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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spirit soul and body

now here’s Andrew welcome to our

Wednesday’s broadcast of the gospel

truth this week I’ve started a new

series about spirit soul and body to me

this is one of the most exciting things

that God has ever told me it’s kind of

the foundation of every other revelation

that he’s ever given me and so it’s

exciting to me but it’s especially

exciting because I’ve seen this touch

other people’s lives and I’ve I’ve seen

this have the same impact on other

people that it’s had on me the title is

not necessarily you know very intriguing

it may not hold your attention but I

promise you the content of what I’m

talking about is life-changing and so we

re releasing my book on spirit soul and

body if you haven’t got this I really

encourage you to get it I’ve heard

thousands of people testify about how

this has just changed their life and we

also have a of course we have a CD set

and we have a DVD set as seen here on

television but I also have a new study

guide and this is the same teaching put

into a study format I’m excited about

this truth and I just believe that the

word that is contained in these truths

that we’re talking about will change

your life as it has mine so I’ve already

laid a foundation on some of this I’ve

used first Thessalonians 5:23 to show

that we have a spirit soul and body

functionally most people only

acknowledge the physical body and the

soul around because they’re tangible and

you are in touch with them you

automatically know if your body’s hot or

cold hurting or feeling good you know

your soul ease realm whether you’re

happy or sad you are constantly

monitoring these and everybody it knows

the existence of your body and your soul

but the Spirit is a third part of you

that first Thessalonians 5:23 says you

have a spirit soul

body and in the spirit room Jesus said

in John 3:6 that spirit is spirit flesh

is flesh you can’t feel our discern

there is no connection between the

physical body the soul ease room and

your spiritual realm spirit is spirit

flesh is flesh and so because of that

most people are what the Bible calls

carnal and of course that word has a

connotation that is very offensive to

some people and they think that means

sinful or ungodly and it is true that a

tremendous amount of carnality is sinful

and ungodly

but the word carnal just literally means

of the five senses when the Bible is

talking about being carnal it’s talking

about being physical flesh oriented

controlled being focused on that and so

if you are carnal occupied with only

your five senses and what they can tell

you then most people functionally don’t

even acknowledge the existence of the

Spirit and certainly they aren’t

familiar enough with the spiritual realm

and who we are in the spirit to have

that truth change their life one of the

things I’m trying to do through this

teaching is to let you know that there

is a spirit inside of men and the spirit

and soul are different you can’t feel

the spirit people will use that

terminology and say do you feel the

spirit and I’m not gonna teach on that

right now but technically you cannot

feel the spirit when you do

quote-unquote feel the spirit the way

people talk about what that is

faith is tangible faith the anointing of

God can be felt you can actually put it

into a cloth acts 1911 Paul put the

anointing of God into a cloth in an

apron and passed them from their body

from his body and diseases departed out

of people in people that were

demon-possessed were delivered faith is

tangible faith can produce physical

things so when you are in faith and

perceived by faith not by your five

senses but by faith that the Spirit of

God is here that the anointing of God is

here

well then you can feel the effects of

that faith but technically speaking you

can’t feel the spirit the spirit is

always with you those of you that are

born-again the Spirit of God will never

leave you nor forsake you

sometimes you perceive it by faith and

you may feel something in feel joy or

feel a goose bump or feel you know

something but it’s really not the spirit

that you’re feeling it’s your faith that

is producing these emotions and feelings

and the reason I think that this is so

important is because if you think that

your physical senses can perceive the

spiritual realm and spiritual truth and

spiritual reality then I guarantee you

you aren’t going to be in agreement with

what the Word of God says because you

can’t perceive at all times that God is

with you there’s sometimes it because

tragedy has come up somebody has done

something to hurt you you’ve got some

impending problem the doctor has just

told you you’re gonna die your car is

being repossessed or whatever you will

be focused on the physical realm and you

won’t feel any presence of God at all

and if you think that you can feel into

the spirit realm and if God was with you

you’d know it if God really loved you

you’d know it if that’s the mindset that

you have then you are gonna be talked

out of things that are spiritual

realities it transformed my life to

recognize that there is a spiritual

world and there’s a spirit on the inside

of me that cannot be discerned by any

physical standard you have to just go to

the Word of God and take the Word of God

and believe what it says well this begin

to transform my life and let me turn

over to another passage of Scripture and

share this with you this is one of the

scriptures that God used it just

revolutionized my life

in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 as a matter

of fact I was going to quote to you from

verse 17 but let me read the verse in

front of this I’ll need to turn over

there so that I’ll get it correctly but

2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and in verse

16 says wherefore henceforth know we no

man

for the flesh yeah though we have known

Christ after the flesh yet now

henceforth know we him no more you know

this is kind of awkward

it’s wordy in the King James that I’m

reading but what this is basically

talking about is the previous verses are

talking about Jesus died for everyone

because we were all dead in our sins and

he is resurrected we are now alive in

Christ which is all talking about in the

spiritual realm and because of this Paul

is saying we don’t know people anymore

after the flesh in other words he

doesn’t deal with people he doesn’t

judge people based on their external the

way they look the you know all these

kind of things boy there is so much in

this I haven’t got time to go into all

of it but let me just point out a couple

of things I’d encourage you to study

this on your own but if we would adopt

this mindset if we only knew people

based on who they are in Christ based on

their personal relationship with God

instead of all of these externals you

know what it would do it would totally

eliminate prejudice prejudice based on

the color of your skin are based on

whether you know the height or whether

you’re fat or whether you are pretty or

whether you’re ugly or based on any of

these kind of things if we knew people

based on who they were in the spirit

realm instead of their carnal physical

external realm how to do away with all

prejudice I tell you he says not only do

we not know people after the flesh but

he says we don’t know Christ after the

flesh he says at one time we knew Christ

after the flesh but now henceforth know

we him no more just think about this I’m

not going to take time to turn over and

read all of this but if you were to turn

to John chapter 13 I believe it’s verse

23 you will see that at the Last Supper

that Jesus held with his disciples that

John the Apostle it says was leaning on

his bosom of course people in those days

when they ate they didn’t have a table

and chairs set around if they had a very

low table and they would sit on pillows

and stuff and they would kind of recline

and lay down as they ate and it’s

picturing that there was a familiarity a

love among Jesus and His disciples

apples that the Apostle John who he said

himself he was the beloved apostle the

one whom Jesus loved man he loved Jesus

and they had a relationship so that at

this Last Supper he was actually leaning

over on Jesus this shows a familiarity

and a love with Jesus but did you know

that this same apostle in Revelation

chapter one saw the resurrected Jesus

and his hair was white his eyes were

like a flame of fire his feet were like

polished brass with flame running

through it he saw Jesus resurrected in

his glory and this time he fell on his

face as if he was dead he was

overwhelmed with the majesty and the

glory of Jesus did you know Jesus was

the same in both places when Jesus was

with his disciples in the spirit realm

he was God Almighty and the power and

the glory and the majesty that was

revealed in Revelation was inside of

Jesus but it was clothed in that

physical body and what Paul is referring

to here is that at one time the

disciples knew Jesus based on his

external if you would have asked them

what is what is Jesus like they would

have described how tall he was what the

color of his hair was maybe some of his

facial features they might have been

able to tell you about some of the

miracles but they really knew him

basically based on their five senses but

after Jesus died and then rose from the

dead you know he was different not that

he changed on the inside but he was now

no longer the glory of God that it was

inside of him was no longer shielded our

there wasn’t a veil over the way there

was before his glorified body radiated

the glory of God in a way that his

physical body never could I’m saying all

of these things to say that when he says

we don’t know Jesus after the flesh

anymore we knew him that way one time

but we don’t know him that way anymore

it all comes back to at one time they

just looked on the external but now they

see because of what he went through

because

he overcame death because he’s

resurrected they saw him literally just

ascend up into heaven and be caught up

into the clouds and they saw these

angels say that the same one that you’ve

seen a sin will also come again in the

clouds and now they had a new revelation

they knew Jesus far beyond what his

physical features were the physical

limitations of that body they now knew

him in the spirit realm that’s what he’s

talking about

and then the next verse says if any man

be in Christ he’s a new creature and

this is talking about in the spirit

realm let me make one more application

before I go on into the seventeenth

first and that is that not only should

we not know people just based on their

physical thing and judge people and

relate to them based on their physical

color our you know their beauty or their

skills and talents and stuff like that

and not only should we go beyond just

the physical body of Jesus which of

course isn’t a real problem with us

since none of us have known him after

the flesh the only way we’ve come to

know Jesus is through the spirit realm

but not only do we not know people after

the flesh and we don’t know Jesus after

the flesh but the number one way that we

knew didn’t need to interpret that this

is that you don’t need to know yourself

after the flesh there are many of you

that if I was you know talking to you on

the phone I said well what do you look

like who are you you would describe the

color of your hair you would tell me how

tall you are whether you’re a male or

female you would describe this this most

of the things that we would use to

describe ourselves are dealing with this

physical external realm some of you

would go beyond that and talk about

things that you’ve experienced maybe

your attitude this is what you believe

and things like this but you know what

there’s not very many people that if I

was say what are you like in the spirit

what’s happened what do you have do you

have the power of God living on the

inside of you there’s most people

watching this program even most

Christians that really do not have a

clear picture of who you are if I was to

ask who you are in the physical realm

you could give me enough information

that you could sit down and draw a

picture of you and be recognizable if I

was to ask about what you’re like in

your emotion realm

you know what you would either describe

to me a person who has it all together a

person who’s confident and bold or maybe

you’d describe a person who’s been

wounded in hurt and you could drive draw

some kind of a picture that would

symbolize and show what you feel like on

the inside but most of you could not

tell me what you’re like in the spirit

and this is a major problem since the

spirit part of you is the real you how

in the world are you ever going to

release it if you don’t even know what’s

happened to you on the inside and this

has led to a bunch of problems one of

them is that most people think that God

has all of this power out there that he

has healing anointing victory faith

power etc etc but they see it as being

out there in the heaven somewhere and

they are praying and asking God to put

forth his hand and touch them and give

them something as we go through this

teaching and I explained it to you one

of the things that you’re gonna learn is

that everything everything that God has

for you I mean for all eternity a

million years from today in eternity

everything that will be true of you in

heaven in eternity is already true in

your spirit your spirit right now is the

same spirit that you will have

throughout all eternity it’s as pure as

holy as Jesus is it’s as righteous as

Jesus is it has the knowledge that Jesus

has it has the same anointing the same

virtue the same faith the same joy

everything somebody says why doesn’t not

if I had that I’d know it no again I go

back to Jesus own words in John 3:6 it

says that which is spirit is spirit that

which is flesh is flesh you cannot know

it feel it discern it through any of our

carnal senses you have to go to God’s

Word and take what God’s Word says as

being spirit and life

you know if you were in a building right

now and if you heard something outside

and you were wondering whether it was a

wind or whether it’s rain or worth

something if you didn’t have any windows

or let’s just say that you only had one

window you couldn’t tell exactly what’s

going on on outside because you’re

inside the

the atmosphere is different what you

would have to do is go look out that

window and what you saw through that

window would give you an indication of

what was going on outside well it’s the

same thing in the spirit realm you don’t

know with just your physical limitations

what is true in the spirit realm what

you do is go to the Word of God and like

a window into the spirit realm if you

want to see what you are like in the

spirit realm then look into the word

look through this take what the Word of

God has to say about you and believe

that that’s who you are and so all of

that being said here is the versed in

2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17

therefore if any man be in Christ this

is talking about being born again the

longing to Christ you’ve experienced

this new birth he is a new creature old

things are passed away behold all things

are become new now that is one powerful

powerful scripture and you know what a

lot of people stumble over that because

they say well now wait a minute

the Bible here is saying that if you are

in Christ then old things have passed

away all things have become new and you

know what they can’t see that change in

their life and so many people get

discouraged and wonder about while I

prayed and I ask God to come in and

forgive me of my sins and and receive

salvation but I just still have a lot of

the same problems I just don’t know if

it worked well see that’s a problem

because they are thinking that the

change is going to be external they

think that the change is going to happen

in their body and in their soul but you

can tell by nothing but process of

elimination that this verse if it’s true

which it is has to be talking about the

spirit part of you because if you were

fat before you got saved did you know

you’re still going to be fat after you

get saved your body doesn’t just

instantly change we’ve got the promise

over in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 it

says this corruptible talking about your

body must put on incorruption right now

we live in a corrupted body it is not

the glorified body that we’re gonna have

Jesus showed us that when he was

resurrected from the dead his glorified

body could just zip from place to place

it could appear and disappear

they had the room locked one time with

all of the doors and the windows lock

and yet Jesus just all of a sudden

appeared in the room that’s the way that

our glorified body will be our physical

body isn’t like that now our physical

body is not the part that is in Christ

now it’s been purchased and we have a

promise that we’re going to have a

glorified body but it’s not redeemed yet

it’s purchased but not redeemed and so

it’s not your body that old things

passed away and all things became that

it’s also not your soul you can prove

that by your last test score you can

prove that by many obviou forget where

you put your keys where are you you know

have your glasses and your glasses are

on top of your head and you’re looking

everywhere for you know what the Bible

says in first Corinthians chapter 13

that we only know in part and we

prophesy in part but there’s coming a

time when we will receive this glorified

body and we’ll know all things even as

also we’re known now that’s a future

tense thing that hasn’t happened yet

none of us know everything with our

little peanut brain the way that we are

gonna know in the future so by

observation you can tell that your

physical body old things haven’t passed

away all things haven’t become that

you’re solely from your mental emotional

part old things haven’t passed away all

things haven’t become new if you were

stupid before you got saved you’re still

going to be stupid after you get saved

until you begin to start renewing your

mind and changing that situation so

what’s left according to first

Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 23 we have

a spirit soul and body we know by

observation that your body and your soul

your emotional mental part hasn’t

changed yet so second Corinthians 5:17

when it says if you are in Christ old

things have passed away behold all

things not some things not a majority of

things not a lot of things all things

have become new in the spirit is what

this is talking about it has to be

process of elimination it has to be

talking about your spirit when you get

born again in the spirit you become a

totally

the new person one translation of this

verse says they become a new species of

beam that never existed before

well that’s powerful you know right here

I just want to let this soak in for a

minute before I go on and begin to say

some other things about it but most

Christians do not really perceive this

and grab hold of this you know one of

the examples are our way of illustrating

this is that I have thousands and

thousands of prisoners who watch me on

television listen to my materials and

every time I preach on spirit soul and

body our response from prisoners goes

way up and and it will typically be

something along this line that these

people were in prison of course they

realized that their life was in a mess

they were looking for a new chance a new

beginning some preacher comes along and

tells them if you’re in Christ you

become a new creature old things pass

away all things become new would you

like to be new would you like to have a

do-over would you like another chance

and of course many prisoners will yes

that’s what I need and so they pray and

ask the Lord to come into their life

because they realize they need to change

they are wanting to change so they make

this prayer they receive Jesus then they

wake up in the morning they’re in the

same jail cell they’re wearing the same

jail you know clothing they are dealing

with the same prison guards the prison

system is treating them exactly the same

for their sins that they’ve committed

and they can’t in the physical realm

observe this change and many of them who

were really sincere and believed get

discouraged thinking well God didn’t

hear my prayer nothing has changed and

when I share that it’s in the spirit

that you become brand-new and then the

way that you get what all of this change

that is taking place in your spirit to

start impacting your physical realm is

by the renewing of your mind as I share

this it’s like a light bulb comes on all

of a sudden they realize no it was true

God heard my prayer and as I renew my

mind and begin to start changing my

actions I will in the future see this

physical transformation but the

information in my spirit is already

complete it’s already done and you know

you don’t have to be behind prison bars

to have that same misconception there’s

lots of people who are on the outside

who thought that they were just going to

be transformed when Jesus came into

their life and they haven’t seen they

still have problems they still have

strife in their marriage they still have

fears they still have sickness and they

are wondering about I thought everything

was gonna be different the

transformation takes place in your

spirit and then it’s through the

renewing of your mind that you begin to

draw this power that’s in your spirit

out into the physical realm well these

are powerful truths these truths have

changed my life and I’m just laying a

foundation we’re gonna start building on

this and we’re going to go through this

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not just some things changed but

everything completely and totally

changed in the spirit realm and remember

that your emotions what you can see

tastier smelling feel can only tell you

what’s going on in your physical body

and in your soul ease realm but they can

not give you an indication of what’s

happened in this

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