened by Christ : The greater and more perfect
tabernacle not made with hands (ix. 11). And three times it
is used in regard to Christian character : Solid food is for the
perfect (v. 14) Let us
; press on to perfection (vi. i) The
;
God
of peace perfect 1 you in every good thing (xiii. 21). The
perfect for whom the solid food is, are those who are not
content with the mere beginnings of the Christian life, but
have given themselves wholly to accept and follow the per
fected Master. These are they who press on to perfection
nothing else than the perfection which Christ revealed, as
God s claim on men, and as what He has won and made
possible for them.
He learned obedience, and being perfected, became the
cause of eternal salvation. The perfection of God is His will.
There is no perfection for man but in union with that will. And
there is no way for attaining and proving
the union with that
will but by obedience. Obedience to the good and perfect will
of God transforms the whole nature, and makes it
capable of
union with Him in glory. Obedience to God s will on earth is
the way to the glory of God s will in heaven. The everlasting
perfection of heaven is
nothing
but the obedience of earth trans
figured and glorified. Obedience is the seed, the power, the life
of Christ s perfection and ours.
We are approaching the threshold of the Holiest of All, as
this Epistle is to open it up to us as the sphere of the heavenly
1
In the Greek here the word used is not the same as in the other passages.