Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

We are a complicated composition of physical, emotional and spiritual.  Our physical body is composed of our skeleton, our flesh and our blood. This is the superstructure on which each individual is built. Once the skeleton is in place and starts to grow, the next constituent that makes us human develops. This is what we call the ‘soul’ or the emotional person. This comprises of our senses: feelings, touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight. Our minds, where information received is processed and our will with which we make choices.

The purpose of the Gilgal training camp is the get the physical body in shape and to train the mind to follow the leader. So we have a choice once we have processed all the information received at camp.

The final and most neglected part of our makeup is our spirit. We cannot separate our spirit from our soul (our feelings, emotions and senses) but we can use our emotions as the drivers for all that we do.

We know we are spiritual because of our model and leader Jesus Christ is the perfect human being. We are told in scripture that the first man, Adam was made a physical man and became a living soul by having the spirit of God breathed into him (Gen 2:7ff). This breath of God gave him the ability to relate to God on a spiritual level and also the ability to feel, think and reflect.  

Because of Adam’s disobedience to God, which is rebellion, humanity lost the relationship they had with their creator. On the contrary, Jesus was from the beginning (St. John 1:1), so he was spirit and became physical so that he could save Adam’s fallen race from permanent separation for their creator God (see Hebrews 10:4-7). So Jesus is called the last Adam because he was obedient, kept his emotions in check and did the will of the father, i.e. made the right choices.

Today keep your emotions in check and follow the example of our leader, Jesus. He was obedient to death, even death on a cross so that he could redeem humanity for the curse of disobedience. Tomorrow we will look at the composition of the spirit.

Read 1Corinthians 15:35-58