Redemption accomplished and applied - Murray - VIII - Part 2, Chapter 4

Still taking a break once a week to join in with the Challies reading group.


Required reading
Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray (available from Amazon) - Part 2, Chapter 4, 'Faith and repentance'.

My summary
Now Murray examines faith and repentance.

The warrant of faith (the warrant that lost sinner has to commit himself to Christ) is:
(i) the universal offer of the gospel;
(ii) the all-sufficiency and suitability of the Saviour presented.

The nature of faith is:
(i) knowledge ('do we trust a person of whom we know nothing')
(ii) conviction; ('the conviction which enters into faith is not only an assent to the truth respecting Christ but also a recognition of the exact correspondence that there is between the truth of Christ and our deeds as lost sinners.')
(iii) trust ('It is not simply believing him; it is believing in him and on him')

Moving to repentance, Murray firstly taught us that repentance is entangled with faith: 'The interdependence of faith and repentance can be readily seen when we remember that faith is faith in Christ for salvation from sin.  But if faith is directed to salvation from sin, there must be hatred of sin and the desire to be saved from it.'

We also learnt that repentance consists essentially in change of heart and mind and will.

What grabbed me

I liked the emphasis that we need to repent of our sins: 'It is very easy for us to speak of sin, to be very denunciatory respecting sin, and denunciatory respecting the particular sins of other people and yet not be penitent regarding our own particular sins.  The test of repentance is the genuineness and resoluteness of our repentance in respect of our own sins, sins characterized by the aggravations which are peculiar to our own selves.'


Everyone loves to condemn the sins of others, but true repentance is where you condemn the sins of yourself.


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