The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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likeness in this too, that he has power
power begins with the family, but reaches farther.
over other lives. The
The man of
faith who with Abel, in the one sacrifice, has passed through
death to life, and with Enoch walks with God, has power with
God, the power of life and of blessing.
Through which faith he condemned the world.
The differ
ence between the unbeliever and the believer is this : the one is
a man of the world, and lives here ;
the other is a man of God,
and lives in heaven. His whole life is a protest and a con
demnation of the world. Abel, Enoch, Noah all three were
equally rejected and despised by the world, because they con
demned its works. God grant that the life of his believing
children may be so clear and bright, that the world may feel
itself condemned by them !
And became heir of the righteousness which is
according
to faith, the righteousness of standing in the right relation to
God, of a life of which faith is the root and power. Righteous
ness has been defined the giving each his due. This is the worth
of faith in the sight of God : it
gives Him His place as God, in
it the soul confesses that it is nothing, and that God is all. This
faith God counts for righteousness.
The faith that Noah manifested with regard to the ark, and
the salvation it
was to bring, we must show in relation to Christ
and His salvation. The opened sanctuary
is an ark of refuge
:
Christ has completed and perfected all.
But what work there is
for us to do, in gathering into it all that can be saved Let us,
!
like Noah, give our lives to this. Let us listen to God s awful
threatenings on a sinful world, and be moved with fear. Let us
believe in the infinite power of the great salvation provided, with
the love that waits to dispense and apply
it. Let us believe in
the call of God, that invites and enjoins each one of His redeemed