There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

are blamed on the devil. In reality, however, it may not be the devil—it may be you! The real enemy is often our inner me , or the internal carnal man versus the spiritual man. Paul wrote of our bodies being sown “a natural body” and raised “a spiritual body” when speaking of the future resurrection (1 Cor. 15:44). Among the Greeks, the natural man referred to the soul of a man, consisting of the five senses that received outward information and processed it into the natural man. The spiritual man is the inner spirit that gives man his consciousness of God and eternity. The Spirit world is invisible yet real and eternal in nature. John 4:24 reads in the Greek, “God is spirit.” We know “angels are spirits” (Heb. 1:7) and all humans have a spirit (Heb. 12:23). Thus we have a physical body with an eternal spirit, which, if it departed from our body, would have the same basic form and appearance of our physical body, just like Moses’s appearance on the Mount of Transfiguration fifteen hundred years after his death (Deut. 34:5–6; Matt. 17:2–3). The fact is, you have a twin that lives within you—the inner you (2 Cor. 4:16), or what I call the inner me . That inner me can become spiritual or carnal; it can attempt to walk a tight rope between the carnal and spirit realms. These twins continually clash and create internal conflicts. There is a struggle between obedience and disobedience, between walking in light and in darkness, and desiring to do right and the desire to sin. Paul described the struggle between the inward man and the outward flesh man in these words: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good