In Spirit

Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

2Co 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 

2Co 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 

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God is a Spirit-  what does that mean to you? The Spirit exists from everlasting to everlasting.  The Spirit goes beyond our flesh and soul-self. We've talked about this before but it needs more discussion. If we are to worship God in spirit we need to know what the Spirit is, right? God is a Spirit. God exists and God's declared Son gave up His Spirit form and took on the flesh of humanity.  Yet, humanity is more than the flesh. Jesus gave up His unique sole Spirit form and took on the human form and all it is comprised of. The human being has flesh, soul, and spirit.  Jesus was flesh, soul, and spirit. So even though He gave up His Spirit form He gained another form of the spirit, the same form of the spirit we all possess. Jesus lived by the Spirit, His spirit was never overcome by His soul-self or flesh-self. He worshipped God the Father in spirit fully.  Jesus gives us a new birth - a spiritual birth.

Joh 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 

Joh 3:4  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 

Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 

We who are flesh, soul-self, and spirit are born anew in the spirit when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.  Our spirit is once more able to reign over our flesh and soul-self. We can once more worship God in spirit. And this spirit change is a change that will go on in us until we enter death's sleep, or until Christ returns for us. 

The war we are in, this spiritual war is a constant war for our spirit. Satan doesn't want us worshipping in spirit, Satan doesn't want us to be born again of the Spirit. Satan would destroy us in spirit so that our soul-self and our flesh rule over us. The battle is unending as long as we live in the state we are in now.

Our Savior won the war for us, our Savior made a path of victory for all of us. We fight in the war that has been won because we are on victory's path and that path is through the war.

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 

1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 

We will suffer as Christ suffered.

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 

1Pe 5:11  To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

More tomorrow by the grace of our God, all through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.