07/10/2023
We are made partakers of God’s divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4) in our spirit. Our human spirit is made right with God (Rom. 5:1, 9) and sealed by the Holy Spirit forever (Eph. 1:13–14). When we are born again, our soul (mind, will, emotions) must change progressively by the renewing of our minds (Rom. 12:2).
The nature of our spirit is now in agreement with His Spirit. We are “one spirit with Him” (1 Cor. 6:17 ).
As new creations, we are designed to live from the core of our being (our human spirit), where the Holy Spirit dwells. As our minds get renewed over time, we exchange our dwelling and reasoning of the soul to our Spirit “things above” (Col. 3:2). Discerning the difference between spirit and soul is helpful in understanding our identity in Christ. If we fail to live from our Spirit and have unrenewed minds we find it hard to understand even the simple scripture because our soul is skewed to the flesh not to the Spirit. We find it hard to reckon that the cross, Burial, resurrection and ascension changed everything, we cant devide the word of truth between the new covenant and the old. Conversely, when we read the Bible and see that we have become the righteousness of God (2 Cor. 5:21) and that we have been made perfect forever (Heb. 10:14) and that we are now seated in heavenly in Christ (Eph. 2:6), and that love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17) and that you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. (Col 3:3) we wonder, “How can these verses be true of me? We fail to realize that heaven is describing the condition of our spirit, not the fluctuating experiences of our soul. So discerning the difference between spirit and soul allows us understand. It also enables us to explain how we’re still growing in our soul by renewing our minds to these truths yet still 100 percent righteous along the way. We don’t get our righteous from the soul. So whether our soul is reflecting the flesh or the Spirit in a given moment doesn’t change the fact that we are right with God all the time in our spirit.
Because he has purchased us and bestowed on us his own righteousness and holiness: It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. (1 Cor. 1:30) Many of us are quick to say that we are redeemed, as the verse above indicates. But we are slow to agree that we are also righteous and holy. But how righteous are you if Christ Jesus has become your righteousness? And how holy are you if Christ Jesus has become your holiness? These are qualities that we possess because Jesus has become our life (Col. 3:4). Once we realize our crucifixion, burial, and resurrection with Jesus Christ, we can see that God announces us as righteous and holy because he is describing our nature. He does more than calling us righteous. He does more than making us His sons. In our human spirits, he has made us like him (1 John 4:17). We are righteous. We are holy. God sees us this way because we are one spirit with him (1 Cor. 6:17).
We are “hidden with Christ in God” (Col. 3:3).
My mind is continously being renewed
Selah
