The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

TLbc iboliest of Bll
^35
priestly caste, to intervene between God and men all God's
;
saints are priests. But we have a God-ordained ministry with
the gifts and the setting apart, and the duties and the authority,
of which the Acts and the Epistles teach us so fully. This is no
mere human arrangement, but an appointment of Christ by the
Holy Ghost, through which He carries out His work as the
great Priest over the house of God. Such rulers are no lords
over God's heritage, and yet
have a claim to the honour due to
them. The relation between the teacher and the taught is of
such importance in the Church, the power of the teaching and
the watching depends so much on the spirit of harmony and
love, that this element of the Christian life must be carefully
cultivated if we are to suffer no harm. Obey and submit:
these are words that may not be forgotten, for they watch in
behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account.
Pray for us : And I exhort you the more abundantly to
do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. Prayer,
too, is one of the sacrifices we may offer; Jesus Himself in the
garden offered prayers and supplications. The writer, in the
very spirit in which Paul writes, not only asks for prayer, but
believes that the intercession of the Church will hasten his
restoration to them. Our life in the Holiest is indeed to be no
selfish luxury ;
there is work there for us—work that calls for
self-denial and self-sacrifice. Let us pray much for God's
servants and all His saints ;
and let us be sure that nowhere
may greater wonders be wrought by faith, than as it deals with
God in prayer.
Christian, you are a priest ! You have access into the
Holiest! Christ went in with the blood of His sacrifice. Enter
you continually with your sacrifice—the praise of God and the
confession of His name ; deeds of charity and beneficence