Consider Ephesians 2:1. When the described in this verse happens, the inner or spirit man becomes alive in Christ. The curse of the Law is broken, freeing and empowering us to obey Christ.
Yet, It is being actively taught by some, “Obey your spirit man.”
Rather, we must obey Christ the Holy Spirit, the One who fills us as new creations in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17).
What’s at stake? Treating the spirit(ual) man^ (even though acknowledging it is alive through the Spirit) as if it were a point of consultation that we can control and communicate with risks idolatry of self.
Our minds, when yielded to the Holy Spirit, live within the revelations gifted to us in the inner man.
How is this “living” done? By communing with Christ. In this, we understand we consult a Person (Proverbs 3:6). Slipping from this understanding, we forget that taking inventory of the “inner man”, while a process not divorced from our own mental processes, is not possible without the living direction of the divine Presence of Christ, Whom we worship while “judging ourselves aright”. Without this dynamism, a virus enters into our own thinking, and we misguidedly claim (at the least) or pridefully assert (at the worst) custodianship of the spirit man.
If such a virus penetrates our thinking, it cannot infect the spirit man, for that is where the Holy Spirit abides, and “in Him is [only] light” (1 John 1:5).
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^ “spirit man”
Yet, It is being actively taught by some, “Obey your spirit man.”
Rather, we must obey Christ the Holy Spirit, the One who fills us as new creations in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17).
What’s at stake? Treating the spirit(ual) man^ (even though acknowledging it is alive through the Spirit) as if it were a point of consultation that we can control and communicate with risks idolatry of self.
Our minds, when yielded to the Holy Spirit, live within the revelations gifted to us in the inner man.
How is this “living” done? By communing with Christ. In this, we understand we consult a Person (Proverbs 3:6). Slipping from this understanding, we forget that taking inventory of the “inner man”, while a process not divorced from our own mental processes, is not possible without the living direction of the divine Presence of Christ, Whom we worship while “judging ourselves aright”. Without this dynamism, a virus enters into our own thinking, and we misguidedly claim (at the least) or pridefully assert (at the worst) custodianship of the spirit man.
If such a virus penetrates our thinking, it cannot infect the spirit man, for that is where the Holy Spirit abides, and “in Him is [only] light” (1 John 1:5).
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^ “spirit man”
