The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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strength of the perfect the heavenly priesthood of Christ, in
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the power of an endless life. His glory and power as med iator
of the new covenant, writing God s law into our very heart, the
infinite efficacy of the blood as opening the Holiest of All to us,
and cleansing us to enter in and serve the living God, these
and such like truths, revealing the perfection that Christ attained
in His human life, and into which He lifts us in His divine
power, these constitute the solid food for the perfect. The per
fection of Christ, as truth revealed, becomes the perfection of
the believer, as a life experienced, in those who count all things
loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Him our Lord.
1. Let us hold fast the distinction between foundation doctrine and perfection doctrine.
There are truths of the beginning of Christ, which we have had in the first half of the Epistle
His diuinity and humanity, His substitution, tasting death for all, and His entering into heaven,
as far as that was typified by Aaron. In the second half we have what is needed for the com
pletion of the Christian life ; the power of the heavenly life as it is secured in the heavenly priest
hood and the heavenly sanctuary. Wherefore, let us press on to perfection.
2. Let us press on to perfection. Do take this as a distinct injunction of the God who
speaks to us in His Son. Hear His voice, rest not content with the beginningspress on unto
perfection, unto the perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
3. Compare Paul (Phil. Hi. 13-15) : 1 press on, ;/ so be I may apprehend that for which I also
was apprehended of Christ Jesus. Forgetting the things which are behind, I press on toward the
goal. Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded. Let us press on to perfection.