The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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offering for sin.
The one offering hath perfected for ever them
that are sanctified. The death of Christ has opened up and
introduced us into a relationship to God, a state of life before
Him, in which sin has been finally put away, and God receives
us into His fellowship as those who have been sanctified in
Christ. He receives us into the Holiest of All through the
blood. The blood that sprinkles the mercy-seat also sprinkles
and cleanses our conscience, bringing the full remission, the
full deliverance from sin and its
power, into our inmost being ;
and, fitting our heart to receive that Spirit of heaven which
witnesses with the blood, as a Spirit of life, puts the law
within us, as the law of our life.
And so we enter into the finished work of Christ, and the
rest of God in it ;
enter the perfection with which He Himself
was perfected for evermore, and hath perfected us for ever ;
into
that Holiest of All, into which God fulfils the promise, I will be
to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people. And the
offering of the body of Christ once for all, the one sacrifice for
ever, becomes, in ever-growing blessedness, the one thought, the
one trust, the one joy, the one life of the believer. His salvation
and redemption are finished and eternal realities, His perfection
and sanctification too. Our one need is to believe and abide in
and receive what our Priest-King on the throne imparts through
His Spirit
: a full entrance into the no more offering for sin,
with all that flows from it, in the person and throne and work
of our Priest for ever : this is the entrance into the Holiest.
And the Holy Ghost also beareth witness to us. It is
easy
to understand the truth of the forgiveness of sin as one of the
elementary foundation truths, of which we read in chap. vi.
(ver. i). But if we seek to press on to perfection, and to know
what the fulness of salvation is into which it leads, we may count