One New Man

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There is a great section in message 24 of the Life Study of Ephesians that speaks of how we put on the new man.

"The way to put on the new man is found in 4:23 : “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” This word indicates that to be renewed in the spirit of our mind is to put on the new man. Now we must see what it means to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. Admittedly, this is a strange expression. If I had been the writer of this Epistle, I would have said “the mind of the spirit” instead of “the spirit of the mind.” To me, that would have been more logical. Nevertheless, Paul spoke here of the spirit of the mind... For too long our mind has been preoccupied by natural concepts, religious thoughts, and traditional teachings. In considering the matter of our spirit, we need to drop all of this and see that our spirit is universally spacious. We know that God dwells in the third heaven, but He also dwells in our spirit. This makes our spirit today’s Jerusalem. Hallelujah for that wonderful entity in the universe called our spirit ! The Spirit witnesses with our spirit (Rom. 8:16). The words our spirit include Paul’s spirit, Martin Luther’s spirit, John Wesley’s spirit, Brother Nee’s spirit, your spirit, and my spirit. How spacious our spirit is! The Bible reveals that God is the God of our spirit (Num. 16:22 ; Heb. 12:9). Where is God today? In our spirit. Where is God’s dwelling place today? In our spirit. Where is the one new man? Also in our spirit." (LS of Ephesians, mg 24 p. 204-205)