This is one thing we all should desire as Christians because the bible says that 'as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God'. The leading of the Spirit is the guarantee of our Eternal Life.
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Chapter 4: What Is the Difference Between Spirit and Soul?
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit....
- Hebrew 4:12
The spirit and the soul are not the same.
Paul, by the spirit of God, said they can be divided by the Word of God (Heb 4:12). If you can divide them, they cannot be the same.
Only the Word of God can divide the spirit and the soul. The reason we have not been able to distinguish between them is that we have not dug deeply enough into the Word.
For 15 years I studied carefully... Eventually, I went through this process of elimination. I wrote it down like this: With my body I contact the physical realm. With my spirit I contact the spiritual realm.... With my soul I contact the intellectual realm. Here is a scripture that helped me:
1 Corinthians 14:14 (The Amplified translation)
"For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit [by the Holy Spirit within me] prays, but my mind is unproductive...."
Our understanding, our natural human mentality, is a part of our soul. Your spirit is active when you are praying in tongues.
One reason the church world has failed so miserably is that it has done so much of just one kind of praying- praying with the understanding, or mental praying. Christians have endeavored to fight spiritual battles with mental abilities.
Most of the time, just while I am praying in tongues, from somewhere way down inside, I can sense something rise up in me. It begins to take shape and form. I cannot tell anyone mentally how I know it, because my understanding has nothing to do with it. But I know on the inside of me what to do.
I follow that. I listen to my spirit. Because the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
Chapter 5: The Saving of the Soul
...receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
- James 1:21
The spirit of man is the part of man that is born again. It is the part of man that receives Eternal Life, which is the nature and life of God. It is the spirit of man that becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus. The soul is not the innermost being at all. It is not the soul that is born again. The saving of the soul is a process.
The Epistle of James was not written to sinners...James is talking to born-again believers. He calls them "my beloved brethren," so they were in Christ.Yet he encourages these born-again, Spirit-filled people to receive the engrafted Word with meekness, "...which is able to save your souls." Evidently, their souls were not saved.
You see, a man's spirit, the innermost man, the real man, receives eternal life and is born again. But his intellect and emotions- which comprise his soul- still have to be dealt with. They are not born again. They are to be renewed... (Romans 12:2, Psalm 23:3).
It is the Word of God that saves our souls, that renews our minds, that restores our souls.When our minds become renewed with the Word of God, then we think in line with what God's Word says. We are able to know and prove the permissive and the perfect will of God- because the Word of God is the will of God. We don't have so many questions about the will of God once we get our souls saved.
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