We Need a Spiritual Ear and Eye to Know More of God
To know more of God, we need a spiritual ear and eye, opened by God's Spirit, to apprehend His love and will.
Andrew Murray emphasizes the necessity of having a spiritual ear and eye to truly know God, highlighting that the Holy Spirit, as both Creator and Redeemer, inhabits the spirit of man and inspires it with divine life. He explains that while the Holy Spirit is available to all, only those who seek to overcome their fleshly desires can truly understand and experience God's love and will. The sermon calls for a longing for a deeper relationship with God, which requires spiritual awakening and receptiveness to the Holy Spirit's guidance.
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As the Spirit of God, the Creator, he has the mysterious power of entering and inhabiting the spirit of man. As the Spirit of God the Redeemer, he has given us a new spirit, within which he dwells and acts, secretly inspiring it with all the life and graces of the Lord Jesus.
The Spirit so communicates the divine life, that not only is the natural, unconverted man incapable of receiving this, but even the converted man, as long as he yields to the flesh, with sins like jealousy and strife, can not apprehend this. It needs a spiritual ear and eye, opened by God's Spirit, a spiritual nature longing to know more of God, his love, his will.
The Holy Spirit has been given to all, but only those I have just described are really taught by him. Only they can say in experience, 'we have received, not the spirit of the world, but Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things which are freely given by God.'
(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 37)
Sermon Outline
- The Power of the Holy Spirit
- The Need for a Spiritual Ear and Eye
- The Reality of the Holy Spirit's Teaching
- The Spirit is given to all, but only the spiritually-minded are taught
- The experience of receiving the Spirit of God
Key Quotes
“The Spirit so communicates the divine life, that not only is the natural, unconverted man incapable of receiving this, but even the converted man, as long as he yields to the flesh, with sins like jealousy and strife, can not apprehend this.” — Andrew Murray
Application Points
- We must yield to the Spirit to truly receive and understand Him.
- A spiritual ear and eye are necessary to apprehend God's love and will.
- The Holy Spirit is given to all, but only the spiritually-minded are taught.