The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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the Holy Ghost interprets only to those in whom He dwells
and rules.
In the opening words of the Epistle we were told that it was
the same God, who had spoken to the fathers in the prophets,
who has now spoken to us in His Son. The inferiority of the
Old Testament did not consist in this that the words were less
the words of God than in the New. They are equally the
words of the Holy Spirit. But the superior excellence of the
new dispensation lies in this that, in virtue of the mighty
redemption wrought out by Christ, taking away the veil between
God and us, and the veil from our eyes and heart (Heb. x. 20,
Is. XXV. 7, 2 Cor. iii. 16), the word can enter more fully into us
with its life-giving power. The Son of God, as the living Word,
dwelling in us through the Holy Spirit, brings the 'truth and
the power of the word as a divine reality into our living
experience. The Old Testament was as the bud ;
in the New
the bud has opened and the flower is seen. Even as the Holy
Ghost saith. This word assures us that the Holy Spirit will
Himself unfold in the New what He had hidden in the words
of the Old.
This brings us to a lesson of the very deepest importance in
our spiritual life : that what the Holy Ghost hath spoken, He
alone can make plain. He uses human words and thoughts,
and, as regarded from the human side, human reason can
understand and expound them. But even in one who may be
a true Christian, this does not bring him farther than the Old
Testament, the preliminarj- stage: "The prophets sought and
searched diligently what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
which was in them did point unto" (i Pet. i. Ii). Beyond this,
to the real possession and experience of the redemption they
proclaimed, they did not come. It was only when Christ was