Section 7
to us. When we stay with Him in our spirit, we are protected within a high tower, and the evil one cannot touch us.
We are either in the spirit or in the flesh. There is no third place for us to be. Whenever we are out of the spirit, we are spontaneously in our flesh, where Satan dwells as sin.
ABIDING IN CHRIST
Do not try in yourself to overcome Satan. The writings of Mrs. Penn-Lewis regarding the war fare with Satan were not wrong, but they placed too much emphasis on the negative aspect. Mrs. Penn-Lewis said that the way to overcome Satan is by seeing that we have been crucified with Christ on the cross. According to the New Testament, it is a fact that through the cross Christ has destroyed the Devil (Heb. 2:14). Nev ertheless, the more we try to cross out our flesh, the more active and living our flesh becomes. What Mrs. Penn-Lewis saw was mainly on the negative side—the matter of reckoning ourselves dead. She saw very little, if any, on the positive side. Overcoming Satan is not a matter of mak ing up our mind to put our flesh on the cross; it is a matter of seeing that the very Christ who is life to us is now in our spirit and then of seeing