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Liberty leads to conflict — greater power for the believer than against him — the Spirit of God searches us — the Spirit is opposed to the flesh — the way of victory — spiritual prosperity.
We will speak of the conflict which, in greater or less intensity, every believer has to go through daily. It is not the struggle for deliverance of soul that now is to occupy us — of that we have already spoken — nor the conflict which is against Satan, wrestling with spiritual wickedness in heavenly places — but the inward conflict in the child of God.
It may be said, "What, if a man knows his sins to be forgiven, and more, liberty" (which some call "sanctification," "higher life," "full peace," etc.), "then, surely, every spiritual desire must be gratified, and thenceforward, till heaven be gained, there can be nothing more to be wished for." In things spiritual, as in things natural, when children have grown up to manhood, to ripe age, or, as scripture speaks, are "perfect," they do not find that thenceforward there is nothing to do, nothing to suffer. Quite the contrary; in one sense they may be said to begin life only when perfect. Until the great and terrible "I" be held by grace to have been crucified with Christ, the believer can hardly be said to have begun to live the new life in its liberty; but liberty attained, conflict is acutely entered into.
Greater power exists for the believer than against him. The believer knew the bitterness of inward strife before he knew his standing in Christ risen; but having been brought into liberty, he is subject to conflict. Sin is in him, Satan is active, the world attractive. But there is a vast difference between the character of the conflict in the believer who is in liberty, and in him who is in bondage. The difference is this: before he knew himself to be in Christ, the believer was