I say -fulfil" for I well know that the spiritual life is, and must be, one of conflict you must fight manfully under Christ's banner and continue His faithful soldiers unto your life's end. The flesh, -the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts", is in deadly antagonism to the Spirit to the new and Divine nature, and to the Holy Ghost its Author. These stand eternally opposed to one another; and as both exist in you, ye cannot always do such things as ye would; comp. Romans 7:15-25. But if ye are led by the Spirit, this conflict implies not bondage but freedom the freedom of sons; "for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." Romans 8:14.

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