The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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triumph. In the body grace will reign and triumph. The body
has been redeemed
;
it becomes a temple of the Spirit and a
member of Christ s
body
it will be made like His
; glorious
body. A body didst thou prepare for Me :
through the body
lies, for Christ and all who are sanctified in Him, the path to
perfection.
And yet how many believers there are to whom the body is
the greatest hindrance in their Christian life.
Simply because
they have not learnt from Christ what the highest
use of the
body is to offer it up to God. Instead of presenting their
members unto God, of mortifying the deeds of the body
tJirough the Spirit, of keeping under the body, they allow it
to have its way, and are brought into bondage. Oh for an
insight into the real nature of our actual redemption, through a
body received from God, prepared by Him, and offered up to
Him.
1. The soul dwells In the body. The body has been well compared to the walls of a city. In
time of war, not only the city and its indwelters must be under the rule of the king,
but specially
the walls.
Jesus, for whom God prepared a body, who offered His body, knows to keep the body
too.
2. The mystery of the Incarnation Is that Godhead dwelt in a body. The mystery of atone
ment, the one offering of the body of Christ.
The mystery offull redemption, that the Holy Spirit
dwells in and sanctifies wholly the body too.
3. "Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you ? Glorify God,
therefore, In your body." Did you ever know that the Holy Spirit Is specially gluen for the body ,
to regulate its functions and sanctify it wholly ?