The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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blood with which He dedicated the sanctuary He has dedicated
the covenant too.
And for this cause he is the Mediator of a new covenant,
that they that have been called may receive the promise of
the eternal inheritance. The word promise reminds of what
was said of the better covenant, enacted upon better promises.
The word inheritance of the oath of God and the inheriting
the promise through faith. The word eternal of all we have
heard of our Melchizedek, as a Priest for ever, who does all
His work in the power of an endless life. Christ has become
a Mediator of this new covenant, that the promise of the eternal
inheritance, that blessed heritage of eternal life even now made
manifest in the promises of the law written in the heart and full
personal fellowship with God, might be our portion
it is the work
;
of the Mediator to ensure our inheriting the promises. But this
could not be till a death had taken place for the redemption of
the transgressions that were under the first covenant. The
first covenant had its sanction in God s appointment ;
the new
covenant could not take its place
until the first had met with
full satisfaction for its claims. There was no way for this, for
the redemption of the transgressions it had seen and condemned,
but by a death. All the writer had meant in speaking
of the
blood, he now includes in the expression, a death. The change
of the expression reminds us how the two are one. The blood
is
through the death ;
the death is for the blood. The bloodshedding
and the death are the redemption, the ransom, that
by sin-bearing and atonement deliver
from transgressions and
their power. All the transgressions of the old covenant had
been treasured up the death
;
of Christ gave satisfaction to all
that that covenant could claim, and brought release. So the
Mediator of the new covenant begins an entirely new economy,