The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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gives thee, so to put God s law into thy heart in that power of
an endless life in which He does all His priestly work, so to fit
thee to know the Lord, that thou shalt indeed know that as
Minister of the sanctuary He does in very truth secure thy
entrance and thy abiding there. The work done by Jesus in
the heavenly sanctuary must have its counterpart
in the heart
that is to enter that sanctuary. And because it is one Jesus
who is both Minister of the new sanctuary and Mediator of the
new covenant, we may be confident that He will do His work
in our heart as effectually as He does it in heaven. And,
therefore, the deeper our insight into the perfection of His work
in heaven above, the more confident our expectation may be
of the perfection in our life within.
1. Let us pray God very earnestly that as we now proceed to study the better promises of the
better covenant, our hearts may be opened to receive them in all their fulness.
2. "No omnipotence can make you partaker of the life of the outward world without having
the life of this outward world born in your own creaturely being.
And therefore no omnipotence
can make you a partaker of the beatific life in presence of the Holy Trinity, unless that life stands
in the same triune state within you that it does without you."
3. A heavenly sanctuary and a heavenly High Priest ash for a heavenly Christian and a
heavenly heart. And this is what the new covenant promises, and the Mediator of the new
covenant gives indeed,