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The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

Holiest of All: Meditations on the Book of Hebrews "What teaching is needed to give health and vigor to the Christian life in order that, through all adverse circumstances, it may hold fast from the beginning, firm until the end? The teaching of the epistle of Hebrews is the divine answer to [this question]. In every possible way, it sets before us the truth that only the full and perfect knowledge of who Christ is and what He does for us can bring us to a full and perfect Christian life." Andrew Murray, Holiest of All

Holiest of All: Meditations on the Book of Hebrews "What teaching is needed to give health and vigor to the Christian life in order that, through all adverse circumstances, it may hold fast from the beginning, firm until the end? The teaching of the epistle of Hebrews is the divine answer to [this question]. In every possible way, it sets before us the truth that only the full and perfect knowledge of who Christ is and what He does for us can bring us to a full and perfect Christian life."
Andrew Murray, Holiest of All

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LXXII.<br />

EVEN THE FIRST COVENANT-NOT WITHOUT BLOOD.<br />

IX.—18. Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without<br />

blood.<br />

19. For when every commandment had been spoken <strong>by</strong> Moses iinto all<br />

the people according to the law, he took the blood <strong>of</strong> the calves and the goats,<br />

wiUi water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the <strong>book</strong> itself<br />

and all the people, saying,<br />

20. This is the blood oi the^covenant which God commanded to you-ward.<br />

21. Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels <strong>of</strong> the ministry he<br />

sprinkled in like manner with the blood.<br />

22. And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed<br />

with blood, and apart fit-om shedding <strong>of</strong> blood there is no remission.<br />

<strong>The</strong> writer return.s here to the idea <strong>of</strong> the covenant in ver. 15.<br />

He had there said that a death was needed for the redemption<br />

<strong>of</strong> the transgressions under the first covenant, ere Christ, as<br />

Mediator <strong>of</strong> the new, could put the heirs in possession <strong>of</strong> the<br />

promise. In confirmation <strong>of</strong> this necessity, he reminds us how<br />

even the first<br />

covenant was not dedicated without blood.<br />

God has made more than one covenant with<br />

man, but ever,<br />

not without blood! And why? We know th? answer (Lev.<br />

xvii. 11): <strong>The</strong> life [sowX) <strong>of</strong> tlie flesh is in the blood; and I have<br />

given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your

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