Be Perfect!
Overview
Containing a month of daily meditations, this volume takes the reader through the Scriptures, noting the principal passages in which the word “perfect” occurs. In each case, Murray examines the context of its use to find what the word was meant to convey. A simple yet powerful guidebook, each meditation runs four or five pages.
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Key Features
- Features daily reflections for a month
- Examines the notable use of the word “perfect” in the Bible
Contents
- The Old Testament
- A Perfect Heart Makes a Perfect Man—Gen. vi. 9
- Walk Before Me, and Be Thou Perfect—Gen. xvii. 13
- Perfect With the Lord Thy God—Deut. xviii. 13
- I Have Walked Before Thee With a Perfect Heart—2 Kings xx. 2–5
- O Lord, Give a Perfect Heart—1 Chron. xxix. 19
- God’s Strength for the Perfect in Heart—2 Chron. xvi. 8, 9
- With the Perfect God Shows Himself Perfect—Ps. xviii. 23–32
- Perfect in Heart Leads to Perfect in the Way—Ps. cxix. 1
- The Gospels
- Perfect as the Father—Matt. v. 48
- Perfected as the Master—Luke vi. 36–40
- The Perfect Selling All to Follow Christ—Matt. xix. 21
- Corinthians
- The Perfect Man a Spiritual Man—1 Cor. ii. 6
- Perfecting Holiness—2 Cor. vii. 1
- We Pray for Your Perfecting: Be Perfected—2 Cor. xiii. 9, 11
- Philippians
- Not Perfected, Yet Perfect—Phil. iii. 12–15
- Perfect, and Yet to Be Perfected—Phil. iii. 12–17
- Colossians
- Perfect in Christ—Col. i. 27–29
- Perfect in All the Will of God—Col. iv. 12
- Hebrews
- Christ Made Perfect through Suffering—Heb. ii. 10
- Let Us Press on to Perfection—Heb. v. 14, vi. 1
- No Perfection By the Law—Heb. vii. 11–19
- Christ Hath Perfected Us—Heb. ix. 11, 12
- God Perfect You in Every Good Thing—Heb. xiii. 20, 21
- James
- Perfect Patience Makes a Perfect Man—Jas. i. 4
- The Perfect Tongue Marks the Perfect Man—Jas. iii. 2
- Peter
- God Shall Himself Perfect You—1 Pet. v. 10, 11
- John
- Perfect Love: Keeping His Word—1 John ii. 5
- Perfect Love: Loving One Another—1 John iv. 11
- Perfect Love: God Abiding in Us—1 John iv. 12
- Perfect Love: Being As He Is—1 John iv. 17
- Perfect Love: Casting Out Fear—1 John iv. 18
Praise for the Print Edition
His teaching is reverent and helpful, and cannot fail to profit the reader.
—The British Friend
We heartily commend this little work. It is gracious, devout, instructive, and practical.
—Christian
Mr. Murray writes ably and interestingly, and shows a deeply devout and earnest spirit.
—North British Daily Mail
Product Details
- Title: Be Perfect!
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Publisher: James Nisbet & Co.
- Publication Date: 1894
- Pages: 156
About Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray (1828–1917) was born in Graaff Reinet, South Africa, to Dutch missionary parents. Educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, he then studied theology at the University of Utrecht. Andrew and his older brother John were ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church in 1848. Murray pastored South African churches in Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. A champion of missionary work, he founded the South African General Mission in 1889. That ministry continued to grow, and today it is part of the SIM (Serving in Mission) organization.
A prolific author and lecturer, Murray authored over 200 books during his lifetime, and he was invited to speak at churches and conferences all over the world. Married for over 60 years and the father of eight children, Murray passed away in January 1917.
Top Highlights
“3. Perfection is no arbitrary demand; in the very nature of things God can ask nothing less.—” (Page 7)
“1. There is a Perfection of which Scripture speaks as possible and attainable.” (Page 6)
“We shall see later on how in the Old Testament nothing was really made perfect; how Christ has come to reveal, and work out, and impart the true perfection; how the perfection, as revealed in the New Testament, is something infinitely higher, more spiritual and efficacious, than under the old economy. And yet at root they are one. God looketh at the heart. A heart that is perfect with Him is an object of complacency and approval. A whole-hearted consecration to His will and fellowship, a life that takes as its motto, wholly for God, has in all ages, even where the Spirit had not yet been given to dwell in the heart, been accepted by Him as the mark of the perfect man.” (Pages 16–17)
“In God’s record of the lives of His servants there are some of whom it is writen: his heart was perfect with the Lord his God. Is this, let each reader ask, what God sees and says of me? Does my life, in the sight of God, bear the mark of intense. Whole-hearted consecration to God’s will and service? of a burning desire to be as perfect as it is possible for grace to make me?” (Page 17)
“To take Jesus as Master, with the distinct desire and aim to be and live and act like Him—this is true Christianity.” (Page 53)
- Title: Be Perfect!: A Message from the Father in Heaven to His Children on Earth: Meditations for a Month
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Publisher: J. Nisbet & Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1894
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Perfection; Meditations
- Resource ID: LLS:PERFECTMURRAY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:03:14Z
Andrew Murray (May 9, 1828–January 18, 1917) was a South African pastor, teacher, and writer. He was educated in Aberdeen, Scotland, and at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1848, Murray was ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church and returned to live and work in South Africa.
Murray was very focused on missions, considering it to be “the chief end of the church.” In 1889 he cofounded the South African General Mission with Martha Osborn and Spencer Walton. As their work spread throughout the continent, the mission’s name changed to Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF), and in 1998 AEF joined SIM which today has over 1,800 active missionaries in over 43 countries. Andrew Murray authored over 240 books, including Abide in Christ, The Holiest of All, The Spiritual Life, and The Mystery of the True Vine.