The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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sure that that Spirit will ever work with and in that blood.
There are three that bear witness on earth : the Spirit and the
water and the blood. The Spirit and the blood must and will
ever go together. We must not limit our faith in the power
of the blood in our heart to what we can understand. Our
faith must ever be enlarging, to expect that the Holy Spirit,
according to His hidden but almighty and uninterrupted work
ing, can maintain the heavenly efficacy of the blood in a way
to us inconceivable. Just
as Christ is the visible revelation on
earth and in heaven of the invisible God, so the Holy Spirit
again is the communication of the life and redemption of the
unseen Christ. The Holy Spirit is the power of the inner life.
Within us, down in the to ourselves inaccessible depths of our
being, He is able, as the Eternal Spirit, to maintain, in them
that yield to Him, the divine power of the blood to cleanse
from sin and to give abiding access to the presence of God. Let
him who would know to the full the mighty, the divine, the
inexpressible power and blessing the blood each moment can
bring in Him, remember, it was through the Eternal Spirit it
was shed.
In connection with this there is still another lesson. The
Spirit not only applies the power of the blood, but in doing so
He reveals its spiritual meaning. The blood has its value, not
from the mere act of physical suffering
and death, but from the
inner life and disposition that animated Christ in shedding it.
It is the blood of the Lamb who offered Himself without
blemish unto God, with which our heart is
brought into a divine
and living contact. Self-offering, self-sacrifice, was the dis
position of which the blood was the expression, and from which
alone it had its worth. Where the Eternal Spirit communicates
the power of the blood, He communicates this disposition.