The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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the sacrifice
experience of each true disciple sin put away by
of self. The law for the Head is the law for every member.
And now the alternative is
put before us : Which
shall it be ?
Sin and myself or Christ and His Self. Christ has opened for
us a heavenly life-sphere, out of which sin has been put away
the sanctuary of God s presence. Which shall it be selfpleasing
or self-sacrifice a life in self or a life in Christ.
Though we may not always be able to see fully
all that Christ s
work means, or realise all the riches of blessing it brings, there is
one word not difficult to carry in which all is centred. That
word is
Himself. He gave Himself a sacrifice for sin ;
He gives
Himself the putter away, the conqueror of sin He is Himself
;
all we can desire or need. Blessed the soul that rests in nothing
less than HIMSELF.
1. Sin is the refusal to sacrifice one s self to God. Self-sacrifice in the fellowship and Spirit
of Jesus Is the way out of sin to God.
2. Christ as our Head Is our Substitute. The value of His work as Substitute rests in His per
sonal character and obedience. The two aspects are inseparable both in Him and in us. We draw
nigh to Him and accept Him, and are saved at once by Him as our Substitute. But then we are at
once implanted into Him, and the spirit in which He worked our salvation is imparted to us. And
so salvation by sacrifice, putting away sin by the sacrifice of self, rules out whole being.