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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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Cbe IboUest ot ail 531<br />

To understand this aright, let us look at the two distinguishing<br />

features <strong>of</strong> the sin-<strong>of</strong>fering on the day <strong>of</strong> atonement. <strong>The</strong><br />

blood was brought into the Holy Place ; the body was burnt<br />

outside the cavip. Even so Christ's blood was brought into<br />

heaven, and is the power <strong>of</strong> our entrance and our abode there<br />

the sign that that is our place. And the call comes : Let ns<br />

draw 7iigh, let us enter. But Christ's body was brought without<br />

the camp : the sign that that is our place too. Heaven has received<br />

Him and us in Him : we belong there. <strong>The</strong> world has<br />

cast Him without the camp, and us with Him : we belong there.<br />

In heaven we share His honour ; on earth His reproach. Let<br />

us therefore go forth unto Him, without the camp, bearing-<br />

His reproach.<br />

<strong>The</strong> camp was not Rome with its heathenism, but Jerusalem<br />

with its religion and its revelation from God. <strong>The</strong>re Jesus was<br />

rejected <strong>of</strong> the Jews, because He condemned their self-righteousness<br />

and formality. It is not the irreligious but the religious<br />

world from which we must go out—that is, from everything that<br />

is not in harmony with His cross and its spirit <strong>of</strong> self-sacrifice.<br />

Let us go forth : not from one religious connection to another,<br />

which in time proves to have as much <strong>of</strong> the spirit <strong>of</strong> the camp.<br />

No, let us go forth unto Him ! to closer fellowship, to more<br />

entire conformity to Him the Cross-bearer, to His meek and<br />

patient and loving spirit.<br />

Let us not cast our reproach on those<br />

we leave behind, but let us bear—His reproach.<br />

Let us go forth.<br />

In the summing up <strong>of</strong> the Epistle (chap, x.)<br />

it was. Let us draw nigh, let us enter in ; here it is, Let us go<br />

forth.<br />

<strong>The</strong> two words gather up all the teaching <strong>of</strong> the Epistle,<br />

all the need <strong>of</strong> the Christian life.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are two places appointed<br />

for the believer in the power <strong>of</strong> Christ's redemption<br />

within the<br />

veil, to worship ;<br />

without the gate, to witness. In both places

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