The Secret of Brotherly Love by Andrew Murray

TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY.
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"The works of the flesh are manifest;
witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousies, wrath,
envyings, murders, and such like."­
GAL. v. rg-zr.
AUL in these three verses mentions
seventeen of the terrible
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"works of the flesh." Nine of these are
sins against love. And he says, elsewhere
(Eph. iv. 31), "Let all bitterness,
and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and
evil speaking, be put away from you,
with all malice." He here answers the
question, why there is so little love
amongst Christians, and why it is so
hard to arouse such love. All these sins
are " works of the flesh."
Even the earnest Christian is still in
the flesh. Paul says : " In me, that is
in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing " ;
" Because the mind of the flesh is enmity
against God." It is quite impossible for
a Christian by his own efforts to lead a
life of love. Scripture says: " Walk in
the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts
of the flesh." The Spirit will enable us
to keep the flesh always in subjection.
The " fruit of the Spirit " will be Christ's
love poured into our hearts as a fountain
of love. Paul adds to what was
quoted above : " The law of the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
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