Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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our body, with every member, every power, every action, to
fulfil His will, to be offered up to Him, to glorify Him. Like
Christ we must prove in
The blood that is
our body that we are holy to the Lord.
sprinkled on thy heart came from the body
of Jesus, prepared by God, and, in His whole life, even to His
one offering, given up to God. The object of that blood
sprinkling is that thy body, of which the heart sprinkled with
the blood is the life, should, like His, be wholly given up to God.
Oh. seek to take in this blessed truth, and to accept it fully.
The heart sprinkled from the evil conscience will then become
an unbroken experience, and the blood of the Lamb the everliving
motive and power for a life in the body, like Christ's, a
sacrifice holy and acceptable to God.
7. / am deeply persuaded that in the self-pleasing which we allow in gratifying the claims of
the body, we shall find one of the most frequent causes of the gradual decline of our fellowship
with God. Do remember, it was through the body that Satan conquered in Paradise ; it was in the
body he tempted Christ and had to be resisted. It was in suffering of the body, as when He
hungered, that Christ was perfected. It is only when the law of self-denial is strictly applied to
the body, that we can dwell in the Holiest.
2. He was tempted in all points, like as we are— in His body uery specially, and is able to
succour us.
Let the committal of our body into the keeping and the rule of Jesus be uery definite
and entire.
3. " If Miranda wits tu run a race for her life, she would submit to a diet that was proper for
it.
As the race which is set before her is a race for holiness and heavenly affection, so her everyday
diet has only this one end—to make her body fitter for this spiritual life."