The New Life

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XXV.
FLESH AND SPIRIT.
"And I,
but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ."— i Cor. iii. i
brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
•' I am carnal, sold under sin : to will is present with me, but
to do that which is good is not. The law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. Ye
are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of
God dwelleth in you." Rom. vii. 14, 18, viii. 2, 9.
" Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the
flesh? If ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. If
we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk."—Gal. iii.
3, V. 18. 25.
is of great importance for the young Christian to
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understand that there are in him two natures,
which strive against one another.^ If we weigh the
texts noted above, we shall see that the word of God
teaches us the following truths on this point.
Sin comes from the flesh : the reason why the
Christian still does sin is that he yields to the flesh
and does not walk by the Spirit. Every Christian
has the Spirit and lives by the Spirit, but every
Christian does not walk by the Spirit. If he walks
by the Spirit, he will not fulfill the desires of the
flesh.'
1 Gal. V. 17, 24, 25, vi. 8 ; Eph.
iv. 2.
'Rom. viii. 7 ; i Cor. iii. i, 3 ;
Gal. v. 16, 25.
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iv. 22, 24 ;
Col. iii. 9, 10 ; i Pet