Ver. 24. _Crucifying the Flesh._ +I. What is meant by being Christ's.+--It is to accept of and have an interest in Christ in His prophetic, kingly, and sacerdotal offices. By His prophetic office we come to know His will; by His kingly office, ruling and governing us, we come to yield obedience to that will; and by His sacerdotal or priestly office we come to receive the fruit of that obedience in our justification. +II. What is meant by the flesh.+--The whole entire body of sin and corruption; that inbred proneness in our nature to all evil, expressed by concupiscence. 1. _It is called flesh because of its situation and place, which is principally in the flesh._ 2. _Because of its close, inseparable nearness to the soul._ 3. _Because of its dearness to us._ Sin is our darling, our Delilah, the queen-regent of our affections; it fills all our thoughts, engrosses our desires, and challenges the service of all our actions. This reveals: (1) The deplorable state of fallen man. (2) The great difficulty of the duty of mortification. (3) The mean and sordid employment of every sinner--he serves the flesh. +III. What is imported by the crucifixion of the flesh.+--1. _The death of it._ He that will crucify his sin must pursue it to the very death. 2. _A violent death._ Sin never dies of age. The conquest need be glorious, for it will be found by sharp experience that the combat will be dangerous. 3. _A painful, bitter, and vexatious death._ 4. _A shameful and cursed death._ +IV. The duty of crucifying the flesh.+--1. _A constant and pertinacious denying it in all its cravings for satisfaction._ 2. _Encounter it by actions of the opposite virtue.--Robert South._ Ver. 25. _Life and Walk in the Spirit._--Life relates to what is inward, walk to what is outward. +I. To live in the Spirit.+--1. The Spirit begins the life of God in the soul. 2. The Spirit gives new desires and changes all the motives of life. 3. The Spirit lives in us. +II. To walk in the Spirit.+--1. The walk will follow from the life, for every kind of life is after its own kind and development. 2. Every outward manifestation will correspond to the inward principle of life and will be marked by love to God and love to man. 3. Reputation will correspond to character and conduct to life. +III. To be led by the Spirit.+--1. The Christian's life is a growth, his walk a progress; but he is led and guided by the Spirit. 2. No new revelation is made by the Spirit. He leads and guides by what is written in the Word. +IV. Learn our relations to the Spirit.+--1. We live under the Spirit's dispensation. 2. He is the Spirit of God, and so of life, truth, and authority. 3. He is the Spirit of Christ, and so unites us to Him. 4. If we live by the Spirit, let conversation and conduct be answerable thereunto.--_Homiletic Monthly._ _Walking in the Spirit--_