The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LXXVI.
A BODY DIDST THOU PREPARE FOR ME.
X. 5. Wherefore when he cometh Into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,
But a body didst thou prepare for me ;
6. In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no
pleasure :
7. Then said I, Lo, I am come
(In the roll of the book it Is written of me)
To do thy will, O God.
THE writer has reminded us of the utter insufficiency of the sacri
fices of the law to do what was needed to take sin away, or to
perfect the worshipper. In contrast to these he will now unfold
to us the inner meaning, the real nature and worth of the sacri
fice of Christ. In speaking of the blood in chap. ix. he has
taught us what its infinite power and efficacy is. But what we
need still to know is this : what gave
it that infinite efficacy ;
what is its spiritual character, and what its essential nature,
that it has availed so mightily to open for us the way to God.
Even when we believe in Christ s death, we are in danger of
resting content with what is not much better than its shadow,
the mere doctrinal conception of what it has effected, without
entering so into its divine significance, that the very image,
the real likeness of what it means, enters into us in power.
Our writer here again finds what he wants to expound, in
the Old Testament. He quotes from Psalm xl, where the