The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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the power of the eternal life, as that is lived in God and heaven.
He lives for ever, therefore He can save completely.
May God teach us to know what it means that Christ is our
Melchizedek, a Priest for ever. It is the spiritual apprehension
of this everlasting priesthood, as communicating even here and
maintaining an everlasting, unchangeable life in us, that lifts our
inner experience out of the region of effort, and change, and
failure, into the rest of God, so that the immutability
counsel is the measure of that of our faith and hope.
of His
1. In this chapter we have now the beginning of the things hard to be understood except by the
perfect. It is only those who press on to perfection, who long to possess the very utmost of what
God is able to work in them through Christ, who can inwardly appropriate the revelation of the
eternal priesthood. Neither talent nor genius can suffice it is the heart that thirsts for the
living God that will understand this teaching about our being brought nigh to God.
2. The Holy Spirit, through whom the history was recorded, and the oath to the Son revealed,
and the exposition inspired, can alone lead us into the spiritual power and blessing here revealed.
And the Holy Spirit only leads as He is known as the indwelling One, is waited on in deep humility,
and yielded to in meek resignation.
What a solemn, holy, blessed thing to believe that the Spirit
of Qod is leading us into this perfection-truth as a possession and experience.
3. He abideth continually: an unchanging, never-ending life, the characteristic of Melchize
dek, who was made lihe to Christ, of Christ in His heavenly priesthood, and of the life of the
hcliever who learns rightly to hnow and trust Him.