WALK IN THE SPIRIT

WALK IN THE SPIRIT

I think that there is a true desire to avoid any sin, but I do not believe that many see that the old man has been ^[p. 92] judicially terminated in the eye of God in the cross, so that it is never revived to Him with respect to any believer in Jesus. Alas, we revive it; but He could not, because it has been removed from His eye for ever, and He has been glorified by the Son of man at the moment that it was removed. Hence, when we are in the Spirit we are free from the law of sin and death, and if we walk in the Spirit we do not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. It is by faith we see that we have died with Christ but if we were as much set upon walking in the Spirit as we are on avoiding sin, we should be free from the law of sin and death; the latter secures credit to ourselves, the former magnifies the Spirit of God.

I do not believe union with Christ (not merely association) can be realised unless we are consciously in the nature of Christ. Then it is not merely that we are kept from sin, but that we are in a nature which does not sin.