Experiencing the Holy Spirit: The All Of Sin

Experiencing the Holy Spirit 

By Andrew Murray 

The All Of Sin


What is sin? It is separation from God. 

Where man is guided by his own will, his own honor, or his own power; where the will, the honor, and the operation of God are not manifested, sin must be at work. 


Sin is death and misery because it is a turning away from God to the creature.


Sin is in no sense a thing that may exist in man along with other things that are good. 

No, as God was once everything, so has sin in fallen man become everything. 

It now dominates and penetrates his whole being, even as God should have been allowed to do. 

Every part of his nature is corrupt. 

We still have our natural existence in God. 

All is in sin and under the influence of sin.


The all of sin—some small measure of the knowledge of this fact was necessary even at the time of conversion. 

This, however, was still very imperfect. 

If a Christian is to make progress and become fully convinced of the necessity of being filled with the Spirit, his eyes must be opened to the extent in which sin dominates everything within him. 


Everything in him is tainted with sin, and therefore the omnipotence of God must take in hand the renewal of everything by the Holy Spirit. 

Man is utterly powerless to do what is good in the highest sense. 

He can do no more of what is good than what the Spirit actually works in him at any moment. 

He learns also to see the all of sin just as distinctly in the world around him.

Everything must be sacrificed and given over to death.


All of God must expel the all of sin. 

God must again live wholly and entirely within us and continually take the place that sin usurped. 

He who desires this change will rightly understand and desire the fullness of the Spirit, and as he believes he will certainly receive it. 




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