For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things
that you wish. 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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