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  BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: Faith is the foundation for understanding and worship, and it
begins in the heart.

Topics: "Faith", "Spiritual Understanding"
Scripture References: Romans 1:20, Ephesians 1:17, Hebrews 11:3

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DESCRIPTION
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Andrew Murray emphasizes that true understanding comes from the heart
through faith, rather than from reason or intellect. He explains that
once faith takes hold of the heart, it enables spiritual understanding
and allows us to perceive divine truths. Murray encourages believers to
recognize that the created order reveals God's presence rather than
obscuring it, highlighting the importance of faith in worship and
action.

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CONTENT
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"By faith we understand". The seat of faith is not the understanding or
the reason, but the heart. Once faith possesses and quickens the heart,
it then acts through the understanding. Faith understands divine things;
through faith we can have spiritual understanding. If our faith is to
worship and work properly, it must truly learn this first lesson: the
created order (Rom. 1:20), instead of being a veil which hides God, can
become to us transparent with the light of his presence.

(Excerpted from The Promise of the Spirit by Andrew Murray, pg.65-66)

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/andrew-murray/by-faith-we-understand/
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