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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 only God can truly judge and deal with our sins, warning that many believers fail because they attempt to manage their sin on their own. He urges Christians to surrender their sins to God, allowing Him to execute His judgment and cleanse them from all unrighteousness. Murray highlights the importance of recognizing the various forms of sin, including lust, pride, and idolatry, and encourages believers to bring these before God for His fierce judgment. By doing so, they can experience true freedom and cleansing from their sins. Ultimately, he reassures that God will fulfill His promise to cleanse His people from all filthiness.
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God Himself Must Judge Our Sin
God himself must judge the sin. He alone can do it. This is often the cause of lifelong failure with believers, that when they see sin they seek to deal with it themselves. And by dealing with it they have failed to conquer, they count it a permanent thing that cannot be overcome. Oh, Christians, let God deal with your sin. If you would have your heart broken down, and your hands made utterly weak, so you no longer resist God, let God deal with your sin. Bring the sin that is discovered in his temple, in your body, or in your heart, to him, and let him execute his fierce judgment on it. Be it the lust of the flesh, sin in the body and its appetities; be it the lust of the eye, sin in choosing the visible above the invisible; be it the pride of life, sin in preferring self before God or the neighbour – bring it out before a holy God, give it into his charge, and ask him to deal with it, to execute judgment on it. Ask him to do what he has spoken, not to spare and not to pity, but to pour out his fury upon it, till the sinful deed is utterly destroyed before his presence. ‘They shall know that I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance on them.’ Give your sins over to God’s vengeance, wait on him as the God of judgment, then will he fulfil the promise, ‘From all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you.’ (Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 47)
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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.