The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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His blood is now living in heaven. We have studied the
Epistle in vain, and we shall in vain attempt to live the true
Christian life, if we have not learnt that our salvation is not in
the death of Jesus but in His life in His death only as the
gate to the risen life. And so the God of peace, whom we are
now invited to trust in, is
spoken of as He who raised Jesus,
the Shepherd of the sheep, who gave His life for them, from the
dead.
Scripture ever points to the resurrection as the mightiest
part of God s mighty power ;
the God of the resurrection is to
be the God in whom we trust for the work to be done in us.
He has raised Christ, as the Shepherd, who watches and tends
His sheep, through whom He will do His work.
In the blood of the everlasting covenant. We know
how the blood has been coupled in the Epistle with the
redemption of transgressions, the opening of the entrance into
heaven, and the cleansing of the heart from all conscience of
sin. Were it not for that blood-shedding
Christ had never
risen from the dead. In that blood, even the blood of the
everlasting covenant, which could only be made after there had
been a redemption for transgressions, God raised Jesus from
the dead. It was the blood that sealed the covenant, by which
the covenant blessings of perfect pardon, of the law written in
the heart, and direct fellowship
with God were secured to us.
It was the blood that had conquered sin and death and hell,
that could give the entrance into heaven, and cleanse the sinner s
heart for the reception and experience of the heavenly life.
And as those who are sprinkled with this blood, the secret of
resurrection power, we are invited to trust the God of the resur
rection to work in us.
The God of peace, who hath raised Jesus from the dead in the
blood of the covenant, make you perfect in every good work