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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
Wednesday’s broadcast of the gospel
truth today I’m continuing a series that
I started a week and a half ago entitled
spirit soul and body and this is the
teaching that God used to just literally
light a fire under me this is how I
begin to start understanding things and
basically this is like a foundation of
everything that God has ever shown me
everything that’s working in my life
basically all comes back to this this is
something that I use every single day of
my life and I just say these things to
say that I believe that this is super
important for you the title on spirit
soul and body may not be real catchy and
it may not you know reveal what this is
all really about but I’m telling you
that this teaching has transformed my
life actually I guess you’d say this
truth has transformed my life and so
I’ve been teaching on this for a week
and a half talking about that there is a
spirit realm and not only out you know
out there someplace but on the inside of
us every one of us have a spirit and the
spirit cannot be contacted or felt in
any physical way but the Bible teaches
first Thessalonians 5:23 that there is a
spirit soul and body on the inside of
every person then second Corinthians
5:17 says when you get born again it’s
your spirit that gets born again old
things pass away all things become new
you can tell that by deduction because
it’s not your body that was changed it’s
not your soul your emotional mental part
that’s changed but there’s a third part
of you your spirit and it was completely
changed totally changed nothing the same
in the spirit realm and again because
most of us are limited to our five
senses what we see taste here
smell and feel most people are not
really aware of what took place on the
inside of them so this week what I’ve
been doing is using scriptures to show
the change that has taken place in your
spirit Ephesians 4:24 says that when you
put on the new man it was created in
righteousness and true holiness it is
created that way it’s not in the process
of growing it’s not like a seed was
planted that it grows and grows and
grows and then eventually someday in
eternity we will be righteous and truly
holy no it says it was created that way
it’s that way right now in your
born-again spirit you are as righteous
and holy and pure as Jesus is first John
4:17 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 not so are we going to be in the
next world so are we in this world again
the only way that you can understand
that nobody is living this perfectly
nobody is thinking as perfectly as Jesus
did but in our spirit we are identical
to the Lord Jesus
1st Corinthians 6:17 says that he that
is joined unto the Lord is one spirit
and that word 1 there is is identifying
identical a spirit we are identical to
Jesus in the spirit realm we are exactly
the way that Jesus is these are
statements that are nearly too good to
be true
and I know that there’s some people to
just say no this can’t be true and it’s
because you are so dominated by what you
see tastier smell and feel and you know
that as far as your physical body goes
that there’s problems here you have
weakness tiredness you act wrong you say
things that are wrong in your emotional
realm you think wrong you have wrong
emotions you get angry when you
shouldn’t you get depressed when you
shouldn’t you know that there’s just all
of these failures corruption in the
physical in the soulless realm but I’m
telling you that even though you can’t
feel it in any physical way the Word of
God is a
no end of the Spirit and the Word of God
says that your spirit is identical unto
Jesus that is a powerful powerful truth
let me take another passage of Scripture
and use this to make this same point
again and here’s one of the byproducts
of understanding these things that I’ve
been teaching on spirit soul and body is
that it just gives you an ability now to
understand scriptures that you couldn’t
understand before because there are some
statements in the Word of God that if
just taken on face value and if you
don’t understand this truth about spirit
soul and body they’re impossible to
understand for instance in 1st John
chapter 3 in verse 8 it says he that
committeth sin is of the devil for the
devil sinneth from the beginning for
this purpose the Son of God was
manifested that he might destroy the
works of the devil whosoever is born of
God does not commit sin for his seed
remaineth in him and he cannot sin
because he is born of God did you know
that that scripture is really
problematic if you don’t understand that
this is talking about the spiritual part
of you that’s the only part of you that
has been born of God your body hasn’t
been born of God it’s got to be changed
it’s been purchased but it isn’t yet
redeemed your soul your emotional mental
part of you it has been purchased by God
but it’s not yet redeemed the only part
of your Redemption that is complete is
in the spirit in the spirit you are
exactly the way you will be a billion
years from now an eternity
your spirit doesn’t have to be cleansed
dusted off refurbished injected with a
new dose of the Holy Ghost
when you go to be with the Lord no your
spirit is perfect right now it’s it’s
perfect and complete as it will be in
eternity in heaven more those are
powerful statements but see if you don’t
understand that and if you just read
this that whosoever is born of God does
not commit sin for his seed remaineth in
it some people just really struggle with
this and let me put this it make it even
more apparently confusing if you don’t
understand spirit soul
because the same author said over in
first John chapter one and in verse
eight if we say that we have no sin we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us if we confess our sins he is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness if we say that we have
not sinned we make him a liar and his
word is not in us well these verses are
talking about sins and that Christian
sins and if there’s any doubt that he’s
talking to Christians in chapter 2 verse
1 he says my little children this is the
Apostle John talking to people who were
under him born again people that he had
brought to the Lord and discipled he was
their apostle he says my little children
these things write I unto you that you
sin not and if any man sin we have an
advocate with the father Jesus Christ
the righteous here he is talking about
Christians sinning in yet or in first
John chapter 3 verse 9 whosoever is born
of God does not commit sin for his seed
remaineth in him and he cannot sin
because he is born of God this is the
same author it’s the same letter there
is no way that John is sitting here
saying that a Christian cannot sin and
all of these verses they all fit
together he did not contradict himself
so how do you understand this well a lot
of people just throw their hands up in
the air and say well the Bible so hard
to understand one of the ways that it
becomes crystal clear is again in first
John chapter 3 verse 9 whosoever is born
of God what part of you is born of God
your body’s not born of God yet your
soul isn’t born of God it’s the spirit
part of you that was born again if you
were to turn over to John chapter 3
where Jesus was talking to Nicodemus he
said that you have to be born of water
talking about this natural birth and of
the Spirit there has to be a physical
birth and there has to be a spiritual
birth it’s the spirit part of you that
is born again and the spirit part of you
can not sin it’s incapable of sin it’s
righteous it’s holy it’s pure if you are
out here as a Christian live
you know life of sin then that is a
testament to the fact that you are not
letting the born-again part of you
dominate you aren’t walking in the
spirit you are being governed and
dominated and controlled by just your
physical soulish appetites but see you
cannot sin in the spirit realm now some
translations have tried to deal with
this verse and this apparent
contradiction that I’ve explained today
by saying well this is talking about you
can’t habitually sin in other words you
might sin a little bit but you won’t
habitually sin and they will use as an
example that a person might have been
alcoholic before they get born again
they might go get drunk once or twice or
three times but you aren’t going to
still be an alcoholic there’s going to
be a change and they will say that you
can habitually sin you know you might be
able to interpret it that way if you
only talk about the big sins but if you
use the Bible definition like to him
that knows to do good and does it not to
him it is sin the Bible defines sin as
not only violating some standard over
here and doing what’s wrong but failing
to do what is right is also sin and you
know what every one of us habitually sin
everyone on us habitually fail to pray
to study the word as much as we should
to love God and to love our made to love
our children and to love our fellow man
the way that we should we all habitually
sin you don’t even have to go into all
of those things you most of us
habitually overeat because you know what
if you’re if you’re fat and I know that
some people get offended me talking
about this but the truth is this is this
is accurate if you are fat you can’t get
fat off of eating one meal and you and
you get fat that’s not how it happens to
gain way and to be overweight you have
to habitually overeat you can’t just you
can’t gain a hundred pounds in one meal
you have to have alii do it over
and over and over and over and over
again so a person who would interpret
first John 3:9 that says that this is
talking about you cannot habitually sin
then you are going to have to say that
any person who’s overweight can’t be
born again because that’s a sin the Lord
told us with our body as a temple of the
Lord we’re supposed to glorify God in it
and again you can’t get fat off of just
one time it has to be habitual sin you
would have to exclude any person who
habitually fails to study the word and
pray and love their mate and habitually
Falls in any area you know what that’s
impossible
this cannot be what it’s talking about
but if you understand that this is
talking about your spirit in the spirit
realm you were created righteous and
truly holy first Ephesians 4:24 first
John 4:17
as Jesus is so are you in this world in
1st Corinthians 6:17 it says he that is
joined under the lord is one spirit if
you take all of those things and talk
about your spirit being perfect and pure
and then say that your spirit cannot sin
well then see that makes perfect sense
and basically the point that he’s making
if you were to read all of 1st John he’s
talking about that there were people who
had taken these teachings about that in
the spirit you’ve been united with God
you’ve had God’s righteousness and
holiness and goodness imputed unto you
it’s not based on your own personal
works people had taken these truths but
then they had basically gone far beyond
what God intended to the point that they
said it doesn’t matter you just can go
out and live any way you want to it
doesn’t matter sin is unimportant
anymore and so what John is doing in
this book is writing and saying first of
all that if you’ve been truly born again
that born-again part of you cannot sin
Paul said this over in Romans chapter 6
that the born-again part of you doesn’t
want to sin you are dead under sin
Romans chapter 6 verses two and three
and if a person is truly born again they
aren’t looking for an excuse to go live
in sin they are so in love with God they
want to
have a holy life they want to do what’s
right so the very first thing is that a
person who would say that man this is
wonderful I could just go live in sin
you ought to be born again you need to
get your nature changed you need to get
rid of that sinful dead nature that is
looking for an excuse to sin and you
ought to be born again but then beyond
that not only do you not have the desire
to sin you’re born again spirit can’t
send your flesh can your in your actions
you can still do things that are wrong
but you’re born again spirit doesn’t
have any propensity for sin whatsoever
but then beyond that you need to
recognize that even though your spirit
is in right standing with God and God is
a spirit and he’s looking at you in the
spirit and you’re clean you don’t want
to go out and yield to sin because
Romans 6:16 says know ye not that to
whom he yield yourselves servants to
obey his servants ye are to whom you
obey whether of sin unto death or of
obedience unto righteousness if you go
yield to sin then you yield yourself to
Satan the author of that sin and Satan
is going to come in and take advantage
of you it’s just like you fling a door
or a window open to the devil and you
will allow him to come in and wreak
havoc in your life you don’t want that
so there’s two real good reasons right
there and basically this is what Romans
6 is teaching about if you’d go study it
it gives you these two reasons first of
all you’re dead to sin your spirit
cannot sin there is no desire there is
no leading towards 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 to destroy John 10:10 says that’s
all he ever comes to do is steal kill
and destroy but Jesus came to give us
life and give it to us more abundantly
so you don’t want a give place to the
devil you don’t want to open up your
life to the devil so a Christian is
wanting to live holy but men these are
powerful scriptures and this is the
point that he’s making that if you’ve
been truly born of God that born-again
spirit on the inside of you does not
want the sin it cannot sin and it will
lead you away from sin
it will lead you into agreement in
cooperation and compliance to God and to
his standards any person who would say
that man I’ve received the grace of God
and I now am clean in my spirit and so
this frees me to go live in sin you have
really missed some serious foundational
truths here I would question whether
you’re truly born again but that’s what
these verses are talking about and when
I begin to understand this I tell you
what it just transformed my life it just
transformed me for instance you know I’m
I still have a physical body
I still have a soulish mind now I’ve got
this born-again spirit on the inside of
me but I’m not completely redeemed yet
my spirit is redeemed and it’s complete
but in my soul and in my body I still
make mistakes and you know when people
talk about me and people say things it
tends to hurt my feelings and I can be
depressed which is wrong it’s a sin I
could be angry and bitter and critical
and have unforgiveness in my life but
now see with this understanding that I
have I know that it’s not my spirit my
spirit at my nature level my born-again
self isn’t angry with people I can turn
around I can see how Jesus was and as
Jesus is so am I in this world 1st John
4:17 I can see that Jesus had so much
compassion and love that he could turn
around to the people crucifying him and
say Father forgive them for they know
not what they do
see I know that now in my spirit I have
that type of compassion I have that love
I don’t always feel it I had a guy spit
right in my face while I was witnessing
to him one time and I guarantee I didn’t
feel goose bumps and love just rolling
out of me I wanted to punch the guy’s
lights out but you know I am no longer
limited to only what I feel in my flesh
and in my soul I know that there’s a
third part of me that is identical to
Jesus and what would Jesus do well I saw
him on the cross
forgive the very people who were
crucifying him and I believe that I have
that same love on the inside of me so
when this guy spit in my face I was able
to why
that off and keep going I never missed a
word in the sentence and I just kept
telling him about the love of God and
telling him about how Jesus loved him
now see some people think you can’t do
that that’s because they aren’t
spiritually minded all they are is
physical minded all they’re doing is
they think that what they feel is
reality they don’t know that there’s
another part of them that is beyond what
you feel if you’ve been born again there
is a spiritual part of you that can live
as God lives because it is his spirit
that has come on the inside of you and
this is just revolutionized my life to
understand this I come up against
situations where in the natural it’s
physically impossible and you know what
there’s a tendency to just limit
yourself and say well this is beyond our
ability and you just kind of roll with
the punches and you become accepting of
all of these things that are just you
know bigger than you but when you
understand that you’ve been born again
and that now you have this Spirit of
Christ living on the inside of you
it changes your attitude I no longer
look at things and say well this is
impossible there is nothing impossible
impossible isn’t a word that even exists
with God with God all things are
possible and it changes the way you look
at things you know we’re in a building
that was just absolutely impossible but
we’re now in it I have seen miracles
happen in my life and in the lives of
other people which are absolutely
impossible but it it happened I tell you
when you begin to understand these
things it changes your identity I no
longer am just an old sinner saved by
grace
I was an old sinner but I got saved by
grace and now I am the righteousness of
God in Christ Jesus second Corinthians
5:21 in my spirit I am identical to the
Lord Jesus I have the mind of Christ I
have his power his nature his ability
living on the inside of me and so
therefore I don’t approach my life and
my situations and the problems that come
against me as an old sinner saved by
grace I approach them as a new born
again man a new species of being that
never existed before old things that
passed away all things have become new
I’ve got power and ability on the inside
of me that makes a difference in the way
that I face my situations and I don’t
know if this is helping you it’s about
to get me preached happy amen
I can never go through these things
without it just blessing me this is
what’s changed my life you know I know
that there’s people watching this
program that for whatever reason you
just are sitting this and I don’t
understand why you’re excited about this
I’m telling you you are missing one of
the greatest truths
if this doesn’t light your fire your
wood is wet you know what you need to
keep at this you need to listen until
somehow or another this sinks in on the
inside of you you need to get these
materials I’m telling you that this this
is the foundational thing that just
revolutionized my life to understand
that I am a new person and anytime I’m
out here and caught up in my emotions
and it feels feels like old man I’m just
driven to sin driven to anger bitterness
or whatever it is and and I go to
feeling like well I can’t help it it’s
just the way I feel boy it has changed
my life to recognize there is a third
part on the inside of me in the spirit
realm according to first John 3:9 it
cannot sin it will not see and it has no
desire for sin and all of a sudden it
just breaks the dominion of that sin
that lusts that desire on the inside of
me to know that there’s a part of me
that is unaffected by this I can’t feel
it I can’t see it in the mirror but I
can go to the Word of God I can look in
this spiritual mirror and I can find
that it’s there and just me knowing that
I have this resurrection power that I
have overcome sin in my spirit realm
that my spirit man is dead to sin it
affects the way I think it affects the
way I feel it affects my actions and you
know what I’m living holier accidentally
now than I ever lived on purpose before
see when you think that you’re just an
old sinner 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
the center down 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 what I can’t help it it’s what
I feel it’s what I am and you give in to
it but when you know that man there’s a
part of you that is holy and righteous
and pure and when you’re focused on that
it will become a self-fulfilling
prophecy as you think about how that
your spirit man is dead to sin and it is
now dead to failure as you think that
way you’ll start experiencing that in
your life it will give you a new
motivation a new dose of the power of
God to be able to resist and that’s what
I experienced in my life you know what
my life honestly is not normal if you
just consider people out here even
normal Christians you know what I’m
living above the normal I’m living and
seeing things happen that could not have
happened in the past and I’m saying that
this teaching on spirit soul and body I
believe is a key they planted that seed
that’s making all of these things work
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