The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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can save us as from a distance.
No, as the Second Adam, He
the truth
of His heavenly priesthood
is so often powerless,
is because we
is nowhere if He is not in us. The one reason why
look upon it as an external distant thing, a work going on in
heaven above us. The one cure for this evil is to know that
our great Priest over the house of God is the glorified Jesus,
who in the Holy Spirit is present in us, and makes all that is
done in heaven above for us to be done within us too by the
Holy Spirit.
He is Priest over the house of God, the place where God
dwells ;
we are His house too. And as surely as Jesus ministers
in the sanctuary above, He moment by moment ministers in the
sanctuary within. Wherefore, brethren, having, not only in
gift, not only in the possession of right and thought, but in our
hearts, having a great Priest over the house of God, let us
draw near.
1. Having a great Priest ! You know a great deal of Jesus, but do you know this that
His chief, His all-comprehensiue work, is to^bring you near, oh so near, to God ? Has He done
this for you ? If not, ask Him, trust Him for it,
2. It is Jesus Himself I want. Himself alone can satisfy me. It is In the holy faith of
Jesus, the compassionate sympathiser, in the holy love of Jesus who calls us brethren, that we
can draw near to God. It is in a heart given up, with its trust and love and devotion to Jesus,
that the presence of God will be felt.
3. We have such a High Priest !
Yes, say, I have Him ; in all His power and love He ia
mine ; and yield to Him to do His work.