Being a spiritual person by fixing the mind on the Spirit (Part 1)
The Bible says to be carnal minded is to be in enmity with God. To be carnal minded is the lowest level of living. In other words, in a carnally minded person, flesh is the boss of his being and the flesh works in tandem with the soul i.e. mind takes over the spirit. When the flesh shows the symptoms of pain, which might be unbearable, it leads the mind to receive signals of pain and fear from the flesh.
Eventually, the flesh and mind become one unit and take over the spirit of that man which becomes weaker and weaker. Hence the person walking in the dictates of flesh becomes a carnally minded person and brings upon himself death.
On the other hand, a spiritually-minded person walks in the light of the spirit, overtaking the flesh and the mind. Hence Romans 8:6 says, “for to be carnally minded is death….” For example, when the flesh shows symptoms of severe pain due to cancer or any other deadly disease, then a spiritually-minded person will not allow the flesh and mind to take over.
In other words, our spirit is working in tandem with soul (mind) and takes over the body. In such situations when our spirit works in tandem with our Soul (mind), we should say, “I am made in the image and likeness of God, therefore I am healed and restored.” Our spirit working in tandem with soul should declare that it is written that my body is the temple of Holy Spirit and cannot be made into a den of robbers. (1 Corinthians 3:16, Matthew 21:13) Hence our spirit and mind suppress the fleshly dictate and in turn, dictates to the flesh which is nullified and the spirit man totally takes over.
