JESUS CHRIST

IN SPIRIT SOUL AND BODY

© Carlos Padilla, Julio 2010

… And the same God of peace sanctifies to you completely; and all your being, spirit, soul and body, are kept irreprehensible for the coming of our Mr. Jesus Christ. 1Tesalonicenses 5:23.

We know that our objective as Christian is the Great Commission entrusted by our Mr. Jesus Christ, so that we go and we do disciples to all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit Santo; teaching to them that they keep all the things that the Gentleman sends to us, because there am Him is here with us every day until the end of the world. Trusting, then, in which It has all power in the Sky like in the Earth, we go with urgent spirit soon and because ours around many do not know the Gentleman, who is with us, because this one is the best cause, the greater mission contained in the Bible in Mateo 28:16 - 20.

Knowing that our objective as Church is to go to the world to gain souls for the Kingdom of God by means of the preaching of the Gospel, we then leave to evangelizar and to conquer lives for God, following the strategies, the revelations and it signals of God. We use mass media, the oration, the fasting and all the projects that each Biblical and evangelizadora church projects for the participation of its members, which is reflected in the engaged Earth conquest when Joshua led to the town of God.

For it, first we must conquer our own life, or rather, let to us conquer by God. Our life has three battlefields: the spirit, the soul and the body; and these three can become our tools and vehicles of transport for the spiritual conquest of the hand of the Spirit Santo. So that these three components are not an obstacle, we can learn to be included/understood as far as the structure with which our Father and Creator have designed to us and composed so that those that dominate to us, physics, sentimental are not others and spiritually, and we are free to serve God effectively. Of this form we will be able to include/understand to the others and only to serve with patience and hope to them in the Gospel as the Kingdom of God.

In spirit, soul and body are a spiritual Biblical study dedicated to look for the objective, the intention and the mission of our life considering each one of the three components of the human being, created by God to Its image and similarity, for a Christian life of blessing for God, for we ourself and for the others, for it we will put into the hands of the Spirit Santo, Teacher of our souls, sanctifier of the body and giver of the Spirit.

Pablo de Tarso, in the Text exhibited at the outset, inspired by the Spirit of God, gets to give the keys us of the Christian intention and how to consciously put all our being in operation in the Spirit. Other Texts of Scriptures of other Biblical authors, and the same Gentleman, will serve basic to find our call and spiritual destiny to us in the Church and the life.

Pablo was Jewish and also citizen Roman, doctor in Torá - the Hebrew Scriptures of the hand of the Gamaliel teacher, religion fariseo, and called by Jesus Christ of supernatural form to the conversion and the true Light of the Son of God, when he persecuted the Christians, being transformed by the Spirit Santo so that he could include/understand the Christian life, the true life that pleases to God. He is when we know God of personal form - through the inner religion, not by the mere participation in the outer religion of the tradition and the practices - that we are transformed through the faith into the work de la Cruz of Christ. He is by means of a daily life with God that the Christian, like Pablo, gets to be understood to itself to share his life with his Gentleman and his fellow, as much in the Church for the Great Commission, like outside the Church where he will carry out his mission, and to keep for eternal life in Its coming.

The history of Pablo is not more, because it shines by the grace of God, but, like the one of each of us, we can establish a to begin with personal point. It is more, it is same God that calls to each in a point of its life to serve to him with a specific objective, and is also God that enables to us and it gives to the gift or the gifts us that we are going to need. But before it is necessary that we include/understand how we worked and how it repels what we do in each of our parts of the being, and in the order that appears: the spirit, the soul and the body.

My previous Biblical studies: Virtue on seven gifts of Spirit, and also David and Goliat on Faith and Five Stones, me have be very useful to explain way in which all we who we have been called by God in Christ, like the young and inexpert David, needed to put into the hands of God, and in sequence, our spirit, our soul, our mind and our body, so that he is the Spirit Santo in whom we put our sight, of who we receive education and in who we trust, through a personal relation with our better friend, and faithful and All-powerful friend, our Mr. Jesus Christ.

Of these studies we learn that our spirit has to be born again from the Spirit of God, that the soul is the objective of the salvation of God and center of our feelings, emotions and thoughts of the mind, and that body has to be Temple of Spirit Santo, where He that dominates our sensations, of that is many are opposite to the sanctity, but that He is in charge to make discern very instinctively to separate us to us from them.

With this brief exposition of operation of the inner life of the Christian, there where the salvation of God takes place, we are conscious of how important is the call to the sanctity, a concept that many think that he is something limited super heroes, but it treats, rather, of a quality that gives God to which son calls, a gift of the Spirit, the will force that comes from God for the spiritual life who goes of the hand of the alive God, which becomes platform of another life, the outer life of the Christian, the one who produces the fruits of the Spirit. The first life is for one same one with God, the second life is for the fellow with God. If it wants to serve to God in his life, really continues reading in spirit, soul and body.

THE MISSION OF OUR LIFE. CHANGE OF THE CHARACTER BY DON DE GOD

Once we have included/understood how we worked, is easy to understand that under the Spirit of God we will be able to collaborate with God in working same. Only of this form we will be able to have a personal relation with deeper and spiritual God, and also we will be able to undertake our personal mission, the individual call of our life, in the service to God and to the Church by means of a change of character that God only can realize in us and whom our spirit will reveal, which the Scripture calls the unction and the baptism of fire.

So that we pruned to include/understand the education of the Scripture as far as the transformation that the Spirit does of God in our character, we will study the lives of our brothers in the faith and excellent personages of the Bible. As well as the twelve tribes are symbolic reference in the twelve apostles, also in the patriarchs we found a symbolism of the Trinidad in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, like the Father, the Son and the Spirit. In addition also we will find another parallelism between the Trinidad of God and the Trinidad of our being, in three apostles who are column of the Church. If loans particular attention to the change of its character when they were born again from the Spirit we will understand it with extreme clarity; I talk about Juan, to Pablo and Pedro.

Juan is the apostle of the Spirit, symbolic and the one of the love of God by his Gospel, his letters and Apocalypse, the “loved disciple�? the one that was on the feet de la Cruz. Pablo, the one of the soul and the mind, by its theological preparation, knowledge of the Greek, the hellenistic and philosophical culture and by its sentimental experience in its supernatural conversion. Pedro, the one of the body, to receive from the Father the gift of the faith in Their Son Jesus Christ, being this faith the stone of the foundation on which the Body of Christ will be built, the Church, the property, but this one to God in Christ, to preach the Jews which they have the property to the town of God by the descendants of Abraham, and need to receive to the Mesías Yahshua, Jesus Christ, for salvation like the Gentile ones.

It is in the character of these three personages who we will also find three bases of the mission and the Christian ministry. Juan was transformed into his young character of a violent one, met along with his brother as Bonaerges “children the thunderclap�? Marks 3:17 - what was reflected when they wanted to make descend fire from the sky on the Samaritan ones that did not receive the Gospel and it was it like the apostle of the love, Juan 3:16 and 1Juan 3:16.

Pablo was transformed of the jealous scholar of the Law of Moisés, of the traditions and interpretations of the rabbis, in the apostle to the Gentile ones. The supernatural thing of its conversion would mainly make of him the apostle who the Gentleman would use to take the Gospel to all parts, in all culture, and to being the one that with greater fervor would understand, and thus it strived in teaching the salvation by the grace of God, without the fulfillments, religious, traditional practices and efforts and of works. The protestant reform initiated by Lutero and Calvino would have in letters of Pablo the confirmation of the grace of the love of God. Like same Pablo, the reformers and all Biblical Christian we found the way of the salvation without personal merits, but in the merits of Christ in the Cross, because of such way it loved God the world, that has given to Its unigénito Son so that all that one that in Him creates, is not lost, but it has eternal life.

Pedro was transformed, of fisherman without letters, to the apostle to the Jews, leading on Sanhedrin, the extreme priest, the priests, the rabbis you write, them, the fariseos and the synagog. Pedro shows ruin how to us is our meat in the triple negation that did of the Gentleman, fulfilling the prophecy of Jesus the night that gave to Him. It denied three times to him: in spirit, in soul and body. But its sorry heart, the same that received the revelation of the faith, just as Abraham, turned to him into the apostle whom it would lead to the Church at the beginning of Facts, in the election of the substitute of Judas, in his speech of a great conversion the day of Pentecostés. Pedro same would teach that each Christian is stone of the faith with which, next to Jesus, the main stone of the angle, we formed the Temple of the Gentleman.

The Gentleman always will reveal aspects of our heart and character to us that nor cross us the mind which we can have. They ask, then, to God, because It will reveal and give the gift to them that there is in each. If they had said me before my conversion that I would be Christian writer dedicated to the symbolic interpretation, prophetic and spiritual of the Bible, that would shepherd a congregation or that would direct a ministry of Christian Webs in two languages, she would have responded to them that was completely crazy. Now I am servant of Christ by the Cross madness, by Its grace, and if it wants it to God for Its glory.

THREE BIBLICAL TEXTS OF THE THREE APOSTLES IN SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY

We see three Biblical Text jewels will take that us to three fundamental Texts of each of these three apostles, once its characters were transformed, as far as the revelation that God gave them by the Spirit.

IN SPIRIT

The new birth of our spirit, the Spirit of God, Juan 3:3…

… Jesus Responded and he said to him: Of certain, of certain I say to you, that the one that will not be born again, cannot see the kingdom of God.

IN SOUL

The salvation of our souls 1Pedro 1:9…

… So that put under on approval your faith, much more precious that the gold, which although perishable test with fire, has been in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is showed, that you love without having seen to him, in who believing, although now you do not see it, you are glad with indescribable and glorious joy; obtaining the aim of your faith, that is the salvation of your souls.

IN BODY

Of Christ, our body is Temple of the Spirit Santo, 1 Corintios 6:19…

… But the one that is united to the Gentleman, a spirit is with him. ^18Huid of fornication. Any other sin that the man commits, is outside the body; but the one that fornica, against its own body sins. ¹⁹Or you ignore that your body is temple of the Spirit Santo, which is in you, which you have of God, and who you are not yours? ^20Porque you have been bought by price; you glorify, then, to God in your body and your spirit, which are of God.

And these three Biblical Texts are the base of these three Texts of the three symbolic apostles in spirit, soul and body:

Juan:

Juan 3:3 shows to us as the man has to be born again from the Spirit, to be able to see the Kingdom of God: … Jesus Responded and he said to him: Of certain, of certain I say to you, that the one that will not be born again, cannot see the kingdom of God. ^4Nicodemo said to him: How can a man be born being old? He can enter for the second time the belly of his mother, and perhaps be born? ^5Respondió Jesus: Of certain, of certain I say to you, that the one that will not be born from water and the Spirit, cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Juan 3:16 reveals the love to us of God: … Because of such way he loved God the world, that he has given to his unigénito Son, so that all that one that in him creates, is not lost, but it has eternal life. ^17Porque did not send God to its Son to the world to condemn the world, but so that the world is safe by him. ^18El that in him creates, is not condemned; but the one that does not create, already has been condemned, because it has not believed in the name of the unigénito Son of God. ^19Y this is the condemnation: that the light came to the world, and the men they loved plus the darknesses that the light, because their works were bad.

Juan 16:7 - 15 contribute to the three convictions of the work of the Spirit Santo to us: … it will convince to the judgment and justice, sin world. Of sin inasmuch as they do not create in my; of justice, inasmuch as I go to the Father, and you will not see more me; and of judgment inasmuch as the prince of this world already has been judged…

Juan shows the Spirit to us in the new birth, Juan 3:3; the love of God, Juan 3:16 and the work of the Spirit Santo, 16:7.

Pablo:

Romans 12 reveal the structure to us of the Church beginning with the renovation of our understanding. … So, brothers, I request to you by the mercies of God, that you present/display your bodies in alive sacrifice, santo, pleasant to God, that is your rational cult. ^2No you are satisfied to this century, but transformaos by means of the renovation of your understanding, so that you verify which is the good will of God, pleasant and perfect… … ^6De way that, having different gifts, according to the grace that is given to us, if the one of prophecy, úsese according to the measurement of the faith; ^7o if on watch, in serving; or the one that teaches, in education; ^8el that exhorts, in the exhortation; the one that distributes, with liberality; the one that presides, with request; the one that makes mercy, with joy. ^9El love is without fingimiento. You detest the bad thing, you follow the good thing. ^{10Amaos an} the other with brotherly love; as far as honor, prefiriéndoos an the other. ^11En what requires diligence, nonsluggish; fervent in spirit, serving to the Gentleman; ^12gozosos in the hope; suffered in the tribulation; constants in the oration; ^{13compartiendo} for the needs of the saints; practicing the hospitality.

1 Corintios 12 rationally reveals the spiritual operation to us of the body of Christ, of this form we know as a healthy and doctrinally Biblical church is constituted, a guide to whom to always go. For them Pablo, again, explains three components to us: the diversity of gifts of the Spirit, the diversity of ministries of the Gentleman to rationally organize the effective operation of the Church and the diversity of operations that the Body of Christ carries out, for which its members, the Christians, we have had to be anointed with the gifts in our spirit, to assimilate, to accept and to assume the ministries and to carry out the operations:

… I do not want, brothers, that you ignore about the spiritual gifts. ^2Sabéis that when you were gentile, became lost llevándoos, as it took to you, to the dumb idols. ^3Por as much, I let you know that nobody that speaks by the Spirit of God calls anathema to Jesus; and nobody can call to Jesus Sir, but by the Spirit Santo. ^4Ahora well, is diversity of gifts, but the Spirit is the same. ^5Y is diversity of ministries, but the Gentleman is the same. ^6Y is diversity of operations, but God, that makes all the things in all, is the same. ^7Pero to each is given the manifestation to him of the Spirit for benefit…

The gifts:

… ^8Porque to this one is given by the Spirit wisdom word; to another one, word of science according to the same Spirit; ^9a another one, faith by the same Spirit; and to another one, gifts of sanidades by the same Spirit. ^10A another one, doing miracles; to another one, prophecy; to another one, discernment of spirits; to another one, diverse sorts of languages; and to another one, interpretation of languages. ^11Pero all these things does one and the same Spirit in particular, distributing to each as it wants.

The ministries:

… ^27Vosotros, then, you are the body of Christ, and members each in particular. ^28Y to put God in the church, firstly apostles, soon prophets, the third teachers, soon those that make miracles, later those that heal, those that help, those that they administer, those that have gift of languages. ²⁹They are all apostles? they are all prophets? all teachers? they make all miracles? ³⁰They have all gifts of health? speak all languages? they interpret all? ^31Procurad, then, the best gifts. But I show a even more excellent way to you.

The operations in the love of God:

The operations will take control of the most excellent gift, the love of God. We will speak the Word of God, that will be the sound of our spirit with love; we will prophesy, understand, know and have faith to be of God in our soul, in our mind; and we will live our life and we will serve to the poor men with love as God in our works and action. Thus it follows the Text in chapter 13: … If I spoke human and angelical languages, and I do not have love, I come to be like metal that resonate, or cymbal that retiñe. ^2Y if it had prophecy, and it understood all the mysteries and all science, and if it had all the faith, in such a way that it transferred mounts, and I do not have love, nothing I am. ^3Y if it distributed all goods to give to eat the poor men, and if it gave my body to be burned, and I do not have love, don't mention it serves to me. ^4El love is undergone, is benign; the love does not have envy, the love is not boasting, not envanece; ^5no makes nothing illegal, does not look for his, is not irritated, does not keep resentment; ^6no is enjoyed the injustice, but it is enjoyed the truth. it undergoes ^7Todo it, creates all it, waits for all it, supports all it. ^8El love never stops being…

1Tesalonicenses 5:23 are the fundamental Text of this Biblical study that it reveals the composition to us of our being: … And the same God of peace sanctifies to you completely; and all your being, spirit, soul and body, are kept irreprehensible for the coming of our Mr. Jesus Christ.

Pedro:

1Pedro 2:9 reveals the exceptional property to the Body of Christ and it calls selected lineage to us, it calls real priests to us, it calls a nation to us santa to the Church, because it is what God has acquired in exchange for the work in the Cross of Its Son, and that Church has two basic functions: the announcement of the Gospel and the good works: … But you are selected lineage, real priesthood, nation santa, town acquired by God, so that you announce the virtues of she called which you of the darknesses to his admirable light; ^10vosotros that formerly you were not town, but that now you are town of God; that formerly you had not reached mercy, but now you have reached mercy. ^11Amados, I request like a foreign and pilgrims to you, that you abstain from sexual desires that battle against the soul, ^{12manteniendo} good your way to live between the gentile ones; so that in which murmurs of you like of malefactors, they glorify to God in the day of the visitación, when considering your good works.

1Pedro 5 contributes other three key foundations to us for a solid Church, under the symbol of the body represented by Pedro so that in the Church the care of the brothers is perceived voluntarily, with spirit soon, being example to the others, for which we will be perfected, affirmed, fortified and established by God in the Spirit of Jesus Christ: … Request to the old ones that they are between you… … you feed the congregation on God that is between you, taking care of of her, not by force, but voluntarily; not by dishonest gain, but with spirit soon; ^3no like having señorío on that they are to your care, but being examples of the congregation… … ^{10Mas the} God of all grace, called that us to its eternal glory in Jesus Christ, after you have suffered a little time, he himself it perfects to you, (the spirit, after the new birth, by the fire baptism) to afir to me, (the mind, convinced of the necessity of the Salvation of Christ, salvation and to evangelizar) fortifies (the soul in the character, with feelings of the love of God); and it establishes (in the body of Christ, that is to say the congregation to that you belong and in the mission for that you have been created by God). ^11A it is the glory and the empire by the centuries of the centuries. Amen.

2Pedro 1:3 finishes education in spirit, soul and body, first speaking of the divine one to be able of God in our spirit, who also comes through knowledge knowledge from God in the mind transformed by Him, having the hope in the soul of Its promises, so that our body gets to be participates in the divine nature in the life and the property to the Church: … Like all the things that belong to the life and to the mercy they have been given us by his divine one to be able, by means of the knowledge of whom it called by his glory and excellence, average ^4por of which it has given precious and grandísimas promises to us, so that by them you got to be participant from the divine nature, having fled from the corruption that there is in the world because of the concupiscencia; ^5vosotros also, putting all diligence by this same one, you add to your faith virtue; to the virtue, knowledge; ^6the knowledge, own dominion; to the own dominion, patience; to the patience, mercy; ^7the mercy, brotherly affection; and to the brotherly affection, love. ^8Porque if these things are in you, and abound, will not let to you be idle nor without fruit as far as the knowledge of our Mr. Jesus Christ.

The result of these three Texts of the three apostles is the rise of the Church, Efesios 2:21…

… So no longer you are foreign nor foreign, but fellow citizens of the saints, and members of the family of God, ^20edificados on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, being the main stone of the angle same Jesus Christ, ^21en who all the building, or coordinated, is growing to be a temple santo in the Gentleman; ^{they 22en} who you also together are built for mulberry of God in the Spirit.

And by this love of God, to call to us to comprise of His Church, one takes place in us the first Order, Marks 12:30…

… Jesus responded to him: The first order of all is: It hears, Israel; the Gentleman our God, the Gentleman one is. ^30Y you will love the Gentleman your God yet your heart, and with all your soul, and all your mind and all forces. This it is the main order. ^{31Y the} second is similar: You will love your fellow like same. There is no another order greater than these.

Whose origin, since we have seen, gives back to Juan 3:16 to us…

… Because of such way it loved God the world, that it has given to his unigénito Son, so that all that one that in him creates, is not lost, but it has eternal life.

And that love of God causes that we look for the mission of our life to take to others what we have undergone - the conversion by the faith - and we put ourselves into the hands of God so that it makes in us a transformation of the character, after our change of called mind repentance.

CONCLUSION

We have seen that our spirit receives from the Father spiritual gifts to serve to God in the Great Commission, main function of the Christian. The spirit receives direct revelation, does not depend on the reasoning and of the understanding, he works by spiritual intuition, simply one knows what is of God, because the faith in the Cross of Christ is madness for the man, and this is provable in the Bible, 1Corintios 1:18, to be learning and trusting the Gentleman who guides to us and to verify our discernment and presumption of the revelations, if they are or not of God. And we pruned to love God our heart yet.

We have seen that the mind begins to include/understand the things of God some time after the spirit, some take years. The love is not understandable, is of the heart, is spiritual. One falls in love spiritually with God, not rationally. But it is through Spirit, who our spirit discerns so that our mind can include/understand the Word of God, is by that we cannot only go to the Bible with the reasoning, only with the intellect, is essential interprets celestial, the Spirit of God. And we pruned to love God with all our mind.

We have seen that our soul, when the feeling saves and trusting in God to stay in the salvation, rests in the feelings and learns to trust God, leaving the revenges, the judgments, hatreds and all feeling that before the enemy used to dominate to us. It is now, the love of God the one that it will illuminate to us sentimentally. And we pruned to love God with all our soul.

And we have seen that our body, with its physiological needs, can be lead and provided than it needs and to take care of it in such a way that it is not for us obstacle to serve God. We have, in addition, the tools of the fasting and the car discipline which we pruned to enjoy a life heals and ordinate. And we pruned to love God with all our forces. And to our fellow like same, fulfilling the main and greater Order of all the Bible that is from God.

In the second part of this study we will learn to develop our gifts in the Church, as much the capacities that we have naturally like that we do not have and they are granted to us supernaturally by God. The Great Commission is compound of many ministries, and we have the challenge ahead to use our gifts and to discover our personal mission within the Great Commission of brotherly and unanimous form within the church to which we belong, to contribute our conjuncture to the Body of Christ, and to develop our life in spirit, soul and body.

The goodbye is of Pablo to the Hebrews: … And the God of peace that revived of deads our Mr. Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the ewes, by the blood of the eternal pact, makes in all good work so that you make its will, doing he in you apt what is pleasant in front of him by Jesus Christ; to which it is the glory by the centuries of the centuries. Amen.