The actual mechanics of man’s creation caused man to become a creature of two worlds. Being formed out of the dust of the ground, he is of this earthly realm. He is a temporal, flesh and blood person. When God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, he began to experience the heavenly realm. With the breath of life being the Spirit of God, man experienced the eternal, spiritual essence of life. Through the mysteries of the incarnation, man became a flesh and blood vessel animated by the Spirit of God.

Although man has a corruptible, dishonorable, weak, and natural body, he can experience the incorruptible, glorious, powerful, and spiritual reality of the life of God. His mortality can be swallowed up by God’s immortality. Being set free from the control and influences of the earthly realm, he can experience the life of the heavenly realm. Although clothed in a fleshly tabernacle (2 Cor. 5:1–4), he can be a spiritual being.

The mind of man can be set free from man’s earthly tabernacle. With each believer receiving the Spirit of adoption, whereby he can cry Abba, Father (Rom. 8:15), he can expect fully the redemption of his body. With redemption meaning ransom in full, or riddance, the believer can experience freedom from the earthly house of his tabernacle (2 Cor. 5:1). The believer can be rid of the flesh’s control.

The mind of man can be set free to enable the believer to experience the glorious liberty of the children of God (Rom. 8:21). Man can continually experience the realm of the Spirit unless he falls to the deception that he can direct his life by the exercise of his mind. Being deceived that he is free to make choices for good or evil, man is then forced to live by the choices he makes. The exercise of man’s mind has always produced his hells, has always produced the existence of being controlled by the earthly realm.

Man was created with a free will, but it is not the freedom to choose good or evil. The perception that man’s freedom is the ability to choose good or evil is actually the product of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is not that man cannot choose. He can, but his choices always take him down and away from God.

The events of salvation is the story of what God does for man in spite of man. Man’s intellect, once his glory but now his shame (Phil. 3:19), has such control over him that his mind has to be brought into captivity. The intellect of man not only has to be conquered by Jesus, but man has to be dragged back to God and driven to others to experience the manifestation of Jesus in his life. Jesus Christ is the only way that the exercise of the mind, that which produces evil (John 9:41), can be conquered. Every man must be saved from the contamination of his warped or perverted age, must be saved from the thinking of natural man.

Jesus Christ came to take man to a place of rest, horizontal and passive as opposed to vertical and active, This work of Christ would cause man to fade out of sight until only Christ is seen. The Father has sent his Son into the world of the believer to baptize him with the Holy Spirit. Jesus came to overcome man and to save him from himself thereby giving man a new way of speaking, a new way of seeing, and a new way of thinking.