THE SECRET OF THE CROSS by Andrew Murray

death.” As chapter 7 gives us the experience that leads to being a
captive under the power of sin, chapter 8 reveals the experience of
the life of a man in Christ Jesus, who has now been made free from
the law of sin and death. In the former we have the life of the
ordinary Christian doing his utmost to keep the commandments of
the law, and to walk in His ways, but ever finding how much there is
of failure and shortcoming. In the latter we have the man who knows
that he is in Christ Jesus, dead to sin and alive to God, and by the
Spirit has been made free and is kept free from the bondage of sin
and of death.
Oh that men understood what the deep meaning is of Romans 7,
where a man learns that in him, that is in his flesh, there is no good
thing, and that there is no deliverance from this state but by yielding
to the power of the Spirit making free from the power and bondage
of the flesh, and so fulfilling the righteousness of the law in the
power of the life of Christ!
Day 20 – The Flesh Condemned on the Cross
“What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” –Romans 8:3.
In Romans 8:7 Paul writes: “The mind of the flesh is enmity against God;
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.” Here Paul
opens up the depth of sin that there is in the flesh. In chapter 7 he
had said that in the flesh there is no good thing. Here he goes deeper,
and tells us that it is enmity against God: it hates God and His law. It
was on this account that God condemned sin in the flesh on the
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