Just as
we have physical gifts like tennis, golf or making things.
And also Soul
gifts - music, intellectual qualities, or a combination of both eg Art.
Then there are
spiritual gifts.
God wants
us to be spiritual people.
John
We are a
tri-part being. Just like God.
God the
Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit.
Col. 2:13 (NCV) 13When you were spiritually dead because of
your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God
made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins.
They
never develop spiritually they just stay the same drawing on their physical or
soulish past.
Man is a
spirit who lives in a body & possesses a soul.
1 Thess. 5:23 (TLB) 23May the God of peace himself make you
entirely pure and devoted to God; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept
strong and blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back
again.
Fallen
man operates out of a fallen nature, but the spiritual man operates out of a
new nature. (a spiritual nature)
Prov.
The spirit of man is God’s contact point. Without God, our spirit is
powerless, like a flat battery. The Holy Spirit is God’s power who charges our
battery, illuminating man’s spirit & setting it alight.
Just as the body has five natural senses feel, taste, see, hear &
smell, the spiritual senses can be developed so that our spirit man can feel,
taste, see, hear & smell in the spiritual realm.
Psa. 34:8 (NIV) Taste and see that the LORD is
good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
There are two ways to communicate with the spirit realm. Either through
being born again of God’s spirit which leads to life or through the occult
& demonic spirits which leads to death.
Acts 1:8 (TLB) 8But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
you will receive power to testify about me with great effect, to the people in
Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, about my
death and resurrection.”
Gal. 5:16 (KJV) 16This
I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal. 5:16 (NLT) 16So I advise you to live according to your
new life in the Holy Spirit. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature
craves.
Gal. 5:25 (TLB) 25If we are living now by the Holy Spirit’s
power, let us follow the Holy Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
Eph. 4:23 (KJV) 23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Phil. 3:3 (
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