Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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promise too, in all its divine significance—sin put away by the
sacrifice of Himself.
By the sacrifice of Himself. The words reveal the inmost
meaning of the death of Christ : it was self-sacrifice. Sin, in its
deepest root, is a turning from God to self; rejecting God to
please self From the wilderness to the garden this was the
one temptation with which Satan sought to lead Him astray.
By doing not His own will but the will of His Father, by the
sacrifice of Himself to God and His will. He conquered sin in
His own person, and gained a victory over it whereby it was for
ever vanquished and brought to nought. He gave Himself up
to death, as His submittal to it to do its utmost, rather than
yield to its temptation. He gave Himself up to death, as His
submittal to God's righteous judgment upon sin.
It was in this
that His death to sin, as the obedient One, that His death y^r
sin, as our Substitute, had its power, and His atonement its
efficacy. To Him, our Head, death was a personal spiritual
victory, and thereby a vicarious propitiation. In both aspects
He made an end of sin, and of both we are made partakers.
And how ? By the sacrifice of Himself He put away sin.^
And now He offers us Himself to take the place of sin. He gives
Himself, the sacrificed One, who has finished
redemption, to us
to put away sin within us, too. It is as the Son, the living One,
that He is High Priest ; it is in eternal life power, by a life
working in us, that He brings us to God. And so, by His Spirit,
He, in His self-sacrifice, lives in us, and makes it true in the
1 " The putling away of sin. The thought goes beyond the redemption from
transgressions (ver. 15). It is hterally for the disannulling of sin (comp. vii. 18). Sin
is vanquished, shown in its weakness, 'set at nought' (Marl; vii. 9 ; Gal. iii. 15)- "—
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