The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

520 Cbe ibolieet of 2UI
tianity raised marriage out of the deepest degradation,
and made
it, with the home that gathers round it, what it has been in the
Christian Church. Love, the love of God in Christ alone, can
keep it pure and holy.
Ye are come to the city of the living God.
Let your life be
one of love. Its claims appear too high and exacting, they
appear impossible to one who stands outside the gate. They
become the joy of him who knows what it is to have entered the
rest of God, where He works all.
They become the very nature
of Him who has, in fulness of faith, accepted Jesus as His High
Priest, in the power of the endless life, bringing him nigh, giving
him entrance into the life of God. The covenant, of which He
is the Mediator, has written on the new heart the one law of
love, has given us the spirit of love.
1. The first half of the Epistle opened our eyes to the heavenly glory of Jesus, and of that
heavenly sanctuary into which He lifts us.
The second shows us how we are to Hue that heavenly
life on earth.
The more a man lives in heaven, the better fitted he is to Hue on earth.
2. Love is the new nature we receive from heaven, and Is renewed from heaven day by day.
The fruit of the Spirit is love.
When the Spirit was poured out from heaven, love filed the hearts.
Let us beware of attempting to fulfil these commands of love by our own will : It is only a love
given from God that can love all, at all times and In all circumstances.
3. Ye are not come to Mount Sinai, the life of law and effort, of strain and failure. But ye are
come to Mount Slon, a life in the Holy Spirit, in the power of Jesus, in joy and strength and
perfect love.