The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Dolicst of BU 359
The blood of Jesus. The life is the blood. As the value
of this life, so the value of the blood. In Christ there was the
life of God ;
infinite as God is the worth and the power
of that
blood. In Christ there was the life of man in its perfection ;
in
His humility, and obedience to the Father, and self-sacrifice, that
which made Him unspeakably well-pleasing to the Father.
That
blood of Jesus, God and man, poured out in a death, that was
a perfect fulfilment of God s will, and a perfect victory over all
the temptations of sin and self, effected an everlasting atonement
for sin, and put
it for ever out of the way, destroying death and
him that had the power of it. Therefore it was, that in the
blood of the everlasting covenant Jesus was raised from the
dead ;
that in His own blood, as our Head and Surety, He
entered heaven ;
and that that blood is now for ever in heaven,
in the same place of honour as God the Judge of all, and Jesus
the Mediator (xii. 24). It is this blood, now in heaven before
God for us, that is our boldness to enter in, even into the very
Holiest of All.
Beloved Christian ! The blood of Jesus
! The blood of the
Lamb ! Oh think what it means. God .gave
it for your redemp
tion. God accepted
it when His Son entered heaven and
presented it on your behalf. God has it for ever in His sight as
the fruit, the infinitely well-pleasing proof, of His Son s obedience
unto death. God points you to it and asks you to believe in
the divine satisfaction it
gives to Him, in its omnipotent energy}
in its everlasting sufficiency. Oh, will you not this day believe
that that blood gives you, sinful and feeble as you are, liberty,
confidence, boldness to draw nigh, to enter the very Holiest?
Yes, believe it, that the blood and the blood alone, brings you
into the very presence, into the living and abiding fellowship of
the everlasting God. And let your response to God s message