What the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and
what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other. Galatians
5:17
These two are in age-long conflict,
in antagonism. It is ever so. When you have a fresh experience of the Holy
Spirit, the next thing you find is that you are in a new conflict against the
old flesh-life in yourself. This rising up of the flesh within is provoked by
the devil because he sees the inheritance in view, for when the Spirit comes,
the inheritance comes into view. He has come to bring to the inheritance. So do
not be surprised if after an experience of the Spirit the next thing you have
to face is this conflict with the assertion of the flesh across the path to
hinder your going into possession.
It is only when you have
received the Holy Spirit that you know the conflict of the flesh and what is
the withstanding of the flesh. Those who have not the Spirit have no such conflict
of flesh and Spirit; they are not in that realm, but wholly in the flesh realm.
The Holy Spirit has come in relation to the end, and the end is the inheritance
in Christ, and flesh moved by Satan rises up to frustrate that end, and to rob
you of the inheritance. The peril is that having begun in the Spirit, you might
turn aside to make some compromise with Amalek, because of the hardness of the
way, the greatness of the cost, by reason of the conflict and forgetting God's
word - "utterly destroy Amalek" (1 Samuel 15:3). "Walk not after
the flesh but after the Spirit" (Romans 8:4).
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