Tripartite Man
Three Part Man (Tripartite)
God created man as a Spirit with a soul and a body.
1 Thessalonians 5:23, Contemporary English Version says:
I pray that God, who gives peace, will make you completely holy. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept healthy and faultless until our Lord Jesus Christ returns.
Spirit:
We are a 3 part being: Spirit, Soul, Body
It is in the Spirit realm that we have faith, believe that God hears our prayers, we have Hope in Him.
Our Spirit is what is in harmony or disharmony with God. If we are in sin and do not recognize that God is our Savior and our life, then we are separated from God. Our Spirit is dead.
Ephesians 2:1, King James Bible
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Quickened means made alive.
Amplified Bible says it a little plainer:
And you [He made alive when you] were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins,
Ephesians 2 says we are brought close to the Lord and made alive because the sinless Blood of Jesus shed for us. It is His work and His grace that saves us. We are born again. Our Spirit becomes alive with God. We are to be in tune with Him.
Soul:
For relationship with God to be complete, our souls must be perfectly surrendered to God.
Our Soul is our will, intellect, our emotions. So to have a true relationship with God, we must align our decisions, our thoughts, what we feel should be Godly and pure; come under the control of the Holy Spirit. When that happens, we then can enjoy the righteousness, peace and joy of His Kingdom.
Philippians 4:8 says,
“Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.”
Psalms 19: 14, New Living Translation:
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
Body:
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20, Contemporary English Version:
You surely know that your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives. The Spirit is in you and is a gift from God. You are no longer your own. God paid a great price for you. So use your body to honor God.
God wants us to treat our bodies right. Not put drugs, alcohol, smoking, into our bodies. Treat our body well. It is the body that has the five senses: seeing, hearing, speaking, touch and smell. Keep it from immorality and sin, from listening to ungodly and bad things, foul language, lying, cheating, immodesty. Walk as a Christian.
Summary:
Luke 9:23,Contemporary English Version says.
Then Jesus said to all the people: If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget about yourself. You must take up your cross every day and follow me.
Our soul tends to be self-centered whereas our spirit is to communicate, interact, and commune with God.
So it is good to read your Bible each day, sing Christian songs, say Yes, Lord, I will follow you each and every day! Bring your soul in-line with Godly things and thinking.
To sum it up, the soul and body need to yield to the spirit. God has called us to live a life that glorifies the Lord in all that we do. To do this, we as Christians must die to our fleshly desires as we take up our cross—our burdens, imperfections, and weaknesses on a daily basis.
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