The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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admit within the veil, and give us part in the priests ministry of
blessing men : this will come as we seek it as fitness to serve
the living God.
How much more shall the blood of Christ cleanse your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God ? The
cleansing is for service. There was a great difference between
the people in the outer court and the priests within the taber
nacle. The former saw the blood sprinkled on the altar, and
trusted for forgiveness ;
the blood was not applied to their
persons. The priests were sprinkled with the blood that ; gave
them access to the sanctuary to serve God there. We still have
outer-court Christians, who look at Calvary, and trust for forgive
ness, but know nothing of the access to God which the more
direct and powerful application of the blood from heaven by the
Holy Spirit gives. Oh let us give ourselves to be priests, wholly
separated to the service of God, wholly given up to God, for
Him to work in us and through us what perishing men need,
our consecration to this service will urge us mightily to claim an
ever mightier experience of the blood, because we shall feel that
nothing less than a full entrance into, and a true abiding
in God s
presence, can fit us for doing God s work. The more we see
and approve that the object of the cleansing must only be for
service, the more shall we see and experience that the power for
service is
only in the cleansing. 1
How much more shall the blood cleanse from dead works
1 "The blood contains that which makes white (Rev. vii. 14). Not only the man,
but his garments are made white. This is more than cleansing. It is the word used
regarding Christ s transfiguration garments (Matt. xvii. 2) ;
the angel robes
(Matt, xxviii. 3) ; the heavenly clothing (Rev. iv. 4) ; the judgment throne (Rev.
xx. n), whiter than snow, white as the garments of Christ. What potency, what
excellency, what virtue does this blood contain ! How it beautifies ! How it
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glorifies !