Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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presence, by expecting everything from Him alone, by resting
on Him. Faith gives God His place and His glory; faith wills
what God wills ; faith lets God have His own way, and makes
Him all in all. No wonder that faith is infinitely well-pleasing
to Him. If Christians only believed this, and only made it
their one study to draw nigh and enter in, and walk before Him
in the fulness of faith.
Then comes the third lesson—faith knows that it pleases
God. Enoch had witness borne to him that he had been
well pleasing to God. It was by faith that this witness came
(see vers. 2, 4, 39). It is of the very essence of a healthy
faith : God does not leave Himself without a witness to the
soul that trusts in Him, least of all in the New Testament.
The Lord Jesus promised to send from the Father in heaven
the Holy Spirit, as a witness of all that took place in heaven on
His ascension. All that the Epistle has taught us of the rent
veil and the opened sanctuary and the entrance into God's
presence, of Christ's perfect work and complete salvation as
the Priest in the power of an endless life, has its seal and its
worth and its power and its reality in our heart, from the
Pentecostal gift. The Holy Spirit brought down, out of that
Holiest of All within the veil, as an actual reality, the
kingdom of heaven into men's hearts, so that the presence of
God, and the Father's delight in His Son, and the Father's love
now shed abroad in their hearts become their everyday experience
and consciousness. And even so now still, to them who
seek and receive and yield to the Holy Ghost, in His full
indwelling and witness, faith receives and gives the witness
that we are well-pleasing.
By faith Enoch walked with God. My brother, who with
Abel hast drawn nigh to God in the infinite self-sacrifice of