The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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do for us ? Nothing more ;
it has all been finished, once and for
ever. And why is it then we are pointed to Him as the great
Priest over the house of God ? And what is it we may expect of
Him ? What we need, and what we must look to Him for is this,
so to work in us that the work He has done for us may be made
real within us, as a personal experience of the power of an
endless life in which He was constituted Priest. Because He
liveth ever, we read, He is able to save completely.
Salvation
is a subjective, experimental thing manifest in the peace and
holiness of heart He gives. We, our life, our inner man, our
heart, our will and affections, are to be delivered from the power
of sin, and to taste and enjoy the putting away of sin as a
blessed experience. In our very heart we are to find and feel
the power of His redemption. As deep and strong as sin proved
itself in its actual power and its mastery within us, is Jesus to
prove the triumph of redeeming grace.
His one work as Priest over the house of God is to bring us
into it,
and enable us to live there. He does this by bringing
God and the soul into actual harmony, sympathy, and fellowship
with each other. As Minister of the sanctuary He does all that
is to be done in heaven with God ;
as Mediator of the new
covenant He does all that is to be done here on earth, in our
heart the one as effectually as the other. The two offices are
united in the one great Priest ;
in each act of His He unites
both functions, to the soul that knows what to expect,
and trusts
Him. Every movement in the presence of God can have its
corresponding movement in the heart of man.
And how is this effected ? In virtue of His union with us,
and our union with Him. Jesus is the Second Adam ;
the new
Head of the race. He is it in virtue of His. real humanity,
having in it the power of true divinity that filleth all. Just as