The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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Jesus our Priest-King on the throne in the heavens.
What does this mean, and teach, and give ? It reminds of this,
first of all, that Jesus is not only Priest but King. This was
part of what was included in His appointment after the order
of Melchizedek, whose name meant King of righteousness, and
who was King of Salem, that is
King of peace. The Psalm in
which the word of the oath is
spoken began
thus : The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand. In Israel the
office of king and priest had ever been kept separate ;
it was
only one of the latest prophets who foretold (Zech. vi. 1 3) : He
shall be a priest upon the throne. It was part of the defect in
the character of the preparatory dispensation that
the function
of priest, the representative of the religious life, should be so
distinct from that of the king, the guide
of the civil life of the
people. The priest represents purity, the king power ; it is the
glory of the new dispensation that the Priest is King the
cleansing from sin, and the access to God which that gives, is
all in a power that goes through the whole life. Religion
longer to be a thing of times and seasons, of special acts or emo
is no
tions in :
kingly power our High Priest rules over all. Blessed
is the man to whom it is
given to see that this is the chief point,
that this is
all.
And that, because He is a King sat down on the right hand
of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. The Son of God
became Man that He might win for Himself and us, for humanity,
His own and ours, the power He had with the Father before the
world began, and so as our High Priest
serve and rule us in the
power of an endless life, in the power of the heavenly
life. He
sat down on the right hand of the throne. His position is
now one of perfect fellowship with God, in a nearness in which
nothing can intervene, in an equality which gives Him complete