Judgment begins at the house of God – Andrew Murray

Peter had evidently read and pondered the passage of Ezekial 9:5-6, of which the words: begin at my sanctuary are the centre. He had noticed how, before the awful judgments the prophet had to announce against the nations that had oppressed Israel (Chapters 25-32), the force of God’s anger had, in the first part of the book, been revealed against his own people. Peter had learnt the great law that the holiness of God always seeks first to deal with sin in his own house and church. It is only as we know and submit to this that we can rightly apprehend the fearfulness and the certainty of his judgments on them that obey not the Gospel of God. The power to feel and preach the wrath coming upon the disobedient and the salvation from it will depend greatly on our insight into what it means that God begins at the sanctuary, on the experience in our own heart of God having dealt in judgment with the sins of our Christian life.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 42)

Andrew Murray