Andrew Murray

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221.) The School of Obedience 3 - The Secret of True Obedience
      He learned obedience.'--Heb. 5:8. The secret of true obedience--let me say at once what I believe it to be--is the clear and close personal relationship to God. All our attempts after full obedience will be failures until we get access to His abiding fellowship. It is God's holy presence, consciously abiding with us, that keeps us from disobeyin ...read more

222.) The School of Obedience 4 - The Morning Watch in the Life of Obedience
      If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.' --Rom. 11:16. How wonderful and blessed is the divine appointment of the first day of the week as a holy day of rest. Not, (as some think), that we might have at least one day of rest and spiritual refreshment amid the weariness of life, but that that one ...read more

223.) The School of Obedience 5 - The Entrance To The Life Of Full Obedience
      Obedient unto death.' --Phil. 2:8. After all that has been said on the life of obedience, I purpose speaking in this address of the entrance on that life. You might think it a mistake to take this text, in which you have obedience in its very highest perfection, as our subject in speaking of the entrance on the course. But it is no mistake. T ...read more

224.) The School of Obedience 6 - The Obedience Of Faith
      By faith Abraham obeyed.' --Heb. 11:8. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive as an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.' He believed that there was a land of Canaan, of which God had spoken. He believed in it as a land of promise,' secured to him as an inheritance. ...read more

225.) The School of Obedience 7 - The School of Obedience
      A Basket of Fragments Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.' --John 6:12. In this closing chapter I wish to gather up some points not yet touched upon, or not expressed with sufficient clearness, in the hope that they may help some one who has indeed enrolled himself in Christ's school of obedience. I. ON LEARNING OBED ...read more

226.) The School of Obedience 8 - Obedience To The Last Command
      Go ye therefore and make disciples of all the nations.' --Matt. 28:19. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.'--Mark 16:15. 'As Thou didst send Me into the world, even so send I them into the world' -- John 17:18; 20:21. Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be My witnesses u ...read more

227.) The School of Obedience 9 - Note On The Morning Watch
      By, the observance of the morning watch is commonly meant the spending of at least the first half-hour of every day alone with God, in personal devotional Bible study and prayer. There are Christians who say that they do not have time to devote a full half-hour to such a spiritual exercise. It is a striking fact that the busiest Christians const ...read more

228.) The Secret of Redemption
      "Have this mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus: who emptied Himself; taking the form of a servant; and humbled Himself; becoming obedient even unto death. Wherefore God also highly exalted Him. "Phil. 2: 5-9. No tree can grow except on the root from which it sprang. Through all its existence it can only live with the life that was in the ...read more

229.) The Sin and Cause of Prayerlessness
      If conscience is to do its work, and the contrite heart is to feel its misery, it is necessary that each individual should mention his sin by name. The confession must be severely personal. In a meeting of ministers there is probably no single sin which each one of us ought to acknowledge with deeper shame -'Guilty, verily guilty' - than the sin of ...read more

230.) The Spirit and the Flesh
      ‘Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?'- Gal.3:3 ‘We are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; that I myself might have confidence even in the flesh.'- Phil 3:3 The flesh is the name by which Scripture designates our falle ...read more

231.) The Spirit and the Word
      'It is the Spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I have spoken unto you are Spirit and are life. Lord, to whom shall we go? I Thou hast the words of eternal life.'--John 6: 63, 68. 'The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.'-2 Cor. 3: 6. Our Blessed Lord had been speaking of Himself as the Bread of Life, a ...read more

232.) The Spirit Convincing of Sin
      If I go, I will send the Comforter unto you ; and He, when He is come, will convince the world in respect of sin. John 16: 7-8 The close connection between the two statements in these words of our Lord is not always noticed. Before the Holy Spirit was to convince the world of sin, He was first to come into the disciples. He was to make His home ...read more

233.) The Spirit given to the Obedient
      If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments: and I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, even the Spirit of truth.' --John 14:15,16 'The Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey Him.'Acts 5:32. The truth which these words express has often suggested the question - How can this be? We need the Spirit to make ...read more

234.) The Spirit Glorifying Christ
      It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come ; but if I go, I will send Him unto you. . . . He shall glorify me : for He shall take of mine, and declare it unto you.'-John 16: 7, 14, THERE is a twofold glorifying of the Son of which Scripture speaks. The one is by the Father, the other by the Spirit: ...read more

235.) The Spirit of Love
      The fruit of the Spirit is love.'-Gal 5:.22. 1 beseech you by the love of the Spirit.' -Rom. 15:30. Who also declared unto us your love in the spirit, Col.1:8 Our subject today leads us up into the very centre of the inner sanctuary. We are to think of the Love of the Spirit. We shall have to learn that love is not only one, among others, of th ...read more

236.) The Spirit of Power
      Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. Ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses.'--Acts 1: 5, 8. 'Tarry ye in the city, till ye be clothed with power from on high.'-LUKE 24: 49. The disciples had heard from John of the Baptism of the Spirit. Jesus had spoken to them of th ...read more

237.) The Spirit of Prayer
      In like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity - for we know not how to pray as we ought but the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered; and He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to God.'Rom. 8:26, 27. Of the offi ...read more

238.) The Spirit of Truth
      'But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall bear witness of me.'--John 15:26. 'When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He shall guide you into all the Truth; for He shall not speak from Himself; but whatsoever things He shall hear, these shall He ...read more

239.) The Spirit through Faith
      ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse, that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus ; we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.'Gal.3:13,14. THE word faith is used the first time in Scripture in connection with Abraham. His highest praise, the secret of his strength for obedience, and what made him ...read more