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HOLY IN CHRIST
on tbe Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is
by Rev. Andrew Murray,
([1887])
'I am holy : ye shall be holy.'
Author: Murray, Andrew, 1828-1917
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FELMING H. REVELL COMPANY,
CHICAGO, NEW YORK, TORONTO,
publishers
AUTHOR OF 'ABIDE IN CHRIST,' 'LIKE CHRIST,' ETC.
PREFACE.
THERE is not in Scripture a word more distinctly
Divine in its origin and meaning than the word
holy. There is not a word that leads us higher
into the mystery of Deity, nor deeper into the
privilege and the blessedness of God's children.
And yet it is a word that many a Christian has
never studied or understood.
There are not a few who can praise God that
during the past twenty years the watchword BE
HOLY has been taken up in many a church and
Christian circle with greater earnestness than
before. In books and magazines, in conventions
and conferences, in the testimonies and the lives
of believers, we have abundant tokens that what is
called the Holiness-movement is a reality.
And yet how much is still wanting ! What
multitudes of believing Christians there are who
have none but the very vaguest thoughts of what
holiness is ! And of those who are seeking after it
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how many who have hardly learnt what it is to
come to God's Word and to God Himself for the
teaching that can alone reveal this part of the
mystery of Christ and of God ! To many, holiness
has simply been a general expression for the
Christian life in its more earnest form, without
much thought of what the term really means.
In writing this little book, my object has been to
discover in what sense God uses the word, that so
it may mean to us what it means to Him. I have
sought to trace the word through some of the most
important passages of Holy Scripture where it
occurs, there to learn what God's holiness is, what
ours is to be, and what the way by which we attain
it. I have been specially anxious to point out how
many and various the elements are that go to make
up true holiness as the Divine expression of the
Christian life in all its fulness and perfection. I
have at the same time striven continually to keep
in mind the wonderful unity and simplicity there
is in it, as centred in the person of Jesus. As I
proceeded in my work, I felt ever more deeply how
high the task was I had undertaken in offering to
guide others even into the outer courts of the Holy
Place of the Most High. And yet the very difficulty
of the task convinced me of how needful it was.
I fear there are some to whom the book may
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be a disappointment. They have heard that the
entrance to the life of holiness is often but a
step. They have heard of or seen believers who
could tell of the blessed change that has come over
their lives since they found the wonderful secret of
holiness by faith. And now they are seeking for
this secret. They cannot understand that the
secret conies to those who seek it not, but only seek
Jesus. They might fain have a book in which all
they need to know of Holiness and the way to it is
gathered into a few simple lessons, easy to learn, to
remember, and to practise. This they will not find.
There is such a thing as a Pentecost still to the
disciples of Jesus ; but it comes to him who has
forsaken all to follow Jesus only, and in following
fully has allowed the Master to reprove and instruct
him. There are often very blessed revelations of
Christ, as a Saviour from sin, both in the secret
chamber and in the meetings of the saints ; but
these are given to those for whom they have been
prepared, and who have been prepared to receive.
Let all learn to trust in Jesus, and rejoice in Him,
even though their experience be not what they
would wish. He will make us holy. But whether
we have entered the blessed life of faith in Jesus
as our sanctification, or are still longing for it from
afar, we all need one thing, the simple, believing,
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and obedient acceptance of each word that our God
has spoken. It has been my earnest desire that I
might be a helper of the faith of my brethren in
seeking to trace with them the wondrous revelation
of God's Holiness through the ages as recorded in
His blessed Word. It has been my continual
prayer that God might use what is written to
increase in His children the conviction that we
must be holy, the knowledge of how we are to be
holy, the joy that we may be holy, the faith that
ve can be holy. And may He stir us all to cry
day and night to Him for a visitation of the Spirit
and the Power of Holiness upon all His people,
that the name of Christian and of saint may be
synonymous, and every believer be a vessel made
holy and meet for the Master's use.
A. M.
WELLINGTON, IQth November 1887.
CONTENTS.
1. God's Call to Holiness 1 Pet. 1. 15, 16
2. God's Provision for Holiness 1 Cor. 1. 2
3. Holiness and Creation Gen. 2:3
4. Holiness and Revelation Ex. 3:4-6
5. Holiness and Redemption Ex. 13:2
6. Holiness and Glory Ex. 15:11-17
7. Holiness and Obedience Ex. 19:5, 6
8. Holiness and Indwelling Ex. 25:8
9. Holiness and Meditation Ex. 28:36-38
10. Holiness and Separation Lev. 20:24, 26
11. The Holy One of Israel Lev, 11:45
12. The Thrice Holy One Isa. 6:1-3
13. Holiness and Humility Isa. 57:15
14. The Holy One of God John 6:69
15. The Holy Spirit John 7:39
16. Holiness and Truth John 17:17
17. Holiness and Crucifixion John 17:19
18. Holiness and Faith Acts 26:18
19. Holiness and Resurrection Rom. 1:4
20. Holiness and Liberty Rom. 6:18-22
21. Holiness and Happiness Rom. 14:17
22. In Christ our Sanctification 1 Cor. 1. 30, 31
23. Holiness and the Body 1 Cor. 3:16
24. Holiness and Cleansing 2 Cor. 7:1
25. Holiness and Blamelessness 1 Thess. 3:12, 13
26. Holiness and the Will of God 1 Thess. 4:3
27. Holiness and Service 2 Tim. 2:21
28. The "Way into the Holiest Heb. 10:19
29. Holiness and Chastisement Heb. 12:10, 14
30. The Unction from the Holy One 1 John 2:20, 27
31. Holiness and Heaven 2 Pet. 3:11
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