Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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22 LET US DRA W NIGH
which made Him unspeakably well pleasing
the Father. That blood of Jesus, God and
man, poured out in
to
a death that was a perfect
fulfilment of God's will, and a perfect victory
over all the temptations of sin and self, effected
an everlasting atonement for sin, and put it for
ever out of the way, destroying death and him
that had the power of it. Therefore it was,
that in the blood of the everlasting covenant
Jesus was raised from the dead; that in His
own blood, as our Head and Surety, He entered
heaven ; and that that blood is now for ever in
heaven, in the same place of honour as God. the
Judge of all, and Jesus the Mediator (xii. 24).
It is this blood, now in heaven before God for
us, that is our boldness to enter in, even into
the very Holiest of All.
Beloved Christian ! The blood of Jesus
The blood of the Lamb !
think what it
means. God gave it for your redemption. God
accepted it when His Son entered heaven and
presented it on your behalf. God has it for
ever in His sight as the fruit, the infinitely
well-pleasing proof, of
His Son's obedience unto
death. God points you to it, and asks you to
believe in the divine satisfaction it gives to
Him, in its omnipotent energy, in its everlasting
sufficiency. Oh, will you not this day