You are a spirit, you have a soul & you live in a body. This study will help you to rightly divide the word of God & understand the will & purpose of God in your life. To understand the words of Jesus & many parables which He taught, it is necessary to understand the difference between our spirit & our soul.
Heb.4:12 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.
From this scripture we see the we see the dividing from the soul rests in the bible (word of God) alone. Many times people will use “spirit & soul” interchangeably. Being ignorant of there true meaning. Another scripture which helps us to see the division of these words would be in-
Matt.10:28 28. “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. This would indicate the soul & the body , not the spirit, have the possibility of destruction.
1Cor. 6: 19-20 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
- For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
This indicates the soul & the body are possessed by God, but, it leaves out the soul as being possessed. Another scripture which shed light on the difference is in
Ecc. 12:7; 7. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Your spirit is what gives all man life, you would not be alive except He gave you the Spirit so you may have life. Your body may go back to the dust of the earth(destroyed) but, the spirit you can not kill it is God, there is no death in Him, it will return back to God who gave it. So from these three scriptures we see the spirit is eternal: it came from in the first place
John 4:24 24. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
1John 5:6 6. This is He who came by water and blood Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
Acts 7:59 59. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Rom 1:9 9. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,
Rom. 8:15-18 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
- The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
- and if children, then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
- For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Our Spirit is saved, He bear’s witness to this, we have received the spirit of adoption. We are the children of God & if children Heirs of God, joint heirs. The nest part of the scripture tells us if we suffer with Him, we will be glorified. This shows us the next progression of salvation, Your soul!
Eph. 4:4- 5 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
- one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
1Thess.5:9
- For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, even though the Thessalonians were in Church & were already saved, they were still to obtain. (in the future) a salvation that they already possessed. In this one verse we see a present deliverance, yet a future deliverance.
Future Salvation
Some Christians believe that when they went to the alter & received Jesus Christ into their hearts, then their relationship with God was finished & complete at that
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particular point, but we believe the scriptures have many concepts which indicates progressive deliverance, a progressive salvation & progressive sanctification.
One scripture would be….Rom. 5:9 9. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
This indicates that because of past shedding of blood we are presently justified, but it further indicates that in the future we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Yet, the Romans to whom Paul is writing, were saved in the past, but the scripture further indicates they shall be saved. (future). How is this possible to be already saved & yet to have further salvation ready for us in the future wherein we shall be saved? Vs. 10 continues this thought “ For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”
Those of us who are already accepted the blood of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our past sins, have already in the past been reconciled to God. We are already saved, yet we find these scriptures indicating that those who are already saved shall be saved in the future. Scriptures in the Bible which refer to a past tense salvation or deliverance always refer to the fact that in the past Jesus Christ has saved the spirit of man. The blood of Jesus Christ has become a covering for the past sins of men. Jesus is the Savior of our Spirit. “There is one mediator between God & man, the man Jesus Christ.” & our spirit returns to God who gave them in the first place through Jesus Christ the mediator.
Soul & Mind
We noticed that the salvation of our soul is present tense (not past), in fact is present, progressive tense. The salvation of our soul is being worked out. The word Soul translated from the Hebrew word, Psu-Kha, also Feminine, also Psyche, so it is all our mind which is Feminine. This is what is being saved. The word says every thought will be brought into captivity. Even though the salvation of the spirit has been through the work of Jesus Christ, we will discover the scriptures that the salvation of the soul not the spirit, is through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Heb. 10:39 39. “ But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.” Here we see the saving of the soul is
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present progressive tense & that it has not already been accomplished but it is being completed.
Carnal Mind
The part of the mind which is not yet changed is our carnal mind. We have read the scriptures that men are carnal. Carnal is taken from the word “carne”. The word is flesh or meat.
Soul is the mind
In furthering the difference between the words & soul, these are some of the scriptures from the book of Matt. That make reference to the word soul.
Matt.11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matt12:18 “Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, my Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased; I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will declare justice to the Gentiles.
Matt.16:25 “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
- “For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matt.22-37. Jesus said to him, ” `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- “This is the first and great commandment.
Matt. 26-38. Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
In these scriptures we see that the soul can be killed, the soul can be destroyed, that you can find rest in the soul & you can be killed & the soul can be destroyed, that you can be pleased in the soul. The list of words indicates that the soul consistently refers to the mind, the center of thought, rest, pleasure, & sorrow. All of this is the mind in Matt.. All these scriptures has to do with man’s mind. The word “Psyche” in the Greek further indicates the word “mind” we get our words. Psychiatrist, or psycho & these words refer to the mind of men, or treatment of the
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mind. We see the word soul has to do with thinking & our remembering process, we can magnify the soul.
Luke 1:46. And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,
The soul can be pierced Luke 2:35 (yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
Luke 2: 19. `And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ‘
- “But God said to him, `You fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
- “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
- And He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.
- “Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
- “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
- “And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
- “If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?
- “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
- “If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
- “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.
- “For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things.
- “But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.
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In these scriptures, we are shown not to lay up our treasures with our own thinking, but look to God for the saving of your soul, seek the Kingdom & everything else will be added to you.
Rom. 2:9 9. tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
The soul can have tribulation & anguish ,glory honor, & peace. But, Praise God in the following it tells us we can be purified by obeying truth.
Rom.2:922. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
- having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
- because “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
- but the word of the Lord endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
The soul thinks & remembers
Thus we see that the soul is common to thinking, all the acts of the brain, to teaching & remembering. You can rest in your soul (mind) Be sorrowful in your soul (mind) You can be merry or happy in your soul (mind) You can magnify in your soul (mind) You can have fear, anger In your soul (mind).
Spirit use to lead
In the garden, originally, man was led of the spirit. The spirit which is the inner man, or the true man, was led by the mind or soul of man & his body followed. He was Spirit Soul & Body, in that order. First a Spirit, for God is Spirit & He was created in His image & likeness. When man listened to the serpent, it was man’s soul that came into pre-eminence. At first his spirit had the sensitivity to commune with God. Later after the fall, his soul became pre-eminent & his soul was the leader. His spirit became a wee small voice from deep down inside.
Now the soul leads
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Nowadays, most people are led by their mind, their will intellect, their emotion & attitude; but the wee small voice from within their spirit cries out for truth.
Tree of knowledge
Originally, the spirit was in charge & originally the spirit was leading. Originally , the spirit had communion with God, but, man made a mistake & ate of the tree of knowledge of good & evil. (the world)
Sin in the mind
The center of knowledge is in the soul (mind) & implies that the original sin involved the mind. And in eating of the tree of knowledge of good & evil the soul became pre-eminent& important. Decisions were not made on the basis of what God would say through the spirit of man, but, on the basis of what man would decide of what he could see, hear, taste, smell or feel. This is why it is very hard for people to be led of the Holy Spirit. They are naturally led by the soul (mind).
Now we know that Jesus Christ took everyone of us to the cross with Him, He died for us, He took our sins, our sicknesses, He paid the supreme price for us. Now we have the Way, the Truth & the Life through Jesus Christ. Our Spirit is saved & it will go back to the Father. That salvation is finished through the blood of Jesus. Now the soul salvation has to be worked out in each of us. We need to come up higher & see.
Word of God divides Soul from Spirit.
Heb 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 able to show the difference between soul & spirit. We look at the word of God to make this division & no other source. The best word we can find is “attitude” to describe the soul of man.
Eccl.12: 7. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Spirit came from God & will go back to God, in the event the body should die. We have discovered, according to the words of Jesus Christ, that the soul & body can
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be destroyed, that the soul & body are not eternal. It is the spirit which is eternal & the spirit part of that man goes back to God who gave it in the first place.
1Thess: 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.
This indicates that there is a difference between a spirit, a soul & a body.
Soul- Holy Spirit
The method of the salvation of the soul is given in 1Peter1: 22. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
Peter says, purification of the soul is through the spirit in obeying the truth. The bible tells us that “Thy word is truth”, so obeying truth is obeying God. We also notice that the word of truth of God must be through the spirit. The letter kills, but, the spirit gives it life, in obeying the word of truth it must be through the spirit & not through our own understanding.
Save your Soul
James 1: 21. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Here is a scripture written to people who are already saved, but it adds that they are to even be more saved. This scripture written by James was written unto the brethren who were in the Church & received Jesus in their hearts., (into their spirits) & yet he further tells his brethren that the engrafted word is able to save their souls. This tells us that their souls were not saved but were being saved as they received the engrafted word.
Holy Spirit Engrafts the Word of God
Now we see the importance of having the word of God engrafted into our minds (souls). This engrafting process takes place by the act of the Holy Spirit. Most of us had experiences where we have read a certain scripture many times & had not received a certain truth, but when it is moved upon by the Holy Spirit we see it. This explains the grafting process. The Holy Spirit chisels those words, engrafts,
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burns those words into our minds. Then we have an attitude change & we are never the same. The result is a changed attitude, a new way of looking at things &
a changed life. Now we see that the instrument to change our souls (attitudes, mind) is the engrafted word of God.
Change our Minds
The engrafted word of God is moved upon by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit changes our mind, always with the word of God. This is an important concept & we must see that the next step in our salvation after the initial experience of receiving Jesus Christ into our mind (soul, intellect, will or attitudes.)
Holy Spirit Teaches
The reference to the Holy Spirit always refer to moving upon man’s mind or psyche. When Jesus Christ introduced the fat that the Holy Spirit would be coming, He said in John 14:6. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
The teaching process has to do with the mind, the intellect, the emotions, the will & the attitude. Likewise, the center for our remembrance is in our mind. Jesus, is introducing the Holy Spirit, introduced Him to our minds through a teaching process. Heart belief bring Jesus Christ into our Spirit first, & then head belief brings the Holy Ghost to our mind.
Gifts of the Holy Spirit are for the mind
This is why the Holy Spirit gives “mind” gifts. Gifts of the Holy Spirit listed in 1Cor.12 for the mind. They are tongues, interpretation, prophesy, wisdom. Knowledge. Discerning of spirits, faith & miracles. These gifts of the Holy Spirit are to change our mind or our attitudes toward life, towards each other & towards the world of god. Now we see that the first salvation or the one that has already occurred, (the past tense salvation) was when Jesus Christ entered our spirits (heart) & the second major work is when the Holy Spirit enters our souls (mind).
Eternal Salvation
We will now look at two scriptures which seem to be direct contradiction; but with our new understanding of spirit & soul we will see that these scriptures do not
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conflict at all. The first is in Phil.2: 12. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; Paul told the Philippians to work out their own salvation & yet the same author writings to the Ephesians told them they cannot work out their salvation. Eph 2: 8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- not of works, lest anyone should boast.
In Ephesians we see that salvation has nothing to do with ourselves or our works, lest any man should boast. But, in Phil2:12 the bible tells us to work out our own salvation. This seems like a contradiction, but it does not contradict when we begin to understand that the salvation referred to concerning the spirit is by grace through the faith of Jesus Christ our Lord & Savior.
The salvation of the spirit has already been accomplished through Jesus Christ, but the salvation of our soul is presently being worked out. The salvation of our spirit through Him is finished.
As an example of the fact that all of the work necessary for Jesus to do is now finished John 19: 30. So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Jesus said, “It is finished” & He bowed his head & gave up the ghost, now He is at the right hand of the Father until every enemy be made His footstool. That indicated that He is not going to do anything more until someone finished the job. He said, “I give you power to lay hands on the sick, cast out devils & over all the power of the enemy.” Luke10” 9. “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. He is not going to do anymore work here on earth until all kingdoms are made subject to Him.
So, working out our soul salvation with fear & trembling is the second work.
The scriptures teach us that God gave us Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, pastors & Teachers for the perfecting of Saints, for the unity of the faith until we all come into perfect man. Yet the bible teaches that we have no need any man teaches us, for the Holy Spirit will teach us. The answer lies in the fact that the body of Christ must hear the word first through our testimony. “For faith cometh by hearing the word of
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God. And how shall they hear without a Preacher?” But, the real learning comes later on, after the person heard the word of God. Through the divine act of the Holy Spirit that same word is brought to the remembrance because of a situation in life or some activity of the day. That person remembers the word of God that he formerly heard & then it is worked upon by the Holy Spirit. This is why that person learns the lesson through the experience of his own life (not learning a lesson by hearing a preacher preach or a teacher teach.
It is important to understand that without having first heard the preacher or teacher, it is not possible for the Holy Spirit to bring anything to our remembrance. For we cannot remember anything unless we first heard it or read it or studied it. This is how we work out our salvation with fear & trembling. We become familiar with what Jesus taught. The Holy Spirit then brings these thoughts & words to our remembrance & the words become engrafted, written in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Our attitudes change & our actions change. We should be encouraged & comforted to know, the only thing that is wrong with us, is the Holy Spirit is not finished, with us.
Phil. 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
1John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves & the truth is not in us.” But the opposite seems to be true when we read 1John 5:18, which says, “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not.” The answer is the fact, the first quote is regarding the soul, but, the second relates to the spirit of man. Sometimes when you start to have a new way to think, you may challenge it. You may challenge it because of old traditions that have been taught to you. You may have a hard time leaving those comfort zones.. Put it on a shelf, don’t throw it away. Down the road if it is God, it will fit, & start to come together, the pieces will fit
Many Evangelists today, their message is to give your hearts to Jesus. They go all over the world to hundred of thousands of people & they give their hearts to Jesus. Which is wonderful except their next words are. “We had a great conference & thousands of people gave their hearts to Jesus & their souls are saved.” No, we need the Evangelists, Teachers, Pastors to now teach them through the next step of soul salvation. Many people receive the Holy Spirit & working in the gifts & stop there.
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The bible teaches of a progressive walk, as the Holy Spirit changes our mind, will, attitude & emotions, as He engrafts the Word of God from the way we are to the way we ought to be.
Matt.5 :48. “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
1Pet. 9. receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls.
- Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
- searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
The method of becoming Perfect is explained as receiving more & more of the engrafted word of God which is moved by the Holy spirit, which brings us progressively from Glory to Glory!
BODY SALVATION
We have the Covenant of Life not Death
Have you ever wondered why in the old testament the 10 generations of man lived over 700, 800, 900 yrs. In Gen 5:5 & Gen. 5:8 Adam & his son Seth, chose death. For six generations, each died, Adam lived 930yrs. Enoch did not die, six generations before him did not have to die, God is no respecter of persons. Enoch was translated not to see death. What He did for Enoch He will do for all. The expression by faith, had that same word of promise, but, Enoch sought God with all his heart & he pleased God. (Remember the scripture in Peter, 1000 yrs. Unto the Lord is one day. Well man never has lived one day with the Lord. In Revelation it tells us we will rule & reign with HIM for a 1000 yrs.)
Prov.12:28 In the way righteousness is life; & in the pathway thereof there is No death.
John 8:51 Verily, Verily, I say unto you, if anyone keep my word he shall no wise see death forever. Ampl.
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Duet. 8:5 By every word that preceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man live.
1Cor.15:33 Put on Immortality
Rom. 8:2 Free from the law of sin & death.
(We need to get free from the law, if we don’t we will continue to go by the way of the grave. Our bodies are the Temple of God & He wants to be seen in His Temple, in the fullness of the God Head. He wants His Glory to be seen on us. If we continue to lose our body by way of the grave. He losses His Temple. Oh how, much He must want to be seen in the World again. They seen the Father in Jesus, but, Jesus came to show the way back to the Father, so all humanity may know Him in Spirit & in Truth. So the world may know HIM.)
Jesus said, “Pray Our Father which art in Heaven, Hollowed be your name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth on earth as it is in heaven. (you came from the dust of the earth, talking about your earth, The Kingdom of God has to be established in your earth or body first. Then His Kingdom can be set up on this literal earth.)
Isa.28:14-18 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
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Rev.21:4 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Rev.1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. (he has given the keys to us)
Many people will bring up the scripture in Heb.9:27 appointed once to die to all man. This was under the law. That appointment we do not need to keep. As the Lord disannulled death! GLORY!!
Jesus Christ tore the veil, so nothing hinders us, He gave us access to come into the Holy of Holies. Making us Kings & Priests & will minister from the throne of the Father. It is a progressive walk.
John 5:24 4 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Christ on the mount of transfiguration entered Kingdom of God as His first citizen. He obtained life, immortality & incorruptibility. Then He became Savior & gave up His immortality to die our death until they see the Kingdom of God.
Luke 9:27 Some standing here, that shall no wise see death until they see the Kingdom of God. 6 Days later Peter, James & John saw the KINGDOM OF GOD.
Jesus was transformed before them showing them the Kingdom. Glory! this is the day that the lord has made & now we shall show the kingdom of God here on earth. Jesus showed his body was in the kingdom.
He stood there with Moses & Elijah. He leaves no one out. Moses stood for the law, which was done away with, when Jesus brought us by grace. Elijah stood for the Prophets, the gifts, which will pass away also when that which is perfect is set up in us. Peter wanted to make three tabernacles. (He was in an earthly lower realm, still partially under the law.) but, when they looked again they were gone, meaning we need to let the law & the prophets go. The voice of the Father spoke, this is my beloved son, hear HE only. He is the way, the Truth & the Life. This is what we are walking out, for we must also say, I am the way, I am the Truth & I am the life. Every word we speak will show the way, will give a truth & it will
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bring forth life. This is the vision, if we do not have it, we will continue to perish (or go by way of the grave). Oh Lord help us to see, to understand, the words of Jesus & bring forth that abundant life. Jesus is our example, He lived for 40 days in his resurrected body, the body of light & divine flesh & had fellowship, ate & drank. He walked this earth as the 1st. citizen of the Kingdom of God. The works that He did we will also do, even greater because we will be a many membered body of Christ. WOW such GLORY.
Dwell on these scriptures.
Matt.7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
11 Tim 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel
John 6: 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John 11: 25-26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
We have two ways to receive life:
- Those who die, your spirit goes back to the Father who gave it.
- Those by faith violently enter into the Kingdom of God & overcome death.
Jer. 29:13 Seek me & find me when you search for me with all your heart. To be defeated for any reason is God’s second best. All may conquer death as Christ did. John 6: 48-50 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. VS. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
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57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
He that hears my words & believes Him who sent me, has life eternal & does not come into judgement, but passed on to life. Doesn’t mean to hear some of Christ’s words but to continue in all that Christ said. If a man does this & keeps doing it, he will never die of disease old age, never brought to judgement, he will follow Jesus in life.
Study John 8:30-59 Jesus was speaking to the religious order of that day, they lived by the law & Jesus told them you are of your Father the devil. This is the perfect example in all the gospels of man, religiously rebelling against God.
John 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
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24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.
The Lord is telling us to die to ourselves so He may live. Most people are looking for the fishes & the loaves, (blessings) not willing to die to the worldly ways, man’s doctrines. This flesh body of ours has to die a spiritual death in order for it to bare much fruit. Luke 21: 18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish. (this spiritual death) This life we give up. Rev. 12:11 And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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1Cor.15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. vs.51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (sleep means to be in death, Mankind has been asleep or in death state ever since Adam in the garden. That is why so many scriptures tell us to awake, awake thou that sleepeth.
We have been dead to the things in God. Dead to the reality that we are one in Him, he never meant us to die, we did that & we have been dead ever since, no life in us. Time to wake up & live. We are creating our life with our tongue, what we speak we create. It is time to speak a new language, it will be a clear language, we will speak plainly, & the world will hear it. AMEN & AMEN, SO BE IT!
1Cor. 15: 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom.8:23. And not only they, but we also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
When the soul is saved, the redemption of our body will also take place, just as it was for Jesus. He was the Son of man & the Son of God.
Heb.2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Rev.3: 21 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.
(THE THRONE IS THE MIND OF CHRIST. GLORY)