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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was an amazingly prolific Christian author. He lived and ministered as both a pastor and a writer from the towns and villages of South Africa. All of his publications were originally written in Dutch and then translated into English. As his popularity grew, Murray's books found their way into more than twelve foreign languages during his lifetime alone.

Andrew Murray's early writings were primarily written for the edification of the believer-building them up in faith, love, and prayer. They include Abide in Christ, The Spirit of Christ, and With Christ in the School of Prayer. Later writings leaned more heavily upon the sanctification of the believer with such works as Holy in Christ and Be Perfect. Finally, in his last days, Murray addressed the issue of the Church and its lack of power on the earth. He emphasized the need for a constant and vital relationship with Jesus Christ and for consistent, fervent prayer.

Murray was an alert and intense man, continuing on in his writings until his death at age eightynine. His burning desire to transpose all that lay on his heart and spirit to paper was revealed in the presence of several manuscripts in various stages of completion at the time of his death.

Andrew Murray has greatly blessed the Christian world with richness of his spiritual wisdom and his ability to see and answer the needs of God's people.

1. Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
2. Christ is the Resurrection and the Life
3. Christ is the Bread of Life and the Light of Life
4. Christ is God's Everything
5. Nothing but Christ

CLASSIC CHRISTIANITY

But there is a way that leads to life.  This way is founded on the work of Jesus Christ, beginning with the crucifixion and continuing through His resurrection (p. 40).A life under grace is exemplified by the resurrected Christ living in and through you (p. 152).

"Classic Christianity" to Bob George concludes with the resurrection--the resurrected Lord Jesus indwelling the Christian as his life.

Man's spirit was created to be united with God's Spirit and was the means through which he originally enjoyed perfect fellowship with God (p. 47).

Wrong Adam!  Referring the member of the Body of Christ back to the unfallen Adam is far below the Christian level of life in fellowship with the Father and the Son.

How can you see an invisible God? The best advice he could receive would be, "Man is created in God's image.  Go observe Adam and Eve, and you'll see what God is like."

If he would do so, our imaginary space creature would go home with true knowledge of the nature and character of God--by observing man, who is created in His image! (p. 49).

Still the wrong Adam, even in his innocent state.  The Father can neither be known for who He is by His Law, nor by the unfallen Adam.   He reveals Himself to the Christian in and through His Beloved Son, who is the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person (Hebrews 1:2,3).  "For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6).

God said in the New Covenant, "I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts" (Hebrews 8:10).  If salvation was only forgiveness of sins without a change of heart... (p. 66).

This is the common undivided-Word, non-dispensational error being made by most evangelical leaders today--something of earthly kingdom Israel foisted upon the heavenly Church.

As long as a half-gospel continues to be taught, we are going to continue producing Christians who are very thankful that they will not be judged for their sins, but who have no significant self-motivation to change their behavior (p. 78).

A lack of understanding in either of these two areas--love as our motivation, or dependence as our source of power... (p. 89).

Both "self-motivation" and "love-motivation" fall hopelessly short of scriptural Life-motivation.  The latter is the spiritual flow of Christ our Life, manifested by the fruit of the Spirit.

Being made into a new creation is like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly (p. 78).

A butterfly is not a new creation, but the same creature changed in form.

"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light" (Ephesians 5:8).  A good paraphrase would be, "You once were a worm; now you are a butterfly.  Fly like a butterfly!" (p. 80).

The Christian is a totally new creation--taken from the first Adam by the death of the Cross, and recreated in the new-creation Last Adam. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old [Adamic] things are passed away [positionally]; behold, all things are become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17).

We are born into this world in Adam, spiritually dead, and sinners by nature.  Then we hear of the good news of Jesus Christ and trust Him as our Savior and Lord.

At that instant the Holy Spirit of God baptizes us into Christ!  "For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body" (1 Corinthians 12:13).  This is something that happens instantaneously to every Christian at the moment of spiritual birth: he is totally identified with Jesus Christ (p. 89).

At our new birth we are brought into that which was positionally true of us long before.  The one baptism of the Spirit is our entrance into the Body of Christ, which is the Church.

But much had first to be accomplished and completed before that Body could be formed.  "He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world."  "Called us with an holy calling ... which was given us in Christ before the world began" (Ephesians 1:4; 2 Timothy 1:9).

Chosen in Christ, we were subsequently identified with Him on the Cross, sharing His death unto sin (Romans 6:6; Galatians 2:20), buried and resurrected with Him (Romans 6:4,5), re-created in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17), ascended and seated together with Him (Ephesians 2:5,6), and made complete in Him (Colossians 2:10).

All of this, and much more, was positionally completed prior to Pentecost.  Then, as such, we were baptized into His Body on that promised day (2 Corinthians 12:13)--all was possessed at our new birth, and will be actualized at the blessed Rapture.

Since Christianity was founded upon and spawned from the finished work of the Cross, all had to be accomplished positionally before a single Christian, hence the Church, could be brought into being.  The Spirit's baptism at Pentecost did not accomplish any of the work of the Cross.  Calvary was the cause, Pentecost the effect.

Who was I before?   Bob George in Adam, without God's Spirit, spiritually dead, a guilty sinner.   That man is dead and gone; he will never exist again (p. 90)."That old Jean is dead and gone.  She died on the Cross with Jesus" (P. 105).

Here the author qualifies as an eradicationist, in company with many others such as Lloyd-Jones, MacArthur, Needham, Gillham, Stanley, and Solomon.

When there is no indwelling Adamic old man to be dealt with, the Cross is not seen as a necessity in the life of the believer--and Mr. George has a Cross-less message.  Growth in grace is based upon the believer's ongoing relationship to the Cross.

The way to break a habit or preoccupation is by developing a new habit or preoccupation.  The new will push out the old... (p. 203).

This is a common conception among eradicationists--habits held over from the non-existent old man, to be replaced by forming new and better habits.   The Covenant theologian, Jay Adams, has introduced much of this aberrational teaching.  Imagine the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our Christian Life, developing habits!

"The whole teaching on Communion With God has been a wonderful help as well as the Counseled by God teaching, which has been of great personal benefit both to myself and to my wife, Carol. Our church, our leadership team and our ministry team have greatly benefited from your courses and your ministry.

Dialogue with God is worth a million dollars to any Christian who is serious about the issue of hearing the voice of God. Mark’s teaching on this issue profoundly impacted my life."

– Rev. John Arnott

Experiencing Father's Embrace
Finding Acceptance in the Arms of a Loving God

"Saved, Yes. Heaven, Maybe."
     My father-in-law was a wonderful man. He did not come to know the Lord until late in his life, but he made up for lost time. Visits and phone calls were packed full of questions about the Bible. He and his wife attended church three or four times a week. Right up until the day he died, he was growing spiritually by leaps and bounds. In spite of all that, however, he never had any assurance about his salvation.
     I would ask him, "Mr. Johnson, are you sure you have trusted Christ as your Savior?"
     "Oh, yes," he would reply. "He is living in my heart today."
     I would continue, "So then you are sure if you were to die, you would go to heaven?"
     "Now, I don't know about that," he would say.
     Round and round we would go. But I could never convince him. His problem was not any particular passage of Scripture. He struggled with the question of how God could forgive him for the sins he committed before coming to faith. The idea of God's being that loving and forgiving was too much for him to comprehend. He was sure he was a Christian, but heaven was a different thing altogether.
     I often meet people like my father-in-law. People who believe Christ died for their sins. Men and women who love God with all their hearts. But somehow they cannot accept with any certainty that God has forgiven them. One day they are sure of their salvation; the next day they are not. Back and forth they go, hoping they will make it but having no assurance.

Looking Ahead
     What about you? What is the issue on your mind? Is it a passage of Scripture? Is it a personal experience that you just can't seem to erase from your memory? Have you been turned off by the way people use the concept of eternal security to excuse their sin? Were you raised to believe that the idea of "once saved, always saved" was something the Baptists or some other group just invented?

More resources are being directed toward recovery than ever before, but it doesn't seem to help. Why? Doesn't God's word tell us, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free..." (Galatians 5:1)? What's missing? The key to recovery is to understand your identity in Christ and receive your freedom from sin as a result of what Christ did on the cross.

Mike Quarles had been a Christian for fifteen years, was a seminary graduate and served as a pastor. More than anything he wanted his life to count for God. But he felt like a failure, so he left the ministry. He soon found himself hopelessly addicted to alcohol. He attended hundreds of A. A. meetings and had five different sponsors. He went to counselors, psychiatrists, and psychologists (Christian and secular). He tried all the Christian disciplines he heard about. He even tried the drug antabuse. He was in a Christian 12 Step group, an accountability group and group therapy. He went through a secular and a Christian treatment center. He was called before the Church Discipline Committee. Nothing he tried helped. He believed he was an alcoholic, a failure and a sinner.

Finally he learned the transforming truth that he was a child of God who was in Christ and that Christ had done everything necessary for him to walk in freedom. Then he experienced the truth that, "If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:36) Now Mike helps others to experience the peace, freedom, joy and victory that is their rightful inheritance as children of God.

Luke 4:18

Ever since Adam and Eve were escorted out of the garden, mankind has sought a way to regain God's acceptance-often through outward religion. But religion alone will never satisfy the human need for God's acceptance. Only by drinking deeply of grace can we find life that is simple, meaningful, and satisfying-a life in which we can find rest and cease our constant striving to be accepted, affirmed, and appreciated. Dudley Hall, author and president of Successful Christian Living Ministries, points the way to meaningful existence in this new release of his powerful Grace Works.

The age in which we live is so married to rationalism and cognitive, analytical thought that we almost mock when we hear of one actually claiming to be able to hear the voice of God. However, we do not scoff, for several reasons. First, men and women throughout the Bible heard God’s voice. Also, there are some highly effective and reputable men and women of God alive today who demonstrate that they hear God’s voice. Finally, there is a deep hunger within us all to commune with God, and hear Him speak within our hearts.

As a born-again, Bible-believing Christian, I struggled unsuccessfully for years to hear God’s voice. I prayed, fasted, studied my Bible and listened for a voice within, all to no avail. There was no inner voice that I could hear! Then God set me aside for a year to study, read, and experiment in the area of learning to hear God’s voice. During that time, God taught me four keys that opened the door to two-way prayer. I have discovered that not only do they work for me, but they have worked for many thousands of believers who have been taught to use them, bringing tremendous intimacy to their Christian experience and transforming their very way of living. This will happen to you also as you seek God, utilizing the following four keys. They are all found in Habakkuk 2:1,2.

From the foreward by Warren W. Wiersbe:

Just as the Israelites left the arid desert life and found abundance in the Promised Land, the Christian can leave behind a frustrated, unfruitful life and find peace and joy in the more abundant life Christ promises. This practical study of Joshua’s message to today’s Christians will show you how to overcome the enemies and obstacles that keep you from promised-land living and will give you practical principles for avoiding painful pitfalls. You can overcome. You can live a fulfilling, fruitful Christian life, and find the joy God has promised you!

God’s church desperately needs the message of this book. We are “rich and increased with goods,” proud of our popularity and statistics, yet seemingly ignorant of what it means to claim our spiritual inheritance, fight spiritual battles, and identify spiritual enemies. If every pastor, Sunday School worker and church officer would read these studies, and by faith, put them into practice, we might begin to experience that one elusive blessing many of us have been praying for revival in the church.

Do you struggle to be the perfect Christian Woman...

...for God, your family, your employer, your friends? You're not alone. But do you know what God really wants from you? He does not ask you to be perfect. He calls you to be confident—confident because of His love, His acceptance, and His indwelling presence.

As a mentor, friend, and someone who struggled to be the "perfect woman," Anabel Gillham shares God's plan and desire for a life of freedom, peace, and security as you read and believe God's love letter, rely on God alone for value and worth, and "reprogram your personal computer" and find the key to life.

Embracing your identity in Christ transforms you into a woman of poise and confidence—a woman who has Jesus Christ dwelling within her, living His life through her unique personality in every circumstance, everyday.

THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD

     EVERY one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the summum bonum--the supreme good? You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet?
     We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note for centuries of the popular religion; and we have easily learned to look upon it as the greatest thing in the world. Well, we are wrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. I have taken you, in the chapter which I have just read, to Christianity at its source; and there we have seen, "The greatest of these is love." It is not an oversight. Paul was speaking of faith just a moment before. He says, "If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. "So far from forgetting, he deliberately contrasts them, "Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love," and without a moment's hesitation, the decision falls, "The greatest of these is Love."
     And it is not prejudice. A man is apt to recommend to others his own strong point. Love was not Paul's strong point. The observing student can detect a beautiful tenderness growing and ripening all through his character as Paul gets old; but the hand that wrote, "The greatest of these is love," when we meet it first, is stained with blood.
     Nor is this letter to the Corinthians peculiar in singling out love as the summum bonum. The masterpieces of Christianity are agreed about it. Peter says, "Above all things have fervent love among yourselves." Above all things. And John goes farther, "God is love." And you remember the profound remark which Paul makes elsewhere, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." Did you ever think what he meant by that? In those days men were working their passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, and the hundred and ten other commandments which they had manufactured out of them. Christ said, I will show you a more simple way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfil the whole law. And you can readily see for yourselves how that must be so. Take any of the commandments. "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." If a man love God, you will not require to tell him that. Love is the fulfilling of that law. "Take not His name in vain." Would he ever dream of taking His name in vain if he loved Him? "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Would he not be too glad to have one day in seven to dedicate more exclusively to the object of his affection? Love would fulfil all these laws regarding God. And so, if he loved Man, you would never think of telling him to honour his father and mother. He could not do anything else. It would be preposterous to tell him not to kill. You could only insult him if you suggested that he should not steal -.how could he steal from those he loved? It would be superfluous to beg him not to bear false witness against his neighbour. If he loved him it would be the last thing he would do. And you would never dream of urging him not to covet what his neighbours had. He would rather they possessed it than himself. In this way "Love is the fulfilling of the law." It is the rule for fulfilling all rules, the new commandment for keeping all the old commandments, Christ's one secret of the Christian life.
     Now Paul had learned that; and in this noble eulogy he has given us the most wonderful and original account extant of the summum bonum. We may divide it into three parts. In the beginning of the short chapter, we have Love contrasted; in the heart of it, we have Love analysed; towards the end we have Love defended as the supreme gift

God can manifest His marvels and His beauty through the flowers and trees. We can view them through the microscope and telescope, and marvel - but we do not say, "That's God."

The greatest marvel, the greatest height of personality, is when we can look at a human being and say, "God is there."

The depth, the dangers, of humanity are that personality means freedom. Intelligent choice is the essence of personality.

Therefore, God appeared to be on the horns of a dilemma when He created people. (Of course, He wasn't, for He knows His own business in the end.) But it appeared so because the people He created could turn around and say, "Thank you very much, I don't want You to live in me."

That's exactly what happened.

We make self our god, not God. We just naturally run our own lives. And that's our whole trouble.

There isn't a single problem in humanity except our self-reactions: not one.

The Devil is no trouble. He was dealt with 2,000 years ago.

Your neighbor is not your trouble.

Circumstances are not your trouble.

The only trouble is your reaction.

Distorted self, self out of gear, is our problem.

Once we know how to handle the human self and put it back where it belongs, we've found the key to life.

That's what we're going to examine.

The Release of the Spirit -- ANTI-DOCTRINAL -- However, nearly ten years later--in 1947--Nee gave a series of messages at a co-workers conference, and these were subsequently published under the title of The Release of the Spirit.  Here we have the errors of The Spiritual Man confirmed and compounded.

The Wonderful Names of our Wonderful Lord

My Strong Rock

" Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily; be thou my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me."  Psalms 31:2

No sorrow of men is so deep and dark and bitter as to be without refuge, a rock, a safe retreat.  My soul, however deep thy sorrow, however dark thy sin, however hopeless thy lot among men, the Man of Sorrows bore thy sin in His own body on the tree. He carried all thy grief.  He is thy "STRONG ROCK."  A strong, safe house, in which I am defended from myself, the world, the devil.

"Rock of ages, cleft for

Let me hide myself in Thee."

Amen.

You've been sealed by the blood of Jesus Christ!
(Old title:  The Lost Secret of the New Covenant)

When you receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, you receive the power of His blood that seals your redemption from sin and entitles you to eternal life. And if that was the only thing Salvation in Christ brought you, it would be the greatest gift of all. But there is much more to this agreement with Almighty God. This agreement is a sacred covenant between you and the Father God that entails more that most believers have ever even imagined. It’s time to discover the depth and power of God’s eternal oath with you.

This secret strength hidden within the heart of the Christian life reveals the profound depth of God's unconditional love and is bound by the blood covenant. Those who realize and embrace this strength live in a realm of faith and victory that others only dream of.

Throughout these pages, you will journey through the Scriptures to unearth this reality that contains the basis of all God’s wondrous miracles and mighty works – a place of marvelous blessings and promises.

"The most amazing news to be announced to the human race is that God, in His unconditional love for us, has called us to participate in the most intimate relationship and unbreakable bond known among men...."
--Malcolm Smith

Discover the power of the blood covenant that not only seals your eternal destiny, but can open up a new world of faith and adventure like you’ve never known!

"One of the most inspiring and influential books we have ever read." -- Dale Evans and Roy Rogers "IS YOUR LIFE ALL YOU WANT IT TO BE? Hannah Whitall Smith--Quaker, rebel, realist--faced life as she found it, and she found it good. She took her Bible promises literally, tested them, and found them true as tested steel. She stepped out of conjecture into certainty, and the shadows disappeared. Here she reveals the secret--how to make unhappiness and uncertainty give way to serenity and ocnfidence in every day of your life." -- from the Spire edition.

Using stories from real people, Bob George explains that freedom from depression is only possible when you release your troubles to God. Turning your concerns over to God allows you to face life's crises with confidence, not fear. Learn how God can use your weaknesses as His strengths, and discover how to live life above your circumstances