The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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IX.
LXIX.
THEOUQH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT.
14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience
from dead works to serve the living GodP
ONE might well ask for the reason why the blood of Christ,
which hath had such infinite power in conquering sin and death
and in opening heaven to Christ and to us, does not exercise a
mightier influence even in earnest Christians, in cleansing our
heart and lifting us into a life in the joy of God s presence.
The
first answer must be, that we seek too little for a real insight
into its divine and infinite worth. The blood of the heavenly
Son, shed in the power of the Eternal Spirit, could not but again
return heavenward : as God s Spirit leads us by faith to gaze
on its
power in heaven, and to see how through
all heaven its
power is manifest, we shall learn to expect
working to keep us in God s presence, in a power
and to receive its
above all
that thought can conceive. The same Eternal Spirit, through
whom the blood-shedding took place, will effect in us the
blood-sprinkling too, and make us indeed partakers of what it
has accomplished in God s presence above.
This is a lesson of the utmost consequence. If the blood is
His who offered Himself to God through the Eternal Spirit,
if it is in the power and life of that Spirit that the blood was
brought into heaven, and now has its place there, we may be