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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welcome to our Tuesday’s broadcast of
the gospel truth
today I’m continuing a series that I
just started yesterday talking about
spirit soul and body that title is
probably not one of my best efforts but
I’ll tell you the teaching in here is
life transforming this is what literally
changed my life as understanding that
it’s my spirit that got born again and
that I have a brand new identity in my
spirit man this is awesome and I
mentioned all of the product we got a
lot of things that we’re offering but
here’s something I didn’t mention
yesterday that we actually have an audio
book on this where my wife Jamie read
this book so this is the only one that
she’s ever done I don’t think she’ll
ever do another one because in there I’m
telling one story about these doctors or
wanting to shave the hair off my chest
and anyway she had to read that and she
said never again so but it’s worth
getting just to be able to hear Jamie
reading this book but we’ve got a lot of
great things in this teaching this has
just revolutionized my life everything
that the Lord has shown me basically
came out of this this is was the key to
opening up the Word of God to me and I
know that some of you are saying I don’t
understand what’s so important about
that I think that functionally most
people only recognize two parts to them
of course we have a physical body you
can see and feel that and so that’s
obvious and then we have a soulish part
what the Bible calls the soul we call it
our personality our mental emotional
part you know you can touch me and I can
feel it in my physical body but you
could say words and I could either feel
love or hate hurt you can feel things on
the inside all of us are aware that we
have an inner person that is not
tangible but nonetheless exists but
functionally that’s as far as most
people go is just to acknowledge these
two parts but a verse that I used on our
program yesterday 1st Thessalonians 5:23
he prayed a prayer and he said I pray
that God would sanctify you wholly that
your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved
blameless until the day of the Lord and
so that talks about three parts spirit
soul and body and most people don’t
understand that the spirit and the soul
are separate you’ll hear people coming
to church and say man I’m a I came to
see a soul saved it’s not your soul that
gets saved there’s twice in Scripture
that the Bible talks about the salvation
of the soul but that’s talking about
reaping the benefits of your salvation
the part of you that got saved that
salvation was not your soul your mental
emotional part you know if you were safe
for instance if you are uneducated and
you didn’t know how to read did you know
when you get born again you don’t
instantly get a new mind and you just
know all things you would have to train
yourself to learn how to read if you
don’t understand chemistry you would
have to train yourself you know when you
get born again you don’t have my
memories you have your memories you
still got the same mind and you’ve still
got the same body that’s not the part of
you that got born again and since the
Bible says that there’s three parts
spirit soul and body by by elimination
your body didn’t get changed your soul
your mental emotional part didn’t get
changed so that means that it was your
spirit that got changed but here’s a
problem you can see and feel your body
you can feel and you’re in touch with
your soul II shrim but did you know you
can’t see or feel your spirit now some
people may disagree with that and say
well then I’m feel the spirit I’m gonna
explain this in more details but you
don’t feel it the way that you feel like
heat or cold you know if I was to ask
you right now are you HOT are you cold
you know you wouldn’t have to say well
let me pray about it and study and I’ll
come back tomorrow and I’ll tell you you
just constantly you know if you’re you
know how your body temperature is you
know if you have any pain in your body
you know if you’re tired if you’re
sleepy or if you’re arrested you don’t
even have to think about it you don’t
have to study it’s just you constantly
are in touch with your physical body
and all of these physical things same
thing with your solely trim you know if
I was to ask you are you happy are you
encouraged today are you sad is
something bothering you you don’t have
to say well let me go pray about it and
I’ll come back tomorrow and I’ll tell
you how I feel no you are constantly in
touch with your feelings your emotions
whether you’re encouraged discouraged
whether you’re depressed whatever you
just constantly in touch with the
physical body and with your soul but the
spirit man you cannot see you can’t
touch it you can’t look at a mirror you
know if I wanted to see if my hair is
calling I can’t go by how I feel I have
to go look at a mirror and I have to
take action based on that if I want to
you know know how I’m feeling
emotionally I can’t just go you know I I
just know these things because I’m in
touch with my feelings and emotions but
when it comes to your spirit you can’t
see it in a mirror you can’t feel your
spirit now we will say things like I
really feel the Spirit of the Lord in
here
what you’re feeling is an anointing and
the anointing is tangible and you can’t
perceive that and faith can produce
emotions and feelings and things like
that I’m gonna explain this more as we
go through it but that was his spirit is
spirit let me just read this verse to
you this was Jesus talking to Nicodemus
when Nicodemus came to him my night and
was asking him questions and here’s what
Jesus said in John chapter 3 and verse 6
that which is born of the flesh is flesh
and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit what this is saying is it’s just
spirit is spirit and flesh is flesh
physical is physical spirit is in an
unintentional unseen unfelt unperceived
round and so you cannot perceive spirit
things
with physical natural means and herein
lies one of the great problems in the
body of Christ is that the Bible is
spirit and its truth jesus said this in
John chapter 6 and in verse 63 it says
it is the spirit that quickeneth the
flesh profiteth nothing the words that I
speak unto you they are spirit and they
are life the Spirit is what quickens the
flesh and flesh here is not just talking
about like the way we use flesh like
this is my flesh the epidermis the skin
flesh here is talking about your
physical tangible part of you and it can
include your soul e shrim even though
you can’t see the soul you can feel the
soul it’s tangible it’s something that
you live with and are in touch with so
the body and the soul together is what
the Bible is calling the flesh and the
flesh profits nothing it’s the spirit
that gives life James chapter 2 verse 26
it says as the body without the Spirit
is dead so faith without works is dead
also that verse reveals that it’s the
spirit that’s the real life-giving part
of you when God created Adam and Eve in
Genesis chapter 1 and then it’s
recounted again in chapter 2 about the
creation of Eve it says that he created
he formed their body out of the dust of
the ground and then he breathed into
them the breath of life and that word
breathe is the Hebrew word I’m not gonna
try and pronounce it but it’s a word
that’s used for breath he literally
breathed he put his spirit into them and
it was the spirit that made our bodies
come alive put this together with James
chapter 2 verse 26 as the body without
the Spirit is dead so faith without
works is dead the spirit is the life
getting part of you here’s the way that
some people say this is that you are a
spirit that’s who you are
and you have a soul that’s your mental
emotional personality part and you live
in a body but the spirit is the real
life-giving part of you Adams body was
formed and it was perfect I’m sure it
looked exactly like the body you know
any person would it was a perfect body
but it didn’t have life until God
breathed into him blew into him the
breath of life and it’s the spirit that
made us come alive and on the opposite
side when your spirit leaves your body
James 2:26 says that your body without
the Spirit is dead so your spirit is the
real life-giving part of you and when
Adam and Eve sinned the Lord told them
in Genesis chapter two I believe it’s
verse 17 he says in the day that you eat
of the fruit thereof you shall surely
die and in the original Hebrew language
that surely died it literally means in
the day that you eat thereof you shall
die die there’s two ways of taking that
in other words it was just reaffirming
that it is absolutely certain there is
no option this will come to pass you
will die die or you could say it this
way that in the day you eat thereof you
will die spiritually and that spiritual
death that’s on the inside will be
reflected in your physical body Adam and
Eve didn’t die until hundreds of years
after the ate of the fruit it says it I
think it’s in Genesis chapter 5 that
Adam was 930 years old when he died so
his physical body didn’t die that day
but in the spirit his spirit died now
when it says die in the Bible death
never means the way that men often take
it that it means that you just ceased to
exist there is no such thing as ceasing
to exist I’ve even read some things that
they say that no matter actually cease
to exist it could change form it can you
could you could have a bomb and you
could blow something up but none of the
matter ceases to exist
it just gets transformed into some
different shape form or you know like
water can become a vapor or it could go
into a frozen state but nothing ever
cease to exist when you die when
your spirit dies that doesn’t mean that
it ceased to exist that it wasn’t alive
anymore it was alive but it was dead to
God it was separated that’s what the
Bible means by death death means
separation when a Christian dies their
spirit separates from their body and
according to many scriptures 2nd
Corinthians chapter 5 verse 7 and other
places when when you walk by faith and
then the next verse says to be absent
from the body is to be present with the
Lord
when a Christian dies their spirit
separates from their body so death
doesn’t mean ceasing to exist when Adam
and Eve died spiritually it didn’t mean
that their spirit quit functioning it
meant that it started functioning
independent of God it was separated from
God there was a gulf there was a break
between God and men when sin entered and
all of the descendants of Adam and Eve
were born with a spirit that was dead
are separated from God they had a fallen
human nature and man once you begin to
understand this it just opens up so many
scriptures romans chapter 5 verses 14 on
through the end of the chapter just
talks about that in Adam we all died
that we were all condemned that we’re
all sinners not because of our
individual sins but because of Adam’s
sin and we inherited a spirit that was
dead separated from God and the reason
people go out and sin is because it’s
their nature to sin and I could spend
literally a number of programs verifying
that in teaching on the Fallen nature of
man most people today even many
Christians don’t fully understand this
they think that people are good at their
core that is not what the Bible teaches
there’s many scriptures on this let me
just read one passage to you out of
Ephesians chapter 2 where Paul was
talking about how we were before we got
born again and it says in verse 2 if he
– – wherein in time past ye walked
according to the course of this world
according to the Prince of the power of
the air talking about the devil demonic
influence the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience among whom
also we all had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and
of the mind and were by nature the
children of Wrath even as others this
makes it very clear that before we got
born again we had a fallen nature we
were by nature a sinner and the reason
we sinned was because it was our nature
to sin you know I’m always amused at
these people I go over to their house
and they’ll have a little dog inside the
house a house dog and this dog will get
excited remember this one couple that
every time I went over to their house
this dog would be so excited to see me
they didn’t get to jumping in and
barking and turning around in circles
and it would always wet the floor and
the people would just oh we’re so
embarrassed it’s you know this dog is
house trained it shouldn’t do that and
you and then they scold the dog and talk
about I just can’t understand why it
does this and every time I tell them I
said it’s the dog nature on the inside
out and I know that there’s some of you
that have house dogs and stuff I’m not
against that but what I’m saying is you
sit there and because you paint their
toenails because you get them cleaned up
and air you know blow dry their hair and
put a bow in their hair you think
somehow or another they’re like your kid
no they’re a dog and if you leave that
dog by itself under your supervision you
may be able to get it to act a certain
way and you may get it to you know stand
up and beg and act like it’s praying
over a meal and you can you can change
some of the outward things but I
guarantee if you aren’t there to enforce
it if you leave that dog by itself it is
a dog and the reason it acts like a dog
because it’s got a dog nature
and it’s just some people just think
that because you’ve changed some
behavior that somehow or another no this
isn’t like a real dog this isn’t a
normal dog this is like our little child
or something no it’s a dog and you know
why you can change people and because of
society’s pressure because of fear of
being put in jail because of fear of
being find our fear of rejection of a
family member or something you can get
people to behave a certain way and you
may get them to comply but their nature
is a sinner and if you leave people to
themselves I guarantee it will
degenerate into perversion every single
time the scripture says in Jeremiah
chapter 17 verse 9 that the heart is
evil and desperately wicked above all
things who can know it that’s talking
about before you give born again that is
the way that your heart is and because
of upbringing because of these physical
restraints you may get some people to
behave a certain way and look right but
you know it’s just like that dog you can
teach it certain tricks you can teach it
to use a bathroom in a certain spot you
can teach it to do all of these things
but it is still a dog and left to itself
it’ll act like a dog you are without
Christ or a sinner
your spirit is dead and separated from
God and that’s just the way it is some
people think no people are basically
good no they are basically bad that’s
the reason that it’s the answer to all
of the world’s problems is not education
throwing more money at it if everybody
just had money and if people didn’t have
any financial problems and stuff then
everything would be okay no people are
at their core they are sinners we all
were by nature the children of Wrath
even as others and I know that this goes
against a lot of our society norms today
but this is what the Bible teaches and
it’s absolutely true but all that being
said here’s the thing that really turned
my life around is it I begin to
understand that when I got born again
I got a brand
nature my spirit that was dead in
trespasses and sins and it was separated
from God it was taken out of the way and
I got a brand new nature put on the
inside of me and some people would say
well if that was true if I had a new
nature I’d know it no that was his
spirit his spirit and that was just
flesh is flesh John chapter 3 verse 6
Jesus was saying it they’re like two
different realms there are two different
realms of reality you can’t see your
spirit you can’t feel your spirit now
that needs a little explanation because
again you can feel the anointing of God
and you can feel faith faith in the
anointing is tangible you put it into a
cloth Acts chapter 19 they like
handkerchiefs and aprons were passed
from the body of Paul and when they came
in contact with people who were sick or
demon-possessed those demons were cast
out the anointing of God is tangible
it’s physical you can’t see it but you
can feel it it can be transmitted and so
anyway to a degree you can feel some
spiritual things but as a whole you
can’t see your spirit you can’t feel
your spirit again I go back to that
verse where Jesus said it’s the spirit
that quickens the flesh profits nothing
the words that I speak unto you they are
spirit and they are alive if you want to
see what your spirits like you’ve got to
hold the Word of God up this is spirit
and it is life see if you want to see if
your hair is comb you go look in a
mirror if you want to feel how you feel
well you can search your emotions and
you can feel but if you want to know
what you’re like in the spirit you can’t
just perceive it it has to be learned
through the Word of God the Word of God
is like a spiritual mirror here’s
another verse over in James chapter 1
and it says in verse 22 says but be
doers of the word and not hearers only
deceiving your own selves for if any man
be a hearer of the word and not a doer
he is like unto a man
and beholding his natural face in a
glass talking about a mirror for he
beholdeth himself and goeth his way and
straightway forgetteth what manner of
man he was but whoso looketh into the
perfect law of Liberty and continueth
therein he being not a forgetful hearer
but a doer of the work this man shall be
blessed in his deed this is comparing
the Word of God to a spiritual mirror if
I want to see what my hair looks like I
have to go look in the mirror I can’t
just go by how I feel I look in that
mirror and I take action based on what I
see if I want to see what I’m like in
the spirit I can’t just go by how I feel
because all you can feel is your
physical body in your soleus room you
can’t feel your spirit you can’t see
your spirit with your physical eyes you
can’t feel it in any physical natural
way what you have to do is go to the
Word of God and if somebody says well
how are you most people will say either
how their body feels or I’ve got pain or
I’m tired
or they will talk about their soul ease
room oh I’m really discouraged or I’m
encouraged or I’m happy or whatever but
if you want to ask about your spirit you
can’t go buy anything that you see or
feel you have to go look in the Word of
God what does the word say Ephesians
chapter 1 verse 3 I’m blessed with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus that’s talking about in
the spirit realm your spirit man is
blessed Galatians chapter 5 verse 22 and
23 says the fruit of the Spirit is love
joy peace long-suffering gentleness
goodness faith meekness and temperance
those are the things that are in your
spirit and they are there 24 hours a day
seven days a week 365 days out of the
year 366 on leap year every single day
your spirit is perfect it is complete
I’m saying a lot of these things without
giving verses but I will come back and
give you a verse for every single thing
I’m saying your spirit is completely
changed and the key to the Christian
life is learning who you are in the
spirit and learning how to walk in the
spirit
instead of walking in the flesh this is
what galatians chapter 5 says verse 16
walk in the spirit and you will not
fulfill the lust of the flesh if you
learn who you are and start walking in
who you are in the spirit and start
saying well i in the natural i feel
rejection and i feel hurt and pain but
in my spirit i’ve got love and joy and
peace and so father instead of going
about what people have said and what i’m
feeling in my soul I’m walking in what I
feel in my spirit I feel the love of God
I have the joy and the peace of God and
you start walking in that instead of
walking in your flesh when I learn these
things
it totally transformed my life I was to
have to say my favorite teaching from
Andrew is spirit soul and body but it
did set me free – knowing that how group
that my spirit man can never sin and
it’s always in right standing with God
and he gave me that freedom to be able
to just have a deeper relationship with
our Lord
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I believe Esther is the true original
Cinderella story not only did she
conquer the heart of the king she saved
her people from annihilation
Esther’s secret weapon was not her
beauty but her heart hello this is
Andrew Wommack and on the 16th of
November we are welcoming the Colorado
Springs chorale to come to our
facilities in Woodland Park and perform
Handel’s Messiah there’s going to be a
hundred and thirty singers twelve
musicians tickets are $15 per person and
I’ll tell you it’s going to be a great
great time so remember that’s November
the 16th at the Karis Bible College
Woodland Park Colorado Colorado Springs
chorale performing Handel’s Messiah