Section 9
Whenever I am in the spirit, there is no problem with oneness. Both in the church life and in our family life we must be afraid of our minds that are so easily set on the flesh, afraid of the divi sion caused by our dissenting thoughts and opin ions (see Romans 8:6). When we find ourselves thinking critically of others, we need to turn immediately to the Lord in our spirit and pray. We all must learn the lesson of turning to the spirit and staying there.
In the spirit we experience not only Christ as life, but also the Body. In the spirit Christ is both our life personally and the life of the Body. There fore, in the spirit with the divine life and with the Body of Christ, Satan is overcome and even crushed under our feet. He is defeated not by in dividuals, but by the Body.
Never neglect your regenerated spirit, the high tower within you where you may hide from Satan. Whenever you are tempted to argue with your wife or husband, you should run into this tower. Arguments in married life come from the mind assisted by the flesh. Whenever a brother has negative thoughts about his wife, the flesh will try to provoke him to argue with her. This indicates that the flesh is always ready to help the mind in a negative way. What should we do
about this? We should escape into the high tower of our reborn spirit, the place where Satan can not touch us, the place where we enjoy Christ as our life and experience the reality of the Body. When we are in such a place, Satan can do noth ing to us.
It is not difficult to get into the high tower of our spirit. We simply need to call on the name of the Lord Jesus. As long as we stay in our spirit, we have victory over Satan. He is subdued and even crushed under our feet, and we reign over him in Christ as our life. May we all practice stay ing in the high tower of our reborn spirit.
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