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Kat:

Hi Rick, yes you are starting to put it together.

2Cor 10:5  Casting down imaginations G3053, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Here is what Strong's concordance has on that word.
G3053 logismos - computation, that is, (figuratively) reasoning (conscience, conceit): - imagination, thought.

It's our reasoning and that is pretty much what our will/ego is. It is the Holy Spirit indwelling that motivates us to bring our ego into check, to begin to get our will in line with God.

John 14:26  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

We normally have no desire to subdue the ego, why there are numerous book out that teach we must first love ourselves... self is the beast in all it's carnality, it is worldliness. That is the opposite of what the Scripture say.

1John 2:15  Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
v. 16  because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

So the Holy Spirit is helping us, the inward man/woman, so teaching us from within how to overcome these selfish tendencies.

Eph 3:16  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

2Cor 4:16  Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

The "I must decrease" (John 3:30), that is old self of lust and carnality, as Paul put it "O wretched man."

Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

But we are not losing self completely, we are not to become robots with no will of our own, we shall still have our personality and imagination. We are just being renewed in our minds/will, being conformed or transformed to be like Christ's righteousness.

Eph 4:22  that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
v. 23  and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
v. 24  and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Col 3:9  Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds
v. 10  and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
v. 11  where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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