The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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covenant (viii. 6-13), in support of what he has said. He does
so with the words, And the Holy Ghost also beareth witness
to US. The words of Jeremiah are to him the words of the
Holy Spirit. He believes in a direct inspiration.
It was the
God who knows the end from the beginning, who had planned
all from the least to the greatest in the preparation of redemp
tion, who had revealed to Jeremiah the new covenant that would
be made centuries later. It was the same Holy Spirit who had
inspired the first record of Melchizedek, and the Psalm with the
oath of God, who had ordered the tabernacle and the veil to
signify that the way into the Holiest was not yet open, and had
watched over the first covenant, and its dedication not without
blood, through whom the promise
spoken and recorded. Our writer appeals
of the new covenant was
to Him and His
witness.
He does so as one who himself has the teaching
of that
Spirit. Anyone might read the words of the covenant, and of
the death of Jesus ;
no one could connect and expound them
in their divine harmony and their everlasting significance but
one taught by the same Spirit. These men preached the
gospel with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; the
Spirit, from the King sat down upon the throne, revealed in
and to them the will of God, and the eternal power of the one
sacrifice, to open the way into the Holiest.
And what is now the witness of the Holy Ghost in the new
covenant ? The witness to the two blessings of the covenant
in their divine inseparable unity. I will put My laws in
their heart, and their sins will I remember no more. The
complete remission of sins, the removal of sin out of God s
sight and remembrance for ever, was promised. Now, our
writer argues, where remission of these is, there is no more