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The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

This book illuminates the pages of the book of Hebrews. Andrew Murray's sermons and books have stood as spiritual standards for over a hundred years.

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iboliest <strong>of</strong> ail<br />

with God s Spirit in it as<br />

our law, and upon God Himself who<br />

hath done it all, the more we shall feel urged to fall down and<br />

worship, To Him be glory for ever and ever. But especially<br />

as we claim and realise and yield ourselves to the promise which<br />

is the outcome <strong>of</strong> this great redemption, God perfect you in<br />

every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is<br />

pleasing in His sight, our hearts will swell with joy unspeakable<br />

and praise unutterable, that can only find relief in the cry,<br />

To Him be glory, to Him be glory<br />

!<br />

I know that it is just here a difficulty will come to many.<br />

<strong>The</strong> promise appears so high, and its fulfilment in their experi<br />

ence, God perfecting them in every good thing, so impossible,<br />

that even the praise which came, when they thought upon<br />

what God had done, passes away. Let me speak one word to<br />

such. Just look at this great<br />

all, the sun and moon and stars, the<br />

universe. <strong>The</strong> God who made it<br />

mighty mountains and the<br />

great ocean ;<br />

this God cares for every blade <strong>of</strong> grass and gives<br />

it its life and beauty. <strong>The</strong> greatest and the least are alike to<br />

Him ;<br />

He cares for the whole and for each minute detail. And,<br />

even so, He who wrought out the mighty redemption<br />

in Christ<br />

is now still<br />

working out, in the same power and love, its applica<br />

tion in every soul, in every moment and in every circumstance.<br />

God has not done part, and left part dependent on us. God is<br />

all, and must in very deed do As all. the God <strong>of</strong> peace, who<br />

raised Christ from the dead, He must work in you every good<br />

thing that can be pleasing in His sight. And He will do it.<br />

What He began in Christ, He will finish in you. A great artist<br />

attends to the minutest details. God is<br />

engaged, as He perfected<br />

Christ the Head, in perfecting every member <strong>of</strong> His body. He<br />

<strong>of</strong> God s Son<br />

does this by Himself working in us. <strong>The</strong> Spirit<br />

sent into our heart as an inward life, Christ dwelling in our

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