The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Iboltest of 21U 201
there was light, that is the spiritual sense or organ for spiritual
truth, the mark of the perfect man. In the things of God a
tender conscience and a surrendered will are more than the
highest intellect.
Such are the perfect. The word means here just what it
meant when used of Jesus a few verses previously. His per
fection came through obedience. Ours comes in no other way
and evil. In
the exercise of the senses to discern good
temptations Jesus Himself was exercised to discern between
good and evil : in the wilderness and the garden He had to
fast and watch and pray, lest the lawful desire of His human
nature might lead to sin : thus He was perfected. And this is
Christian perfection the fellowship with Christ, through the
indwelling Spirit, in
His obedience.
Solid food is for the perfect. And what is this solid food ?
The context leaves no doubt as to the answer. It is the
knowledge of Christ as Melchlzedek, as it is now to be ex
pounded. To know Christ as Aaron, to believe in His atone
ment on earth, and in pardon through His blood, this is often
found with Christians who are content to remain mere babes,
entirely slothful and stationary. But to know Christ as
Melchizedek in His heavenly priesthood, working in us in the
power of an endless life ;
as a Saviour able to save completely ;
as the minister of the sanctuary, who has opened the Holiest
of All, and brings us in to dwell there ;
as the Mediator of the
new covenant, who does actually fulfil its promise and write
God s law in living power in our heart ;
this is the solid food
for the perfect. The teaching in the word is
open and free to
all, but only those who have given themselves to be perfect,
feel the need and hunger for it
only they are capable of
receiving and assimilating
it ;
because it is only they who