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Prophetic and Priestly Ministry
by Andrew Murray
This book examines in detail these two ministries of prophet and priest as applied to the life of the Lord Jesus and to the Church today. "As He is so are we in this world?" As prophet - Christ was the spokesman for God - as a priest He ministered to the people. .
A prophet was the mouthpiece and spokesman for God. The Lord Jesus Christ was God's spokesman to us, the manifestation of God to us. I have been amazed, over and over again, to read that the Lord Jesus Christ never uttered a word of His own. I have had to read it again and again, and I have often turned to see if it is really there, but there it is. In John 12 49 it is written, 'Thou Father gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.' Just think of it. Some of us want to be original, and say something original, to pray something original, to think out something original. Oh ! how ashamed we ought to be of ourselves if such a thought ever took possession of us for a moment, when the Lord Jesus was, as we understand it, never original.
As Priest the Lord Jesus Christ, offered Himself to give us perfect fellowship with God available to the believer by the power of the Holy Spirit.Jesus Christ, the completion of sacrifice and priesthood. I want to speak more especially of the completion of priesthood. What is the object of priesthood? The restoration of fellowship with God. The priest was to take the sinner into God's presence. Religion! What is that? We have just as much of religion as we have of God. The increase of religion, the revival of religion, means nothing but this to get more of God into our hearts.
It is our sincere prayer that you are blessed by the reading of these addresses by Rev. Andrew Murray. All the proceeds from this Victory Life edition go to further our world missionary outreach. You can visit us online at http://www.victorylifeinternational.orghttp://www.victorylifeinternational.org.
A prophet was the mouthpiece and spokesman for God. The Lord Jesus Christ was God's spokesman to us, the manifestation of God to us. I have been amazed, over and over again, to read that the Lord Jesus Christ never uttered a word of His own. I have had to read it again and again, and I have often turned to see if it is really there, but there it is. In John 12 49 it is written, 'Thou Father gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.' Just think of it. Some of us want to be original, and say something original, to pray something original, to think out something original. Oh ! how ashamed we ought to be of ourselves if such a thought ever took possession of us for a moment, when the Lord Jesus was, as we understand it, never original.
As Priest the Lord Jesus Christ, offered Himself to give us perfect fellowship with God available to the believer by the power of the Holy Spirit.Jesus Christ, the completion of sacrifice and priesthood. I want to speak more especially of the completion of priesthood. What is the object of priesthood? The restoration of fellowship with God. The priest was to take the sinner into God's presence. Religion! What is that? We have just as much of religion as we have of God. The increase of religion, the revival of religion, means nothing but this to get more of God into our hearts.
It is our sincere prayer that you are blessed by the reading of these addresses by Rev. Andrew Murray. All the proceeds from this Victory Life edition go to further our world missionary outreach. You can visit us online at http://www.victorylifeinternational.orghttp://www.victorylifeinternational.org.
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Published May 25th 2011 by Victory Life Publishers
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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917)
Brother Andrew Murray was a well-known writer/preacher in South Africa who ministered amongst the Dutch Reformed churches. His writings now are widely accepted by modern evangelicals and he is published more than ever in his life-time.Some of his better known books titles are: "Abide In Christ", "Absolute Surrender," and "Humility." His burden for the body of Christ were teachings on the abiding Spirit of Christ in the believer, the life of faith with God daily, and the life of intercession and prayer in the Church.
Andrew Murray was possibly the strongest spokesman of the Philadelphian age to expound the Body's necessity to abide in Christ, like the Apostle John before him.
Murray was born into a family of four children in the then remote Graaff-Reinet region (near the Cape) of South Africa. Educated in Scotland, which was followed by theological studies in Holland, Andrew returned to his native land to work as a missionary and minister. Given the daunting task of ministering to Bloemfontein, a remote region of 50,000 square miles and 12,000 people beyond the Orange River, Murray already began to sense the need to for the "deeper Christian life".
Though successful in preaching and bringing many to Christ, Murray found many of his greatest lessons in the School of Suffering, as will all who follow in the path of obedience.
Andrew Murray was one of four children born to Pastor Andrew, Sr., and Maria Murray. He was raised in what was considered to be the most remote corner of the world - Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Educated in Scotland and Holland, in 1848 Andrew, Jr., returned to South Africa as a missionary and minister with the Dutch Reformed Church. His first appointment was to Bloemfontein, a territory of nearly 50,000 square miles and 12,000 people.
Andrew and his brother John had been in close contact with a revival movement in Scotland, an evangelical extension of the ongoing Second Great Awakening in America. He prayed for the same sort of awakening for the church in South Africa and wrote, "My prayer is for revival, but I am held back by the increasing sense of my own unfitness for the work. I lament the awful pride and self complacency that have till now ruled my heart. O that I may be more and more a minister of the Spirit." (J. du Plessis, The Life of Andrew Murray)
In 1860, revival did come to the churches of Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently spread to surrounding towns and villages. Even remote farms and plantations felt the impact as lives were changed. Where once the churches had not been able to find one man ready to be a leader for God, the revival raised up 50 in Murray's Cape Town parish alone. There were more conversions in one month in that parish than in the whole course of its previous history. (Leona Choy, Andrew Murray: Apostle of Abiding Love)
Greatly concerned for the spiritual guidance of new converts and renewed Christians, Andrew Murray wrote over 240 books. His writings reflect his own longing for a deeper life in Christ and his prayer that others would long for and experience that life as well.
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