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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 man, created in God's image, is designed to reflect God's divine glory and attributes. He explains that God's righteousness, holiness, love, and goodness are meant to be not only present in man but also to shine through him as part of his character. This relationship allows man to partake in God's divine life, acknowledging that all goodness comes from God. Ultimately, Murray asserts that everything belongs to God and should be recognized as such in our lives. The sermon calls for a deep understanding of our identity in relation to God's nature.
All Things of God to Him and in Him It Was Indeed to Be
We should say this especially about man, made in God’s image. God created him that he might, in creaturely nature and form, show forth the nature of his divine and invisible glory. God created man with the one object that in and through man he might live out his divine life in such a way that man should be the voluntary and most blessed partaker of all the divine goodness and blessedness. Every attribute of God, his righteousness and holiness, his love and compassion, his goodness and truth, his wisdom and power, were not only to rest upon man, but so to be in him that they might shine out from as his own disposition and character. They were to be his very own, accepted and appropriated and personally assimilated. And yet they were ever to be known and acknowledged as God’s. He was to bear the living signature. All things of God to him and in him it was indeed to be. God is all. (Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 67)
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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.