The following is from Knight of Faith, Volume II, a collection of Norman Grubb's personal correspondence. This is what he replied to one writer who corresponded with him:
"As to your Colossians 2.11 question, the body is beautiful of course, God's holy temple, and so with all our human equipment of appetites, abilities, emotions, etc. They are God's only means of Self-manifestation.
"It's putting off the body as agents of 'the sins of the flesh' which Paul speaks of, under the symbol of circumcision, meaning our bodies and flesh faculties and appetites being cut off in Christ's death from being owned and managed by that 'spirit of error' who made us expressions of his lusts (John 8.44); so now our bodies are freed to be the temples of the Holy Spirit.
"Being in this flesh-oriented world, we are always open to enticements thru our flesh, and sometimes slip momentarily into response to them; but they never again possess or have dominion over us.
"So we are 'not in the flesh' in the sense of under its old lusting dominion, but are in the flesh (usually spoken of as 'members of Christ') for His Self-manifestation thru us."
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