The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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evil of unbelief; it incapacitates a man for holding fellowship
with God as the living One. The expression, ^/le living God,
occurs four times in the Epistle. In the Old Testament it contrasted
God with the dead idols, who could not hear or speak or
help. Alas, how often professing Christians have, instead of a
graven image, the more dangerous idol of a thought-image—
conception of the mind to which they bring their worship.
The
living God, speaking in His Son, hearing them when they
speak, working out in them His mighty salvation—the living
God who loves and is loved,—Him they know not. With all
their Christian profession and religious exercises there is an evil
heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God.
Let us take the warning. Ere we come to the deeper truth
the Epistle has to teach us, let us learn well our first lesson :
one thing God looks to, the one thing we need to receive, the
fulness of blessing our great High Priest has for us and waits
to bestow, is a heart of faith—a true heart drawing nigh to God
in fulness of faith (x. 23), Take heed—we ought to give more
abundant heed—lest there be in any of us, even for a moment, an
evil heart of unbelief.
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Let us cast out everything that can cause
or can strengthen it, whether it be worldliness or formality, too
little knowledge, or too much head-knowledge of God's word,
too little looking to the state of our heart or too much occupation
with self; let us take heed lest there be at any time in us
an evil heart of unbelief
Let a tender heart, hearkening to His
voice, listening to and trusting His word, ever be the sacrifice we
bring Him.
With the heart man believeth, whether in God or the world.
As our heart is, so is our faith, and so our life. Our enjoyment
of Christ, our spiritual strength and fruitfulness, our nearness to
God, and our experience of His working in us, all depend, not
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