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 monday’s
broadcast of the gospel truth today I’m
continuing a series that I’ve entitled
spirit soul and body it’s probably my
favorite thing to teach this is what the
Lord used to just radically I mean
radically changed my life this is
basically what has given me
understanding of the grace of God and
how God can love me and deal with me
in mercy instead of justice and so this
is now our second week of programming on
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into a study guide and the purpose of
this is so that people can use this for
Sunday School for Bible studies of
course it’s good for your personal study
because there’s questions and answers
there’s an answer key in here and it’s
just a great way to get the truth in
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really excited about that and so I
encourage you to please get those
materials now last week I basically was
just establishing some of the
fundamental things about spirit soul and
body that we are three parts and that
the spirit is the part of us that gets
born again according to second
Corinthians 5:17 If any man be in Christ
he’s a new creature old things are
passed away all things are become new
and most people do not really understand
and see the change that has taken place
in their born-again spirit because Jesus
said in John 3:6 that that would
spirited spirit that which is flesh is
flesh that there isn’t any direct
relationship direct connection between
the spirit and the flesh when you go by
your emotions what you see taste hear
smell and feel your five senses and then
your emotions they are only monitoring
this physical natural world but there is
also a spiritual being on the inside
that you can’t see in the mirror you
can’t feel you aren’t in touch with that
so how do you know what’s going on in
the spirit realm well the Bible says in
John 6:63 the words that I speak unto
you they are spirit and they are life
God’s words are spirit they reveal the
spirit James chapter one says that
looking into the Word of God is like a
man looking at his natural face in the
mirror so in a sense the Word of God is
like a spiritual mirror that shows you
who you are on the inside and we covered
all of these things in depth last week
again if you’ve missed any of that
please get these materials I guarantee
you this is life-changing stuff what I
want to do this week I’ve already made
this point that in the spirit we’re
completely brand-new I want to now just
kind of zero in and focus on this and
begin to show you some of the things
that have taken place in your spirit
because again you can’t just feel this
it’s not intuitive you’d have to go to
the Word of God you have to study this
and of course the Holy Spirit will bear
witness and give you confirmation that
these things are true but you can’t
perceive it in any physical tangible way
you have to receive this by faith and of
course God’s Word is how faith comes
it’s how this revelation comes so let me
turn over to Ephesians chapter four and
we’re going to start with this person’s
chapter 4 verse 24 again I wished I had
time to put all of this in its context
Ephesians 4:24 especially verses 17 18
on through 24 are talking about the
chains it takes place when you get born
again and in verse 24 it says and that
you put on the new man which after God
is created
aided in righteousness and true holiness
now that is one powerful scripture this
new man is referring to the part of you
that got born again if you come to the
Lord and truly put your faith in him and
receive the salvation that is available
to us through Jesus then there is a
change it takes place instantly in the
spirit realm your spirit becomes totally
new second Corinthians 5:17 says if any
man be in Christ he is a new creature
old things are passed away behold all
things are become new not some things
not a few things all things and you
can’t see this transformation in your
physical body and I use this last week
but if you were fat before you got saved
you’re still going to be fat after you
get saved your physical body doesn’t
instantly change your hair color doesn’t
instantly change your you know your
looks doesn’t instantly change your
gender doesn’t change you’re still the
same in the physical realm in the
soulish room in your emotions you don’t
just instantly get brand-new set of
emotions and new memories and everything
like that it would have been great if
God had given us a brand new head but he
didn’t he gave us a brand new heart it’s
in the spirit realm that you get changed
and this is what this is referring to
that if put on the new man which is
talking about this part of you that was
born again and it says it was created in
righteousness and true holiness well
there’s a lot of things in that verse
right there first of all notice it says
you were created in righteousness and
true holiness now see a lot of people
have the impression that when you get
born again now you need to start
becoming righteous and holy and there is
a partial truth to that on the outside
like say for instance a person before
they got born again was into dope and
alcohol and sexual immorality and when
you get born again well then you need to
start letting this change that is taking
place on the inside begin to manifest
and affect your actions on the outside
and so in that sense yes you should
start acting right and doing what’s
right and it’s not just an instantaneous
thing it’s progressive you become
more and more and more like God the more
you walk with God
so there’s a partial truth there but
this purse says that when you put on the
new man it was created in righteousness
and true holiness now see this isn’t
talking about a progression this isn’t
talking about you getting better I’ll
often hear people in churches that I go
to pray in a prayer and saying oh God
just make me righteous well they need to
be born again because according to this
verse when you get born again and you
put on that new man it was created in
righteousness and true holiness it’s not
progressively becoming holier you aren’t
progressive progressively becoming more
righteous in right standing with God
this verse says that your new man now
again what this is is this window into
the spirit world the words that I speak
unto you they are spirit and they are
life whoever looks into the Word of God
is like looking into a spiritual mirror
we’re trying to talk about what you’re
like in the spirit according to this
verse your new man was created righteous
and truly holy implying that there is
false holiness in other words there’s
different types of holiness and I really
believe that what most people are
referring to and they say that you need
to live holy and they’re talking about
that you don’t dip or custard chew or go
with those that do and they’re looking
on all of these outward things as
holiness you know really that is not
true holiness because man’s
righteousness our self righteousness our
own actions even though they may be
better than they’ve ever been even
though we may have made a total
transformation from the life we used to
live and we’re now living much more holy
did you know that all self-righteousness
all righteousness that is based on your
performance is infinitely infinitely
inferior to what it takes to really
relate to God now that’s a radical
statement and I know that some people
are offended by this by say what are you
saying I’m saying that God’s standard of
holiness is so righteous so pure that
you know what you at your very best are
still coming far short
of what God has demanded and see this is
this is really one of the main points
that God taught me through spirit soul
and body you know I have lived a
relatively holy life I got born again
when I was 8
I’ve always been seeking the Lord I’ve
never said a word of profanity I’ve
never taken a drink of liquor I’ve never
smoked a cigarette I’ve never tasted
coffee and I know some of you are
thinking coffee what are you saying
about coffee
you got scripture to stand on for
drinking coffee mark chapter 16 verse 18
says you can drink any deadly thing and
it shall not harm you amen it’s a joke
don’t write in to me about this I tell
you there are some people that just you
need a you know you need to get a life
there’s some people that’ll be so
offended because I said something about
coffee it was a joke
now it is true that I haven’t ever drank
coffee but I’m just saying I’m not
against coffee I’m just saying that I’ve
lived a super super super holy life by
man standards but if I was trying to
approach God on the basis of how good
I’ve lived I’d be rejected I might be
the best center that ever lived but you
know what who wants to be the best
center that ever went to hell I’ve still
sinned come short of the glory of God
and so of you nobody can relate to God
on the basis of your holiness and people
that are preaching self holiness your
own personal holiness as a requirement
to be able to enter into the presence of
God are missing this fact and what they
do constantly is compare themselves
among themselves in other words they
have some standard of holiness and they
have to look down their nose at somebody
who’s not living up to this but if you
were to stack stack your holiness up
against God’s standard of holiness all
of us have sinned and come short of the
glory of God Romans chapter 3 verse 23
there is none righteous no not one none
of us can claim holiness are our
relationship with God based on our own
actions and anybody who says that they
can instantly has to start making
comparisons and they will compare
themselves with other people right for
instance I know that there’s people
right now that’ll be mad because of what
I’m saying
and they’ll sit there and say no sir I’m
holy I’m living holy and it’s because
I’ve done these things that God is going
to move in my life and if I was to sit
down if I could talk to you face-to-face
I could guarantee you that I could start
grilling you have you done everything
perfectly like for instance the Bible
says that a man is supposed to love his
wife the way that Christ loved the
church and gave himself for it is there
anybody who could sit here and claim
that you love your wife as much as
Christ loved the church that you never
do anything that your will always 100%
faithful that you are always putting
your wife ahead of yourself the women it
says that you are supposed to reverence
your husband even as the church is meant
to reverence Christ is there anybody who
believes that you constantly treat your
mate perfectly and that you never make a
mistake see when you’re talking to
fallen human beings fallen human beings
aren’t perfect you may be better than
you’ve ever been you might be better
than I am but you aren’t perfect and if
I could sit down and talk to you
personally
I could guarantee you I could eventually
push some buttons and show you where you
are failing in some area if nothing else
I could just a j’t eight you to the
point that you’d get mad at me and lose
your temper at me and then you’d have
missed it then there is no such thing as
perfection in this fallen world and I’ve
talked to people before who’ve come
against me on this line of reasoning and
they admit well yes I’m not perfect but
and then they start making comparisons
well at least I’m not like this drunk
over here at least I’m not like this
public and I fast twice in the week I
pay tithes of mint and anise and cumin
and all these things that’s the Pharisee
syndrome and and every person who is
into self-righteousness and that you
have to be holy for God to move in your
life every one of those people will
admit if pushed that they aren’t perfect
and by their own theology therefore they
can’t have any relationship with God but
they don’t usually follow it to that
conclusion what they do is stop short
and say well no
I’m not perfect but and then they’ll
compare themselves with somebody else
who is less than them I’m telling you
God doesn’t grade on a curve God doesn’t
just take the top 10% and even though
you may not have made a passing grade if
you did better than everybody else he’s
going to round your score up and give
you a passing grade nope that’s not how
it works it says in James chapter 2
verse 10 that if you keep the whole law
and yet offend in one point you become
guilty of everything you know like I
said I’ve not used profanity I haven’t
drank liquor I haven’t smoked I’ve lived
a super holy life but you know what I
haven’t been perfect I haven’t been
perfect I’ve been selfish I’ve been
angry I criticized I’ve done things that
are wrong and according to James 2:10 if
you miss it in one point you become
guilty of everything I mean it’s like
you know if if there’s a hundred things
in this list it’s not a matter of did
you do eighty or ninety and you got a
passing grade no you have to do a
hundred perfectly or you must be born
again and then when you get born again
according to this verse and many others
that I’m going to be sharing this week
then you’re in that spirit realm in the
born again you you were created
righteous and truly holy it’s not
something that now you have the ability
to start living better and if you will
live better than God will accept you
know in the spirit realm you were
created righteous and holy in the spirit
and remember a verse that I used last
week is John 4:24 where Jesus said that
those who worship God must worship Him
in spirit and in truth the first part of
that says God is a spirit and those who
worship Him must worship Him in spirit
and in truth why is that because if you
were to try and approach God just on the
basis of your performance and how well
you were doing things then you might be
better than me you might be better than
somebody else but you come short of the
glory of God Jesus is the glory of God
Jesus is the perfect standard
there’s not a person watching this
program that is as perfect as Jesus you
may be better than you’ve ever been you
may be better than some of your friends
or your family but I guarantee you when
you stack yourself up against Jesus you
fall short and that’s the reason that
you must worship God in spirit and in
truth
in your spirit your spirit has now been
created instantly the moment you got
born again you became a new creature and
it was created righteous that means in
right standing with God and truly holy
there is no sin in your spirit there is
no impurity in your spirit in the spirit
realm you are sanctified and perfected
forever I’m going to deal with some of
those scriptures as we continue through
this study but boy this first point this
just transformed my life because when I
had this experience with the Lord which
I’ve mentioned quite a few times last
week and I saw the glory of God and I
knew how holy and how pure God was
instantly there was this comparative
sense of unworthiness in me I knew that
God was so pure so holy that I could
never match that standard now I was
motivated to and I’m living a relatively
holy life compared to people but I’m
saying that it my very best I still fall
short and I knew it and immediately this
presented me with the problem I had
received the glory of God I’d seen it I
was living better than I’d ever lived
but how do you relate to a infinite holy
God how do you do this well the weight
the one of the things that transformed
my life is when I recognize when I got
born again in my spirit I became a new
creature old things passed away all
things became knew and according to this
verse Ephesians 4:24 that spirit was
created righteous and truly holy it is
now the righteousness of Jesus that has
been put in my heart it says this over
in 1st Corinthians chapter 1 I’m turning
over there I believe its first 30
it says but of him are you in Christ
Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness sanctification and
redemption Jesus has been made my
righteousness Jesus is now my
righteousness you know there’s a
scripture in the Old Testament I believe
it’s Isaiah chapter 64 66 somewhere
around there and it says all of our
righteousness is as filthy rags and you
know that’s true for a person who
doesn’t know Jesus that’s true prior to
Jesus coming and paying for our sins but
after Jesus came and paid for our sins
when you got born again according to
Ephesians 4:24 you were created in
righteousness and true holiness and if a
Christian if a born-again Christian says
all of my righteousness is as filthy
rags then you have to qualify what
you’re talking about either you have to
be talking about your self righteousness
your own personal effort to do
everything correctly and in comparison
to God’s standards of perfection that’s
like a filthy rag or if you are just
talking about you across the board and
saying that there’s nothing righteous
there’s nothing good in you and if
you’ve been born again then you are in
effect calling Jesus a filthy rag
because it says that Jesus has been made
unto us wisdom righteousness
sanctification and redemption Jesus has
become your righteousness Jesus has
given you his righteousness it says in
2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 for a
it please let me see the exact wording
on this 2nd Corinthians 5:21 for he hath
made him starting at God the father made
him Jesus who knew no sin to be made sin
for us that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him
2nd Corinthians 5:21 says we are now the
righteousness of God
now most people again look in the mirror
and they saw no I’m not righteous well
you may not be in the physical realm it
may not be reflected in all of your
actions yet it may not be in your
thoughts and attitudes yet but in the
spirit the moment you get born again you
created in righteousness and true
holiness Jesus His righteousness has now
been imputed unto you you have been made
the righteousness of God second
Corinthians 5:21 and the word righteous
again is kind of a religious term that
some people just don’t really understand
they use it but they don’t really have a
clear definition of what it means but a
simple definition is it means in right
standing with God you are right with God
you are in right standing
it literally means much more than that
it means that all of your sin has been
taken away and that God has imputed unto
you his righteousness his holiness in
the spirit when you get born again your
spirit is now clean and pure wholly
righteous it is truly holy not this
physical holiness that is just good in
comparison to another Center but in the
spirit you are as holy and pure as Jesus
is because it is his righteousness that
has been imputed unto you there’s many
other scriptures that I’m going to be
going through and sharing but see these
are some of the things that this
teaching on spirit soul and body has
just liberated me on because I knew that
God was infinitely greater than I was or
ever could be and I was trying to be
pleasing to him but as long as I thought
that it was just my external actions and
thoughts that God was looking at well
then there was this constant
disappointment like god I’ll never
measure up to your standard I’ll never
be good enough how could you ever love
me and one of the things that I’ve
learned through spirit somebody is that
when I got born again my spirit was
changed and how has it changed it was
created righteous and truly holy and now
God is a spirit and God is looking at me
in my spirit and in my spirit I am a
totally brand new creation that is
righteous and truly holy and so because
of that I can now worship God in spirit
and in truth I can come before God and
instead of talking about how much I’ve
blown it out here and how I’ve been less
than what I’m suppose
to be I can come before God and start
praising him that when I got born again
I was created in righteousness and true
holiness and that now God sees me holy
and pure and I’m in God’s class in my
spirit you know if you don’t understand
what I’m talking about it if you were
just thinking that I’m talking about
nothing but my physical body and actions
in my soul is round then you may think
that I’m sitting here and speaking
blasphemy and speaking arrogant things
actually it’s just the opposite in my
flesh I am nothing in my flesh I can do
nothing but I am a born-again person and
God has literally put himself on the
inside of me I have the Spirit of Christ
in me Romans 8:9 says if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ he is none of
his
I have the Spirit of Christ and I now am
righteous and holy in my spirit and able
to relate to God’s Spirit the spirit
with no sense of sin no sense of
unworthy for that is just merely too
good to be true news but that’s the
gospel and I’m going to be explaining
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