The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LIII.
A PRIEST FOR EVER-IN THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE.
VII. 15. And what we say is yet more abundantly evident,
if after the
likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,
16. Who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment,
but after the power of an endless life.
17. For it is witnessed of him,
Thou art a priest for ever
After the order of Melchizedek.
IN the words of Psalm ex. each expression
is full of meaning.
We saw (v. 4-6) that the word, Thou art Priest is the proof
that Christ did not glorify Himself to become Priest, but was
appointed of God. We have seen the deep significance of the
words, after the order of Melchizedek. We now come to
what is implied in its being said, Thou art a Priest for ever.
The word ever or eternal is one of the most important in
the Epistle. It is found seventeen times. It contains all that
distinguishes the New Testament from the Old ;
the healthy
Christian life of the perfect, from the stunted sickly growth of
the babes. To understand what it means we must connect it
with God, the eternal One.
Eternity
is an attribute of Deity and
of the divine life, and has its true existence only in the fellow
ship of that life. In God there is no change, or ageing, or
fading He is all that He is in
;
an ever-fresh, never-changing,
youth. As some one has said : He is the Ancient of Days, and
yet the youngest of all, for He lives ever in the freshness of the