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  WE MUST LIVE AS THE CHANNELS OF GOD'S LOVE TO A PERISHING WORLD.
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: Andrew Murray emphasizes the necessity for believers to live as
channels of God's love to effectively reach a perishing world through
personal and communal revival.

Topics: "Evangelism", "God's Love"
Scripture References: Matthew 28:19, John 15:5

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that every believer is called to be a channel
of God's love to a perishing world, highlighting the church's failure to
fully grasp this responsibility. He urges Christians to recognize the
urgency of preaching the Gospel to the millions in need, rather than
being complacent with minimal contributions. Murray calls for a personal
revival that begins in the hearts of believers, which will empower them
to fulfill their divine calling. He stresses that true Christian life is
about living for God's glory and the salvation of others, inspired by
the love of Christ and the Holy Spirit. The sermon encourages believers
to offer themselves to God for this great cause, leading to renewed
confidence and joy in their work.

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Alas, how little the church understands or teaches this -- that every
believer, just like every branch on a tree, exists only to bring fruit
and blessing for the glory of the husbandman and the life of men. Christ
gave God's love in charge to his people, entrusted himself and the
eternal life to them, that everyone whom the great 'whosoever' includes
might hear and live. And Christians profess to believe that the hundreds
of millions are committed to their care, and must, as the most urgent
and important work in the world, have the Gospel preached to them, and
yet rest content in giving, out of their abundance, a few pounds a year.
And their mind and heart and strength they give to the interests of
time. They have no conception of the true Christian life, of the calling
and the glory and the blessedness of, like Christ, living as the
channels of God's love to a perishing world.

We do indeed need a great, a mighty revival. Let us plead with God that
it may begin with ourselves in secret. It will reveal to us the force of
the three great words -- the perishing world, God's saving love, and the
Christ who through his members carries life to that world. However
ignorant we may be of what we ought to do, or impotent to do what we see
of this great work, let us offer ourselves unceasingly to God, to live
for nothing less than what he lives for, he will inspire and guide and
make us bold. When the great revival begins in our own hearts, it has
begun and it will spread. We shall have new confidence in prayer and new
power in work. And our work will have a new joy as we realize how it is
the devotion to a great cause, which has its beginning in the love of
God, its law in the life of Christ, its strength in the power of that
Holy Spirit who makes us one with him in the work of conquering the
world for God.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 64)

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