Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CAMBRIDGE AND OTHER SERMONS
- I THE PROBATION OF THE JEWS BY THE LIGHT
- II THE REVELATION TO THE SHEPHERDS
- III THE KING EXPECTED AND FOUND
- IV GOD MAKING ALL THINGS NEW
- V ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
- VI MAN VISITED BY GOD
- VII THE CHURCH AND ITS MEMBERS
- VIII BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION
- IX THE DISCOVERY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SIN
- X SELF-RESTRAINT THE CONDITION OF MASTERY
- XI [REASONABLE SERVICE]
- XII CHRIST'S LOVE AND OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER SHOWN IN HIS PREPARATION FOR DEATH
- XIII THE PEACE OF CHRIST AND THE PEACE OF THE WORLD
- XIV THE CONQUEROR FROM EDOM
- XV NEWNESS OF LIFE (A CONFIRMATION SERMON)
- XVI FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION THE FOUNDATION OF ENDURING WORK
- XVII THE PERPETUAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST
- XVIII THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH
- XIX VICTORY OVER THE WORLD
- XX THE DESIRE OF THE FLESH NOT THE DESIRE OF THE MAN
- XXI THE BATTLE OF SPIRIT AND FLESH, AND THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
- XXII [THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT OF GOD] (A HARVEST FESTIVAL SERMON)
- XXIII THE EVANGELIST A PHYSICIAN
- XXIV ALL THINGS OF, THROUGH, AND TO GOD
XXI - THE BATTLE OF SPIRIT AND FLESH, AND THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CAMBRIDGE AND OTHER SERMONS
- I THE PROBATION OF THE JEWS BY THE LIGHT
- II THE REVELATION TO THE SHEPHERDS
- III THE KING EXPECTED AND FOUND
- IV GOD MAKING ALL THINGS NEW
- V ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
- VI MAN VISITED BY GOD
- VII THE CHURCH AND ITS MEMBERS
- VIII BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION
- IX THE DISCOVERY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SIN
- X SELF-RESTRAINT THE CONDITION OF MASTERY
- XI [REASONABLE SERVICE]
- XII CHRIST'S LOVE AND OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER SHOWN IN HIS PREPARATION FOR DEATH
- XIII THE PEACE OF CHRIST AND THE PEACE OF THE WORLD
- XIV THE CONQUEROR FROM EDOM
- XV NEWNESS OF LIFE (A CONFIRMATION SERMON)
- XVI FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION THE FOUNDATION OF ENDURING WORK
- XVII THE PERPETUAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST
- XVIII THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH
- XIX VICTORY OVER THE WORLD
- XX THE DESIRE OF THE FLESH NOT THE DESIRE OF THE MAN
- XXI THE BATTLE OF SPIRIT AND FLESH, AND THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
- XXII [THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT OF GOD] (A HARVEST FESTIVAL SERMON)
- XXIII THE EVANGELIST A PHYSICIAN
- XXIV ALL THINGS OF, THROUGH, AND TO GOD
Summary
“I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
—Gal. v. 16, 17.On Sunday last I tried to bring before you part of the meaning of these verses, and especially of the 16th verse. I pointed out that, when St. Paul said to the Galatians, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh,” he must have believed that in some way or other the Galatians wished not to fulfil the lust of the flesh, and therefore would be glad to learn how they might avoid fulfilling it: that they were indeed, as St. Paul's own language shows, fleshly enough in their acts, but still that their truest and inmost selves desired not to fulfil the desire of the flesh. I said that St. Paul's faith in this better mind of the Galatians sprung partly from the faith and spirituality which he had himself formerly seen in some of them, but still more from the knowledge that they were all men created in the image of God Himself, redeemed with the blood of His Son, and worked upon by His Holy Spirit within them: and further that all Christian preachers have a right, in thinking of and speaking to their own congregations, to act upon the faith which encouraged St. Paul when he was writing to the Galatians, since we too are born of the same family, and baptized into the same Church as they were.
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- Cambridge and Other Sermons , pp. 233 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1898