God longs to walk in relationship with His children. It is His will to make us whole spirit, soul, and body!
Spirit Soul & Body The Five States of Mankind
1 Perfect Man
2 Fallen Man
3 Born again Man
4 Apostate Man
5 Redemption’s Completion
The first half of this series is teaching on the spirit, soul, and body of man. As listed above there are five states of man in regard to spirit, soul, and body and man’s relationship with a the Holy God.
Some have never consider these truths so they have not rightly divided as the scriptures clearly do.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The word of God is living and powerful; stop, pause, consider the truth of the word of God. So sharp is the word of God it can pierce between the spirit, soul, and body of a man. Note the active agent of the word of God works on the man. This is intimacy with God. Reading the word and hearing the word brings change to the man. Being born again brings perfection to your spirit, and it begins the process in your soul and body.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When you begin to look for the truths dividing between spirit, soul, and body you find the new covenant replete with the truth. This passage showing the desire of God to make the whole being of man blameless. Notice it is God Himself doing the sanctifying completely. Trust in the God who is doing the work in you.
John 4:23 "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
Jesus was speaking words of revelation that were never spoken before to the Samaritan woman. It is not on the mount where Samaria worshipped nor in the place where the Jews worshipped; the time has come for true worshippers to worship in spirit and in truth. Our connection to the Father is Spirit to spirit and there is no other way to worship. The fact of the matter is the Father is seeking you out. He wants you, His desire is for you!
1. The spirit of man is where life is breathed into man.
2. The soul is the where the will, intellect and emotions of man reside.
3. The body is the shell the outward part of man. It is what other men see of you.
4. The true you is revealed by the condition of your spirit and soul
There have only been 2 men of all creation that were created without sin. When God created the 1st Adam he was perfectly joined with God spirit, soul, and body. His heart, mind, and will was in complete harmony with God. The next man that came in perfection was the man Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
God created Adam and Eve and blessed them giving them dominion over all the earth. Adam and Eve had perfect fellowship and daily communion with God.
1 Corinthians 15:44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
The first Adam was a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. The first Adam was of the earth, made of dust. The second Man is the Lord from heaven! The man was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. Wow, here the word is calling believers heavenly being. It time to arise and believe the word of God over our traditions! We are heavenly men Ephesians 2 declares we have been seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5:17 declares us to be new creations in Christ Jesus. Old things have past away and behold all things have become new. It is time we gain heavens perspective and live from it. If you are born again you are a new creation the old is gone; don’t lay claim to it! The new has come lay claim to it!
2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Jesus the second Adam came and traded. He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Christ in you the hope of glory; what a trade!
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
The second Adam became our High Priest who can sympathize with our weaknesses. He cares about what you go though and sympathizes with where our heart is at; yet He was without sin. His sacrifice is so great we can come into God’s presence boldly at our very hour of need.
1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Your redemption is wrought with heaven's greatest commodity, the blood of Jesus! You have great worth to God; proof is in the price He paid to have fellowship with you. Behold the Lamb! The Lamb of God alone is the qualifier to bring you to God. There is no other qualifier; the object of your faith must be Jesus alone!
Genesis 2:7 And the LOR D God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The LOR D God planted a garden eastward in Eden , and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LOR D God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Two trees, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The devil has not changed his tactics; he still desires men to live from the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Jesus said “I am the bread of life” and “I am the way the truth and the life”. Life can not come by your understanding of good and evil and do more good than evil. Life is exclusively in Jesus! God calls His people to live from the tree of life!
Genesis 2:21 And the LOR D God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LOR D God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man. " 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
God created Adam and Eve perfect spirit, soul and body and joined them together; God defining marriage once for all! They were both naked, and were not ashamed! Unfortunately this is not the end of the story next lesson, the fall of man…
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