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T. Austin-Sparks

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 ISV)



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...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:171 Samuel 15:3Romans 8:4

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Samuel Bagster

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For … your life is hidden with Christ in God. § For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to...

Bible Verses: Psalms 119:25Colossians 3:1Colossians 3:3Philippians 3:20Philippians 3:21Galatians 5:17Romans 8:12Romans 8:131 Peter 2:11

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Samuel Bagster

The love of the Spirit. § The Helper, the Holy Spirit. § In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; so He turned Himself against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.We know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. § Having believed, you were sealed with...

Bible Verses: Ephesians 4:30Romans 15:30John 14:26Isaiah 63:9Isaiah 63:101 John 4:13Ephesians 1:13Ephesians 1:14Galatians 5:16Galatians 5:17Romans 8:26

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Samuel Bagster

In the way of Your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You. With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early.I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find … For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against...

Bible Verses: Matthew 26:41Isaiah 26:8Isaiah 26:9Romans 7:18Romans 7:22Romans 7:23Galatians 5:17Philippians 4:132 Corinthians 3:52 Corinthians 12:9

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Miles Stanford

Walk in [dependence upon] the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Gal. 5:16).


Those who have thoroughly learned full dependence on Him for justification will come to understand that sanctification is by the same faith principle. We are to rest in His finished work...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:16Ephesians 5:18

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Miles Stanford

Put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man" (Eph. 4:22, ASV).


Positionally, in the finished work of the Cross and resurrection, we have been cut off from the old man through death, and have been born into the new Man by the new birth. "Ye have put off the old...

Bible Verses: Ephesians 4:22Colossians 3:9Colossians 3:10Romans 6:11Galatians 2:20Galatians 5:17Ephesians 4:24

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Miles Stanford

If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under bondage of effort to please God by works of the law" (Gal. 5:18).


The motivating principle of the old life is the law; the motivating principle of the new life is "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus." The one produces "the works of the...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:18Psalms 32:8Psalms 32:9Romans 12:2Galatians 5:25

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Miles Stanford
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Gal. 5:16).

As we walk in the Spirit, worship in the Spirit, and pray in the Spirit, we shall come to know, not the Spirit, but the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus explicitly said, "He (the Comforter) shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine,...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:16John 16:14John 16:15Acts 6:5Acts 7:55Romans 8:2

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Miles Stanford

Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Gal. 5:16).


We receive life by reliance upon the Saviour; we grow in that life by reliance upon the Spirit.

"Many think that because of faith they are cleared of everything before...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:16Hebrews 11:1

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