The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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reproof, with a view to convict of sin, to awaken to a sense of
danger, and to urge to repentance.
At the same time, every
thing has been done to quicken faith and hope, and to urge to
steadfastness by pointing to the strong encouragement
of Christ.
to be
found in the word of God and the power
To us the closing message comes too :
Bear, yield yourselves
to, the word of exhortation. Exhortation is indeed the main
characteristic of the Epistle. It conies to us as an intensely
practical, personal appeal, to give ourselves wholly to the Son
of God from heaven, and to live the heavenly
life He offers to
work within us. We may gather up
its chief thoughts
of the words it has used more than once.
Take heed !
in four
Its tone is one of solemn warning against the
danger of negligence and sloth, disobedience and doublemindedness,
unbelief and falling away. Let us yield to its
discovery of sin and danger. Let us beware lest the content
ment with beginnings, a resting short of an entire devotion to
God and perfect conformity to Jesus, a selfish desire to have
salvation and heaven without the very Spirit
of Christ and of
heaven, deceive us, so that, like Israel, we perish half-way
between Egypt and Canaan.
Press on ! Let us accept its teaching of what the true aim
of the Christian life is. We are to give due diligence to enter
and dwell in the rest of God. We are to press on to perfection ;
to be like men running a race for life.
We are to take Jesus as
our Leader and Forerunner, to follow Him in the path of perfect
obedience to God s will, and entire self-sacrifice. We are to
enter with Him into the Holiest, to make God s presence our
home, and His fellowship our daily portion and our chief joy.
We are to be like the old saints, to go out from our home, to live
in the pilgrim spirit, seeking a heavenly country.
Yea, we are