The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LXI.
THE CENTRAL BLESSING OF THE NEW COVENANT-
THE LAW WRITTEN IN THE HEART.
VIII. 10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after these days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws Into their mind,
And on their hearts also will I write them.
WE have seen what the fault was of the old covenant, But
they continued not in My covenant. We have seen that the
one object of the new covenant is to repair the fault of the old.
There is
henceforth no more need of the word, But they con
tinued not. The one distinguishing characteristic of the newcovenant
is to be, There is
grace
for those who enter it to
continue. The great mark of the priest after the order of
Melchizedek is He abideth continually. The great mark of
each of His people
is meant to be too He abideth con
tinually.
But are we not, some one will say, all living
covenant, and yet
is not the ordinary experience
under the new
of Christians
still the same as of old, But they continued not? Alas, it
is so. And how, then, with the provision of the covenant ? Is
it really to be taken so literally? And if so, has not the new
covenant failed just as the old did, of securing the continual
obedience God desired ?
The answer will be found in what we
have more than once pointed out The Hebrews were Chris-