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This teaching is a foundational truth that is essential for understanding how much God loves you and believing what He says about you in His Word. Each person is made up of three different parts: spirit, soul, and body. Learn how these three parts relate to God and to each other. At salvation your spirit is totally changed, but your soul and body is not yet redeemed. This series will teach you how to release the life that is already in your spirit, into your physical body and emotions.
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Andrew Wommack today Andrew illustrates
the power of God’s Word to change our
lives in his teaching spirit soul and
body now here’s Andrew welcome to our
monday’s broadcast of the gospel truth
today i am really excited to start a
brand new series of a teaching about
spirit soul and body those of you who
have listened to our ministry for a
while know that this is like a
foundational teaching for me this is the
key that unlocked all of the truth that
god has given me and i’ve taught on this
before but one of the reasons we’re
teaching on this is because not only do
we have our CD album and our book on
spirit soul and body which is tremendous
we put out tens of thousands of these
books but we’ve now reissued it and we
have a study guide and I’m really
excited because as I said this is a
foundational teaching this is probably
for me and for every person i minister
to if you get hold of these truths then
you’re able to just really start
receiving revelation from the Lord and
the purpose of this is so that you can
disciple other people it’s made for
Sunday school or for Bible studies of
course it would be beneficial just for
you to study on your own but it’s really
geared to take these truths and help you
teach other people and I’m really
excited about that so we’ll be
advertising that product and I encourage
you to take advantage of it but again
I’m teaching on spirit soul and body
which the title isn’t real catchy but
what this is about is it’s based on my
own personal experience that on March
the 23rd 1968 I won’t go into all of the
detail but I just had this encounter
with the Lord where I had been born
again for ten years at that time that I
was I had fallen into the trap of
thinking that God loved me
and would use me and bless me
proportional to how holy I was living
and I really sought for the blessing of
God in my life so I was living as holy
as I possibly could and by the grace of
God I have never I you know I’ve just
turned 59 and I have never said a word
of profanity I have never taken a drink
of liquor I’ve never smoked a cigarette
I mean I have lived a super holy life by
man standards but the problem was I got
to where I was trusting in this and
thinking God now you owe it to me I’ve
done these things now won’t you move in
my life and yet I didn’t see the power
of God manifest you know my dad died
when I was 12 years old and I spent
months praying that he would be healed
and I didn’t see anything come to pass I
didn’t have any power in my life and so
I was living this relatively holy life
but I wasn’t seeing the real blessing of
God manifest and on Saturday night March
the 23rd 1968 God just like opened up my
understanding showed me that I was a
religious hypocrite now I was born again
but I had fallen into trusting in my own
goodness and trying to earn God’s favor
and God just showed me that I was an
absolute hypocrite and that not only it
was it wrong to try and approach him
based on my own goodness but he showed
me that my relative I might have been
good relative to people but compared to
what God wanted me to be I was an
absolute hypocrite I was a Pharisee and
I tell you when God showed this to me it
just devastated me and I spent over an
hour and a half in front of all of my
friends the leaders of the church just
turning myself inside out confessing
things that I didn’t even know we’re
wrong before the Lord touched me and
showed me this I mean I was confessing
attitudes thoughts that you know you
would have never exposed to anybody I
just absolutely ruined any reputation
that I had and some people will think
that I’m exaggerating or that this is
you know I’m not saying the truth but
I’m promising you this is what was going
on on the
inside of me I was 18 years old I was
told that God’s the one that killed my
dad when I was 12 years old that God
needed him in heaven I was told that God
judged people and that basically you got
what you deserved I had an image of an
angry god and when I saw how vile I was
from God’s standpoint I expected God to
kill me I really did and right before he
killed me I was just going to get
everything confessed and laid out on the
table hoping that if he killed me that
at least I’d go to heaven instead of
going to hell and so I was repenting of
everything I could think of I said
everything that I could possibly think
of I mean I didn’t leave a stone
unturned and like I said for an hour and
a half I prayed and then eventually I
just came to the end of it there was
nothing left to repent out I had
repented of everything that I could
possibly repent off and I just quit and
to my surprise instead of God killing me
the way that I expected him to do
I had a tangible love of God you start
flowing through me there’s no way I
could do it just I can’t describe it but
for four and a half months I was just
overwhelmed with the fact that I knew
God loved me I didn’t have to believe
God loved me I knew it
I felt it it was tangible it was real
and you know even though that was
wonderful
it was also bad at the same time because
after four and a half months that
feeling emotion left and once reality
began to set back in you know what I
didn’t know how to go from there I
didn’t know how to recover I had tasted
what it was like to be in the presence
of God and to feel his love and I I
couldn’t live without it but I didn’t
know what I did to make it happen I
didn’t know what I did to make it leave
I was just at a lost and so even though
it was wonderful in one sense it just
turned my life upside down and left me
with nowhere to go I didn’t know how to
adjust I didn’t know what to happen what
to do after that and actually in
retrospect I look back and this was a
blessing but I got drafted during that
period of time
I’m and I was sent to Vietnam and you
know that isn’t what I would have chosen
for myself that’s not what you would
think would be a good thing but it
turned out to be good because what
happens when I got on the other side of
the world there was so much sin you know
in in a war situation like that guys
were doing things and getting by with
things that they would have never have
done back in you know around their
family around their friends where they
could be held accountable for stuff and
and there was such a push or such a draw
towards sin that has a self defense
mechanism I just had to stick my nose in
the Bible and start studying the word
and of course the cry of my heart during
this whole time was God how do I get
back into this place to where I know
that you love me I was looking for a
feeling another experience but what
happened was I begin to learn some
things through the Word of God that
begin to change the way I thought and I
begin to experience God not on an
emotional level like I had but I begin
to experience God on a heart level just
based on faith in what I knew to be true
and I actually came to a place to where
my relationship with God deepened and
became stronger than it ever was during
that period where I just felt the
presence of God now I understood God’s
love and it just began to change my life
and the number one thing that God showed
me that changed my life and today I use
this every day of my life it’s just
become a part of who I am is this
understanding of what I call spirit soul
and body and let me give you a brief
overview and then I’ll get into some of
these specifics and start sharing these
things believing that this will change
your life the way it changed mine but
the reason this was so beneficial to me
is because I had experienced that God
loved me and I knew it by feeling but
after the feeling left my brain began to
start function and I thought how could
God love me I don’t love myself for the
first time in my life I’d finally come
to realize that I was a really
dis Pharisee as a hypocrite I didn’t
like what I saw I knew that God wasn’t
pleased with a lot of the attitudes and
the emotions that I had and so I had
this experience where I had felt
tangibly felt God’s love but after the
feeling left my mind was just sitting
there basically short-circuiting God’s
love to me saying it can’t be why would
God love me and so here’s one of the
things that this understanding of spirit
soul and body did it let me start
recognizing that like John 4:24 says God
is a spirit and those who worship Him
must worship Him in spirit and in truth
God looked at me in the spirit realm not
on the outside and see this is the big
problem I was having I was looking on
the outside I’d go look in the mirror
and I’d see a zit or you know something
that I didn’t like and I think how could
God love this and I’d search my emotions
and I would see that you know there were
attitudes and there was thoughts that I
didn’t like how could God love me but
the difference is God doesn’t look on
the outward appearance 1st Samuel
chapter 16 verse 7 says don’t look on
the height of his stature or any of
these outside things because man looks
on the outward appearance but God looks
on the heart God doesn’t look at you and
me based on this outside see you’re
looking at my physical body there’s some
people that don’t like things I have
people write in and comment about my
receding hairline and tell me how to get
that fixed and tell me you do this why
don’t you wear this clothes why don’t
you stand up there’s people that don’t
like the way I sit here they don’t like
my mannerisms they don’t like my voice
there’s there’s a lot of people that
just relate based on external things and
then all of us know that there’s an
inner person and we have fears and
thoughts and depression discouragement
and criticisms and prejudices that we
don’t like and things like this and
that’s as far as most of us go but there
is a third part of us and that’s the
spirit and it’s the spirit that gets
changed and God is a spirit and God is
not looking on this outward person he’s
not looking on my personality and
emotional part
but God looks at me in that born-again
spirit and see when I begin to
understand this then what it did it
allowed me to start receiving God’s love
because prior to that time I would look
on my physical body I’d search my soul
II shrim I’d see things that I was
displeased with and I thought if I don’t
like this how could a holy God truly
love me the way that I’ve experienced
when all of these things are wrong but
when I understood that there was a
spirit on the inside that was recreated
and now perfect it allowed me to feel
justified in in experiencing the love of
God and I begin to realize that God’s
love towards me was consistent in this
spirit realm regardless of what I felt
in my emotions anyway I’m getting ahead
of myself but those are some of the
benefits this just it just unlocked the
door for me this opened up the Word of
God once you begin to start
understanding these truths and I’m going
to share about spirit soul and body I
guarantee you the Word of God will come
alive to you everything will begin to
make sense prior to me understanding
this nothing made sense but this has
just changed my life let me turn over to
1st Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 23
and use this verse this is one of the
main scriptures that God used to get
this point across to me in verse 23 it
says and the very God of peace sanctify
you wholly not hol why but WH o LLY
completely and I pray God your whole
spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless under the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ now there’s actually some
other points that are being made here
but in the process of making that he
said this he says I pray God your whole
spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ that verse this one verse
and there’s others that would do this
but this one verse has all of this in
one passage it shows that you are a
spirit soul and body there are three
parts to you
now this really begin to change my life
because prior to me understanding this
functionally I only thought that there
was really two parts to a person now I
might have used the word spirit but the
truth is most people mix spirit and soul
together as a matter of fact if you look
the word spirit up in the New Testament
the Greek word for spirit is Numa and if
you look Numa up and like Strong’s
Concordance it’ll say the immortal soul
it’ll make spirit and soul basically the
same thing and this is the way that most
people practically use spirit and soul
they see it as being nearly
interchangeable and here’s my point
here’s here’s the real point that I’m
getting through this is that most people
as far as function goes their daily
experience they know of course that
there is a physical body that’s obvious
you can see my physical body you see
your physical body you can feel it you
know if you’re a hot or cold right now
you know if you have pain in your body
you know if I was to say how do you feel
today you don’t have to say well let me
go study and let me pray about this and
I’m going to make an outline and I’ll
come back to you in a week and I’ll tell
you how I feel so you don’t have to do
that because your body is just
constantly you are in touch with your
body you know if you’re hot or cold you
know if you have pain you know if you’re
tired you know if you’re sleepy so
really you are in touch with this
physical body and it’s just constantly
always there now there’s another part of
you like if I was to walk up and touch
you you know if you were had your back
to me and I went up and tapped you on
the back you could feel that and
immediately you’d turn around to see
who’s tapping you on the back you are in
touch with your body but you know what I
can touch you without ever physically
touching your body I could say words to
you I could call you up and on the phone
and I’d never physically touch you but I
could say words that would affect you
and it either make you happy like if I
said you know I’m giving you a million
dollars man you could start rejoicing I
could say words that make you angry at
me I could say words if I lied and said
your husband your wife your child just
died
I’m sorry but I’m not telling you you
know words I can touch you in ways that
it’s not physical everybody understands
this you can feel your physical body but
you can also feel that there’s an
emotional part of you that has joy and
sadness and grief and depression and
anger and bitterness and things like
that that’s what the Bible calls your
soul and as far as most people’s
experience go they acknowledge the body
because it’s obvious they acknowledge
the soul this inner personality feeling
emotional part but that’s about as far
as it goes
most people functionally do not know
that there is anything more than their
body and their soul this inner
personality and feelings but the Bible
says that there are three parts spirit
soul and body and it’s in the spirit
that you’re born again experience takes
place your spirit is a part of you that
has changed and everything that God does
is in the spiritual realm God is a
spirit God looks at you in the spirit
realm he looks at you as a new creation
and the key to understanding and
relating to God is to recognize that
there’s not only this physical body and
there’s not only the soul the emotional
part but there is a spiritual part of
you and the reason that the spirit is so
hard for most people to grab hold
obvious because it cannot be felt
are discerned in any physical tangible
way let me turn over and read what Jesus
said about this in John chapter 3 and
Nicodemus came to Jesus and was asking
him some questions and jesus answered
Nicodemus by saying in John chapter 3
verse 3 verily verily I say unto you
except a man be born again he cannot see
the kingdom of God
Nicodemus saith unto Him how can a man
be born when he is old can he enter the
second time into his mother’s womb and
be born jesus answered verily verily I
say unto you except a man be born of
water and of the spirit he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God
that which is born of the flesh is flesh
that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit now there’s a lot of truths that
Jesus was saying right here but I just
wanted to focus on verse 6 he says that
which is born of the flesh is flesh that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit
what he’s saying here is that flesh and
spirit aren’t the same things you know
this is flesh this is physical and even
though your soul isn’t flesh in the
sense that it’s tangible or what we call
flesh or skin it’s a part of that flesh
it’s in the natural realm your mental
part your emotional part is natural its
physical but there is a spirit part of
you that cannot be discerned by any
physical way again I go back to this
example if I say how are you right now
are you HOT or are you cold you don’t
have to go study and make an outline and
pray about it your body instantly knows
if it’s hot or cold do you have pain or
do you feel good you instantly know that
if I want to ask about your soul so how
are you today are you encouraged or
discouraged are you happy or are you sad
are you angry or are you blessed you
know what you instantly know those
things you don’t have to go study it out
but if I say how is your spirit most
people draw a blank and you know why
because the spirit cannot be accessed
through any of our five senses what you
see taste tears smell and feel cannot
tap into the spirit that which is Spirit
is spirit
that which is flesh is flesh your flesh
is constantly being monitored by your
five senses but your spirit is spirit
and the five senses don’t have a clue
what’s going on in your spirit realm
there is a part of you according to this
verse that I used in first Thessalonians
5:23 you are spirit soul and body one
third of you is a complete mystery to
your physical senses you can’t feel
whether you’re saved you can’t feel what
happened in your spirit you can’t feel
if God
lives on the inside of you you can’t
feel or discern by any of your five
senses whether you’re anointed or
whether you have faith or whether you’ve
been blessed your physical senses are
limited to your body and your soul but
your spirit hat so then how do we know
what’s going on in the spirit and this
is one of the things that really begin
to change my life John chapter 6 and
verse 63 let me read this Jesus was
speaking he says it is the spirit that
quickeneth the flesh profiteth Oh words
that I speak unto you they are spirit
and they are life you know if you want
to see if your hair is combed you just
don’t go about how it feels you know
right now I sure hope my hair is calm
being on television around the world
it’d be terrible if I had you know my
hair sticking straight up but I can’t
tell by how it feels what I have to do
is go to look in a mirror and what I see
in that mirror I just take by faith when
I what I’m seeing in the mirror is not
really my hair I’m seeing a reflection
but I’m not seeing my hair did you know
this will mess with some of y’all’s
minds but I’m just trying to make a
point here did you know that you have
never seen your face and some of you oh
yes I have know you’ve seen a reflection
of your face or a drawing of your face
or a picture of your face but you with
your physical eyes have never looked
directly at your face and yet you trust
what you see in the mirror you trust the
pictures that you see to give an
accurate impression of what you look
like and you take action accordingly I’m
not trying to get you to doubt what you
see in a mirror I’m just saying that the
truth is you aren’t really seeing
yourself you were seeing a reflection
haven’t you ever seen one of these
mirrors that if you stand in front of it
it makes you tall and skinny or short
and fat haven’t you ever seen a mirror
that had waves in it they wasn’t a good
mirror and it was distorted and stuff so
the image that you see in a mirror can
be affected how do you know that what
you’re seeing in a mirror is actually
accurate
see I’m not trying to get you to doubt
what you’re saying I’m just saying that
you are taking by faith something that
you see well in a sense this is a
spiritual mirror the words that I speak
unto you they are spirit and they are
life what we need to do to find out what
we’re like in the spirit is discount
what we see taste ears smelling feel our
five senses and start going by the Word
of God and we use this like a spiritual
mirror and that’s what we’re going to do
and I’m going to start showing you
what’s taking place in the spirit realm
and I’ll tell you it’s going to
transform your life I’m excited about
this I believe that this teaching has
the potential of just transforming your
life this is what’s changed me and I
believe it’ll change you and also I want
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be coming back this will be only my
second trip there on the 20th I’m going
to be ministering its spirit Word
ministries this is a Sunday afternoon
service and then on Monday through
Wednesday
Arthur min says and I know that that’s
not the way you pronounce his last name
but Arthur’s a very good friend of mine
and he is South African we’re going to
be holding a meeting on Monday through
Wednesday with morning and evening
services and it’s just going to be a
great time in Lourdes so remember this
is July the 20th at spirit word
ministries and then the 21st through the
23rd will be using their facilities for
our own conference there it’ll be called
a Grace and faith conference be sure to
tune in tomorrow for more gospel truth
every tangible thing that exists was
created out of something that can not be
seen it didn’t say that it was created
out of nothing see a lot of people will
say that that God just created the
world’s out of nothing note it was out
of things it was out of spiritual
reality things existed in the heart of
God God is a spirit God existed before
anything he created the existing there
was spiritual substance and God created
physical substance from spirit
substance so the worlds weren’t created
from nothing they were created from
spiritual reality so here’s what that
means the spirit realm is the parent
force certainly the parent has to be
greater than anything it creates