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I am sorry, that it is still confusing. I am patient, but I have a bad habit, of assuming people know more than they were taught. Please forgive me for that flaw in my character. I need to go back to the late 60s in my mind, and remember how little I knew back then. I knew little more back then, than God was in Heaven and Jesus had part of God in Him. I had little problem believing in the Holy Trinity, because a Sunday School teacher explained that to me before I became a teenager, that GOD was an omnipresent Spirit, which means everywhere at the same time. And she said that the Father, the Spirit in Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, were all part of that ONE SPIRIT we call GOD. Because she took the time to explain the Omnipresence of GOD first, I had little problem understanding and believing the reality that those three Spirit individuals, are intertwined in each other, and thus they are the make up of the ONE TRUE GOD.
Even though I grew up going to Church, I did not become a Born Again Believer until the last week of 1977.
What is the difference between what I was in 1967 and what HE caused me to become in 1977?
In 1967 I knew about Jesus, and about GOD, but it was only knowledge in my mind that lies between my ears.
After my third attempt at Suicide the last week of 1977, something in me BROKE! I now understand that it was the pride of living my own life my own way that broke. This RUSH of tremendous guilt over my whole lifestyle, washed over me wave after wave. I found myself on knees, mourning and weeping uncontrollably over my utter sinfulness (see James 2:10). I was crying out over and over again, "Forgive me, PLEASE Forgive me!" Then the Holy Spirit gave me a prayer that I HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE, and it was a prayer of total, willing surrender to Jesus Christ as my Master, which is what LORD means. I prayed, "Forgive me LORD, if you have a purpose for my life, then you will have to come into my life and do it, because I can't do it. I am making a total mess of it!" At that moment, I changed from being only a Church goer, to genuinely KNOWING HIM my heart, willingly giving HIM complete control of my life, as an act of LOVE FOR HIM.
Did He completely change me instantaneously? No, it was one step at a time, from the inside out. One of the first changes that I noticed, is that the Bible CEASED to be boring to me, and I had a tremendous hunger to UNDERSTAND His Word, and how it applied to my life. Then one day I hit my thumb with a hammer, and all that came out of mouth was "DOG GONE IT!" I stopped and thought when did that happen. You see prior to becoming a Born Again Believer, I couldn't say one sentence without at least two or three four letter words in it. The more I fed my new Born Again Human Spirit on HIS WORD, the more HE was able to change me from the inside out, one step at a time. Soon I was listening to good BIBLE TEACHERS on the Radio, like Dr. John MacArthur and Dr. Chuck Swindoll, and I could not get enough of that kind of solid BIBLE TEACHING.
So what do I mean that the Human Spirit has to be born into Eternal Life, by the Holy Spirit:
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ISV)
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23 [/SUP] May the God of peace himself make you holy in every way. And may
your whole being—
spirit, soul, and body—be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are made up of THREE distinctly different parts
spirit, soul, and body
Body is easy to explain, anything you can look at under a microscope is part of the body.
Soul is easy to explain if you look at the GREEK word first, which is
psychē, that's right it is the cognitive abilities of the human mind. Thoughts, memories, emotions, reasoning, etc., etc., all make up the human soul.
Human Spirit is the part of a human being that is NOT birthed into life at natural child birth. The Human Spirit has to birthed into Eternal Life by the Holy Spirit the moment we first genuinely believe and receive Jesus Christ as LORD.
John 3:6 (NASB)
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"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Ephesians 2:4-5 (NIV)
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4 [/SUP] But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
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5 [/SUP] made us alive with Christ even when
we were dead {Since we know the Body and Soul were born alive, it is clear that He is talking about the Human Spirit.} in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.
John 5:24 (ESV)
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Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. {Since we know the Body will die, it is clear that He is talking about the Human Spirit.}
Is that easier to understand, when I explain it that way?
