The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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of Sinai, and placed on Mount Sion. Oh, try
what God is
speaking to you
to understand
in His Son. Christ is to be your life.
In the power of an endless life He is your High Priest, bringing
is
your covenant Mediator, putting in
you near to God ;
He
divine reality the law into your inmost parts ;
sending from His throne the Holy Spirit
your Priest-King,
to reveal Himself as
the law of your life. Ye are not come to Mount Sinai ;
its fear
and terror are exchanged
by faith, and Christ will be your life.
for faith and trust Come and live
1. In studying the meaning of a word or truth, It Is often most helpful in cases where we
are In danger of confounding, owing to apparent resemblances, things that differ, to find out
what It is not. There Is so much in salvation by the law that loohs like true salvation, that
many are all their life led astray. It is, therefore, of infinite consequence to know well what
this means : Ye are not come to. The place to which Christ brings you to, not in the least
Mount Sinai. Say now, I have nothing to do with Mount Sinai.
2 Mount Sinai means, as man takes it, life by self-effort, by our own goodness, God
helping us ; by a. religion of self, with God s grace to fill out what self cannot do. Mount
Sinai, as God means it, Is sin and wrath and condemnation : the death and the end of self, to
prepare the way for Christ. Mount Sinai points away to Mount Sion and to Christ. There Ho
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