6294	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Romans and the Flesh Monster.	on: June 07, 2008, 02:06:50 PM
The inner man is a creation of the new call. We have been called to Him alone. The inner man has the new life defenses and creates an entirely secure soul. These secure understandings are the call of the Holy Spirit to a new way of thinking. As we grow in our understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit speaking to us in the word, we are shielded from the arrows of the enemy and we are secure in the communications of the Spirit. All of the personality traits of the whole man are renewed and not a product of outward intervention. The call of the new man is always from the inner man.  There fore we have a new way of thinking by that continuous work of recreation. And we long to be growing in His grace by that work. So that we think in the opposite way of the world ,flesh and the devil. Our way of resting is the way of war, and the sense of protection, and the way of meditation. As we deepen the inner man, the sense of protection is a strong conviction that there is no love of idols that we long for more than Him. As our mind is being transformed we are expanding our love for Him in the inner man, and we are longing to be like Him in our entire frame of disposition. Then we have a strong sense of the complications that are involved in this battle. We must think rite at all times so that we do not entertain idols. Because we have a very strong double mindedness in having a love of those things that are not of value in eternal world , and we feed the flesh and create a strong battle with those who belong to Satan.  If we have a rest from our being transformed then we will decline that much more by our level of understanding. Since the forces of the old  are grow stronger in our being stronger in Him. Temptation is stronger by the natural working of the worlds declension in our declining. There is a sense in which we are fighting by His word and His way , and we are watching Him in our position of refuge in Him. When we lose heart and turn back then we begin to feel the self awareness of the old life. Our struggles increase since we have feel alone in the sense of our falling into the old self awareness. A sense of Him being distant and the calls of the inner man are faint. This is when we struggle intensely with this lack of peace, since we have taken on the old awareness of our pride.