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Title: The Master's Indwelling

Author: Andrew Murray

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Language: English

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The MASTER'S INDWELLING

ANDREW MURRAY

1953

The following papers were in substance delivered by the author in a series
of addresses at the Northfield Conference of 1895, but later rewritten and
revised by him for this permanent and authorized publication.

CONTENTS

I. CARNAL CHRISTIANS

II. THE SELF LIFE

III. WAITING ON GOD

IV. ENTRANCE INTO REST

V. THE KINGDOM FIRST

VI. CHRIST OUR LIFE

VII. CHRIST'S HUMILITY OUR SALVATION

VIII. THE COMPLETE SURRENDER

IX. DEAD WITH CHRIST

X. JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST

XI. TRIUMPH OF FAITH

XII. THE SOURCE OF POWER IN PRAYER

XIII. THAT GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL

CARNAL CHRISTIANS.

I.

_1 Corinthians 3: 1_.--_And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto
spiritual, but as unto carnal_.

The apostle here speaks of two stages of the Christian life, two types of
Christians: "I could not speak unto you as unto _spiritual_, but as unto
_carnal_, even as unto babes in Christ." They were Christians, in Christ,
but instead of being spiritual Christians, they were carnal. "I have fed
you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it,
neither yet are ye able, for ye are yet carnal." Here is that word a second
time. "For whereas"--this is the proof--"there is among you envying, and
strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one
saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?" Four
times the apostle uses that word carnal. In the wisdom which the Holy Ghost
gives him, Paul feels:--I can not write to these Corinthian Christians
unless I know their state, and unless I tell them of it. If I give
spiritual food to men who are carnal Christians, I am doing them more harm
than good, for they are not fit to take it. I cannot feed them with