The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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Ch. 4,
6. 12, 13,
7. 6; 8.
9. 15; 11
13,17,33, 89.
The Fourth Warning
34 For ye both had compassion on
them that were in bonds, and took joy
fully the spoiling of your possessions,
knowing that ye yourselves have a
better possession and an abiding one.
35 Cast not away therefore your
boldness, which hath great recompense
of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that,
having done the will
receive the promise."
of God, ye may
continued.
Exhortation to believe and not
draw back.
37 For yet a very little while, he that
cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.
38 But my righteous one shall live by
faith : and if he shrink back my soul
hath no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them that shrink
back unto perdition ;
but of them that
have faith unto the saving of the soul.
CHAPTEK XL
TENTH SECTION.-xi. 1-40.
The Fulness
of Faith.
God concerning things not seen as
Faith, the Eye of the yet,
Unseen. moved with godly fear, prepared an
"XTOW faith is the assurance of things ark to the saving of his house
hoped for, the proving of things not
; through
which he condemned the world, and
seen.
became heir of the righteousness which
2 For therein the elders had witness is according to faith.
* Ch. 11. 4,
borne to them. *
5, 39 12. 1. 3
; By faith we understand that the Abraham and Sarah.
worlds have been framed by the word of 8 By faith Abraham, when he was
God, so that what is seen hath not been called, obeyed to go out unto a place
made out of things which do appear. which he was to receive for an in
heritance ;
and lie went out, not know
Of Faith before the Deluge. ing whither he went.
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a 9 By faith he became a sojourner in
more excellent sacrifice than Cain, the land of promise, as in a land not his
through which he had witness borne own. dwelling in tents, with Isaac and
to him that he was righteous, God Jacob, the heirs with him of the same
bearing witness in respect of his gifts promise :
:
and through it he being dead yet 10 For he looked for the city whlcb
speaketh.
bath the foundations, whose builder
5 By faith Enoch was translated that and maker js God.
he should not see death ;
and he was 11 By faith even Sarah herself re
not found, because God translated him : ceived power to conceive seed when she
for before his translation he hath had was past age, since she counted him
witness borne to him that he had been faithful who had promised.
well-pleasing nuto God.
12 Wherefore also
6 And there sprang of
without faith it is impossible one, and him as good as dead, so many
to be well-pleasing unto him : for he as the stars of heaven in multitude, and
that cometh to God must believe that as the sand, which is
by the sea shore,
he is, and that he is a rewarder of them innumerable.
that seek after him.
13 These all died in faith, not having
7 By faith Noah, being warned of received the promises, but having seen