The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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endured, as seeing him who is in
them and greeted them from afar, and
fearing the wrath of the king: for he they should uot be made perfect.
having confessed that they were stran visible.
gers and pilgrims on the earth.
28 By faith he kept the passover.and
14 For they that say such things the sprinkling of the blood, that the de
make it manifest that they are seeking stroyer of the firstborn should not
after a country of their own.
touch them.
15 And if indeed they had been 29 By faith they passed through the
mindful of that country from which Red sea as by dry land : which the
they went out, they would have had Egyptians assaying to do were swal
opportunity to return.
lowed up.
W But now they desire a better 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell
country, that is, a heavenly : where down, after they had been compassed
fore God is not ashamed of them, to be about for seven days.
called their God : for he hath prepared 31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished
for them a city.
not with them that were disobedient,
17 By faith Abraham, being tried, having received the spies with peace.
offered up Isaac : yea, he that had
gladly received the promises was offer
The Wonders Faith has
ing up his only begotten son ;
18 Even he to whom it was said, In
wrought.
Isaac shall thy seed be called :
32 And what shall I more say
? for
19 Accounting that God is able to the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon,
raise up, even from the dead; from whence Barak, Samson, Jephthah of David
;
he did also in a parable receive him back. and Samuel and the prophets.
33 Who through faith subdued king
Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. doms, wrought righteousness, obtained
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and
Esau, even concerning things to come.
promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 Quenched the power of lire, escaped
21 By faith Jacob, when he was edge of the sword, from weakness
a dying, blessed each of the sons of were made strong, waxed mighty in
Joseph and
; worshipped, leaning upon war, turned to flight armies of aliens.
the top of his staff.
35 Women received their dead by a
22 By faith Joseph, when his end was resurrection : and others were tortured,
nigh, made mention of the departure of not accepting their deliverance ;
that
the children of Israel ;
and gave com they might obtain a better resurrection:
mandment concerning his bones.
Moses.
The Sufferings Faith has
endured.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, 36 And others had trial
was hid three months mockings
by his parents, and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds
because they saw he was a goodly child ; and imprisonment
:
and they were not afraid of the king s 37 They were stoned, they
commandment.
sawn were
asunder, they were tempted, they
24 By faith Moses, when he was were slain with the sword :
they went
grown up, refused to be called the about in sheepskins, in goatskins ;
son of Pharaoh s daughter ;
being destitute, afflicted, evil entreated.
25 Choosing rather to be evil en 38
treated with the people of (Of whom the world was not
God, than
enjoy the worthy), wandering in deserts and
pleasures of sin for a season: mountains and caves, and the holes
26 Accounting the reproach of Christ of the earth.
greater rich es than the treasures of Egypt:
for he looked unto the recompense of Some better thing for us.
reward.
39 And these all, having had witness
Of the Deliverance of
borne to them
Israel by
through their faith,
received not the
Faith.
promise,
40 God having provided some better
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not thing concerning us, that apart from us