Section 8
Praise the Lord that our history does not stop with the creation and the fall! We have been saved and regenerated, born again. When Nicodemus thought that being born again was to enter into his mother's womb and to be born, the Lord Jesus answered that to be born again is to be born of the Spirit: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6). Thus, to be born again means to be born of God (John 1:13). Hallelujah, a third person, even God Himself, has been born in us! With this divine person we have the divine life.
The first person, the human person, is our being, our self. This person is in our soul, which is represented by our mind. The life of this per son is primarily in the mind. The second person, the satanic person, is in our body, that is, in our flesh. But praise the Lord that the third person, the divine person, is in our spirit! As we all know, man has three parts: a spirit, a soul, and a body. In our soul we have the human person, in our body we have the satanic person, and in our spirit we have the divine person. How wonderful!
Christians are complicated. When I was young, I was taught that believers have two natures: an old nature and a new nature. Later I learned that this understanding is not adequate. Every genu ine Christian has three persons with three lives. God, Satan, and the self are all in us. Sometimes