His life, the death-life of Christ. As long as I do not know it, I can
not act according to it, though it be in me. Praise God, when a man begins
to see what it is, and begins in obedience to say, "I will do what God's
Word says; I am dead, I reckon myself dead," he enters upon a new life. On
the strength of God's everlasting Word, and your union to Christ, and the
great fact of Calvary, reckon, know yourself as dead indeed unto sin. A man
must see this truth; this is the first step. The second is--he must accept
it in faith. And what then? When he accepts it in faith, then there comes
in him a struggle, and a painful experience, for that faith is still very
feeble, and he begins to ask, "But why, if I am dead to sin, do I commit so
much sin?" And the answer God's Word gives is simply this: You do not allow
the power of that death to be applied by the Holy Spirit. What we need is
to understand that the Holy Spirit came from Heaven, from the glorified
Jesus, to bring His death and His life into us. The two are inseparably
connected. That Christ died, He died unto sin, and that He liveth, He
liveth unto God. The death and the life in Him are inseparable; and even so
in us the life to God in Christ is inseparably connected with the death to
sin. And that is what the Holy Ghost will teach us and work in us. If I
have accepted Christ in faith by the Holy Ghost, and yield myself to
Him, Christ every day keeps possession, and reveals the full power of
my fellowship in His death and life in my heart. To some this comes
undoubtedly in one moment of supreme power and blessing; all at once they
see and accept it, and enter in, and there is death to sin as a Divine
experience. It is not that the tendency to evil is rooted out. No; but the
power of Christ's death keeps from sin, and destroys the power of sin; the
power of Christ's death can be manifested in the Holy Spirit's unceasingly
mortifying the deeds of the body.

Some one asks me if there is still growth needed. Undoubtedly. By the Holy
Spirit a man can now begin to live and grow, deeper and deeper, into the
fellowship of Christ's death. New things are discovered by him in spheres
of which he never thought. A man may at times be filled with the Holy
Ghost, and yet there may be great imperfections in him. Why? For this
reason: because his heart, perhaps, had not been fully prepared by a
complete discovery of sin. There may be pride, or self-consciousness, or
forwardness, or ot