SPIRIT AND SOUL
1cor2:14 : The natural man does not receive the things of God’s Spirit, they are foolishness to him. He can not understand them because thay can be judged spiritually.”
The spirit of man is not fully functional,in harmony with God’s Spirit because of SIN but after he comes to the Lord in Repentance and receives Jesus as Saviour then ; his spirit starts interacting with God
When he is Baptised in the Holy Spirit he receives the Spirit, in order to live new life in Christ. lt is the will of God that man’s soul must come under the Lordship of Holy Spirit because He enables the man to grow and start obeying God.Otherwise God’s spirit will not flow through us.Then we will fall back in the lust of the flesh i.e. ,our old life.This is called ‘ CARNALITY’ the natural man. The word says,”To be carnally minded is death. “. We were condemed to eternal death as carnel men.So the Son of God Jesus,came in human likeness to die in our place.The Righteous for the unrighteous. And He took our place on the cross and completed the work of our Salvation.When He cried out “lt is finished”; the work of our Redemption was done for every believer’s body,soul and spirit. This was the price which He paid for our SALVATION.
JUSTIFIED: The minute a man REPENTS and comes to the Lord and believes, he is justified i.e our spirits are made right with God.
SANCTIFIED: Our souls are being sanctified- made holy before God.
GLORIFIED : Our bodies shall be ‘ Glorified’.- made eternal by the SPIRIT OF GOD.It covers total life experience past,present and future.
RELATIONSHIP TO SIN: We were saved from the ‘ Penalty’ of sin and from the presence of sin.
God said : ” All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” It means the whole world is reeling under the power of sin, so man had no hope without Jesus .All were condemed to eternal destruction and death.So the Son of the Most High Jesus Christ came in human likeness to die in our place. The Righteous for the Unrighteous died and he REMOVED the written code with all its regulations,which were against us. Hallelujah. All Glory to our Lord Jesus. Amen.
Prayer:
Gracious Lord thank you for dying in our place and the price you paid on the Cross.Amen
Sol Noreen.