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  THE RUIN OF SIN CHRIST COMES TO RESTORE
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: Christ came to bring us to God and to dwell in us as God meant
to dwell in Adam, promising an abiding presence in our lives.

Topics: "Presence of God", "Restoration"
Scripture References: Psalm 73:26, Isaiah 41:10, John 14:23, John 15:4, Romans 8:9, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 3:19, Colossians 2:10, 1 John 4:16

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that the ruin of sin is countered by Christ's
mission to restore our relationship with God, allowing Him to dwell
within us as intended from creation. He explains that the Holy Spirit
brings God's presence into our hearts, enabling us to experience a life
filled with His fullness. Murray highlights biblical affirmations of
God's abiding presence and encourages believers to recognize that God is
meant to be their ultimate joy and life. The struggle to feel God's
nearness stems from not understanding that He is all we need.
Ultimately, we are created to have God as our portion and source of
fulfillment.

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The ruin of sin Christ comes to restore. Creation foretells us what
redemption is to effect. Christ came to bring us to God, that God might
dwell in us as he meant to dwell in Adam. The Spirit came to bring God
to us, that in our very heart and life, here on this earth, God might be
all in us. When Christ said of the Father himself: 'We will come and
make our abode with you'; when Paul wrote of being 'filled with all the
fullness of God'; when John said, 'He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God, and God in him'; they all referred to a possible, to a prepared, to
a promised life here on earth in which the great, holy, abiding presence
of God is known in the heart. We ordinarily count it an unnatural
strain, an impossible struggle, ever to maintain the sense of God's
nearness.

This is only because we have not yet learnt that God is all - that he
created us for this very thing, that he himself might be our joy, our
life, our portion. Because all things are of him, because we are of him,
it can be, it should be true of us and in us - God is all.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 67)

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