Part
7 of 14
The
Essential Spirit –
Comparing:
Angel Spirits, the “Spirit of
Man” and “the Spirit of Life
That Is In Christ Jesus”
The
Spirit of Man and “the Spirit of Life That Is In Christ Jesus”
Since
the day of Adam’s creation, the human
spirit of man is within every man at his physical birth. This “spirit
of man” is nothing less than God’s
very own spirit …“on loan.”
This “spirit of man” enlivens
man completely, spirit, soul, and body. The “spirit
of man” has within it a key faculty, the working conscience,
through which God convicts a man and draws him to Himself (John 14:6); to
receive Christ’s Spirit of life.
Having
such an essential human spirit gives man a
spirit-receptacle for receiving the eternal resurrected “spirit of life in
Christ Jesus” at
regeneration; this is being born-again.
Christ,
as the Seed of God, is the
essential Spirit element added to a believer’s human
spirit. John
3:6 …That which is born of
the Spirit is spirit.
We must not confuse “the
spirit of man” with the resurrected “spirit
of life in Christ Jesus” (Rom 8:2), which is immediately received by
every person upon believing in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus
as the Son of God (Rom 10:9-10).
To be born
of God (1John 3:9, 4:7, 5:1, 5:4) is to have been conceived of God’s
One Seed (Greek, sperma),
which is Christ (Gal 3:16) who humanly came out of the line of Abraham, via
Mary’s body.
1
Peter 1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word (Christ) of God,
which liveth (zao, has spirit-life)
and abideth for ever.
Galatians
3:16b … thy seed (sperma), which is Christ.
In
this way a man may be joined to Christ’s resurrected Spirit-life. Only
then can a man become truly eternal, to gain never ending, limitless,
Spirit-life. These following verses clearly equate Christ’s
spirit-life with eternal
life for man.
John
3:16 For God
so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth (trusts)
in him should not
perish (apollymi, be totally
destroyed), but have
everlasting (eternal) life
(Zoë, spirit life). 1
John 5:11-12 … God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in
his Son. 12He
that hath the Son hath life (Zoë); and
he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life (Zoë).
1
John 5:11 …God
hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
What
about angels, aren’t they spirits also?
Yes, the
angels also are spirit, but angels were made differently in their origin.
Angels never possessed God’s Spirit-life. They are created
spirits who are entirely separate from God who is spirit. This is
why Peter says the ansgels desire to look into the things that pertain to
the believers who receive Christ’s Spirit. 1
Peter 1:12b (AMP) (It is
these very) things which have now already
been made known plainly to you by those who preached the good news (the
Gospel) to you by the [same] Holy
Spirit sent from heaven. Into
these things [the very] angels long to look!
Now
let’s contrast the angels with man. The angels were enlivened at their creation
as spirits separate from God Himself. God’s very own children were
first created in God’s image and
likeness (Gen 1:26), and then they were rebirthed by receiving the “spirit
of life in Christ Jesus,” His “only
begotten Son” (John 1:14). The
individual members of “the body of
Christ” then are partakers of the life of God’s One “only
begotten Son.” Initially, man, created in the
“image and likeness” of God, looked like the real thing, but lacked
the content of the real thing; just as a shadow
is similar to a real thing but lacks the substance of a real thing. Thus, a
man becomes completed only when He has received God’s substance and
reality by receiving the“spirit of
life in Christ Jesus.” Knowing the presence of the indwelling “spirit
of life in Christ Jesus,” is our realization and our experience of
Christ alive in us as our new essential
self. Galatians 2:20 (KJV)
I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me…
