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  JUDGMENT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF GOD
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: God's judgment begins at His own house, and it is essential to
submit to His judgment in order to rightly apprehend the fearfulness and
certainty of His judgments on those who disobey the Gospel.

Topics: "Judgment", "Holiness in the Church"
Scripture References: Ezekiel 9:5, 1 Peter 4:17

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that God's judgment begins within His own
house, as illustrated by Peter's reflection on Ezekiel 9:5-6. He points
out that before God pronounces judgment on the nations, He first
addresses the sins of His people, highlighting the necessity for the
church to recognize and submit to this divine order. Understanding this
principle is crucial for believers to grasp the seriousness of God's
judgments and the importance of personal repentance. Murray asserts that
the ability to preach about God's wrath and salvation hinges on our own
experiences of His judgment in our lives. This call to holiness and
self-examination is essential for the church to prepare for revival.

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Peter had evidently read and pondered the passage of Ezekial 9:5-6, of
which the words: 'begin at my sanctuary' are the centre. He had noticed
how, before the awful judgments the prophet had to announce against the
nations that had oppressed Israel (Chapters 25-32), the force of God's
anger had, in the first part of the book, been revealed against his own
people. Peter had learnt the great law that the holiness of God always
seeks first to deal with sin in his own house and church. It is only as
we know and submit to this that we can rightly apprehend the fearfulness
and the certainty of his judgments on them that obey not the Gospel of
God.

The power to feel and preach the wrath coming upon the disobedient and
the salvation from it will depend greatly on our insight into what it
means that God begins at the sanctuary, on the experience in our own
heart of God having dealt in judgment with the sins of our Christian
life.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 42)

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