Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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set Him on His own right hand. Let us believe that that
exaltation of Christ out of the dead to His throne, and the
assurance that that same mighty power works in us, means,
even for this earth, a life of heavenly power and joy, of holiness
and happiness which it hath not entered into the heart to
conceive. Jesus, the Priest-King on the throne, is the surety of
the covenant. Let us, like Him, yield ourselves to that death
to sin and to self, out of which God raised Him. Let us sink
into the death of emptiness and nothingness and helplessness
;
let us, as dead, wait for the mighty operation of God. He who
gave Jesus as Mediator of the new covenant, and surety for its
promises, will reveal Him, and fulfil them in us, will bring us
in Him within the veil, and give us our life there in the secret
of His blessed presence.
/. Pardon of sin is the door, the entrance to the Father's home. The law in the heart is the
life and walk there, the fitness to draw nigh to God. Direct fellowship with God ; this is the
blessedness to be found in God's presence.
2. All the three blessings in Him the surety of the covenant. In Him our justification and
the assurance that our sins no more come up before Him. In Him our sanctification, with the
Holy Spirit breathing His will into our very heart. In Him our complete redemption, the fitness to
dwell in God's presence for evermore.