Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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CXXIV.
JESUS CHRIST, THE SAME FOR EVER.
XIII.— 7. Remember them that had the rule over you, which spake unto
you the word of God ; and considering the issue of their Ufe, imitate their
faith.
8. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever.
Remember them that had the rule over you, and imitate their
faith. The reference may be to teachers who had been with
them for a time, and then had gone elsewhere, or to those who
had been called away by death. The Hebrews are called to
consider what the issue, the result, of their life had been, the
impression they had left, and to imitate their faith, as the power
that brought forth their life.
Happy the church where the holy
life and manifest faith of the leaders can be pointed to, even
more than their teaching. Happy the church that imitates and
emulates the faith of its leaders.
We remember the contrast we had in chap. vii. between the
priests who die and are succeeded by others, and the unchanging
priesthood of Jesus. The thought here of the loss of those who
had taught them, but had now left them, appears to suggest the
words that follow : Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and
to-day, yea and for ever. There may be loss and change of
men who are beloved and of great worth as teachers. Jesus we
can never lose,—in Him there is no change. Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday and to day, yea and for ever. Through