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What is Spirit, Soul, and Body?


Sunday, July 7, 2013
Led by Eric Gintert


1Thessalonians 5:23

  • We are spirit, soul, and body... a 3 part being.
Who is the spirit, who is the soul, and who is the body? Find out who you are and you'll find out who God is.

Genesis 1:26-27
  • God said "Let us" in "our image" and "our likeness". Why is singular (God) speaking in plural (us & our)?
1 John 5:7
  • God, as a whole, is 1) The Father, 2) The Word, & 3) The Holy Ghost. Three in one.
John 1:1, 14
  • The Word is Jesus!
Genesis 2:7
  • Just as God is Spirit (Holy Spirit), Soul (The Father), and Body (The Word/Jesus), So we are spirit, soul, and body. Made in His image and His likeness.
  • The Dust of the Ground = The Body (flesh)
  • Breath of Life = The Spirit (breath means spirit, Spirit of God)
  • Living Soul = The Soul (living being or creature)
James 2:26
  • The body without the spirit is dead
  • In Genesis 2, Adam was created with the Spirit of God. When His Spirit is gone, we are dead.
Genesis 2:16-17
  • God told Adam if he ate of the tree, he would surely die.
  • Adam's body didn't die... did God lie? What did die then, the soul or the spirit?
John 3:1-6
  • That which is born of flesh is flesh.
  • That which is born of Spirit is spirit.
The Spirit of God died in Adam after he sinned(Genesis 2:17, James 2:26). Adam was created with the Spirit of God in him from "birth" but we weren't because after The Fall was death and all must now be born again. After their sin, Adam and Eve had a worldly spirit and saw themselves that they were naked and were ashamed.

Romans 5:12
  • Adam brought sin and death into the world and we are no longer born with the Spirit of God in us because we are now born with a sin nature.
Romans 6:23
  • The wages of sin is death.
  • The Gift of God is eternal life.
1 John 3:9
  • If God's seed is in us, we cannot sin.
What part of us sins? The body & the soul.

The soul is the conscience that feels guilty for sin. The one that tells us we're not good enough. The soul is also emotions, feelings, and our heart.

Hebrews 4:12
  •  Divide asunder the soul, spirit, and joints & marrow (flesh?).
Matthew 26:41
  • The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
James 5:19-20 & Proverns 11:30
  • This is not talking about saving a lost person. He is specifically speaking to a believer, brethren.
  • It's about turning a saved person from the sin of the flesh and the soul.

Prayer Requests
Elisabeth G.  -  cold
Dirk J. & family - job and children colds
Sherry & Lois  -  traveling; saftey
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