This teaching identifies the three major parts of our being: spirit, soul, and body, and gives the relationship between each. At salvation, our bodies and souls are not saved. Their salvation has been purchased but they aren’t redeemed yet. Our spirits are the only parts of us that was completely changed at salvation. The rest of the Christian life is a process of renewing our minds and then manifesting in our bodies the change that is already complete in our spirits.
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Monday’s broadcast of the gospel truth
today I’m starting a brand new series
and I’m teaching on my favorite thing to
teach on what I call spirit soul and
body you know this is the truth that
just transformed my life and it has
become like the foundation of everything
I teach this is I heard one person
described this like a key that you stick
in your brain and it just unlocks the
Word of God it unlocks truth this is
what it did for me it totally
transformed my life and so actually
everything I teach comes from this
revelation of what I call spirit soul
and body that’s probably not the best
title for this but I’ve titled at this
because this is the way God spoke it to
me so I’m just sharing it from my own
perspective you know a good friend of
mine Duane sheriff has a teaching
basically the same thing and he calls it
identity the theft now it’s either
identity thief or identity theft but
it’s all talking about your identity and
because people don’t know who they are
and what God has done that they’re
confused and therefore Satan is able to
come and steal things from them that God
has provided but this this just totally
totally transformed my life and man this
is exciting to me I know that many of
you have probably heard me teach on this
I think it was two years ago on our
television program that I taught an
abbreviated teaching on this it’s been 5
years since I’ve taught the entire
revelation that God has given me about
this and so I felt like it’s appropriate
to come back and to teach this and we
have a lot of material that
we’re offering you this week our
announcer will go into more detail but
I’ve got study guides I’ve got a book in
English and in Spanish we also have this
little Illustrated teaching on spirit
soul and body and one of my partners in
Germany was touched by this so much he
wanted to illustrate it primarily for
children but actually it’s turned out
that this is just a great way to get
this truth across and he’s condensed
about 6 hours of teaching into I think
it’s either 20 or 25 minute Illustrated
DVD and it is really awesome
it shows the guy here and he’s got kind
of a little fat body but then when he
gets born again his spirit becomes this
buff look and it’s just it makes some
great points so anyway I’m gonna be
sharing with you this teaching about who
you are in Christ your true identity in
Christ and it’s what I call spirit soul
and body and here’s the reason that I’ve
called it that is because let me just
give a little bit of background to why
this was so important and how much this
has helped me and I think that this will
help you to understand the benefit that
this could be to you but I got born
again when I was 8 years old and I mean
it was a genuine conversion the very
next day in school on a Monday morning
my friends could tell that I was changed
and I mean I got born again I believe
that if I was that would have died I
would have gone to heaven I was truly
saved at eight years of age but when I
was 18 I had this miraculous encounter
with the Lord where his love just
flooded in the man for four and a half
months I was overwhelmed with the love
of God I mean it was life-changing I
didn’t I didn’t sleep more than an hour
at a time for four months I would just
nap here in there but I was so excited I
was just so caught up in the love of God
I couldn’t sleep I never sat down and
ate a normal meal because man I was so
excited I was studying the word I was
praying I was ministering to people I
just grabbed things as I went I mean my
life was radically radically changed
but after four and a half months the
emotion the feel of this experience wore
off primarily because I had people
criticizing me in coming against me and
stuff like this and I lost the emotional
benefit of it and then panic set in
because I didn’t know what I did to
cause God’s love to be manifest in my
life I didn’t know what I did to cause
it to leave and I had no clue about how
to get it back and at the time I was
thinking I had been taught that God
loved me proportional to my performance
if I performed well if I studied the
word if I prayed if I led people to the
Lord if I live the holy life then God
would bless me and my whole life had
been up to that point a
performance-based relationship and yet
when God revealed this love to me
it was at the worst time in my life
worth when for the first time in my life
I realized that I was a religious
Pharisee that I was a hypocrite and I
repented and it was when I was just
devastated by my own unworthiness that I
experienced this love of God and as long
as I was in this emotional thing it was
okay but after it was gone I didn’t I
didn’t know how to relate to God I now
knew that all of my righteousness was
like filthy rags but how could a God how
could a perfect pure holy God love me I
didn’t love me for the first time in my
life I’d realized that I’d just been
religious that I’d been a hypocrite that
everything I was doing it was for my own
benefit I hadn’t done anything motivated
by love out of a pure heart it was all
selfish trying to earn God’s favor and I
had finally come to the end of myself
and I knew that I had nothing to offer
God how could God love me and yet I had
this experience where I knew he did but
I was confused I did not understand and
I one of the best things that ever
happened to me in hindsight I didn’t see
it this way at the time but in hindsight
I got drafted and I was
to Vietnam and for 13 months I was in
Vietnam and I was a chaplains assistant
I wasn’t out in the field like what we
called the grunts but I was on a fire
support base we were taking shellings
and there was a number of times that
there was some physical danger and
things but as a whole I just was on this
fire support base and I was without a
chaplain the majority of the time I
think the first four or five months I
was in Vietnam I had a chaplain but then
he you know left country and went back
home and I was just there by myself and
so I did nothing all day except just sit
there and read the Bible and in
hindsight it was probably the best thing
that could have happened to me because I
was taken away from the religious
situation that I was in I was put on
this fire support base in Vietnam and
out of desperation there was just so
much ungodliness around me it was like a
magnet pulling me towards all of this
you know there was free dope and just
all of the booze that you could have and
there’s all of these things that were
pulling on me and out of desperation I
just had to stick my nose in the Bible
and study the word and I was reading the
word from 10 to 15 hours a day just
studying the word and without realizing
it the word began to change me I began
to change
effortless change I got another teaching
on that called effortless change but
anyway the reason I’m giving all of this
background is to say that I began to
start seeing things different and one of
the things that just transformed my life
is this truth I’m gonna teach you about
spirit soul and body and I began to
recognize according to John 4:24 that
God is a spirit and that those who
worship God have to worship in spirit
and in truth I had to relate to God
spirit to spirit and that God wasn’t
looking at my flesh my outward actions
God wasn’t dealing with me based on my
performance but when I got born again I
received a brand-new spirit and I’m
gonna be expanding in ant
find on this a lot but when I got this
revelation this is what totally changed
me it totally changed me and I have seen
literally hundreds of thousands of
people receive this same revelation and
it radically changes their relationship
if I had time I could give you testimony
Eve actually got some videos of people
who this teaching has transformed them
and they went out on the mission field
and started impacting tens of thousands
of people because of the very same thing
that God showed me right here so I’m
just saying all of this to say that
that’s the background I loved God but I
was struggling to understand God’s love
for me because I looked on the outward
appearance it says in 1st Samuel chapter
16 verse 7 Samuel went to anoint a new
king it turned out it was going to be
David but David’s father Jesse didn’t
even think enough of David to have him
come as one of his sons and stand before
Samuel he left David with the Sheep
David was the runt of the litter it says
in 1st Samuel chapter 16 that he was
ruddy and the word ruddy there’s some
debate about what that means but it
refers to red they think he was either
red-haired or with a red complexion that
he was it beautiful to look at in other
words he was a mama’s boy
and here was Samuel coming to anoint the
next king the previous King the current
king at that time was Saul and he was a
head taller than any other person in the
nation
he was this huge specimen of a man and
here is David this run a ruddy a
beautiful boy Jesse didn’t even think
enough of him to put his name in the Hat
he brought all of the other brothers in
but Samuel said it’s none of them and
God spoke to him first samuel 16:7 and
says don’t look on the height of his
stature or any of these things because
man looks on the outward appearance that
God looks on the heart that’s the way
that God is God looks at you on the
heart level and yet I was trying to
relate to God based on my performance
based on God am i doing
have I prayed enough have I studied
enough am i living holy enough and
because of that my my performance was
failing and some of you think well you
just weren’t as good as I am no the
Bible says in Romans 3:23 all have
sinned and come short of the glory of
God Romans chapter five verses 14
through the end of the chapter 5
different times it just talks about that
we’ve all come short that all of us are
condemned there you cannot relate to God
on the basis of your performance and yet
this is what I was doing and I believe
that this is one of the greatest
mistakes made in the body of Christ
today is that people are saying God I’ve
done this and this and this I go to
church I pay my tithe I study the word
I’m living holy now have I done enough
will you heal me will you prosper me you
need what I’m teaching here on spirit
soul and body because God is a spirit
and to really connect with God you’ve
got to do it spirit to spirit not body
to spirit and see I only understood that
there was two parts of me obviously
there’s I’ve got a physical body you can
feel your physical body whether it’s hot
whether it’s cold whether it’s tired you
can look at it in the mirror you can see
it but there’s another part of you that
can’t be seen or felt in a physical way
and that’s you’re in what we call our
personality this inner man the Bible
calls that the soul the mental the
emotional part of you your personality
you know if a person came up and touched
you on the shoulder you could physically
feel it you could even be looking the
other direction and not paying any
attention to them but if they touched
you on the shoulder you could feel it
but did you know a person could not be
with you physically and yet there could
they could say words to you they could
send you a text they could say something
in those words you can feel it not in
your physical body there’s another part
to you and that’s your soul your mental
your emotional part of you every one of
us are aware of those two parts but what
changed my life is when I realized there
was a third part to me and that’s my
spirit and here’s the verse that God
is to unlock this to me in second
Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 it says
therefore if any man be in Christ he is
a new creature old things are passed
away build all things are become new
I remember reading that and I said
father I know that I am in Christ I know
that I’m born again I got born again
when I was eight years old and when I
was 18 I had this experience where the
love of God just overwhelmed me I said I
know that I know you I had zero doubt
that if I was to die if something would
have happened to me in Vietnam
I would have gone to be with the Lord I
knew it I had zero doubts so I knew that
I was in Christ and yet it says that
you’re a new creature old things are
passed away behold all things are become
new
it didn’t say all things are in the
process of becoming new you will hear
people interpret it that way because
what they’re doing is trying to take
what the Word of God says and compare it
to what they see and what they feel and
they try and make these two things mesh
and fit together and so they will say
well all things aren’t new yet but they
are becoming there that’s not what this
says you can go into that Greek on this
you can study it any way you want to
this is not saying that all things are
in the process of becoming new and it
didn’t just say that some things are the
majority of things are a lot of things
have become new no it says all things
all things it says again if you are in
Christ old things are passed away they
aren’t passing away they have passed
away behold all things are become new
and I remember reading this verse and I
just you know put the Bible down and I
was praying and saying Lord I know that
I’m born again I know that you love me I
have a relationship with you I know that
I am in Christ and yet I started looking
at my life and old things hadn’t passed
away all things hadn’t become new
because see I was looking on the outside
I was an introvert it was hard for me to
talk to people I felt constantly like
there was people that God wanted me to
witness to that I was too shamed I was
too embarrassed to timid to do it I
failed and you know and it’s not that I
was relative to other people it’s not
that I was a terrible person but you
know what other people aren’t my
standard compared to the Word of God
again Romans 3:23 says all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God God
is not comparing you to me or to
somebody else
God is comparing you to Jesus the glory
of God and if you compare yourself to
Jesus you have sinned and come short
you can never relate to God you can
never do enough to be accepted with God
if you are just thinking that God is
looking at you on your external on your
actions and your thought life and if
this is all you acknowledge that there
is to you well then you’re never gonna
feel like second Corinthians 5:17 is a
reality in your life you’re never gonna
be perfect in your body in your actions
you will never be perfect in your
thought and if you are just if you’re
honest you’re going to be confused at
the very least and at the at the worst
you could literally just say well man I
just can’t believe the Bible idea it’s
not true I can’t see it in my life and
that’s kind of where I was I was reading
this it says old things are passed away
they’re already done old things have
passed away all things have become new
and I couldn’t see it and so I was just
saying god what’s the answer to this how
do i how do I understand this I know I’m
born again and yet what the word is
saying about me I cannot observe it in
my life and the thing that changed my
life I was reading a book and a man just
in passing I was very critical and
skeptical about what he was saying so as
he as he was making his points I looked
up every scripture reference that he had
and he made something a statement
similar to that it’s your spirit that
was born
in not your body and not your soul and
when he said that man I just shocked me
I looked up the reference and it was
this reference 2nd Corinthians 5:17 and
all of a sudden the light began to dawn
on me and what really changed me was
recognizing I was three parts prior to
that time again it’s obvious that you’ve
got a physical body it’s obvious that
there’s a part of you that is beyond
just your physical body you’ve got an
emotional part but I honestly thought
that the spirit and soul were just the
same thing they were just different
words referring to the same thing if you
look up the word spirit in the Greek in
the Strong’s Concordance the word pneuma
is what it is and it will literally
define it as the immortal soul
so even Strong’s Concordance
defines the spirit as the immortal soul
it doesn’t make a distinction between
them but let me turn over and show you
another verse that the Lord showed me in
1st Thessalonians chapter 5 and in verse
23 he was praying a prayer and he says
the very God of peace sanctify you
wholly that’s WH o LLY not wholly hol
why but completely and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless under the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ and when I saw
this it just rocked me to my core
because again I had always referred to
the inner part the part that you can’t
see but you can feel it your personality
your feelings your emotions I thought
that that was spirit and soul were just
two different words for referring to it
but this verse makes it very clear that
you have a spirit soul and body
you are a three-part being not a two
part being and God is a spirit John 4:24
says God is a spirit and they that
worship Him must worship Him in spirit
and in truth you have to connect with
God through your spirit not through your
soul and not through your body
God is a spirit God is looking at you
and me spirit to spirit not spirit to
flesh spirit to body God is not dealing
with you based on your actions he isn’t
dealing with you based on just your
thought life now he’s aware of those
areas you are a complete being spirit
soul and body but the real you when you
got born again it was your spirit that
got born again not your body you still
have the same body if you were a man
before you got born again you’re gonna
be a man after you get born again I
don’t care what you feel like on any
given day there is a DNA there are
chromosomes in every cell of your body
and they are either male chromosomes are
female chromosomes it doesn’t matter how
you feel and how you choose to identify
on a certain day if you were a male
before you got born again you’re gonna
be a male after you get born again if
you were a female you’ll be a female if
you were fat you’re gonna still be fat
unless you go on a diet your body
doesn’t get changed this is important
that you understand this we’ve got
promises in the scripture 1st
Corinthians chapter 15 talks about this
mortal must put on immortality this
corruptible must put on incorruption 1st
Thessalonians chapter 4 that we shall
not all sleep talking about death but we
shall all be changed in the moment and
the twinkling of an eye at the last
Trump I think maybe that’s 1st
Corinthians chapter 15 but anyway those
are scriptures I’m quoting to you and
your physical body has been purchased
and it’s gonna be changed but right now
you don’t have a glorified body you
still have the same body maybe with a
few alterations maybe you’ve gained some
weight gotten older your hair colors
changed or something but you are still
the same physical body that you had
before you got saved you can tell that
by observation and it’s not your mental
emotional part that got saved when you
got born again you didn’t get a brand
new mind you still have the same mind
you still got the same memory
you still got the same deficits if you
haven’t trained yourself and if you
there’s something you didn’t know you
just don’t automatically know all things
but the Bible promises us in 1st
Corinthians chapter 13 that there is
coming today when we will know all
things even is also we are known that
hadn’t happened yet your mind isn’t
changed so your body and your mind
haven’t changed so what part of you has
changed what part of you became
brand-new we’re old things are passed
away all things are become new
it’s talking about your spirit and I’m
going to share a lot of scriptures with
you I’m running out of time
today but when God showed me this I just
begin to delve into this and research it
and I found out that in Christ in my
born-again spirit
I am brand new and I have all of his
power all of his ability God sees me
differently all of my sin is gone there
is no sin in my spirit even when I sin
now that may shock some of you but I’m
going to explain this and go into more
detail on it but because of this I can
have boldness to enter into the very
presence of God because I’m a brand new
person in Christ had a lot more to share
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