The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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will of God wrought out in Christ on our behalf, is
accepted by
us too ;
it becomes the power that rules in our life by the
Holy Spirit.
as
In which will, not as a dead past transaction, or
the mere performance of a certain work to be done, but as a
living eternal reality restoring man into God s will in living
power this it is in which we have the new and living way to
God.
In which will we have been sanctified.
Sanctification in this
Epistle is a word of larger meaning than what is meant by that
title in ordinary Church doctrine. It includes all that is implied
in bringing us into living fellowship with God. He is the Holy
One. His life is His holiness. The inner sanctuary to which
we enter in, is the Holiness of Holinesses. In chap.
ii. we read :
Both He that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified are all
of one. Our sanctification is rooted in our oneness with Jesus.
In the which will we are sanctified, delivered from the power
of sin and this evil world, brought into fellowship with the Holy
One, and fitted for entering the Holiest of All.
In the which will we have been sanctified through the offer
ing of the body of Jesus Christ. His offering has such power,
because it was the doing of the will of God, the entering into
the will of God, and through
it into the holiness of God, into
the very Holiest of All. And now, as no one but Christ had
power of Himself to say, Lo, I am come to do Thy will, so no
one can speak thus, or live thus, but because the divine nature
of Christ is truly born and formed within him, and is become
the life of his life and the spirit of his Spirit. It is thus that His
priesthood manifests His power to bring us nigh to God.
Fellow-Christian ! hast thou learnt to believe and to regard
thyself as sanctified in the will of God as done by Jesus, admitted
to the fellowship of the Holy One? Is not this possibly the
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