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  GOD HIMSELF MUST JUDGE OUR SIN
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: Believers must let God deal with their sin, rather than trying
to conquer it on their own, in order to truly experience victory over
sin.

Topics: "God's Judgment", "Sin and Cleansing"
Scripture References: Ezekiel 36:25

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that only God can truly judge and deal with our
sins, warning that many believers fail because they attempt to manage
their sin on their own. He urges Christians to surrender their sins to
God, allowing Him to execute His judgment and cleanse them from all
unrighteousness. Murray highlights the importance of recognizing the
various forms of sin, including lust, pride, and idolatry, and
encourages believers to bring these before God for His fierce judgment.
By doing so, they can experience true freedom and cleansing from their
sins. Ultimately, he reassures that God will fulfill His promise to
cleanse His people from all filthiness.

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God himself must judge the sin. He alone can do it. This is often the
cause of lifelong failure with believers, that when they see sin they
seek to deal with it themselves. And by dealing with it they have failed
to conquer, they count it a permanent thing that cannot be overcome.

Oh, Christians, let God deal with your sin.

If you would have your heart broken down, and your hands made utterly
weak, so you no longer resist God, let God deal with your sin. Bring the
sin that is discovered in his temple, in your body, or in your heart, to
him, and let him execute his fierce judgment on it.

Be it the lust of the flesh, sin in the body and its appetities; be it
the lust of the eye, sin in choosing the visible above the invisible; be
it the pride of life, sin in preferring self before God or the neighbour
- bring it out before a holy God, give it into his charge, and ask him
to deal with it, to execute judgment on it.

Ask him to do what he has spoken, not to spare and not to pity, but to
pour out his fury upon it, till the sinful deed is utterly destroyed
before his presence.

'They shall know that I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance on them.'
Give your sins over to God's vengeance, wait on him as the God of
judgment, then will he fulfil the promise, 'From all your filthiness and
from all your idols will I cleanse you.'

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 47)

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