seph’s sepulcher and tomb, but He is living in temples of flesh and blood like you and I. Since He is living now, He can meet every need of this present hour. Second, there is only one time in which you and I can live. This is not yesterday and it is not tomorrow, it is now. It is so much easier to live a moment at a time than endeavoring to live an hour or a day ahead. The story is told of a physician who was calling on one of his patients in the hospital. Before leaving she said to him, “Doctor, how long must I lie here in bed?” He gave her this astounding answer, “Ju st one moment at a time.” When you and I try to assume the burdens of an unknown future or an ticipate the responsibilities of even a few weeks or years, we will surely be crushed beneath the weight. The Lord Jesus said, “Be not therefore anxious for the morrow.” Here is God’s way of life. Have you allowed Jesus Christ to live His life in you? This is His plan and provision for all His children. Will you begin even now to walk in this way of wondrous submission and tri umph through the Lord Jesus Christ? T h e victorious secret of the Chris tian life is the Saviour living in us. Moment by moment we walk with Him as He shows forth Himself through us. An individual isn’t a Christian long before he realizes that he faces a spir itual conflict. In Galatians 5:16 and 17 the Apostle exhorts us, “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” Intelligent Christian living demands an understanding of the basic considerations set forth in these two verses. Recognition of these im CHRISTIAN LIVING SERIES Wolking By Faith
portant facts may avert years of backsliding and uselessness in Chris tian living. There are some who erroneously fancy that salvation means the end of the conflict with sin. The truth is that it may only be the beginning of a real warfare. Temptation does not lose its power even though you have become a child of God. Perfection does not belong to this present state of exis tence. God has reserved it for our future living, when we stand before His presence forever. The unbeliever merely possesses a fallen nature, so that there is not a constant conflict. That the word Spirit is capitalized in this portion indicates clearly that it refers to the Holy Spirit, not to the believer’s hu man spirit. The word “flesh” in this portion refers to something far deep er than the physical body. Sometimes the word implies mankind in general or to our physical nature. It is the fallen nature which has been handed down from our ancestors, all the way from Adam. Let us remember that the desires of our fallen nature may be pleasing and attractive, as well as low and vi cious. The Holy Spirit, who now in dwells the believer, has desires which obviously run' contrary to the desires of the flesh. (The works of the flesh are recorded in Galatians 5:19-21.) You can be filled with enmity but not live down on skid-row. You can be filled with jealousies and not be living physically in the slums. These items that are listed are the sins of the re spectable. Until we know Jesus Christ every thing is flesh. When we trust Him, however, He takes away our sins and we become children of God. Then it is that we have the Holy Spirit living within us. So, we have the old human nature with which we were born, as well as the interjection of a new na ture given from God. Christ speaks of this as a new birth which is the communication of a new life (II Cor. 5 :1 7 ). This accounts for the radical change of outlook characterizing the 28
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