The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LXXXIX.
LET US DRAW NEAR.
X. 22. Wherefore, brethren, let us draw near.
WE have studied the four great blessings of the new worship,
as the motives and encouragements for us to draw nigh. They
are the Holiest opened up, Boldness through the blood, the New
and living way, and the Great Priest over the house of God.
And we have considered the four great marks of the true
worshipper A true heart, Fulness of faith, The heart sprinkled,
and The body cleansed. We now come to the four injunctions
which come to us out of the opened sanctuary and specially
to the first Let us draw near. Both in speaking
of the
entering in of Christ, and the power of His blood in chap, ix.,
and in the exposition of our context, we have had abundant
occasion to point out what is meant by this entering in, and
what is needed for it. And yet
it may be well to gather up all
we have said, and in the very simplest way possible, once
again, by the grace of God, to throw open the door, and to help
each honest-hearted child of God to enter in, and take his place
for life in the home the Father has prepared for him.
And first of all I would say
: Believe that a life in the Holiest
of All, a life of continual abiding in God s presence,
is most
certainly your duty and within your power. As long as this
appears a vague uncertainty, the study of our Epistle must be
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