working, dressing, and living and do ing all those things that are in full accordance with His will, revealed in His Word. We need to allow Him to permeate and control every phase of life. Submitting to The Spirit's Control Walk after the Spirit. Let the Spirit take control—that Spirit who knows the will of God, the Word of God and the ways of God. Let Him do the walking in us, by having that inward and outward control, and then we shall live the life of a spir itual Christian. Now, are you a car nal Christian or a spiritual Chris tian? The carnal Christian has given the Holy Spirit only partial control in his life, so naturally this grieves the blessed Holy Spirit. May I illus trate? Have you a good imagination? If so, you will see a cat that I once saw. It was a picture of a cat whose front and hind legs were going in opposite directions. It surely was a very strange-looking cat. And it was not making much progress, as you can readily see. The front legs go ing one way and the hind legs going the other! That is the carnal Chris tian—part of the time walking after the Spirit and part of the time walk ing after the flesh and getting no where but into discouragement and despair. Then wa lk ing after the Spirit means a control without resistance and without rebellion, just an implic it, immediate, quick, joyous response to the Holy Spirit. I should like to illustrate that truth by a dog I saw in a park in London. He was out walking with his master. He was just a tiny fellow, and a great, tall man had him on a leash. They were walk ing along and everything was going fine. Then the little dog got a notion into its little head that it did not want to go that way. And that lit tle thing took an angle of forty-five degrees in relationship to that leash. Every muscle of its body was strained against the leash. And thè tall mas ter could not budge that bit of a dog one inch! Not an inch! The dog wanted to walk another way. The carnal Christian is like that dog, re sisting, rebelling, refusing to walk along with the Spirit. Friend, the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s sanctification is ac complished as He habitually fills and controls the life. Does He fill and control your life? If not, will you let Him do so today? END.
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