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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.
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Andrew Murray emphasizes that God's judgment begins within His own house, as illustrated by Peter's reflection on Ezekiel 9:5-6. He points out that before God pronounces judgment on the nations, He first addresses the sins of His people, highlighting the necessity for the church to recognize and submit to this divine order. Understanding this principle is crucial for believers to grasp the seriousness of God's judgments and the importance of personal repentance. Murray asserts that the ability to preach about God's wrath and salvation hinges on our own experiences of His judgment in our lives. This call to holiness and self-examination is essential for the church to prepare for revival.
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Judgment Begins at the House of God
Peter had evidently read and pondered the passage of Ezekial 9:5-6, of which the words: ‘begin at my sanctuary’ are the centre. He had noticed how, before the awful judgments the prophet had to announce against the nations that had oppressed Israel (Chapters 25-32), the force of God’s anger had, in the first part of the book, been revealed against his own people. Peter had learnt the great law that the holiness of God always seeks first to deal with sin in his own house and church. It is only as we know and submit to this that we can rightly apprehend the fearfulness and the certainty of his judgments on them that obey not the Gospel of God. The power to feel and preach the wrath coming upon the disobedient and the salvation from it will depend greatly on our insight into what it means that God begins at the sanctuary, on the experience in our own heart of God having dealt in judgment with the sins of our Christian life. (Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 42)
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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.