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  WE NEED A SPIRITUAL EAR AND EYE TO KNOW MORE OF GOD
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: To know more of God, we need a spiritual ear and eye, opened by
God's Spirit, to apprehend His love and will.

Topics: "The Role of the Holy Spirit", "Spiritual Awareness"
Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 2:12, Ephesians 1:17

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Andrew Murray emphasizes the necessity of having a spiritual ear and eye
to truly know God, highlighting that the Holy Spirit, as both Creator
and Redeemer, inhabits the spirit of man and inspires it with divine
life. He explains that while the Holy Spirit is available to all, only
those who seek to overcome their fleshly desires can truly understand
and experience God's love and will. The sermon calls for a longing for a
deeper relationship with God, which requires spiritual awakening and
receptiveness to the Holy Spirit's guidance.

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As the Spirit of God, the Creator, he has the mysterious power of
entering and inhabiting the spirit of man. As the Spirit of God the
Redeemer, he has given us a new spirit, within which he dwells and acts,
secretly inspiring it with all the life and graces of the Lord Jesus.

The Spirit so communicates the divine life, that not only is the
natural, unconverted man incapable of receiving this, but even the
converted man, as long as he yields to the flesh, with sins like
jealousy and strife, can not apprehend this. It needs a spiritual ear
and eye, opened by God's Spirit, a spiritual nature longing to know more
of God, his love, his will.

The Holy Spirit has been given to all, but only those I have just
described are really taught by him. Only they can say in experience, 'we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but Spirit which is of God,
that we might know the things which are freely given by God.'

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 37)

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