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  THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT IS THE WORK OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: The work of the Holy Spirit is the mark of true Christianity,
and His teaching is essential for believers to live a life pleasing to
God.

Topics: "The Holy Spirit", "True Christianity"
Scripture References: John 14:26, John 16:13, Acts 1:8, Romans 8:9, Romans 8:26-27, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, Galatians 5:25, Ephesians 1:13-14, 1 John 2:27

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that the work of the Holy Spirit is central to
true Christianity and the New Testament church. He explains that the
Holy Spirit serves as God's seal on believers, enabling them to
understand divine truths. The effectiveness of a believer's life hinges
on their relationship with the Holy Spirit, who must be recognized and
allowed to lead. Murray argues that a revival in the church requires
both ministers and members to acknowledge the Holy Spirit's role as the
ultimate teacher. This understanding transforms a believer's life,
allowing them to experience the Spirit as the very essence of their
being.

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This work of the Spirit is now the great mark of the New Testament
church, of true Christianity. The seal or heavenly stamp God has set up
on every believer and upon his church is the Holy Spirit, who knows the
things of God, given into the heart to make them know these. It is not
enough that a child be born of healthy real parents, his future depends
greatly upon the teacher to whom he is entrusted and the education he
received. With the child of God everything depends upon his knowing,
submitting to, waiting on, and carrying out the teaching of the Holy
Spirit. The feebleness of the church stems from this being not known and
believed and acted on. A revival in the church will mean nothing less
than this, that ministers and members will together be led to give the
Holy Spirit, the divine and only teacher, the place God wants him to
take.

Let us just think what the faith and the experience of the blessing this
truth brings us would mean in the Christian life. Just consider the
influence a full appreciation of it would have on a believer who seeks
to give God the whole tithe, his whole heart and life. He begins to
know, not in thought, but in faith and power, that the Spirit of God is
in him. Not as something alongside and additional to his own life,
partly and occasionally influencing it, but as the inmost life of our
very selves, not only controlling or helping but far more, as the moving
spring and power of our being, inspiring and impelling us in all we are
and do.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 38)

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