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3. God as Our life versus Our Self

God as our life is versus our self.

4. The New Man versus Our Old Man

Furthermore, the new man is versus our old man.

5. The Sense of Peace Being the Issue
of Walking and Living by the Divine Life

When we walk and live by the divine life in our new man, we have the sense of peace, feeling natural, restful, comfortable, and at ease.

6. By Such a Sense of Peace
We Know That We Are Living in the Spirit

When we have the inner sense of peace with the feeling of comfort, harmony, rest, joy, and liberty, we know that we are living in the spirit.

D. By the Sense of Death

1. Death Being the Issue of Our Flesh,
including Our Old Man

Romans 8:6 says, "The mind set on the flesh is death." The flesh includes our old man. Death is the issue of our flesh, including our old man.

2. Death Being the Opposite of
Both Life and Peace

Romans 8:6 shows us that death is the opposite of both life and peace. The mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

3. The Negative Senses of Death

Death gives us the senses of oldness, dryness, weakness, emptiness, depression, desolation, darkness, dullness, uneasiness, insecurity, discomfort, unnaturalness, sadness, conflict, etc.

4. By Such Negative Senses,
We Know That We Are Not in the Spirit

When we have such negative senses, we are sensing death. By such negative senses, we know that we are not in the spirit.


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