_SPECIAL TEXT: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall he: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." (I John iii:2, 3.)_ DISCUSSION. _1. The Spiritual Man Contrasted with the Natural:_ If it shall be asked what it is that constitutes the difference between the natural man and the spiritual man, the answer, though necessarily brief, can take on various forms; but in the last analysis it will be found to consist in one thing: One has been "born again"--"born of the Spirit;" the other has not. One has received the Holy Ghost; the other has not. One has the power to "know that Jesus is the Christ," the other has no such power.[A] [Footnote A: "No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost." I Cor. xii:3.] The body of one is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in him, which he has of God, and he is God's, in body and in Spirit;[A] the other is in no such relationship to God. [Footnote A: I Cor. vi:19, 20.] One through aceptance of the atonement of the Christ has "access by one Spirit unto the Father,"[A] the other has not. [Footnote A: Ephesians ii:18, and context.] One is "strengthened with might by his [God's] spirit in the inner man,"[A] the other is not. [Footnote A: Ibid iii:16.] One has received the sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth;[A] the other has not. [Footnote A: II Thess. ii:13.] One knows that he dwells in God and God in him, because God hath given him of his Spirit;[A] the other has no such witness. [Footnote A: I John iv:13.] One is under "the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus," is made "free from the law of sin and death;" the other is not; "for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; for to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."