What is the Purpose of the Man of Sin
Rom 8:12-14 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom
8:1,2 There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of sin and death.
Maturity is the ability to hear the voice of the spirit, to understand and obey. A mature soul has the ability to merge with our spirit and to become as one.
As God draws you to hear His Voice and to obey what He tells you, you will be able to discern the lies and deception of your Man of Sin as he tries to pull you contrary to what the Spirit of God is speaking. Only the Holy Spirit can lead you on a Path of Perfection to maturity for that is what Jesus sent Him to you for.
John 14:16,17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Joh 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John 16:13,14 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
The resident Man of Sin that lives in you hides in darkness, doing battle with your soul and blinding the eyes of those who are lost.
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
When your soul can see the image of the christ that lives in you, you can become like that image that you see!
1Jn 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
What Does This Process of Learning to Overcome Your Man of Sin Look Like?
After
Salvation (and in our case, the Baptism in the Holy
Spirit), the first part of learning to battle
against our man of sin was actually being anointed
to become aware of Christ's Presence in us. We came
to it by different paths, but both of us were shown
that God is Alive in
us regardless of whatever situations and
circumstances we encounter and that He
will never leave us, nor forsake us. It is
one thing to have head knowledge of this. It is
quite another for it to become reality to your
soul. Over time, we learned God's Presence is
always available to us, day or night.
We can hear His voice and follow him daily.
This awareness is a necessary change in your
understanding.
The next step seemed to be the recognizing that we have a personal man of sin and are in battle with him daily. He never stops, not even when we sleep. Unless you can learn to recognize the originator of the voice you hear in your head, you assume it is you, but is it God or you or your man of sin or your spirit speaking? You would be shocked to realize that some of the words that come from your mouth originate from your man of sin!
Once you recognize him,
the next step is to learn
to take dominion over him. Your man of
sin is a defeated foe because Jesus Christ
defeated him on the cross. You do have dominion
over him but it is a delegated dominion that
belongs to Christ. He is The Overcomer. You are
an overcomer as you learn to live and walk in
Him. So as you
learn to walk in the spirit, you also learn to
overcome your man of sin.
“By the simple act of hearing and obeying, you become enabled by My Holy Spirit to gain a better comprehension of who you are, where you are and what’s in your future. Old concepts are ripped apart and new ones take their place in your thought process. ”
This is a simplistic explanation of a very complex process because it involves the maturation of your soul and that doesn't happen over night. The Holy Spirit has taught us these basic concepts over time and as we learn the Truth of what He is teaching us and how it fits with the other concepts He is teaching us, we grow in understanding, but it is a step-by-step learning, growing and changing process of being led by the spirit.