Daily Bread - APR/04/07
1 Corinthians 6:17 - But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
How could it be possible to communicate a greater degree of oneness with Christ Jesus than is expressed in these verses? Our bodies are the members of Christ, our spirits are one with him, and our bodies are also the temples of the Holy Ghost. To think that our whole spirit, soul, and body has not been redeemed and made holy unto God steps outside the boundary of the word of God (1 Thessalonians 5:23; Colossians 1:22; Philippians 2:15; Titus 2:14; Jude 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Hebrews 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; Ephesians 5:27).
When we were redeemed by the blood of Jesus every stain of sin was washed away from every part of our being: spirit, soul, and body. That we have been born of the Spirit is at the very heart of the New Testament (John 3:6; Romans 8:9; Ezekiel 36:26-27). The idea of somehow leaving the soul out of what the blood of Jesus has cleansed and made new is an assumption that goes beyond reason. The soul is as much a part of us as our spirit and our bodies (1 Peter 1:9; 22; 2:25; Ephesians 6:6; 3 John 1:2; Hebrews 6:19; 10:39) . Our spirit soul and bodies describe who we are as individuals, and so when we are singled out as redeemed by the blood of Jesus then it is not some part of us but the whole of who we are. Although our bodies are still corruptible and must wait for the resurrection, yet they are holy and belong to God. We are commanded to glorify God in our bodies just as we do in our spirits because they are both His (1 Corinthians 6:20; Philippians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 2 Corinthians 4:10-11).
Jesus told Peter that if just one part was washed then the whole would be clean (John 13:10). Yet God has gone to great lengths to convince us that we are one with Him by describing the holiness of every part of our being. The most important part of the gospel seems sadly neglected by many, and that is: that we are one with Jesus Christ, He is in us, and we are in Him (John 14:20; 17:11,21-23, 26; 6:56; 15:5-7; Romans 8:1; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18; Colossians 1:20; 1 John 4:12; 3:24).
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org/
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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