O Wretched Man That I Am!

O Wretched Man That I Am!

(Excerpts)
by Andrew Murray

God does not work by His Spirit as He works by a blind force in nature. 

He leads His people on as reasonable, intelligent beings, and, therefore, when He wants to give us that Holy Spirit whom He has promised, 

He brings us first to the end of self, to the conviction that though we have been striving to obey the Law, we have failed. 

When we have come to the end of that, then He shows us that in the Holy Spirit we have the power of obedience, the power of victory, and the power of real holiness. 


God works to will, and He is ready to work to do, but, alas! many Christians misunderstand this. 

They think because they have the will, it is enough, and that now they are able to do. 


This is not so. 

The new will is a permanent gift, an attribute of the new nature. 

The power to do is not a permanent gift, but must be each moment received from the Holy Spirit.  


The man who is conscious of his own impotence as a believer will learn that by the Holy Spirit, he can live a holy life.

This man is on the brink of that great deliverance; the way has been prepared for the glorious.


I now ask this solemn question: 

Where are you living? 

Is it with you, 

"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me? with now and then a little experience of the power of the Holy Spirit? 

Or is it, 

"I thank God through Jesus Christ! The law of the Spirit hath set me free from the law of sin and of death"?


What the Holy Spirit does is to give the victory. 

"If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds  of the flesh, ye shall live."

The Holy Spirit does this - the third Person of the Godhead. 


When the heart is opened wide to receive Him, He comes in and reigns there, and mortifies the deeds of the body, day by day, hour by hour, and moment by moment.  


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