The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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the Holy Spirit applies the blood in such power, that it indeed
brings to the life in the inner sanctuary, in the full and abiding
joy of God s presence. 1
Let us draw near, with a true heart, in fulness of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Oh,
let us not bring a reproach upon the blood of the Lamb by
not believing in its power to give us perfect access to God.
Let us listen and hear them sing without ceasing the praise of
the blood of the Lamb in heaven ;
as we trust and honour and
rejoice in it we shall enter the heaven of God s presence.
7. "Wherein is the blood of Jesus better than the blood of goats and bulls, if it cannot free
us from the spirit of bondage and the evil conscience, if it cannot glue us a full glad confidence
before Qod ? What Jesus hath perfected we can experience and enjoy as perfect in our heart
and conscience. You dishonour your Saviour when you do not seek to experience that He has
perfected you as touching the conscience, and when you do not live with a heart entirely cleansed
from
the evil conscience." STEINHOFER.
2. A true heart a heart sprinkled :
you see everything depends upon the heart God can
do nothing for us from without, only by what He can put into the heart.
Of all that Jesus is and
does as High Priest in heaven I cannot have the least experience, but as it is revealed in the heart.
The whole work of the Holy Spirit is in the heart.
Let us draw nigh with a true heart, a sprinkled
heart, our inmost being entirely and unceasingly under the heavenly power of the blood.
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The blood contains life (John vi. 53). The blood not only removes death
(judicial and spiritual), but it gives and preserves life (judicial and spiritual). It
quickens. We are not only to be sprinkled with it
outwardly, but we are to receive
it inwardly, to drink As it. with the water, so with the blood, they are for inward
as well as outward application." H. BONAR.