Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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to live as those who are come to the heavenly Jerusalem. We
are to go forth to Him without the camp bearing
His reproach,
wholly identified with Him. Let us press on. Let us run.
Let us enter in. Let us go forth. This is what the exhortation
means.
Consider Jesus. The one sure and effectual remedy the
Epistle offers for all the prevailing feebleness and danger of the
Christian life, we know. It has been said to us, You do not
know Jesus aright. The knowledge that sufficed for conversion,
does not avail for sanctification and perfection. You must
know Jesus better. Consider Jesus ! As God ! As Man ! In
His sympathy! In His obedience! In His suffering! In His
blood ! In His glory on the throne ;
opening heaven ;
bringing
you in to God ; breathing the law of God and the Spirit of
heaven into your heart, as your very life ! As little as you can
reach heaven with your hand, can you of yourself live such a
heavenly life. And yet it is possible, because God has borne
witness to the Gospel of His Son with the gift of the Holy
Ghost. The Priest-King, on His ascension to the throne, sent
down the Holy Spirit into the hearts of His disciples, and with
Him returned Himself to dwell in them, that in the power of
His heavenly life they might live with Him. Consider Jesus !
and you will see that you can live in the heavenlies with Him,
because He lives in you.
By faith! This word is the key to all. By faith! in
fulness of faith ! we can inherit every promise. Faith is moved
with godly fear, and takes heed ! Faith obeys and forsakes all,
and presses on to enter the land ! Faith
looks to Jesus, holds
fast its boldness, and draws nigh to God, and goes forth without
the camp. Faith sees how in Christ God has worked out His
will, sees that this God will just as surely work in us too what