The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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into the true possession and enjoyment of the very life of God.
In chaps, ii.-v. we had His humanity, His being made perfect
through suffering and obedience. He so perfected a new human
nature, which from heaven He imparts to us in the power
of the Holy Ghost. In chap. vii. we have now been taught
what it means that He is the Priest for ever, after the order of
Melchizedek, whose person and priesthood and work are all in
the power of the endless life, and who, because He ever abideth
and ever intercedeth, is able to save completely, and to make
Such a
our drawing nigh to God a life that abides continually.
High Priest became us, the Son, perfected for evermore.
And if such a High Priest became us, what becomes us now
towards Him ?
Surely one thing, that we fully
and to trust and to experience His saving power.
seek to know
If your heart
does indeed long for deliverance from sin, for true near fellow
ship with God, for complete salvation, for a life in the power
and the likeness of the Son of God, our Leader and Forerunner
within the veil-;you must learn to know Jesus both as Son of
God and your High Priest. You must pray for the Spirit of
wisdom and revelation, that you may know the exceeding
greatness of God s power to us-ward who believe, according to
the working of His mighty power in Christ Jesus, when He
raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand.
You must believe that the mighty power by which He was
thus perfected for evermore, and is seated at God s right hand,
is
working in you. Yield yourself up in faith to this mighty
working of God in Christ, to the power of the eternal life with
which from heaven He will work in you to draw you nigh to
God, and keep you there. As you believe this, and trust Jesus
for it, He Himself will make it
your experience. Oh beware
of thinking that these are beautiful words and images that
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