The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LXXX.
THE WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
X.-15. And the Holy Ghost also beareth witness to us: for after he hath
said,
16. This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, saith the Lord ;
I will put my laws on their heart,
And upon their mind also will I write them ;
then saith he,
17. And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
18. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
THE writer has concluded his argument. He has made clear
that the sacrifice of Christ, as the offering up of His body to
the will of God, had opened for us a new way into
the Holiest.
Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ we have
been sanctified. When He had offered one sacrifice for ever,
He sat down on the right hand of God. By one offering He
hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. His sacrifice
is over, and has everlasting power ;
in virtue of it He sits on the
throne, expecting His final triumph ;
those He has sanctified
are perfected for ever. The sacrifice is of infinite worth ; it has
opened the entrance to a state of perfect and everlasting holiness
and glory ; nothing is now needed but to rejoice and wait and
see the King on the throne applying and revealing the power of
His finished work.
The writer appeals to the words of the institution of the new