The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Iboltest of SlI 533
CXXVI.
WELL-PLEASING SACRIFICES.
XIIL-15. Through him then let us offer a sacrifice of praise to God con
tinually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.
16. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices
God is well pleased.
17. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they
watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account ;
that they may
do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.
18. Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience,
desiring to live honestly in all things.
19. And I exhort you the more abundantly to do this, that I may be restored
to you the sooner.
THE Hebrews were in danger, we saw this in the previous
verses, of being led to seek the strengthening of their religious
life in returning to the old sacrifices. They have been reminded
that of the sin-offering of old, the type of Christ, nothing was
eaten ;
it was burnt without the camp. The fellowship of Christ
must be sought in another way. By His blood He sanctifies us
and leads us into the Holiest ; by His example and His life He
leads us without the camp. This is the true fellowship of the
offering
of Christ. The writer will now tell us what the sacrifices
are in which we may still take part.
and His one sacrifice, we may bring
In the fellowship of Jesus
the sacrifices of praise, of
deeds of love and kindness, of humility and of prayer.
Through Him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to
God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make con
fession of His name. In Hosea we find Israel saying that when