Friday, August 19, 2011

Teaching on Spirit, Soul and Body

1 Thess 5:23"And the very God of peace sanctity you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." You are a Spirit being-you have a Soul and you live in a physical Body. Your Body is not the real you. It is the earthly house you live in. One day you will have a Glorified body. Your glorified body will not be subject to sin, sickness or death. It will be Eternal, just like your spirit. With your body you contact the physical world. Your physical body is literally the vehicle that God has given your spirit man to exist in. Your Soul is the intellectual part of you. The social part of you. When God said, "It is not good that man be alone", He was not talking about man's spirit, because God's fellowship and presence was more than enough for man's spirit to be complete and totally satisfied forever. However, because God had made man a tripartite being, he needed other humans to socialize and fellowship with. Now your spirit man is the part of you that needed to be born again. Your Spirit is the part of you that is in direct contact with God. Just as your physical man has a language, so does your spirit man. That heavenly language was lost at Babel, but restored to man at Pentecost in the Upper Room. Zephaniah 3:9 "For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent."  I Cor 14:2 "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries or divine secrets."

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