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  IS THERE SIN IN OUR OWN HEART THAT WE KNOW LITTLE OF?
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: The sermon warns of the danger of sin in the church and in
individual hearts, and calls for a revival of genuine faith and love.

Topics: "Self-Examination", "Hidden Sins"
Scripture References: Psalm 139:23-24, Ezekiel 8:12, Matthew 7:3-5, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Galatians 5:17, Hebrews 12:1, James 4:4, 1 Peter 4:17, 1 John 1:8-10, Revelation 3:15-16

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Andrew Murray addresses the hidden sins within the church, emphasizing
that many believers may be unaware of the abominations present in their
hearts and lives. He draws parallels to the time of Ezekiel, where the
people clung to the temple while harboring secret sins, suggesting that
today's church may similarly be blind to its own formalities,
lukewarmness, and self-seeking behaviors. Murray urges believers to
reflect on their inner lives and consider whether their lack of
humility, love, and reliance on the Spirit is grieving God. He calls for
a self-examination to recognize the need for judgment to begin within
the house of God.

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There may be sin in God's sanctuary that men think or know little of.
The prophet was shown by God what the men did 'in the dark, every man in
the chambers of his imagining.' (Ezek 8:12) They still clung to God's
house, they called it the temple of Jehovah; they were ready to die for
it as the centre and the symbol of their national religion, and yet they
defiled it with their abominations. And they never dreamt how near and
how terrible God's judgment on them would be.

May it not be thus with the church of our day? May it not be that the
formality, and the lukewarmness and worldliness, the self-seeking and
pleasure-seeking, which marks the great majority of our professing
Christians, are being looked upon by God as 'wicked abominations' in his
house, while we have very little conception of their evil?

God led Ezekiel from the outer to the inner court. May it not be that
the sins that are found in the hearts and lives of the more earnest and
inner circle among Christians, the lack of humility and love, the trust
in human wisdom and human support, the neglect of the continual leading
of the Spirit and the full imitation of Christ... may it not be that
these things are displeasing and grieving God to an extent that we have
no conception of?

Let us ask carefully whether there be not in the church, or in our own
heart, much that makes it most needful that judgment begin at the house
of God.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 43)

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