The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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What is done once is done for ever : all it waits for is the ever
lasting manifestation of what is already perfect and complete.
Christ, now once manifested to put away sin byjthe sacri
fice of Himself this is the great lesson of our passage. What
Christ effected by His dying once, is for ever. And what He
did effect was this He put away sin by the sacrifice of Him
self. He was manifested to put it away out of God s presence,
out of His book and His remembrance to put it away from us,
so that it
has no more power over us, and we enter upon an
entirely new state of life, with sin removed and God s law
written in our heart.
The question comes up, Is not the expression too strong?
Is not the experience of the Church a proof that it cannot be
The solution of the difficulty will be found
meant so literally ?
in a truth that leads us into one of the deepest mysteries of the
spiritual life. As we saw in our last meditation, the words of
God have a divine, an infinite fulness of meaning. They set
before us what is an actual fact, a divine reality, a spiritual truth
in the power of the endless life. But this truth is seldom fully
understood or accepted by believers. And as their knowledge
limits their faith, and their faith their experience, the human
exposition and witness of what God means seldom if ever
reaches to the fulness of what the word contains. We limit the
Holy One of Israel perhaps most when we think we honour Him,
by thinking that we know and hold in our formulas all His word
means. With its divine contents the word infinitely exceeds our
apprehension, and ever invites us to press on to perfection, and
prove the deeper and higher truth there is still hidden in the old
familiar words. It is as we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit,
whose it is to reveal the power of the blood and the opening of
the way into the Holiest, that we shall be led to inherit this