Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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such mighty power— first, in opening the grave, and then in
opening heaven. It was this gave it the victory over all the
powers of death and hell beneath, and gave Him the victor's
place on high on the throne of God. And now, when that
blood, from out of the heavenly sanctuary, is sprinkled on the
conscience by the heavenly High Priest—how much more
with what an infinitely effectual cleansing, must not our
conscience be cleansed.
We know what conscience is. It tells us what we arc.
Conscience deals not only with past merit or guilt but specially
with present integrity or falsehood, A conscience fully cleansed
with the blood of Christ, fully conscious of its
cleansing power,
has the sense of guilt and demerit removed to an infinite
distance. And no less is it delivered from that haunting
sense of insincerity and double-heartedness, which renders
boldness of access to God an impossibility. It can look up to
God without the shadow of a cloud. The light of God's face,
to which the blood gave our Surety access, shines clear on the
conscience, and through it on the heart. The conscience is not
a separate part of our heart or inner nature, and which can be
in a different state from what the whole is. By no means.
Just as a sensibility to bodily evil pervades the whole body,
so the conscience is the sense which pervades our whole
spiritual nature, and at once notices and reports what is wrong
or right in our state. Hence it is when the conscience is
cleansed or perfected, the heart is cleansed and perfected too.
And so it is in the heart that the power the blood had in heaven
is communicated here on earth. The blood that brought Christ
into God's presence, brings us, and our whole inner being, there
too.
Oh, let us realise it. The power of the blood in which