Section 9
within us, in our spirit. This living One, Christ as the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit, is the very "Me" in whom we are to abide.
MINDING THE SPIRIT
How can we abide in Him? Romans 8:6 points the way: "For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace." Because the divine Spirit is mingled with our spirit, it is difficult to say whether the spirit in this verse refers to our spirit or to the divine Spirit. The spirit here is the mingled spirit. As verse 16 says, "The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit."
Opposed to this wonderful, mingled spirit is the flesh, our corrupted body. In the body orig inally created by God there was no sinful ele ment; on the contrary, the human body was pure and sinless. Through the fall, however, Satan, the evil one, injected himself as sin into man's body. This happened when man took into him the fruit of the tree of knowledge. After Satan entered into man's body, the body was contaminated and pol luted and thereby became the flesh. Therefore, our spirit is mingled with the Triune God, and our body, which has become the flesh, is mixed with the sinful element of Satan.