Him, we must reject our soulish life (our
Him, we must reject our soulish life (our thoughts, our feelings, our desires) and turn to our spirit in order to contact and fellowship with Him. We can never meet Christ by exercis ing the faculties of our soul. Christ is in our spirit, not our soul. Only by using our spirit can we meet Him. Of course, we should not think that the Lord demands that we give up the fac ulties of the mind, emotion, and will. No. The mind, emotion, and will were created by God to be used for His glory. But the Lord's demand is that we give up the corrupted, Adamic mind, emotion, and will as the center of our life and let the life of Christ in our spirit gain control of our being. Our mind, emotion, and will were dam aged to such an extent that the natural man could never contact God or fellowship with Him: "But a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God" (1 Cor. 2:14). This is why we needed the new birth in our spirit (John 3:6-7).
Before salvation we were one hundred percent fallen. We lived in and by this fallen, soulish life, which was absolutely opposed to God. We must learn never to do anything out from this fallen life again, but live entirely by the divine life which is in our spirit. From henceforth we must never take our fallen life in the soul as our source of