Monday, July 11, 2005

Three In One

Have you ever noticed how often the things of God seem to work by THREES?
Examples:

The Godhead – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Man, as the highest expression of God’s creation, reflects his Creator’s trinity nature. Man is created to know three worlds – the spiritual world, the psychological world, and the material world.

These three worlds are related to the three parts of our human person – spirit, soul and body.

When a man is properly related to the spiritual world with his spirit, he is HOLY.
When a man is properly related to the psychological world with his soul, he is HAPPY.
When a man is properly related to the material world with his body, he is HEALTHY.

As Christians, our salvation itself is a three part process –
We have a past, one time forever, salvation of the spirit by which we are JUSTIFIED and made right with God.
We have a present, ongoing every day, salvation of the soul by which we are being SANCTIFIED and brought into the lifestyle of God.
We have a future, at death, salvation of the body by which we are to be GLORIFIED and given new spiritual bodies in heaven.

A Christian contains three functions of the Godhead –
He has the Father as his NATURE.
He has the Son as his LIFE.
He has the Holy Spirit as his TEACHER.
The Father’s NATURAL intention for man is that he be joined to Christ in man’s human spirit as his LIFE. Then the Holy Spirit joins to man’s soul as his TEACHER. The Holy Spirit directs us to the Life of Christ and communicates God’s divine will to our soul (mind, emotion and will), and the soul is to motivate the body to navigate out into the world. These three then, working together, serve to make you what we can rightly call a man or woman of God.


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