The New Life by Andrew

Andrew Murray on The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples Text
We all know how sharp is the opposition which God in His word presents betwixt the grace that
comes by faith and the law that works -- demands. This is generally admitted with reference to
justification. But that distinction holds just as much of the whole life of sanctification. The righteous
shall live by faith alone, that is, shall have power to live according to the will of God. As at his
conversion he found it necessary to understand that there was nothing good in him, and that he must
receive grace as one that was powerless and godless, so must he as a believer just as clearly
understand that in him there is nothing good, and that he must receive his power for good every
moment from above. (Rom. 7:18; 8:2,13; Heb. 11:38)
Ro 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is
present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Ro 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin
and death.
Ro 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the
deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Heb 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains,
and in dens and caves of the earth.
And his work must therefore be every morning and every hour to look up and believe and receive his
power from above, out of his Lord in heaven. I am not to do what I can, and hope in the Lord to
supply strength. No: as one who has been dead, who is literally able for nothing in himself, and whose
life is in his Lord above, I am to reckon by faith on Him who will work in me mightily (Rom. 4:17; 2
Cor. 1:9; Col. 1:20; 2:3)
Ro 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he
believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though
they were.
2Co 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but
in God which raiseth the dead:
Col 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things
unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Col 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Happy the Christian who understands that his greatest danger every day is again to fall under the law,
and to be fain to serve God in the flesh with his own strength. Happy when he discerns that he is not
under the law which just demands and yet is powerless through the flesh, but is under grace where we
have simply to receive what has been given. Happy when he fully appropriates for himself the
promise of the Spirit who transfers all that is in Christ to him. Yea, happy when he understands what it
is to live by faith, and to serve, not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit. (Rom.
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