The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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this the burnt offering specially symbolised—The giving up of
this lamb and its life in sacrifice to God, is the image and the
pledge of my giving up my life to Him. I offer the sacrifice to
God, in token of my offering myself to Him. Substitution and
Consecration were equally symbolised in the altar.
This was the feeling of David in writing the Psalm. What
he could only partly understand and fulfil has been realised in
Christ.
And what Christ accomplished for us, of that we become
full partakers as it is wrought into us, in a life of fellowship
with Him. The word comes to us. Present your bodies a
living sacrifice unto God. The real essential nature of the
sacrifice of Christ, what gives it worth and efficacy, is this
the body that God prepared for Him, He offered up to God.
And just as David, before Christ, through the Spirit of Christ,
said these words of himself, so every believer after Christ, in the
Spirit and power of Christ, says them too : A body hast thou
prepared for me. This is the new and living way that Christ
has opened up. David walked in it by anticipation ; Christ the
Leader and Forerunner walked in it and fully opened it up ;
it is
only as we, too, by participation with Him, walk in it, that we
can find access into the Holiest.
Every believer who would be fully delivered from the Old
Testament religion, the trust in something done outside of us,
that leaves us unchanged, and would fully know what it
means
that we are sanctified and perfected by the one offering of the
body of Christ, must study to appropriate fully this word as true
of Christ and himself as a member of His body A body didst
thou prepare for Me. In paradise it was through the body
sin entered ; in the body it took up its abode and showed its
power. In the lust for forbidden food, in the sense of nakedness
and shame, in the turning to dust again, sin proved its