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  ALL THINGS OF GOD TO HIM AND IN HIM IT WAS INDEED TO BE
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: God created man to be a voluntary and blessed partaker of
divine goodness and blessedness, and to show forth His glory in
creaturely nature and form.

Topics: "Identity in Christ", "Divine Nature"
Scripture References: Genesis 1:27, Psalm 8:5, John 15:5, Romans 8:29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:10, Colossians 3:10, 2 Peter 1:4, 1 John 3:1

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that man, created in God's image, is designed
to reflect God's divine glory and attributes. He explains that God's
righteousness, holiness, love, and goodness are meant to be not only
present in man but also to shine through him as part of his character.
This relationship allows man to partake in God's divine life,
acknowledging that all goodness comes from God. Ultimately, Murray
asserts that everything belongs to God and should be recognized as such
in our lives. The sermon calls for a deep understanding of our identity
in relation to God's nature.

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We should say this especially about man, made in God's image. God
created him that he might, in creaturely nature and form, show forth the
nature of his divine and invisible glory. God created man with the one
object that in and through man he might live out his divine life in such
a way that man should be the voluntary and most blessed partaker of all
the divine goodness and blessedness.

Every attribute of God, his righteousness and holiness, his love and
compassion, his goodness and truth, his wisdom and power, were not only
to rest upon man, but so to be in him that they might shine out from as
his own disposition and character. They were to be his very own,
accepted and appropriated and personally assimilated. And yet they were
ever to be known and acknowledged as God's. He was to bear the living
signature. All things of God to him and in him it was indeed to be. God
is all.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 67)

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/andrew-murray/all-things-of-god-to-him-and-in-him-it-was-indeed-to-be/
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