The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing
Overview
In The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing, Andrew Murray maintains that the Christian’s God is a covenant God and thinks that the word “covenant” has passed too entirely out of Christian thinking. He aims to show exactly what blessings God has covenanted to bestow on us and that, on the basis of the covenant, we may rest perfectly assured that “they can, and must, and will be fulfilled.”
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Key Features
- Describes the two covenants and their relation to prayer and Christian life
- Presents the theme of the two covenants in an understandable manner
Contents
- A Covenant God
- The Two Covenants: Their Relation
- The First Covenant
- The New Covenant
- The Two Covenants—In Christian Experience
- The Everlasting Covenant
- The New Covenant: A Ministration of the Spirit
- The Two Covenants: The Transition
- The Blood of the Covenant
- Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant
- Jesus, the Surety of the Better Covenant
- The Book of the Covenant
- New Covenant Obedience
- The New Covenant: A Covenant of Grace
- The Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood
- The Ministry of the New Covenant
- His Holy Covenant
- Entering the Covenant: With All the Heart
Praise for the Print Edition
The author’s style is clear and strong, alike thoughtful and spiritual, finding its way to both head and heart. Multitudes all over the world have been helped in their heavenward journey by the writings of this modern Kempis, and it is to be hoped that this, his latest work, will bring comfort and rest to thousands of weary feet and aching hearts.
—Christian Work
Product Details
- Title: The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
- Publication Date: 1899
- Pages: 206
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
“‘Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant with them that love Him.’ Hear what God says in Isaiah: ‘The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall My covenant of peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.’ More sure than any mountain is the fulfillment of every Covenant promise. Of the New Covenant, in Jeremiah, God speaks: ‘I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me.’” (Page 16)
“And this now is the reason why there was a first and a second covenant, that in the first, man’s desires and efforts might be fully awakened, and time given for him to make full proof of what his human nature, with the aid of outward instruction and miracles and means of grace, could accomplish. When his utter impotence, his hopeless captivity under the power of sin had been discovered, there came the New Covenant, in which God was to reveal how man’s true liberty from sin and self and the creature, his true nobility and Godlikeness, was to be found in the most entire and absolute dependence, in God’s being and doing all within him.” (Pages 23–24)
“The other is the lesson of Holiness. In the New Covenant the Triune God engages to do all. He undertakes to give and keep the new heart, to give His own Spirit in it, to give the will and the power to obey and do His will. As the one demand of the first Covenant was the sense of sin, the one great demand of the New is faith that that need, created by the discipline of God’s law, will be met in a Divine and supernatural way.” (Pages 33–34)
- Title: The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
- Print Publication Date: 1898–1899
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Covenant theology
- Resource ID: LLS:CVNTSBLESSMURRAY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:53:47Z
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.