The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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THE HIGH PRIEST SAVING THE OBEDIENT.
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
him, the cause of eternal salvation.
THE death of Jesus has its value and efficacy in obedience, ours as
ivell as His. With Him obedience was God s great object in
His suffering ;
the root and power of His perfection and His
glory; the real efficient cause of our eternal salvation. And
with us, the necessity of obedience is no less absolute. With
God and with Christ our restoration to obedience was the great
aim of redemption. It is the only way to that union with God
in which our happiness consists. Through
it alone God can
reveal His life and power within us. Again I :
say The death
of Jesus has its value and efficacy in nothing but obedience,
ours as well as His. "He learned obedience, and being per
fected became to all them that obey Him the cause
of eternal
salvation." Our obedience is as indispensable as His. As little
as He could work out salvation without obedience, can we enjoy
it. In us as much as in Him, obedience is the very essence of
salvation.
Let us try and grasp
this. God is the blessedness of the
creature. When God is all to the creature, when He is allowed