The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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should arise after the order of Melchizedek ?
has more to do
with our spiritual life than we think.
In the opening verses of our Epistle we found the work of
Christ divided into two parts. When He had effected the
cleansing of sins (that was after the order of Aaron), He sat
down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (that was
after the order of Melchizedek). There are too many Christians
who see in Christ only the fulfilment of what Aaron typified.
Christ s death and blood are very precious to them ; they do
seek to rest their faith upon them. And yet they wonder that
they have so little of the peace and joy, of the purity and power
which the Saviour gives, and which faith in Him ought to
bring. The reason is
simple, because Christ is only their
Aaron, not their Melchizedek. They do indeed believe that
He is ascended to heaven, and sits upon the throne of God but
;
they
have not seen the direct connection of this with their
daily spiritual life. They do not count upon Jesus working in
them in the power of the heavenly life, and imparting
it to them.
They do not know their heavenly calling, with the all-sufficient
provision for its fulfilment in them secured in the heavenly life
of their Priest-King. And, as a consequence of this, they do
not see the need for giving up the world, to have their life and
walk in heaven.
The work of redemption was accomplished on earth in
weakness (2 Cor. xiii. 4) ;
it is communicated from heaven in
resurrection and ascension power. The cross proclaims the
pardon of sin the throne
; gives the power over sin. The cross,
with its blood-sprinkling, is the deliverance from Egypt; the
throne, with its living Priest-King, brings into the rest of God
and its victory. With Aaron there is
nothing beyond atone
ment and acceptance ; nothing of kingly rule and power ;
it is