THE SECRET OF THE CROSS by Andrew Murray
The “Secret Series” are Pocket Companion Books that were written by Andrew Murray over a period of five years. Brief and to the point, these little books contain a wealth of Murray’s teachings, written out of the mature fullness of his experience in Christ. The Secret of the Cross contains thirty-two thoughtful and Biblically based independent devotionals united by the theme of the cross. The Secret of the Cross will help you gain a deeper understanding of the book of Romans especially Chapter 6-8 on the Nature of Sin and what Christ accomplished for us on the Cross. Andrew Murray exhort us to begin each day by seeking the living God, giving Him time every morning to reveal Himself anew.
The “Secret Series” are Pocket Companion Books that were written by Andrew Murray over a period of five years. Brief and to the point, these little books contain a wealth of Murray’s teachings, written out of the mature fullness of his experience in Christ.
The Secret of the Cross contains thirty-two thoughtful and Biblically based independent devotionals united by the theme of the cross.
The Secret of the Cross will help you gain a deeper understanding of the book of Romans especially Chapter 6-8 on the Nature of Sin and what Christ accomplished for us on the Cross.
Andrew Murray exhort us to begin each day by seeking the living God, giving Him time every morning to reveal Himself anew.
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The fellowship of the cross is to be the life of a daily experience, the<br />
self-emptying of our Lord, His taking the form of a servant, His<br />
humbling Himself and becoming obedient unto death, even the<br />
death of the cross — this mind that was in Christ is to be the<br />
disposition that marks our daily life.<br />
“Always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus.” This is what we are<br />
called to as much as Paul. If we are indeed to live for the welfare of<br />
men around us, if we are to sacrifice our ease and pleasure to win<br />
souls for our Lord, it must be true of us, as of Paul, that we are able to<br />
say: Death worketh in us, but life in those for whom we pray and<br />
labor. For it is in the fellowship of the sufferings of Christ that the<br />
crucified Lord can live out and work out His life in us and through us.<br />
Let us learn the lesson that the abiding in Christ Jesus, for which we<br />
have so often prayed and striven, is nothing less than the abiding of<br />
the Crucified in us, and we in Him.<br />
Day 24 – The Cross and the Spirit<br />
“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit<br />
offered Himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience?”<br />
Hebrews 9:14.<br />
The cross is Christ’s highest glory. The glory which He received from<br />
the Father was entirely owing to His having humbled Himself to the<br />
death of the cross. “Wherefore also God highly exalted Him.” The<br />
greatest work which the Holy Spirit could ever do in the Son of God<br />
was when He enabled Him to yield Himself a sacrifice and an<br />
offering for a sweet-smelling savor. And the Holy Spirit can now do<br />
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