God is Spirit(Jn 4:24).
All spirits comes from Him(He 12:9) and
By His word, He gives life to spirits(Jn 6:63).
Though the world also uses the word, "soul,
Without the Spirit of God, no one can know the deep things of the soul(1C 02:10-11).
Faith is loving I the soul and cherishing it(Pr 15:32, Pr 19:8). The life of this faith is living for the soul.
God breathed into the man made of dust and
Made him a living being(Ge 2:7).
By comparison, angels are spiritual begins made in heaven.
Despite the fact that Adam is
A spiritual being made to live by the word of God(Ge 2:17),
He was deceived by the devil and ate the forbidden fruit, as a result of which
All men became unconscious of the fact that they are souls - thus, they lost their identity(1Co 15:21).
During the time of Noah,
While God punished with water all those who lived irrelevant to the soul,
He saved Noah and his family who lived according to the word of God.
God promised Abraham seed, offspring and
The sanctuary reminded them that God blessed their lineage to exist.
Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days(Jn 2:19), because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would give life not to the flesh but to the spirit(Jn 1:13) for
He is the Word who was in the beginning,
The incarnate Spirit, the Son of God(Jn 1:1, Jn 1:14),
The last Adam who came to give life to the first Adam(1Co 15:45-48).
As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished(Jn 19:30), declaring that He:
1. By dying according to the command, commended His soul to the Father who will raise Him by His word(Jn 10:18);
2. Condemned the devil who caused Adam to become unconscious of his true identity(Ge 3:4-5; 1Jn 3:8); and
3. By spilling out water and blood, i.e., the life-giving spirit, raised the first Adam(Jn 19:34).
Therefore, the Father raised Him from the dead for
He did not abandon His soul or let the Holy One decay(Ac 2:27).
The Holy Spirit comes to
Those souls raised by His blood, which is according to
God's plan in the beginning to make a spiritual space inside of man(He 9:7-8).
The man of the Spirit clearly sees the soul.
Therefore, he puts every effort to save every soul bought by the precious blood(1Pe 1:18-19),
Forgives by the perfect love of the Father(Mt 5:46-48, Mt 6:14-15), and
Pours out his sweat, tears and heart to serve souls
For he longs to be judged
Not as a man of flesh or a man of the person
But as a man of the spirit and
Finally receive life and peace(Rm 8:5-7).
O Lord,
It has taken me this long to figure out that I am a soul.
It has taken me this long to know that
There is a spiritual space that can bear life inside my body!
Let me live the rest of my earthly life for my soul, and
Let all those You have given me also know this truth! Amen.
