The Masters Indwelling

The Master's Indwelling

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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 meat, I must feed them with milk. And so he tells them
at the very outset of the epistle what he sees to be their state. In the two previous chapters
he had spoken about his ministry being by the Holy Spirit; now he begins to tell them
what must be the state of a people in order to accept spiritual truth, and he says: "I have
not liberty to speak to you as I would, for you are carnal, and you cannot receive Spiritual
truth." That suggests to us the solemn thought, that in the Church of Christ there are two
classes of Christians. Some have lived many years as believers, and yet always remain
babes; others are spiritual men, because they have given themselves up to the power, the
leading and to the entire rule of the Holy Ghost. If we are to obtain a blessing, we must

first decide to which of these classes we belong. Are we, by the grace of God, in deep
humility living a spiritual life, or are we living a carnal life? Then, let us first try to
understand what is meant by the carnal state in which believers may be living.
We notice from what we find in Corinthians, four marks of the carnal state. First: It is
simply a condition of protracted infancy. You know what that means. Suppose a beautiful
babe, six months old. It cannot speak, it cannot walk, but we do not trouble ourselves
about that; it is natural, and ought to be so. But suppose a year later we find the child not
grown at all, and three years later still no growth; we would at once say: "There must be
some terrible disease;" and the baby that at six months old was the cause of joy to every
one who saw him, has become to the mother and to all a source of anxiety and sorrow.
There is something wrong; the child can not grow. It was quite right at six months old
that it should eat nothing but milk; but years have passed by, and it remains in the same
weakly state. Now this is just the condition of many believers. They are converted; they
know what it is to have assurance and faith; they believe in