The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

ibolfest of BH 305
Christ humbled Himself and became obedient to death.
There
fore^ as the Lamb of God, who gave His blood, He was the
embodiment of meekness, and humility, and submissive surrender
to God s will.
It was our pride and self-will that was the very
root and life of sin in us : as we are washed in the blood
of the Lamb, His spirit of meekness and submissiveness
and obedience will work in
through which the blood was shed, applies
us, because the same Eternal Spirit,
it in our hearts.
We know what it means to wash our clothes in water, how
they are plunged into it and saturated with it, until the
water carries off all defilement. The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanses from all sin, because the Eternal Spirit imparts the
very life and power of which that precious blood-shedding was
the outcome and the fruit. This is the power that cleanses
the conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Not
the blood only, as shed upon earth, as the first object of our
faith for pardon, but the blood as shed through
the Eternal
Spirit, and glorified in the spirit life of heaven, brings us truly
into the inner sanctuary, and empowers us to serve Him as the
living God. "As nothing but the Eternal Spirit could have
overcome or redeemed fallen nature, as Christ took it
upon
Him, so nothing can possibly overcome or redeem the fallen
soul or body of any child of Adam, but that same overcoming
and redeeming Spirit, really living and acting in it, in the
same manner as it did in the humanity
We live in the dispensation of the Spirit
of Christ."
the Spirit of God s
Son, who hath been sent for this into our heart. It is the
dispensation of the inner life, in which we are brought into the
inner sanctuary, the secret of His presence, and the inner
sanctuary is found within us, in that secret inner place which
none but God s Spirit can search out. In that hidden depth is
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