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  WE SHALL LEARN TO SING OF JUDGMENT AND MERCY.
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: We learn to know God and experience revival through the
judgment on sin that brings deliverance.

Topics: "Judgment", "Mercy"
Scripture References: Psalm 51:1-2, Psalm 85:10, Isaiah 30:18, Lamentations 3:22-23, Ezekiel 5:10, Ezekiel 36:27, John 3:16, Romans 11:22, Hebrews 12:6, 1 John 1:9

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Andrew Murray emphasizes the dual attributes of God's holiness: His
righteousness and His love, which are revealed through judgment and
mercy. He explains that true knowledge of God comes from understanding
His judgment on sin, which leads to deliverance, and His mercy that
restores us. Murray points out that revival among God's people is
contingent upon yielding to God's judgment in our lives. As we embrace
both aspects, we learn to sing of judgment and mercy, recognizing God's
complete character. Ultimately, knowing God involves experiencing both
His justice and His grace.

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Since sin entered into the world the two great attributes which we need
to know by experience, if we are to know God, are the two which are
united in his holiness: his righteousness and his love.

In Ezekiel we find that it is in the revelation of these two that God is
to be known. On the one side you have God made known in judgment in
passages like these in chapter 5: "I will judge thee according to thy
ways, and ye shall know that I am the Lord."

And then on the other hand, God made known in mercy: "Ye shall know that
I am the Lord when I shall bring you into the land... " "I will put my
spirit in you and ye shall live, then shall ye know that the Lord hath
spoken it and performed it."

And thus it ever is. The revelation of God, the true living knowledge of
God in a world of sin can only come through the judgment on sin that
brings deliverance from sin.

Revival among God's people can only come as we yield to him to judge sin
in us. As we wait on him in the way of his judgments we shall learn to
sing of judgment and mercy.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 44)

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