But He doesn’t want to only fill our spirit. When we believed in Jesus Christ, we received Him and were regenerated, or born again, in our spirit. But to express God, we need to be filled with Him. God’s intention concerning us is that we would contain and express Him. 8:11, 13) and transfiguring our body by His life power (Phil. 3:18) and last, by enlivening our mortal body through our soul (Rom. God sanctifies us, first, by taking possession of our spirit through regeneration (John 3:5-6) second, by spreading Himself as the life-giving Spirit from our spirit into our soul to saturate and transform our soul (Rom. “In the spirit, God as the Spirit dwells in the soul, our self dwells and in the body, the physical senses dwell. Now let’s read the last section of the note, which explains God’s intention for all three parts of our being: God’s intention for the three parts of man It shows the body as our outer, visible part the soul as our inward part and our spirit as our innermost, hidden part. Our soul is the vessel containing our spirit.īelow is a simple diagram of three concentric circles illustrating these three parts. The body is the visible, external part of our being, and it contains the soul. Our body exists in and contacts the tangible things of the material world using our five physical senses. The body contains the soul, and the soul is the vessel that contains the spirit.” “The body as our external part is the outer organ, possessing world-consciousness, that we may contact the material world. Now let’s read the next section about our body and how our three parts are related: And we’re able to resolve, choose, and make decisions. We experience emotions like happiness, love, sorrow, anger, relief, and compassion. With our soul we think, reason, consider, remember, and wonder. In fact, in Greek-the original language of the New Testament-the word for soul is psuche, which is also the root word of psychology. Our soul perceives things in the psychological realm. 16:26 Luke 9:25), a medium between our spirit and our body, possessing self-consciousness, that we may have our personality.” Now let’s read the next section of the note, which explains our soul: No other creature was created by God with this third part. By means of this innermost part, we can contact God in the spiritual realm. The human spirit is the deepest part of a person. The spirit as our inmost part is the inner organ, possessing God-consciousness, that we may contact God (John 4:24 Rom. “This word strongly indicates that man is of three parts: spirit, soul, and body. Since this is a lengthy note, we’ll read it in sections. Let’s take a look at note 5 on 1 Thessalonians 5:23 in the Recovery Version. In this post we’ll read an extremely helpful note on this verse in the New Testament Recovery Version to help us understand these three parts. “And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The Bible tells us in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 that we were all created with three parts-a spirit, a soul, and a body: Each one of us is unique we come from various backgrounds and have different personalities.īut with respect to how God created us, we’re actually all the same.
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