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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in his teaching spirit soul and body
now here’s Andrew welcome to our
Thursday’s broadcast of the gospel truth
this week I’m sharing a subject that is
really special to me this is the
revelation that God gave me about my
spirit soul and body again I say that
that title may not be very intriguing or
grab your attention but I can promise
you that the truth behind what I’m
trying to say in this it just
transformed my life and I have seen this
as the key to not only my understanding
of the Lord and my relationship with him
but I’ve seen lots of people thousands
of people let’s just turn their life
around so I’m excited to be sharing on
this of course I’ve had a book out on
this this is kind of the foundational or
the life message of my whole life and
ministry and I’ve had this book out
we’ve put out tens of thousands of these
books and we’re releasing this book for
this teaching but one of the things that
I’m excited about is that we’ve come up
with this study guide which is the same
teaching put into 23 lessons and it’s
organized in a way that it helps you to
facilitate either a sunny school or a
Bible study of course you could use this
for yourself because it has the lessons
in there and it has questions that you
need to ask and then an answer to the
questions and it’s a great study for you
alone but it’s specifically designed to
help you take these truths and share
with other people and you know I am
absolutely convinced based on my
personal experience and also dealing
with other people that this is kind of
like the springboard into the reality of
who God is and how you relate to them
and how you receive from God when I
understood this it just transformed my
life so I believe that this teaching
would really help you and help you reach
other people it’s just a tremendous
so again I want to encourage you to get
those materials now I’ve been saying a
lot of things this week already in just
the first three days I don’t have time
to go back through all of that but I’ve
been basically using the fact there’s
many scriptures but one scripture that
I’ve used to establish that you have
three parts spirit soul and body is
first Thessalonians 5:23 and most people
are conscious of your physical body and
your soul because those are tangible
things those are things that you can
feel you can feel if your body is having
pain or if it’s tired or whatever you
can feel your emotions if you’re sad or
if you’re glad but the spirit can’t be
felt and for that reason most people
don’t really acknowledge the spirit
realm outside of us very often and they
certainly don’t realize or acknowledge
the spirit being on the inside of us and
one of the points that I’ve been making
is from second Corinthians chapter five
verse 17 where it says if any man be in
Christ he is a new creature old things
are passed away behold all things are
become new most people think that when
they commit their life to the Lord they
are looking for this transformation this
total brand-new life but they’re looking
for it in physical ways they’re like say
for instance if their body was sick they
just want to be instantly healed if they
were depressed emotionally they want to
be instantly joyful and happy and
positive and optimistic and they’re
looking for these changes to take place
automatically and if they don’t
sometimes they do just take place nearly
instantaneously I could give you a
reason for that but I’d have to get off
on a rabbit trail let me just say that
it doesn’t always happen that way and if
it doesn’t happen instantaneously then a
lot of people immediately begin to lose
their confidence in scriptures like
second Corinthians 5:17 that old things
pass away all things become new by
observation they still have some of the
same physical problems some of the same
emotional problems and they just say
well what happened I thought I was going
to be a new person the way that you
understand this is that second
Corinthians 5
17 is talking about your spirit the
spirit part of you that is the part that
was totally changed not just some things
changed but everything completely and
totally changed in the spirit realm and
remember that your emotions what you can
see taste here smell and feel can only
tell you what’s going on in your
physical body and in your soul ease
realm but they cannot give you an
indication of what’s happened in the
spirit how do you know what’s going on
in the spirit jesus said in John 6:63
the words that I speak unto you they are
spirit and they are life James chapter
one says when you look into the Word of
God it’s like looking in a spiritual
mirror if you want to see if the air is
come you have to look at a physical
mirror if you want to see if your spirit
is now changed you have to look in the
Word of God and so we’ve started looking
in the Word of God at some of the
changes that have taken place and this
is what the rest of my teaching on this
will be is just to amplify what took
place in your spirit and let me
emphasize once again that I’m gonna be
saying things that are based on God’s
Word I’m looking through the spiritual
mirror and telling you what the Word of
God says is true in the spiritual you
and you get born again you aren’t gonna
be able to feel and to discern these
things based on just your five senses
and if you are a person who is trapped
and limited and you can’t believe that
anything exists beyond what you can see
tastier smelling feel then you won’t be
able to understand what I’m saying
you’re gonna have to operate in faith
faith is what allows you to perceive
things that can’t be seen or felt praise
God I want to just go over and use some
diagrams to help make some of these
points the first one I want to use is
just three circles one inside of another
and the outer circle I’m calling your
body the second circle would be the soul
and the center the innermost part of
this circle it looks kind of like a
Target or something with these three
circles one inside of another the center
circle would be your spirit
now this is what I call a functional
diagram in other words I’m using this
illustration to help make a point it’s
not like we’re three circles you know
this isn’t a reality it’s not a accurate
picture some of us are more circular
than others but I’m not really trying to
make a statement here I’m just showing
the relationship that the body is the
outer part like if you were standing on
the outside of one of these circles and
looking in you could see the body but
you couldn’t see the two inner circles
they aren’t observable to just your eyes
but then inside of that body there is
the solis room this is your emotions
your mental part and everyone
understands that they have that but the
core of a person the very center of a
person is actually your spirit and I’ve
referred to this briefly already this
week but the spirit is what gave life
unto men when God breathed breath into
Adam is when he became a living soul and
James 2:26 says as the body without the
Spirit is dead so faith without works is
dead also so I think that functionally
this makes a point that the Spirit is
the real you it’s the core of you it’s
the life-giving part of you and then the
soul in cases that your mind your will
your emotions and then your body houses
all of this you are a spirit soul and
body with the spirit being the absolute
core our center of your being another
diagram is to show three circles side by
side with them kind of overlapping and
so you see spirit over on the left hand
side soul in the middle and body over on
the right hand side and the reason that
I have used this diagram again it’s a
functional diagram to illustrate that
there is no direct connection between
your spirit and your body those two
rings or those two circles don’t
intersect they don’t connect there is
the soul in between and I could spend
probably a few days even a week
her so teaching on this I’m not going to
take the time to do that but this
illustrates a major point like I was
reading from Jesus words in John 3:6
where it says Jesus said that was his
spirit his spirit and that which is
flesh is flesh one of the points that
he’s making there is that flesh is in
this physical realm and it is limited
and bound by physical laws and
limitations spirit is in the spirit
realm that which is Spirit is spirit it
has to stay in the spirit realm that
which is flesh is flesh it stays in the
physical realm and they are two opposite
things there is no direct connection you
with your physical body cannot feel and
perceive and see into the spiritual
realm now there have been some
exceptions to that in the word of God
but they are exceptions their miracles
for instance in second Kings chapter 6
there was an instance where Elisha’s
servant saw all of the enemy Syrians
surrounding them and he just panicked
and he says my master what are we gonna
do and Elisha said don’t be afraid those
that are with us are more than those
that be with them now if all you were
doing was looking in the physical realm
that would you would have to say that
that was alive because in the physical
realm if that’s all you believe that
there is to reality there was only two
of them gays I and Elijah and then you
could look out there and count the
Syrians by thousands 1000 2000 3000 and
see some people when a person says I
believe I’m healed God has blessed me
God is annoying me when we make these
statements of faith skeptics unbelievers
who only acknowledge the physical realm
will look at you and say you’re lying
here’s a doctor’s report to prove that
you still have the growth you still have
the cancer and yet you’re saying that
you’re healed see you you faith people
are just liars you’re denying reality
well it depends on what you believe
reality is if you think reality is
limited to only the physical realm
well then Elijah would have been telling
a lie when he said there’s more with us
than those that be with them but see the
truth is that there is a spiritual
world.there it the spiritual realm does
exist it is just as real I believe more
real than this physical realm and
because of that see Elijah when his
servant didn’t understand what he was
saying Elijah prayed I believe this is
2nd Kings chapter 6 verse 17 and he said
Lord open up the eyes of the young man
and the Lord opened up his eyes now this
isn’t talking about his physical eyes
because I can guarantee you his physical
eyes were as wide as saucers a man
looking at this problem and wasn’t
talking about his physical eyes he was
talking about his ability to see with
his heart are to see spiritually the
Lord opened up his eyes and allowed him
to see into the spiritual realm and
round about Elijah and his servant were
horses and chariots of fire the angels
of God and there was thousands and
thousands of them so you know what
Elijah’s statement was true it was
factual it wasn’t just saying that it
was so when it wasn’t really so hoping
that saying it was so would make it
become so see that’s what some people
think faith is no faith is just being
able to perceive things that are true
but they aren’t necessarily physical
realities they’re true in the spiritual
realm and there is a spiritual world and
so the Lord opened up the eyes of this
young man and sure enough here were all
of the horses and the chariots and
because of that what Elijah said was
true now see a person who only
acknowledges the physical realm will
always sit there and think that people
who are speaking faith are speaking lies
hoping that they’ll just become so if
they say it long enough no if you’re
saying it correctly and there are people
who don’t understand this and do
misrepresent the truth and have given
faith a black eye and I’m aware of that
but I’m saying if you’re speaking
correctly you aren’t just saying
something hoping it’ll become true what
you’re saying is what is true it’s just
spiritual reality and see it’s your soul
this little diagram again if you go back
to the three circles spirit soul and
body your soul is unique God created
your soul that it can function in the
physical realm and I could probably give
much detail on this I’m just gonna say
this real quickly but your soul is your
emotions your personality your mind
you’re thinking all of us understand
that your soul can be totally influenced
by what’s going on in the physical realm
you could see a tragedy and it just
breaks your heart you could have
somebody come and attack you and say
things against you and it just causes
grief and sorrow you could have nothing
but negative experiences and feeling all
of this depression most of us understand
how the soul can certainly be influenced
by and function in that physical realm
but your soul can also function in the
soulless realm your soul can perceive
things if I had more time I could go
into a whole teaching on this but your
soul is unique your body is just limited
to the physical realm your body is only
going to feel what is physically true
it’s only going to see what is
physically true it’s only gonna hear
what is physically true your body is
physical and it is in a sense trapped in
the physical realm but your soul has the
ability to be physical or spiritual your
soul that’s the reason I drew these
three circles and interconnected them
because the soul is like the bridge
between your spirit and your body and
your soul can get to where you can start
seeing things with your heart and I’m
not talking about a physical side like I
said I could spend much more time on
this than what I’m gonna have time to do
but you know I’ve seen things the Lord
has painted images on the inside of me
but it’s not with my physical eyes you
can see with your heart for instance
here’s an example when I went and saw
the movie The Passion of the Christ I’m
sure that most of you probably saw that
when I saw that I was expecting to be
just overwhelmed with you know seen
these things depicted in this movie
actually I was disappointed not
disappointed at
Elle Gibson’s attempt to do this or
thinking he was too gruesome or too
graphic it was just the opposite what I
had seen in my heart by taking the Word
of God and meditating on it
I had actually witnessed the crucifixion
of Jesus not with my physical eyes not
with my physical sensation but in my
soul his realm I had let the Holy Spirit
paint a picture in my mind’s eye and the
crucifixion to me was more real than
what I was seeing in that movie and it
actually in a sense and I don’t mean
this critical again of the movie it was
a disappointment because what I saw in
my heart was more vivid and more graphic
and more real than could ever be
portrayed in a movie now I know some
people may have trouble understanding
that because again you’re so physical
that you haven’t really seen things with
your soul you haven’t done this you
haven’t spent time meditating on but for
one thing see that movie all I could do
was portrayed the physical suffering it
couldn’t really go into the spiritual
dynamics it couldn’t really show you the
you know the inequity of here is the
Creator God Almighty who was allowing
himself to be persecuted in all these
things it couldn’t go into his emotional
thing all it was was physical and that’s
very limited what I saw in my soul my
soul had actually through the power of
the Holy Spirit seen things it had
looked into the spiritual realm and by
faith I had seen the crucifixion of
Jesus much more real and much more
graphic than that movie ever portrayed
it see what I’m trying to say here is
your soul it doesn’t happen
automatically but it can be retrained
your soul can get to where it operates
in the spirit realm and this isn’t only
true of born-again believers but a lost
man can get to where their soul is in
touch with the spirit realm of course if
they’re lost it won’t be the God spirit
realm it’ll be a demonic spirit realm
you can get to where you channel spirits
and this is where all of the occult and
a lot of Satanism and a lot of other
things
happen people who are able anyway I
could spend a lot of time talking about
that but the soul can function in the
spirit realm and in the physical realm
it could be totally physical or it could
be nearly totally spiritual it can go
back and forth between the two and again
going back to this functional diagram of
these three circles the spirit is the
part of us that’s been changed that is
now brand-new that has the life of God
living in it but the only way it can get
over into this physical realm to where
it affects your actions and affects your
body and affects healing and affects
things like that the only way that can
happen is through the soul so I’ve got a
third diagram and that’s a picture of a
pipe and if you could imagine that over
on the left hand side is the physical
body over on the right hand side is the
spirit but in the middle the soul each
person is like a valve that is in the
middle of this pipe and over here on the
spirit realm you could have all of the
life of God healing deliverance joy
peace all of these things over here and
yet a valve there could shut that off so
that even though you have the
supernatural life of God on the inside
not a drop of it gets out to the
physical body because it has to go
through the soul just as you know water
flows through a pipe if there is a valve
there you can shut that off or you could
open it just a little bit so that maybe
a little drip would come out see that’s
where a lot of Christians are they have
their mind renewed a little bit and they
experience just a little bit of God’s
life and a little bit of his power but
it’s not enough to quench their thirst
it’s not enough to release the life of
God and to cause the the change in their
life that they need well I think to me
this is a great illustration and see
when God showed this to me it answered a
lot of questions one of the things and I
mentioned this on the very first day of
our teaching was that I had this
miraculous encounter with the Lord to
where God’s love was physically tangible
and evident to me and for about four and
a half months I was just overwhelmed
it’s like I was in a flood
that just did pick me up and carried me
along of the love of God but after four
and a half months the feelings left and
when the feelings left I thought God had
left and I thought that he didn’t love
me anymore
and I haven’t got time and I’m not sure
that I’ve actually got the ability to
completely explain why I had that
physical feeling for four and a half
months but I do believe that God doesn’t
want us to live just by feelings and
emotions
the scripture says without faith it’s
impossible to please him
that’s hebrews chapter 11 verse 6 God is
a God of faith and he wants us to relate
to him by faith now there are times that
he will touch us in physical tangible
ways and I’ve experienced that but he
didn’t want me to live that way and so
for whatever reason after four and a
half months I no longer had the physical
sensation and because I didn’t feel it I
thought God had quit loving me and I
didn’t know what I did upset him and
make it leave and I was spending time
begging and pleading for God to give
back this love and joy and I actually at
one time thought that God had forsaken
me I thought maybe I’m just so bad that
you know I died God just pursuit me and
then the Lord showed me these truths
that we’re talking about and I realized
that in my spirit the entire time I had
love joy peace all of the fruit of the
Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22 and 23
that it wasn’t there just sometimes it
was like this pipe again that in my
spirit was the fullness of God but the
problem was I was trying to discern it
and feel it with my physical emotions my
mind the soulish part of me was so
completely contrary to what God’s Word
said I was going by feelings and
emotions only that in a sense I had shut
the valve and the love and the life of
God that was on the inside of me wasn’t
getting out because my mind wasn’t
renewed and I begin to realize that you
know what whether I feel it or not the
love the joy the peace of God is always
always always on the inside of me and
when I begin to believe that see what I
was doing my soul was now open
up to what was true in the spirit realm
and the more I focus on that the more
open to the spiritual truth the more I’m
focused on that in my solely friend with
my mind then all of a sudden this joy
and peace and power that’s on the inside
of me begin to flood out and I now can
say that I experienced the peace and the
love and the joy of God infinitely more
than I did when it was just a physical
sensation it’s much more powerful it’s
much more prevalent in my life than it
used to be but it’s not a feeling
anymore it’s a knowing
and the knowing is much better than
having a feeling and you know what I’m
describing right here goes contrary to
most Christians experience most
Christian haven’t gotten their sold
where it’s renewed to the spirit they
are still looking out to the physical
realm trying to somehow or another
proceed do I have a goose bump is there
something that is physically proving to
me that God is with me instead of just
going but what the Word of God says in
trusting the revelation of the Spirit
you know I’m out of time again today but
I am going to continue this teaching on
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continue to say this in so many ways
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speaking schedule mark your calendars to
come meet Andrew at one of these events
and let the word of God
transform your life he’ll be in Kampala
Uganda July 11 and 12 he’ll also be in
the northwest province of South Africa
on July 20th and July 21st through the
23rd visit our website or call our
helpline for more information I want to
let you know that on July the 20th
through the 23rd I’m gonna be
ministering in South Africa and I’m
really excited to be coming back this
will be only my second trip there on the
20th I’m going to be ministering at
spirit word ministries this is a Sunday
afternoon service and then on Monday
through Wednesday
Arthur min says and I’m 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 gonna be
holding a meeting on Monday through
Wednesday
with morning and evening services and
it’s just going to be a great time in
the Lord 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 you know what I
know that in the word it says that the
fruit of the Spirit is love and as I’ve
studied that I know that the love that I
have in my spirit is not just human love
that is subject to ups and downs and how
you feel at the moment it’s the God kind
of love
you
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