The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Tboliest of HU 195
THE THIRD WARNING.
Chap.
v. 11 vi. 20.
Against Sloth, Standing Still, and Apostasy.
XLII.
OF THE SIN OP NOT MAKING PROGRESS IN THE
CHRISTIAN LIFE.
V. 10. Named of God a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek.
11. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing
ye are become dull of hearing.
12. For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need
again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles l of the oracles
of God and are become such as have need of
;
milfc, and not of solid food.
13. For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word
of righteousness for he is a babe.
;
WE have here the commencement of the third of the five
warnings to be found in the Epistle. The first was against in
difference and neglect ;
the second against unbelief and disobedi
ence ;
the third deals specially with the sloth that prevents all
progress in the Christian life, renders the soul incapable of
entering into the full meaning of gospel truth and blessing,
and often leads to an entire falling away. In the previous part
of the Epistle, the author has been dealing with what he con-
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