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Be Perfect

Be Perfect

Andrew Murray (1828–1917) was a South African pastor and writer in the Dutch Reformed Church. Educated in Scotland and the Netherlands, he served congregations at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington, and was six times moderator of his church. Murray wrote some 240 books on prayer and the deeper Christian life; our library holds Abide in Christ, With Christ in the School of Prayer, Absolute Surrender, and The Prayer Life.

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First published
1894
Category
Holiness
Length
29k words · about 2 hours
Chapters
32

About this book

Murray follows the Bible’s use of “perfect,” beginning with its testimony about Noah, Job, David, and Asa, and tracing the theme from Abraham’s call to the New Testament teaching on Christ and the believer. He presents perfection as a wholehearted life with God, formed through obedience, holiness, patience, and love, and calls readers to press on while trusting God to complete His work in them.

Contents

  1. PREFACE and PRAYER
  2. A Perfect Heart Makes a Perfect Man
  3. Walk Before Me, and Be Perfect
  4. Perfect with the Lord Your God 🔒
  5. I Have Walked Before You with a Perfect Heart 🔒
  6. Lord, Give a Perfect Heart 🔒
  7. God's Strength for the Perfect in Heart 🔒
  8. With the Perfect God Shows Himself Perfect 🔒
  9. Perfect in Heart Leads to Perfect in the Way 🔒
  10. Perfect as the Father 🔒
  11. Perfected as the Master 🔒
  12. The Perfect Selling All to Follow Christ 🔒
  13. The Perfect Man a Spiritual Man 🔒
  14. Perfecting Holiness 🔒
  15. We Pray for Your Perfecting: Be Perfected 🔒
  16. Not Perfected, Yet Perfect 🔒
  17. Perfect, and Yet to Be Perfected 🔒
  18. Perfect in Christ 🔒
  19. Perfect in All the Will of God 🔒
  20. Christ Made Perfect Through Suffering 🔒
  21. Let Us Press on to Perfection 🔒
  22. No Perfection by the Law 🔒
  23. Christ Has Perfected Us 🔒
  24. God Perfect You in Every Good Thing 🔒
  25. Perfect Patience Makes a Perfect Man 🔒
  26. The Perfect Tongue Marks the Perfect Man 🔒
  27. God Will Himself Perfect You 🔒
  28. Perfect Love Is Keeping Christ's Word 🔒
  29. Perfect Love Is Loving the Brethren 🔒
  30. Perfect Love: God Abiding in Us 🔒
  31. Perfect Love: as He Is, Even So Are We 🔒
  32. Perfect Love: Casting Out Fear 🔒

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