'Believers should
seek to experience oneness of spirit and soul. Were we to allow the cross and
the Holy Spirit to operate thoroughly in us we would discover that what the
soul has relinquished is scarcely a fraction of what it ultimately gains: the
dead has now come into fruition, the lost is now kept for eternal life. When
our soul is brought under the reins of the spirit it undergoes an immense
change. Beforehand it seems to be useless and lost to God because it is
employed for self and often moves independently; afterwards God gains our soul,
though to man it may appear to be crushed. We become as “those who have faith
and keep their souls” (Heb. 10.39). This is much more profound than what we
commonly term “saved,” because it points especially to life.' Watchman Nee- The Spiritual Man
Heb 10:36 For
ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might
receive the promise.
Heb 10:37 For
yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Heb 10:38 Now
the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no
pleasure in him.
Heb 10:39 But
we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to
the saving of the soul.
1Pe 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 To an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you,
1Pe 1:5 Who
are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed
in the last time.
1Pe 1:6
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in
heaviness through manifold temptations:
1Pe 1:7 That
the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 1:8 Whom
having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1Pe 1:9
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
1Pe 1:10 Of
which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Pe 1:11
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them
did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the
glory that should follow.
1Pe 1:12 Unto
whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister
the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the
gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the
angels desire to look into.
More in-depth study
on all this tomorrow, by the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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