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 tired Tuesdays

broadcast of the gospel truth today I’m

continuing the series that I started a

week ago entitled spirit soul and body

it’s one of my favorite things to teach

this is the truth that God used to just

transform my life you know actually let

me just say this kind of as a background

to this that I had this experience with

the Lord on March the 23rd 1968 I just

knew some things because of what I have

felt and what I experienced in my life

that God loved me and it had to be

independent on anything I deserved

because at that same time than I

experienced the love of God I had a

revelation that I was a religious

hypocrite and that I had gotten to where

I was trusting in my own goodness and

God just showed me that my goodness

would never be enough and so actually I

for the first time in my life had come

to realize my unworthiness and it was at

the time when I realized my unworthiness

that I had this miraculous experience

where the love of God was poured out my

life and so by putting those two things

together first time in my life I knew I

didn’t deserve it and first time in my

life I really was overwhelmed with the

love of God and so it had to be that

God’s love was not proportional to my

goodness I knew that intuitively but it

went against everything that I

understood basically I’d been taught

that you have to earn God’s favor and if

you will do all of the right things then

God will bless you and I was really

struggling in my mind and my emotions

were in conflict I knew and I felt God’s

love but I couldn’t understand how God

could love somebody that isn’t perfect

and

Elessar perfect and this teaching on

spirit soul and body just radically

changed my life and the way that I

really came by this I was reading a book

by a man and I won’t tell you who was or

what the book was it’s powerful book but

I read the first chapter in this

three-part book it’s three three books

by the same author and I read the first

chapter in this trilogy and I looked up

every verse that he was using and he

made some mentions in there about the

difference between spirit soul and body

and it was your spirit that’s been born

again and God is a spirit and he looks

at you in the spirit and man when I read

that I looked up those verses I got so

excited that for the last 38 years I

have never gone back to those books I

the very first chapter looking up some

scriptures getting this has kept me busy

for 38 years when I understood this it’s

like a light went on I began to

understand things and it has literally

transformed my life I’m excited about

this you know I don’t get real

demonstrative sometimes I have to tell

people so that they’ll know I’m excited

but I tell you I’m excited on the inside

I’m jumping up and down this has just

changed my life yesterday I used

Ephesians 4:24 and that verse says put

on the new man talking about this spirit

part that has been born again which was

created in righteousness and true

holiness this isn’t talking about an

external righteousness and holiness that

is based on our actions but in the

spirit part of a second Corinthians 5:17

says if any man be in Christ he’s a new

creature old things are passed away

behold all things are becoming about the

spirit part of us and in that spirit

that spirit isn’t just you know have a

little bit of goodness a little bit of

righteousness and then when we go to the

Lord somehow or another it’s going to be

completed and perfected no in the spirit

now boy just put on your seatbelt for

this this is going to be more than what

some

we can handle but in the spirit you are

perfect you are complete you are as

righteous as pure as holy as Jesus is

when you got born again that new

born-again spirit that God placed on the

inside of you according to Ephesians

4:24 was created in righteousness and

true holiness

well that’s powerful that’s powerful

that just changed my whole life instead

of me trying to approach some goal and

trying to be holy enough in thinking

that out there if I could do everything

right over there God would move in my

life

now I look back to what Jesus has done

and when I invited him into my heart and

when I got born again at that moment I

became righteous and truly holy and

remember John 4:24 says God is a spirit

those who worship Him must worship Him

in spirit and in truth so God is a

spirit and he is looking at me not on

the outside not based on my physical

actions and thoughts but he’s looking in

my born-again spirit that was created

righteous and holy and he sees me and he

says perfect God’s pleased with me God

is not angry with me nor is he angry

with you if you’ve been born again if

you have received Jesus as your Savior

then you instantly get changed on the

inside boy that’s powerful and look at

this verse in 1st John chapter 4 verse

17 it says herein is our love made

perfect I wish they had time to put all

this and it’s context but I’d never get

through all of these verses if I was to

do that but it says herein is our love

made perfect that we may have boldness

in the day of judgment because as he is

speaking of Jesus so are we in this

world now some people have the audacity

to say that this means that they are

living exactly like Jesus lived when he

was in his physical body that they also

are living up to that same standard in

their holy and their pure and their all

of these things I’m telling you that’s

not true of anybody in the natural

physical realm there’s not a one of us

that goes around and just raises

everybody

from the Dead Sea’s blind eyes open deaf

ears open that walks in love that turns

around to the very people who are

crucifying you and saying Father forgive

them for they know not what they do

there’s not a one on us that always

turns the other cheek that operates in

that kind of love that knows everybody

so that we can look up into a tree and

just say as I kiss come down never met

the man before and you know his name

there’s not a one of us who can claim in

honesty if you would be honest that you

are living in the physical natural body

and a moat and emotion the solace room

that you are identical to Jesus in this

life but it is true in the spirit

remember it’s your spirit that got born

again any man be in Christ he is a new

creature old things are passed away all

things have become new that spirit was

created in righteousness and true

holiness and then according to this

verse first John 4:17 that spirit is

identical to Jesus as Jesus is so are we

and it said in this world not in the

world to come this isn’t talking about

that when we all get to heaven then

we’re going to become like Jesus this is

saying right now this moment in this

fallen world in your physical body

inside of that physical body in the

spirit man you are identical to Jesus

and I know that there’s many people all

around the world choking on this because

this is so contrary to what most people

believe most people are really only

functionally aware of the soul and the

body the external physical realm that

you can see taste hear smell and feel

and in a functional around most people

do not know that there’s another part of

them that cannot be discerned or

contacted through physical things and so

they go look in the mirror and they sees

it’s and they see gray hairs and bulges

and and wrinkles and different things

and they search their emotions and they

see all this and they think that that’s

who they are and they see limitations

and failures constantly and for me to be

saying that you

are identical to Jesus there’s some

people that again just cannot go beyond

what they see tastier smell and feel

they think that if they can’t perceive

it with one of these five senses it

doesn’t exist but I’m telling you that

if you’ve been born again in your spirit

you are a new creature old things have

passed away

all things have become new that spirit

has been created in righteousness and

true holiness and as Jesus is right this

moment at the right hand of God the

Father

resurrected perfect pure holy

all-powerful as Jesus is so are we not

in our physical body and not in our

soulish mind and actions but in our

spirit we are identical to Jesus that’s

nearly too good to be true but it’s true

over in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 it

says but he that is joined unto the Lord

is one spirit and the Greek word for one

there is the Greek word Hesse hei s and

it means a singular one to the exclusion

of another it’s not saying that we are

one in the sense that we are just

similar that we have a little bit of God

in us we’ve now been born of God and now

we are like his offspring and we have a

spark of the Divine in us know that word

has hei s means a singular one to the

exclusion of another it’s stressing

being identical identical exactly the

same he that is joined under the Lord

has become one spirit with him

our born-again spirit our born-again

spirit is as perfect as holy as pure as

Jesus’s first John 4:17 as he is so are

we in this world that can only be true

of us in the spirit realm our physical

body isn’t like him we’ve got the

scriptural promises that it’s going to

be changed and we’ll have to get a

glorified body we’ve got the scriptural

promises like first Corinthians chapter

13 where we now only know in part and we

only prophesy in part but when that

which is perfect is come our glory

five body then we’ll know all things

even is also we’re known that’s still to

come but in the spirit realm your spirit

has already been changed your spirit is

as perfect as Jesus is if you’ve been

joined under the Lord you are one with

him you are identical if there are such

a things in the spirit realm if as atoms

and molecules then you are atom for atom

molecule for molecule identical to Jesus

in your spirit I know that there’s

people choking on this because again we

look on the external there are some of

you looking at me and thinking man I can

tell by looking at you that you aren’t

perfect that you are an identical to

Jesus well you’re just looking on my

outward person you are listening to my

soul ease room you know I’ve got a Texas

accent I don’t say everything correctly

if I was picking people I wouldn’t have

picked me you know I’m not the greatest

representation for God that has ever

been but see you’re only looking on my

outer person you are listening to my

soulish man you can’t see me in the

spirit I can’t see me in the spirit

except through the word but you know

what I’ve come to trust what I see in

this mirror this is like a spiritual

mirror and it says as Jesus is so am I

in this world it says that I am now

joined under the Lord and I am one

spirit my spirit is identical to Jesus

because according to Galatians chapter 4

it was the spirit of his son that he

sent into us when I got born again God

took out of me that old nature that old

spirit being and he placed within me the

spirit of his son and somebody says well

I don’t know that I have the Spirit of

God

well Romans 8:9 says if any man have not

the Spirit of Christ he is none of his

if you don’t have the Spirit of Christ

living on the inside of you then you

aren’t truly born again all you are is

religious all you are is just kind of

embracing Christian philosophy instead

of you know Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist

philosophy but you haven’t been truly

born again if you get born again the

Bible says that God Himself comes and

moves on the inside of you and gives you

he sends the spirit of his son into you

crying Abba Father and if you don’t have

the Spirit of Christ then you aren’t

truly born again if you have been born

again then you do have the Spirit of

Christ and that born-again spirit on the

inside of you is is righteous and is

pure and as holy as Jesus is you got the

mind of Christ 1st Corinthians chapter 2

and verse 16 says that that you have the

mind of Christ it says in 1st John

chapter 2 verse 20 that you have an

unction that means a special anointing

or in dumit from God in the spirit and

you know all things not some things but

all things and again some people just

disconnect right there and they say but

wait a minute my experience my last test

shows that I don’t know all things I

mean I couldn’t even find my keys this

morning I couldn’t find my glasses and

they were on top of my head how can you

say that I know all things in the

physical realm you don’t know all things

with your little physical mind you don’t

know all things but there is a mind in

your spirit that born-again part of you

has the mind of Christ it has an unction

from the Holy One it knows all things

Colossians chapter 3 verse 10 says put

on the new man which is renewed in

knowledge after the image of him that

created him in your spirit you have been

renewed in knowledge you know everything

that God knows you know this is a

sideline I don’t want to spend the rest

of the today teaching on this but let me

just say that this is one of the reasons

that receiving this gift of speaking in

tongues is such a powerful thing because

in your spirit you have an unction from

the Holy One you know all things you

have the mind of Christ you have been

renewed in knowledge and the Bible says

in 1st Corinthians chapter 14 verse 14 I

believe it is that when you pray in

tongues your spirit prays the part of

you that has the mind of Christ that has

been renewed in knowledge that has an

unction from the Holy One and you know

all things the spirit part of you that

has all of this wisdom is praying when

you’re praying in tongues and then first

Corinthians 14 13 says

that if you pray in tongues pray also

that you may interpret when you come up

against things in your daily life that

you don’t know what to do you know it’s

typical that Christians will say well

further along we’ll know all about it

we just can’t understand I have not seen

nor ear heard neither has entered into

the heart of man the things which God

has prepared for them that love it

that’s 1st Corinthians chapter 2 I

believe it’s around verse 9 but then the

very next verse says but but God has

revealed them unto us by his Spirit we

quit right there and say well we just

can’t no further along we’ll understand

why you can’t know with your little

peanut brain you can’t figure everything

out in just your own ability but in your

spirit you have the mind of Christ and

you can pray in tongues and when you’re

praying in tongues you are praying out

this hidden wisdom the perfect wisdom

the mind of Christ and then 1st

Corinthians 14 13 says pray that you

interpret and when you do that all of a

sudden this wisdom that’s in your spirit

starts coming out into your physical

mind and into your soul ease REM so that

you can understand it and get a handle

on it

I can’t tell you how many times I have

come up against something that is just

beyond my ability and so what I do is

start praying in the spirit and

believing and saying God I believe that

right now according to these verses I

can’t see it I don’t know this by

feeling it it’s not a goose bump running

up and down my spine but based on your

word I am praying the hidden wisdom of

God and I am praying that I interpret

and I just start doing that and then

BOOM

God gives me creative ideas God shows me

what to do God tells me different things

and I have seen this happen over and

over and over and over again ways that

have proven by a time that it was

certainly God that was speaking to me it

has been proven to me beyond a shadow of

a doubt but see a lot of people they

just aren’t aware of this spiritual

realm so when they come up into

something they go and search all of

their wisdom all of their ability they

might turn to another

human being they might turn to a book

but they’re still looking just in the

physical natural realm not realizing

that the whole time they have the Spirit

of Christ on the inside of them that

they are identical to Jesus everything

that Jesus knows your born-again spirit

knows because you have been given the

mind of Christ 1st Corinthians 2:16 you

have an unction from the Holy One and

you know all things 1st John 2:20 you

have been renewed in knowledge after the

image of him that created you Colossians

chapter 3 verse 10 and they just don’t

draw on this because they don’t know it

there it’s there they’re just carnal

they’re looking in the physical natural

realm instead of the spiritual realm I’m

telling you brothers and sisters this is

how the Christian life works in you in

yourself in just your physical body and

in your soulish mind mental emotional

part of you are inadequate to live the

Christian life it’s absolutely

impossible to live up to the standards

that Jesus put down in just your natural

self but there is another part of you

the spirit that has been recreated

created in righteousness and true

holiness it’s identical to Jesus it’s

ounce for ounce molecule for molecule

identical to Jesus in the spirit realm

and you can draw this power in this life

this wisdom this knowledge that lives in

your spirit out there’s many ways of

doing it but certainly what I was

talking about today is one of the most

important one of the quickest ways and

that’s to pray in tongues and when

you’re praying in tongues your spirit is

saying these supernatural things and

then pray that you interpret and let

your spirit instruct your mind now you

have to always qualify that and put it

together with the Word of God because

not every single thought that will come

to you while you’re praying in tongues

is always of God the Word of God is the

acid test but if you would do this and

begin to draw this wisdom out I

guarantee you your life would be

transformed see this is another

application of this teaching on spirit

soul and body this is one of the things

that happened to me is when I begin to

understand this no longer did I see

myself as a

mere human being and I know that there’s

probably some party watching this

problem says well who do you think you

are I think I’m born again and that I’m

God possessed I think that one third of

me is wall to wall Holy Ghost I think

that one third of me has been changed

and as Jesus is so am i I am not just

human

you know these songs there’s a real

famous song that goes Lord I’m only

human

I’m just a man I’m not only human I’m

not just a man

one third of me is now identical to

Jesus I have power and ability and

because of this you can sit here and

criticize it if you want to and think

that I’m strange you know if you don’t

believe this I think you’re strange I’m

not saying that in a condemning way but

I’m just saying that this is what the

Word teaches and since I have begun to

believe this you know what I have

started seeing the power of God

manifests to overcome depression and

discouragement criticism that people

give me I’m now living above those

things it’s not that I don’t have a soul

in a body it’s not that when people say

things and criticize me that it doesn’t

you know is it still hurts I don’t think

God wants you to get to a place to where

you can sit there and let people spit in

your face and slap you and I’ve been

kidnapped and threatened to be killed

and all you know what those things don’t

bless me but I know that I am not

limited to just this physical person

there’s a part on the inside of me that

is greater than all of that it’s in

union with God and because of it I’m

able to overcome these things I’ve been

able to overcome sickness and disease

not only in myself but in other people

I’ve seen blind eyes open deaf ears open

seeing people raised from the dead and

you can sit there and so manage your

crazy you know it’s like Felix said Paul

you’re mad and Paul said I’m not mad I

wish that everybody was exactly of this

same mind you know what I’m sharing is

that I know on the inside of me I am now

a changed person and through the Word of

God I’m able to perceive what these

changes are and I’ve been created in

righteousness and true holiness as Jesus

is so am I

this world my spirit has been joined

under his spirit and we are now one

spirit identical what is true of Jesus

is true of me in my born-again spirit I

have the mind of Christ I have an

unction from the Holy One and I know all

things I’ve been renewed in knowledge I

have all of these things on the inside I

mean just knowing that they’re there

changes the way that I approach things

in my life I no longer approach things

is oh god I’m helpless I’m hopeless I

can do nothing would you please do it I

know that God has now placed his

supernatural raising from the dead power

on the inside of me and I have it now I

have a physical body also and you know

there are times that I get overwhelmed

and discouraged but praise God at least

I know what to do now and I feel

discouragement and stuff I go and I

start praying in tongues and building

myself up and I go back to what God says

and I start drawing on that life that’s

on the inside I’m it’s not out there

somewhere it’s right here on the inside

I’ve been born again and God Himself

lives in

and this has radically changed my life

man I pray that this is making half the

difference in your life that it’s made

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when you think that you’re just an old

centre saved by grace and that that’s

all there is and you think that your

salvation is really going to start when

you get to heaven but right now you’re

just a centered about hearing that you

don’t have any power if you think that

then when sin comes you’ll resist to a

degree but after a while you just think

well you know why I can’t help it it’s

what I feel it’s what I am and you get

into it first of all you’re dead to sin

your spirit cannot sin there is no

desire there is no leading toward sin in

the born-again spirit and then secondly

you don’t go live in sin because every

time you live in sin you give your

physical body and your soul each

emotional realm over to the devil just

to come in to steal kill and destroy

John 10:10 says that’s all he ever comes

to do is steal kill to destroy but Jesus

came to give us life and give it to us

more abundantly