(1 Thessalonians 5:23) speaks of God sanctifying our body, soul and spirit wholly. This shows that a man has a spirit, a soul and a body. Most believers tend to confuse the spirit and the soul.
Man is a spirit who has a soul and lives in a body.
1.) The Body
Genesis 2:7 says that God formed man of the dust from the ground, and when he breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, man became a living soul/being. This word (soul) is taken from the Hebrew nephesh which means man began to live bodily and mentally.
The body was created from the ground (humus) and when God breathed the breath of life (spirit), the soul was created and the body began to live.
2.) The Human Spirit
It is the spirit of man that contacts God. At conversion (when we are born of God through faith in Christ Jesus), God recreates our spirit and brings it to union with His Spirit so that we can effectively relate to Him.
God is Spirit who can only be related to through our recreated spirit, which is the candle of the Lord.
3.) The Soul
The soul is the seat house of your character. Most people when they think of a soul, see it like some force that can move around like the way angels move.
The soul is where you find the Mind, Will and Emotions of a person.
Remember the human spirit came from God, and the body from the ground. After the breath of life came into the nostrils of man, the man became a living soul.
At conversion of the spirit, that is when you are born again, the soul is not dealt with. This is why it has to be renewed through the Scriptures. (Romans 12: 1-2; James 1:21)
The body is not affected at conversion either. It will be changed into an immortal body when the Lord Jesus returns in His Glory from Heaven (1 Corinthians 15:50-54).
The body gets information from the physical world and transfers it to the soul to build the character. It does this with the aid of the 5 senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing and taste).
When you are born again, you become more inclined to the things of the Holy Spirit which come through your spirit.
The life of God then flows from your spirit to the soul, to the body and outwards, remember when Jesus said in John 7:38-39, “ He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”
That is how it works with even healing from God.
An unbeliever takes things from the world through gratifying the flesh and neglects the spiritual things which make no sense to that person.
Dear brothers and sisters; let us not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, because the flesh things fight what God wants us to be (Galatians 5: 16-17).
May the Peace of God and the love of our Christ Jesus be with you brothers and sisters.
Article by Sheunopa Matambo
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