"The Holiest of All" part LXXVII

LO, I AM COME TO DO THY WILL.
Hebrews 10: 8-10  Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You would not, neither had pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the Levitical Law), Then has He said, Lo, I am come to do Your Will (Genesis 3: 15; Psalm 40: 7). He toke away the first, that He may establish the second. By which Will we have been Sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Continuing with the EIGHTH SECTION
Hebrews 10: 1-18
The New Way into the Holiest

BY THE REV. ANDREW MURRAY

On the word, A body did You prepare for Me (Genesis 3:15; Psalm 40:7), as the expression of God's claim, there follows now in the Psalm that other on the surrender to that claim--- Lo, I am come to do Your Will (Psalm 40: 8). In this, the doing of God's Will, we have the destiny of the creature, the Blessedness of Heaven, the inmost secret of Redemption. In this consists the worth of Christ's Sacrifice, and this alone is the reason why His Blood prevails. The path He Opened up to God, the path He walked in and we are required to walk in, to enter the Holiest, is--- I am come to do Your Will. It is only through God's Will alone we enter into God Himself. The central Blessing, Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant of God's Grace, gives us, when He gives us Himself, is a heart in which the Will of God Lives.

We have more than once spoken of the two aspects of Christ's death--- substitution with the atonement it wrought, and fellowship ( in intimacy of being now conjoined) with the conformity it brings ( the infusion of the Father's nature in us). The two are inseparably connected. As long as we look to the substitution simply as an act accomplished outside of us ( as the ministry of the priesthood of Aaron's effect upon both man and the nation of the Hebrews could only do), without seeking to Know its inner nature (the Israel of God as they are the true apple of God's eye the object of all His affection and Love emphasis added) and meaning, the intimacy, the fellowship and conformity of Christ's death will be an impossibility. But as we enter into the real meaning of the death for us and in our stead, to that which constituted its Divine Life and its Authority and power, we shall find that death and the Life out of death becomes ours in Truth, laying hold of us, and bringing us into the True Life-intimacy (being conjoined) with our Blessed Leader and Forerunner; we shall see and experience that what was to Him the Way into the Holiest will be to us the only but the certain, the Living Way thither (the father or more distant side).

Lo, I am come to do Your Will, God. " He humbled Him self, and became obedient--- therefore God has highly exalted Him." Because God is the all-perfect fountain of Life and goodness and Blessing, there can be no Life or goodness or Blessing but in His Will. The whole evil and ruin of sin is that man turned from God's Will to do his own thing. The redemption of Christ had no reason, no object, and no possibility of success, except in restoring man to do God's Will. It was for this Jesus died. He gave up His own will; He gave His life, rather than do His own will. It was this that gave value to His bearing our sins, with their curse and consequences, to His tasting death for every man. It was this that gave such infinite worth to His Blood. It was this that made Him a real propitiation for the sins of the world. And it is this we are made partakers of--- first, as an obedience for the sake of which we are made Righteous; but, further also, in the intimacy and fellowship of the very spirit of the death and the life in which He entered the presence of God. I come to do Your Will, is the only Way into the Holiest, for Him and for us. This is to be our acceptance of living Words for ourselves as well, by our response to His calling out, Yes Lord!

By which Will we have been Sanctified. By which Will, as willed by God, as done and fulfilled by Christ in His one offering, as accepted by us in trusting Him who is the Faithful One. When we accept Christ, the Will of God wrought out in Christ on our behalf, is accepted by us too; it becomes the Authority and the power that rules in our life by the Holy Spirit. In which Will, not as a dead past transaction, or as the mere performance of a certain work ( of religious Laws, customs, ceremonies and rituals with there base on the externality of man's opinion and attitudes ) to be done, but as a Living Eternal Reality restoring man into God's Will in Living New Life power--- this it is in which we have the New and Living Way to God.

In which Will we have been Sanctified. Sanctification in this Epistle is a word of larger meaning than what is meant by that title in ordinary Church doctrine. It includes all that is implied in bringing us into Living fellowship or intimacy with God. He is the Holy One. His Life is His Holiness. The Inner Sanctuary to which we enter in, is the Holiness of Holinesses. In chapter 2 we read: Both He that Sanctifies, and they who are Sanctified are all of one. Our Sanctification is rooted in our oneness with Jesus. In the which Will we are Sanctified, delivered from the power of sin and this evil world, brought into intimacy with the Holy One, and fitted by His working in us for entering the Holiest of All.

In the which Will we have been Sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. His offering has such power, because it was the doing of the Will of God, the entering into the Will of God, and through it into the Holiness of God, into the very Holiest of All. And now, as no one but Christ had power of Himself to say, Lo, I am come to do Your Will, so no one can speak thus, or live thus, but because the Divine nature of Christ is Truly born and formed within him, and is become the Life of his life and the Spirit of his spirit. It is thus that His Priesthood manifests His power to bring us near to God.(Psalm 40:8, Jeremiah 31:33; 2Corinthians 3:3; Romans 8:29)

Fellow-Christian! Have you learned to believe into receptivity and to regard yourself as Sanctified in the Will of God as done by Jesus, admitted to the fellowship and intimacy of the Holy One? Is not this possibly the reason that you have not yet entered the Rest of God within the veil, because you have never, in accepting Christ, accepted that which really constitutes Him the Christ? He is the Christ who came to do the Will of God --- this constitutes Him a Savior. Oh, come and receive that this is what He did for you and on your behalf, that you might be able to do it too. The New and Living Way into the Holiest, which Jesus as Leader and Forerunner has Opened up, is the Way of a body prepared for me by God, a body offered to Him, and a life given to do His Will. As I say with Jesus, I am come to do Your Will, I have no other object in life, for this alone I live, I shall with Him abide in God's presence.


1. The only Way to God is through the Will of God. A Truth so simple and self-evident! And yet so deep and spiritual that but few fully apprehend it. Yes, this is the Way, the only Way, the New and Living Way into the Holiest which Jesus Opened up. Let us follow Him, our Leader and Forerunner, walking in His footsteps, in the Will of God.
2. Be not afraid to say Yes, my God, here am I, absolutely given up in everything to do the Will of God; by Your Grace and Holy Spirit, to make every part of my being a doing of the Will of God! So help me, God!
3. For the penitent convert it is enough to Know the beginning of the doctrine of Christ, His obedience has atoned and makes me Righteous. The believer who seeks to grow and become conformed to the Image of the Son, seeks and finds more. The obedience that gave the sacrifice its power in Heaven, exercises that power in his heart. The adorable Substitute becomes the beloved Leader and Brother, the High Priest in the Authority and the power of the Heavenly Life, bringing us near to God by leading us and keeping us in His Will.