BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT       

Genesis 1:26-27
"Then God said "let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.... So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them"  (SPIRIT)

Genesis 2:7
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground (BODY) , and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul (soul = nephesh in Hebrew)"  (SOUL)
(KJV)

We have body, formed from the dust of the ground, soul that gives life to the body and spirit to communicate with God. We are body, soul and spirit.

Genesis 2:16-17
"And the Lord God commanded the man, saying "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die". (SPIRIT DIES)

Since Adam was body, soul and spirit before he ate the apple and, he continued to have body and soul after he ate what was lost for him that day, was the spirit that God gave him. He continued to have body and soul but he didn't have spirit. The spirit departed from him and this was death for him since spirit, a form of life that he had before he ate, was no more there.

      It was actually this loss of the spirit that was restored in the day of Pentecost where the Holy Spirit was made available, so that today after believing in Jesus Christ you are again body soul and spirit.

      John 4:24
"God is Spirit"

      God is not flesh but Spirit. That is His image. Therefore, when the Word of God tells us that God created man according to His image, it means that in addition to body and soul man also had that which is the image of God i.e. spirit.

      So as God is spirit so Adam had spirit. One could ask, why did God make Adam apart from body and soul, spirit as well? The simple reason is that without spirit Adam could not communicate with God who is spirit. God being Spirit, cannot communicate with the body and soul. They are different things.

Similarly, God is spirit and to communicate with Him you must have spirit. Body and soul are enough for things of the five senses. But when it comes to the things of God, what you need is spirit.

I Corinthians 2:14
"But the natural (psuchikos in the Greek) man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him: nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

      The man of body and soul is impossible to know the things of God for the simple reason that such things have to do with the spirit, "they are spiritually discerned", and since he lacks spirit he cannot know them.

SALVATION

Romans 3:23

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Romans 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 5:8

“But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 10:9-10

“That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.”

PRAYER

Father, I come to you as a sinner and I ask you to forgive me of my sins. I accept salvation through your love in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary.

I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ came to this earth in human form, that He died on Calvary to atone for my sins, and that he arose again and is sitting at your right hand. I believe this is your gift to me and that it is through grace that I am saved and not of my works. I commit my life to you and ask that you continue to guide and direct me in my Christian walk.

Help me to have a hunger for Your Word, teach me your ways and help me to conform to the image of Your Son Jesus.

Thank you for this new life in Jesus name, AMEN