The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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Egypt, God meets it with His divine provision, and faith finds
perfect safety and rest under the shelter of the blood. And if
Israel thus honoured God s word and trusted in the blood of a
lamb oh, shall we not ten thousand times more honour the
blood of the Lamb, and believe and claim that eternal
salvation
it
brings us. We have been taught its wonderful power in
conquering sin and death, in opening heaven, in cleansing and
perfecting our conscience and heart, and bringing us nigh to
God let us ; open our whole being to the power
of the blood
that cleanses from all sin. Let our faith rejoice in the invisible
God and the precious blood of the Lamb of God.
By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land.
On the sprinkling of the blood there follows the entrance on a
new life, the surrender to be led by God in a way that we know
not, through difficulties to us insurmountable. By faith they
passed through between the waters in a way man had never
trod, in a way that their pursuers in vain sought to follow.
Where nature fails faith triumphs, for it follows in a way where
God leads.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down. The strength of
the enemy, in which he trusted, in view of the impotence of
God s people, availed nothing before the power of faith. When
shall we learn, in quiet patience and perseverance, to wait upon
God our seven days too, the circle of a completed time, until He
gives the possession of the promised
rest. Let our faith claim
it ;
we are the children of a God who does impossibilities ;
we
are called to a life of faith that expects and receives them. Let
our life be
faith in God.
By faith Rahab perished not. Salvation by faith was not
for Israel only but for the heathen too. By faith Rahab was
not only saved, but became one of the ancestors of Jesus, and