Our spirit is a complex subject, but I want to teach on some functions of our spirit today. Our spirit has nine basic senses, but many more, it senses every divine attribute of YHWA. But I just want to teach some of its functions.
The primary function, the first function of our spirit is to be in touch with God. Our spirit can connect with God, to tune into God, to be aware of God.
1 Corinthians 6:17 The one now joining himself of herself to the Lord, one spirit is- Interlinear Bible: Greek-interlinear New Testament (Word search).
I added herself for clarification. Himself is not even in that verse, the word is just joining and the word one is the definite article.
When the New Testament says man, it is neuter, so it is not referring to male or female but mankind, but I try to write in a way that honors female’s because society seems not to.
But the female was taken out of Adam and made a separate companion to Adam to complete him. But you can be married to the Lord now, you do not have to wait to die, and Jesus completes me, he is my husband and I am his lover.
The only reason God created the sexual relationship was to raise up Godly offspring, which did not work out so well because the born again parents really do not know God, in the sense of clearly hearing his voice, so they do not know how to train up their children in the ways of the Lord. Plus, the church right now if filled with false doctrines, which do not reflect the nature of God.
No translation I can find translates this right that is why you must study the original manuscripts. It translates it joined, when it should be joining, just like the word abiding. It is something that should happen 24/7. That is why our dreams are all messed up, we don’t go to bed full of the Holy Spirit so that when we are sleeping, we are still filled with the Spirit and we have Godly dreams.
They translate the word Joined which is in the past tense, which is in the present tense, in the original manuscript.
Just like YHWA commands us to be continually filled with the Spirit, first we must continually learn to join our spirit to the Lord continually. This is why it is most important to be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. When we pray in tongues our spirit prays so we can immediately locate our spirit.
When we join our spirit to the Lord there is an awareness that we are connected. All it requires is awareness or a focus, we are looking to the Lord.
Now when we are ministering to someone, we will notice that the anointing will kick in, that means our spirit is now being filled with the Lord which means it has come into a oneness with the Lord, one spirit not two spirits.
God’s Spirit can communicate with our spirit, particularly as it grows to maturity. We need to grow our spirit, the Christ in us, so Christ grows in us to maturity, then we can do the works he did and greater, because we are called to disciple nations, not just the people in the nation.
As we learn how to communicate with God’s Spirit, which is a two-way communication, not just praying to God, but having a conversation with him, then we can receive the full impute of God’s Spirit.
We can receive things from God’s Spirit that our natural senses are unable to perceive.
The Spirit teaches us with spiritual words. We are judged by nobody, we judge all things, we have the mind of Christ, because our spirit can communicate with God’s Spirit.
The mind of Christ was a mind that was totally spiritual as a result he could receive from his father the tremendous revelation that he moved in.
All that Jesus received from the father was through his spirit being totally open and totally in tune with the Spirit of God.
Because Jesus was not only God (divine) but also human, he becomes our perfect example of how to walk with God, because it was not a normal humanity. His humanity was not like ours.
The only difference between Jesus’s humanity and ours once we are born again, it that first his blood is pure, and ours is not. That is why we take communion and drink the wine of his blood for the purification of our blood; we need to do this every day.
Second, our brain has the wrong programming from the life we lived before we were saved. Our brain is like a computer, it cannot think for itself but records our life experiences. And things trigger our brain, and the wrong program runs. That is why it must be reprogramed or renewed, the bible translated the word mind, which should be translated brain. It is a hard word to translate. You must be able to hear the Holy Spirit to translate it correctly because he inspired the bible and only, he can interpret it correctly.
Our mind, which is a function of our soul and not our body, interprets what our spirit is sensing or what our body is sensing.
And the third thing is what we inherited from our earthly parent’s genes or DNA; Jesus did not inherit any DNA from his natural mother Mary. So, Mary was not really his mother in the sense of his DNA, he was the last Adam before Adam fell, so there were only two men that existed, the first Adam and the last Adam.
In Jesus’ resurrection he became the second man, and the first born of a new creation, which is a species that never existed before until Jesus breathed into his disciples the Holy Spirit when he appeared to them after his resurrection.
All that Jesus was able to receive from God he received by a highly developed spirit completely in touch with the Spirit of God. We have the mind of Christ. We are as capable as Jesus of receiving truth from the Father, but our spirit must grow and develop so that the mind of Christ can flow into it.
We can see the amazing change that took place in a man like Peter who was hardheaded before Pentecost. And afterwards he moved in a dimension of incredible spiritual perception. It was not simply bible training of the mind. It wasn’t natural intellect. It was a tremendous ability that he developed in his spirit to hear from God.
The second function of our spirit is to rule over the soul and body and to develop them as instruments for God’s use. As a result, all our triune man can function in true spiritual service.
That means every natural gift and every natural ability and every attribute in our body and our soul can serve God when it is brought under the rule of the Lordship of Jesus over our spirit. None of it has to be tucked away as useless; it is all useful once it is under the rule of the spirit, once it has become truly spiritual.
If all our natural gifting and abilities could come into this dimension, what a mighty force we would be for God. We are not to be just a spirit where we detach ourselves from body and soul in order to be in the spirit.
The outflow of spiritual life is essentially practical. May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved complete-perfect; the word for perfection is to come to maturity.
May your spirit, soul and body be preserved perfect without blame at the coming of the lord Jesus, faithful is he who calls you and he also will bring it to pass.
There is to be balance, we are to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Then we see the partnership, the power assisted steering that is working. We are to work it out and God works it in. It is God who works in us, he provides the power, and we provide the willingness. And then together we can come to this kind of maturity.
The spirit, the soul and the body are to be sanctified. Sanctified is to be set apart exclusively for the use of God. Our body and our soul can be set apart, exclusively for the use of God.
We are to present our bodies a living and a holy sacrifice, acceptable to God which is our spiritual service of worship. Presenting our bodies to God is spiritual. It is spiritual worship.
Don’t be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind, so our mind can be transformed so that it becomes a tremendous vehicle for God to use, provided that it becomes spiritual, that is all that is necessary. It means that it becomes ruled over by our spirit in oneness with God’s.
All our thinking processes are delivered from carnality and become spiritual, but we still continue to think and reason.
We use every faculty of our mind, but it is under the rule of the spirit so that we start to think in a totally new way.
But it is still the same mind doing it, but it is being used in a totally different way by the Spirit of God, or by our spirit. It is really our spirit that uses our mind, although it is energized and enabled to do this by the Spirit of God.
1corn 6:19 do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit finds its residence right next to our spirit; Christ lives in our spirit; but the Holy spirit lives in our body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. It is not a Holy Spirit living in a dirty body, but the body itself becomes holy when it is sanctified by the Holy Spirit. Our flesh is a different word than our body. I don’t feel like looking it up so the spelling will probably be wrong 1-body-soma 2- flesh-sarx.
We are to glorify God in our body. We can see how the body becomes a servant of the Lord. How the body serves God. The second function of the human spirit is to rule over the soul and body.
The third function of our spirit is to discern and enter the spiritual realm and exercise authority in Jesus’ name. Our spirit has access to heaven, and we need to learn how to step into it.
We need to learn how to sit down upon our throne in the heavenly places in Christ. We need to learn how to enter the spiritual realm where the real battle is, where we can take dominion.
Everything that takes place in the natural realm, first takes place in the spiritual realm. This is where the real realities actually are.
We look upon the things which are not seen and not upon the things which are seen because the things which are not seen are eternal but the things which are seen are temporal.
True spiritual sight sees the unseen spiritual realities in the reality in which they really are. They are more real than anything physical, tangible and touchable. Once we begin to see things clearly then we can begin to make proper judgments.
The function of our spirit is to enable us to perceive in the spirit the real realities of the spirit realm. And discern in the spirit so that we can wage effective warfare, we can lay hold of things which God has spoken in the spirit realm; this is the dimension of faith which really works.
If our spirit is not quickened and alive and made mature there is no way that we can begin to move any meaningful way in faith, it is a spiritual thing.
And we cannot wage effective spiritual warfare because this also is totally a thing of the spirit. We cannot pray effectively unless we are in the Holy Spirit, unless we learn how to enter the spirit realm.
To move in faith, we have to live on a spirit level, because moving in faith is a spiritual exercise.
If we are not spiritual there is no way we can receive faith from God, there is no way we can reach into the spiritual realm and get hold of things that are real in the spiritual realm and bring them by our faith into the natural realm.
Once we are alive in the spirit then praying is as natural to us as it was to Jesus. Until we become a spiritual person, we are not really going to know how to pray.
The fourth function of our spirit is to be a channel for God’s Spirit to work powerfully through us.
The Holy Spirit is the one who comes alongside to help. If we are waiting for the Holy Spirit to come and touch a certain physical area, he will not do it, because He comes to people not to geographical locations.
There are doors over cities, that must be opened up for the outpouring of God’s Spirit, but the outpouring of the Spirit comes through us.
If we are going to see the power of God work in the area that we live in, he has got to have a channel through us. Because this is the only way that God can righteously come and intervene in human affairs. He must have a human channel to work through.
We see clearly that when He has come to us, not when He will come, but when he has come to us, then he will convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment, concerning sin because they don’t believe in Jesus’ substitutionary work, and judgment because the ruler of this world has already been judged, not the judgment at the end of the age. But the fact that Satan has already been judged. He is already conquered, defeated, and we can already exercise authority over him. When the Spirit has come to us, we can demonstrate to the world that that is true.
Again the fourth function of our spirit is so that the fullness of God’s Spirit can now flow through us to bring His powerful ministry to bear upon the needs of the world and that is what is going to transform our society.