This is a kind of philosophical discussion based off of some of what I talked about last Sunday in this post and prompted from conversations I had with my Mom & Dad Friday.

We have various enemies that we struggle against, or as Paul instructs, stand against for Christ already has won the victory. These enemies are Sin, the World and the Enemy (Satan and his lesser Fallen Angels). The World is somewhat impersonal, it is just there and we live in it. I have some thoughts; kind of philosophical on that but we will get to them later. Now I’m going to talk about Sin.

Sin is of like kind to Demons. They are both spiritual entities and in rebellion to God. Sin is the rebellion of our dead selves, of our dead flesh that during our life here on earth houses our minds, the battlefield that the flesh and the spirit contend over. Sin, is our former selves and that former self has an identity, it has a personhood amalgamation that has weight and substance here on earth. It may even be a true person but I am not sure. I think it is like a snake skin in some ways. It looks like a person but it is no longer filled with substance, with the actuality of being a person. The true person has been reborn and like the snake that is wiggling out of our dead covering, we Christians are wiggling out of our dead selves with the help of the Holy Spirit.

This sin that resides in our flesh is a spiritual thing. It is of the spirit realm, born of the spirit of death that we were condemned to when Adam ate of the apple. We birthed it into place and grew it into a force as we lived our lives, sinning every day and being in agreement with that sin. That sin nature, that sin person, before we accept Jesus, IS us. We are it and it is us! Oh! How wonderful God is to have given his Son for the redemption of that person. You’re probably going “Huh? That doesn’t make any sense!” Yes it does. Let me explain.

A person is made up of 3 parts: Minds, Body and Spirit. Each IS the other Just as each is separate. God has 3 parts likewise, Mind (God) Body (Jesus) and Spirit (Holy Spirit). They are 3 persons, person-hoods and they are both the same and separate. It is a great mystery. We are as they are also. So before we are saved, before we except Jesus as our savior, our 3 persons that are one, are the Flesh, the Mind and the Spirit of Sin. It is a spirit that is death. And like God, each is separate and the same. So in that state we ARE sin and as such our identity is Sin as much as it is Mind and Flesh.

However a great change occurs when we are saved, a great work is started and will be completed. Through accepting Jesus as our savior, accepting the Gift of salvation and redemption, the integral tie between our Mind and our Spirit of Sin is torn asunder, it is ripped apart just as the curtain between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies in the Temple was ripped apart when Jesus died, the moment Jesus died on the cross. When that occurs, our Mind is not directly connected to that Spirit of Sin anymore, now it is a new creature, a new creation because our Mind is directly connected to the Spirit of Righteousness that is birthed by God through Christ’s redemption. It is a NEW creation a NEW creature.

But our Spirit of Sin does not go away, it still lingers because it is connected to our flesh and our Mind still resides in our Flesh. This means that the Spirit of Sin can influence our Mind via the flesh. However the Spirit of Righteousness directly influences our Mind because it is directly connected. God is the greatest, there is nothing greater and because the Spirit of Righteousness is a child of God, we also are a Child of God. He is our father because of the birth pains of Jesus’ tribulations, death and resurrection.

So as a Christian, one thing we do is work out our salvation in our flesh. We do this via obedience, faith, prayer, taking dominion and deliverance to name a few of those things we understand. The Flesh is of the world and Sin our former self still has a legitimate tie to that flesh. We are working out our salvation because God through his grace to us has started it, has made us new but we, as yet, do not have our holy body, our redeemed body that is the Body of like kind to Jesus’ resurrected body. It is Sin’s body that we must take dominion over because for the moment, we live in it.

What does this mean for us though as Christians? It means that Sin is truly a foreign intruder into our mind. It has no RIGHTS to our mind at all and as such we have full authority over it through the authority of Jesus Christ over all creation. Sin is a created thing, corrupted but created. Jesus has authority and dominion over all creation.

So, why do Christians still cling to sin? Why do they think it IS their nature? It is NOT! It is a LIE! Sin is not you who are redeemed, it is the enemy and it is the first enemy Christ defeated. You have the victory already because Christ has the Victory.

Praise God who has torn asunder our self, the very being of worldly Flesh, Mind and Spirit of Sin. Thank you Lord, who started a good work in me by making me a new creation of worldly Flesh, Mind and Spirit of Righteousness and of Christ. What God has started he will see to completion. Thank you Jesus for the redemption and the promise of a Body of Perfection, holy and of you.