But, admitting in the fullest manner the truth of all this, it leaves wholly untouched the solemn and sweeping statement of the inspired apostle that, "they that are in the flesh cannot please God." There _must_ be a new standing altogether, and this new standing cannot be reached by any change in the old nature--by any doings or formalities, feelings, ordinances of religion, prayers, alms or sacraments. Do what you will with nature and it is nature still. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh;" and do what you will with flesh you cannot make it spirit. There must be a new life--a life flowing from the new man, the last Adam, who has become, in resurrection, the Head of a new race. How is this most precious life to be had? Hear the memorable answer--hear it, anxious reader, hear it and live. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, _hath_ everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but _is passed_ from death unto life" (John v. 24). Here we have a total change of standing; a passing from death to life; from a position in which there is not so much as a single link with heaven, with the new creation, with the risen Man in glory, into a position in which there is not a single link with the first man, with the old creation, and this present evil world. And all this is through believing on the Son of God--not _saying_ we believe, but really, truly, heartily, believing on the Son of God; not by a mere intellectual faith, but believing with the heart. Thus only does any one become A MAN IN CHRIST.