Section 9
bring God into us and He is going through death and resurrection to bring us into God. Both tran spire in our spirit. As far as our spirit is con cerned, God has been brought into us by the Lord's coming, and we have been brought into God by the Lord's going. Yet, as far as our phys ical body is concerned, we are still here on this earth. In our spirit we have been joined to some thing heavenly, spiritual, and eternal, but in our body we are still on the earth. In our spirit the Lord has brought God into us (2 Tim. 4:22) and us into God, in our spirit we are one with God (1 Cor. 6:17), and in our spirit we are in the heavenlies because we are in God. But in our body we are still on earth. As far as our regen erated spirit is concerned, we are no longer the old creation; we are the new creation. However, as far as our body is concerned, we are still in the old creation and on the earth. On one hand, we are the new creation, we are in God, and we are in the heavenlies. This is true, and this is a reality. On the other hand, we are still in the old creation, still on this earth.
Although we have the divine life and have be come the church, we are still living in this fallen flesh on the earth. Through the earthly touch we are often dirty. This is inevitable, for we cannot