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Study Resources :: Text Commentaries :: F.E. Marsh :: Readings 151-200 (Found - Inclusiveness)
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F.E. Marsh :: 153. Four “If So Be's”

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  1. Indwelling. “If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you” (Rom. 8:9). “If so be.” Ah! here we have the secret, the test of the whole matter. If a man lives after the flesh, whatever colour it may assume, it is because he is self-centred, self-controlled, and self-aiming; but if a man lives after the spirit, in all the instincts of that holy nature, it is because the Spirit of God, in His consecrating love, controlling grace, and conforming power, lives in him.
  2. Resurrection. The apostle, by the Holy Spirit, in speaking of the result if Christ is not raised from the dead, says, “We are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not” (1 Cor. 15:15). It is a proof that Christ is not raised from the dead if the dead rise not.
  3. Love for the Word. Again, we find the words, “if so be” in relation to the Christian life. One result of Christ in the life is a love for the Word of God, and this love for the Word is an evidence that we know the Lord of the Word. As Peter says, “As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word…if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious” (1 Peter 2:2-3).
  4. Suffering. We read in Romans 8:17: “And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we also may be glorified together.” The goal of glory is by the path of suffering, and there is no glory but by this path. From the use of the words it will be gathered that the secret of the believer being able to rise above the flesh is found in the indwelling presence of the Spirit of God; and if a professed believer does not walk according to the Spirit, it is because he has not the Holy Spirit; hence he does not belong to the Lord Jesus, however loud his profession may be.
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