Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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act accomplishctl outside of us, without seeking to know its
inner nature and meaning, the fellowship and conformity of
Christ's death will be an impossibility. But as we enter into the
real meaning of the death for us and in our stead, to that which
constituted its divine life and power, we shall find that death
and the life out of death becomes ours in truth, laying hold of
us, and bringing us into the true
Leader and Forerunner ;
life-fellowship with our blessed
we shall see and experience that what
was to Him the way into the Holiest will be to us the only but
the certain, the living way thither.
Lo, I am come to do Thy will, God. " He humbled Himself,
and became obedient tJierefore God hath highly exalted
Him." Because God is the all-perfect fountain of life and
goodness and blessing, there can be no life or goodness or
blessing but in His will. The whole evil and ruin of sin is that
man turned from God's will to do his own. The redemption of
Christ had no reason, no object, and no possibility of success
except in restoring man to do God's will. It was for this Jesus
died. He gave up His own will ; He gave His life, rather than
do His own will. It was this that gave value to His bearing
our sins, with their curse and consequences, to His tasting death
for every man.
It was this that gave such infinite worth to His
blood. It was this that made Him a real propitiation for the
sins of the world. And it is this we are made partakers of— first,
as an obedience for the sake of which we are made righteous
;
but, further also, in the fellowship of the very spirit of the death
and the life in which He entered the presence of God. I come
to do Thy will, is the way into the Holiest, for Him and for us.
By which will we have been sanctified. By which will,
as willed by God, as done and fulfilled by Christ in His one
offering, as accepted by us in faith. When wc accept Christ, the