Our Spirit for Cooperation with the Lord
A recent post on the Lord’s coming concludes with our need to cooperate with Him to prepare ourselves. A key to our preparation is our human spirit.
• Zechariah 12:1 speaks of the heavens, the earth, and “the spirit of man within him”;
• Job 32:8, “there is a spirit in man”;
• 1 Corinthians 2:11,
—–“the spirit of man which is in him”.
First Thessalonians 5:23 clearly shows man is of three parts, spirit, soul, and body. Our spirit was dead (Eph. 2:1) but when we first believed into the Lord Jesus our spirit was made alive by the Spirit (John 3:6; Rom. 8:10). Now “The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God” (Rom. 8:16).
Our spirit is not the same as our soul; Hebrews 4:12 tells us that the word of God is able to separate them. When we live in spirit we are spiritual people (1 Cor. 2:15), otherwise we are soulish (1 Cor. 2:14) or fleshly people (1 Cor. 3:1).
The simplest way to use our spirit is to call aloud on the name of the Lord Jesus, as in Romans 10:12-13. The more we call on the Lord, the stronger our spirit gets and the more we are filled with the Spirit, portrayed by the oil gained by the virgins ready to go into the wedding feast with the Lord (Matt. 25:1-10).
Lord Jesus energize us to gain the oil to be ready for Your soon return!
Posted by Don on February 19, 2024
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