Christ indwelling our spirit. Between the in

Christ indwelling our spirit. Between the in dwelling sin and the indwelling Spirit stands our mind, which represents ourselves. Romans 7:25 says, "So then with the mind I myself serve as a slave the law of God." Please pay careful atten tion to the words "…with the mind I myself…." These words indicate that the mind is our repre sentative; it is our very self. When Paul said that with the mind he was serving the law of God, he meant that he himself was trying to keep the law, endeavoring to please God by obeying the law. In attempting to fulfill the requirements of the law, the mind was doing something good, but it was acting independently.

Romans 8:6 gives us another view of the mind: "For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace." We have seen clearly that Satan as sin dwells in our flesh and that Christ as the life-giving Spirit dwells in our spirit. If we make up our mind to do good, the indwelling sin in our flesh will be activated and will defeat us. The law of sin will war against the law of our mind and make us captive in the law of sin in our members (7:23). Thus, we need the revelation of sin in our flesh and of Christ in our spirit. Then we need to see that as indepen dent persons we cannot deal with the sin in our

flesh. In order to deal with this, we need to call on the very Lord Jesus who dwells in our spirit and keep our mind set on the spirit. This is not a matter of following a method but of touching a living Person. Time and time again we need to say, "Amen, Lord Jesus, I love You." When we do this, the indwelling sin is subdued, and Christ becomes everything to us. The Lord Jesus is then wrought into our being to permeate and satu rate us with Himself. This is what it means to be sanctified, transformed, and conformed to the image of Christ. This is the experience of abid ing in Christ by minding the mingled spirit, as revealed in Romans 8.

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