The Spiritual Man
(Jn6:67-69; Rm8:5-11)
God is Spirit (Jn4:24).
He is the beginning of all spirits, and
He gives life to the spirit through His word (Jn6:63).
Faith is knowing that one is spirit and thus desires for the spirit to live, and
The life of this faith is being led by the Spirit of God in order to become a spiritual man.
The fleshly man lives following his five senses,
While the "soulful man lives prioritizing honor, morals and ethics, and controls himself.
Accordingly, rather than physics, which examines the revealed beings,
Philosophy, which examines the origin of beings, may be more soulful.
Yet, even this is referred to as "basic principles in the Bible (Col2:8) for
What is seen was not made by what was visible but by the word of God (He11:3).
And he who knows that he is a spiritual man has the most surpassing knowledge (Php3:8), because
The Bible differentiates man into the carnal and the spiritual.
God breathed the breath of life into the man made from dust and
Made him a living being, Adam (Ge2:7),
A spiritual being with flesh, which lives by the life-giving Spirit (1Co15:45-46).
Adam, however, was deceived by the devil and sinned (Ge2:17, 3:4-6).
Thus, his spirit died (1Co15:22) and
All men became destined to enter the second death, hell (Rev22:14).
All men but Noah and his family were wiped out by water,
Since they were men of only the flesh (Ge6:3).
While the Israelites were a chosen people of God (Ex19:6),
The sacrifice and the Tabernacle instructed to them were all external regulations (He9:10), and
The blessings, the curse, the life and the death, and the circumcision they received were
All regarding the flesh as they were only men of the flesh (Col2:11) since
Their spirits were all dead (1Co15:22).
Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would give life to the spirit for He came as the life-giving Spirit (1Co15:45),
The incarnate Word, the last Adam (Jn1:1, 14).
Because in Him all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form (Co2:9),
Even demons recognized Him and exposed their own identity (Mk1:21).
Jesus also rebuked the winds and the fever (Mk4:39; Lk4:39) for
Behind them were spiritual beings.
As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1. Laid down His life to take it up again (Jn10:17-18);
2. Judged the devil the origin of sin (He2:14; 1Jn3:8); and
3. Redeemed the first Adam's sin and sprinkled His blood on all men for He is the life-giving Spirit (1Pe1:18-23).
He rose and ascended to the heavenly throne, where
He is seated as the Lamb who was slain (Rev5:9).
The Holy Spirit came
To lead the soul who lives because of the Spirit of Christ (Rm8:9, 14) and
Lets him become Spirit-minded, following only the Spirit.
The man of the Spirit is he who
Longs for the home in heaven,
Speaks with the Father in heaven,
Listens only the words of the King in heaven,
Speaks in tongues which men cannot understand (1Co14:2),
Rebukes and drives out demons who are invisible, and
Though uneducated, has the ears to hear the word of God (He4:12-13).
Finally, he becomes a spiritual man for
All joy, peace, and life are in the Spirit.
O Lord,
Am I a carnal man? A soulful man? Or a spiritual man?
Even if the world calls us crazy,
Let us all become spiritual men whom You will acknowledge in that day!
Amen.
