The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

310 Cbe Iboliest of 2UI
to serve the living God ! If we experience in ourselves, or in
those around us, that there is little of the power and presence
of the living God in our religious service, we have here the
reason. If we find that in that service dead works still prevail,
and that in prayer and preaching, in home life and work around
us, the duties of the religious life are performed without the
power of the life and Spirit of God, let us learn the lesson
it is
only the effectual cleansing, through the Eternal Spirit, of
the blood that has been taken into the Holiest, that can fit us to
serve the living God. That blood, witnessed to by the Holy
Spirit, brings us into the Holiest, and makes God to us a living
God ! That blood brings the life of the Holiest into our hearts,
cleanses our conscience from every dead work, from every
attempt and every hope to do anything in our own strength,
gives the consciousness that we are now ransomed and set free
and empowered from heaven to serve the God of heaven in the
power of a life that comes from heaven. The blood of Christ
doth indeed cleanse us to serve the living God !
1. How vain it would have been for anyone to seek the priestly consecration with blood, and
the entrance into the sanctuary, if he were not to do the priest s service. Let us give up the vain
attempt. Let us seek the power of the blood to serve the living God, as His ministers to our
fellow-men,
The whole inward life of our High Priest, which He imparts to us, consisted of these
two things
: it was a life in the will of God, and in self-sacrificing hue to men.
2. The priests honoured the blood sprinkled on them by boldly entering the tabernacle. Oh
let us honour the blood of the Lamb by believing that it gives the power for a life in the Holiest, in
the service of the living God I
3. Conscience tells me what I must think of myself The blood . tells me what God thinks of
me. A conscience cleansed with the blood is a conscience that glories in this, that in holiness
and In sincerity of God we behave ourselves in the world.
4. Oh to realise it I Christ went Into the Holiest, not for Himself, but for us. And we go in,
too, by His blood and in His Spirit, not only for ourselves but for others.