Sunday, October 9, 2016

Are we willing?

Dividing our souls and spirit.  Do we know what this means? We should, we need to know. Too many stop their Christian walk with their accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior, and forget to continue on- learning more from the Holy Spirit sent to us by our Savior.

Joh_16:7  Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Joh 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Joh 16:14  He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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.

A high priest's work was in the sanctuary where sacrifices were made -  Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is our High Priest now…

Heb_3:1  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus

Heb_4:14  Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Heb_4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.


An excerpt from - 'The Spiritual Man' By Watchman Nee

 'As the priest of old split the sacrifice, so our High Priest today divides our soul and spirit.

As the priestly knife was of such sharpness that the sacrifice was cut into two, piercing to the separation of the closely knit joints and marrow, so the Word of God which the Lord Jesus currently uses is keener than any two-edged sword and is able to split cleanly apart the most intimately related spirit and soul there may be.

The Word of God is “living” for it has living power: “active” because it knows how to work: “sharper than any two edged sword” since it can pierce into the spirit.

What God’s Word has penetrated is much deeper than the soul; it reaches into the innermost spirit.

God’s Word leads His people into a realm more profound than one of mere sensation; it brings them into the realm of the eternal spirit.

Those who wish to be established in God must know the meaning of this penetration into the spirit.

The Holy Spirit alone can teach us what is soul life and what is spirit life. Only after we learn how to differentiate experientially these two kinds of life and come to apprehend their respective values, are we delivered from a shallow, loose, sensational walk into that which is deep, firm and spiritual.

Only then do we come into rest.

The soul life can never furnish us rest. But please note that this must be known in experience; simply understanding in the mind will merely make us more soulish.

We need to pay special attention to this piercing and dividing. The Word of God plunges into the soul as well as into the spirit in order to effect the division of these two.

The Lord Jesus in His crucifixion had His hands and feet and side pierced. Are we willing to let the cross work in our soul and spirit?'

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Are we willing?

Please, Lord, please help us to be WILLING to let You, to let Your Word, to let the Holy Spirit work in us as You will!  Please!



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