Spirit The spirit of man is a dimension exclusively put in man by God. It is for communication and development of an intimate relationship between man and God. There is a sealing process upon the invitation of Gods Holy Spirit merging with mans human spirit that creates an eternal bond of one. Salvation on this level is forever and not undone by anything or anyone. God forms the spirit within man: ... and forms the spirit of man within him. (Zechariah 12:1) Man does not have power over the human spirit: There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: (Ecclesiastes 8:8) The human spirit comes from God not from ourselves: To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you? (Job 26:4) The human spirit given to instruct and inspire knowledge of God: “You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,…” (Nehemiah 9:20) But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding. (Job 32:8) The human spirit has to made alive or Born Again as claimed in the Old Testament: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezekiel 36:27) Completed in the N.T. as being Born Again: Two spirits become one: Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. - John 3:5-8 (NKJ) But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17) The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God (Romans 8:16) Forever: …and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. (Ephesians 4:30) While this great hope and promise is provided for Gods seed there is another seed that is at enmity against God and has no hope. The Bible is clear that there are some that do not have a spirit, therefore it is impossible for them to ever hear or understand the things of God. Beasts without a spirit: But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; …. These are wells without water…(2 Peter 2:12,17) Water has always been symbolic of the Spirit. It can be argued that this context is talking about lack of The Holy spirit as a dried or an empty well, not necessarily the human spirit. However Judes description is a little more clear about the same group of beings. ...but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves… clouds they are without water, carried about of winds (Jude 1:10 +12) A cloud is made of water, so this is something of an imitation, a creature or beast that has the same form but without the same substance. Peter also includes that they were made for destruction confirming this same idea of predestination and determination. Soul The soul is your mind, your intellect and will based on memories of past experience, cognoscente of now and a hopeful expectation of tomorrow. Redemption of this part is a lifelong process that can experience gain or loss according to obedience to the Word of God by the power of his transforming Holy Spirit to your soul. Mind (heart) in natural state: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) Discernment of Spirit and Soul: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12) Mental stability: Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:27) Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, Ongoing process Gain or loss of Soul: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1 Peter 1:9) For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? - Mark 8:36-37 (NKJ) Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. - Gal 6:7-8 (NKJ) But we …are of them that believe to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 10:39) … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:12-13) This part of the plan is also Predestined: ... God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: (2 Thessalonians 2:13) By these scriptures you can see that the secure foothold God has on believers exists in the spirit of mankind combined with Gods Holy Spirit which become as one, eternally sealed as His property. The function then is a battle of the mind. As a continual lifelong process of redeeming the soul. Each individual chooses to yield or rebel which has eternal consequences . To what amount and degree has been redeemed is our eternal reward which is Christ in us, our hope of glory. There will be a fiery trial which all believers in Christ will have to go through which will determine our eternal position and state in heaven for ever. This trial based on what we did with our salvation and how we yielded to obedience and bore fruit. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10) If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each mans work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. if it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. - 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 (NIV) Although Salvation is free by Grace through Faith and Works cannot undo the salvation of your spirit and promised body if you have received Christ, your soul hangs in the balance of your obedience after the initial Born Again experience. This grace will not be mocked as their is accountability at the end of this life, determining just how much of your earthly experience (your soul) remains as wisdom to co-rule with our Lord. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:21) And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Romans 8:17) Body The Body of mankind in its present state is not what was intended, in the fall it was changed, that is why it must die and be raised new and different. It is not redeemable and will experience death and destruction with a do over at the resurrection. The entire text of Pauls writing to the Corinthians says it best: So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Corinthians 15:42-57 (NIV) ~AH
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