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Andrew Murray
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 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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We Need a Spiritual Ear and Eye to Know More of God
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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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.