The Spiritual Man

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The Believer and His Body
We should know what place our physical body
occupies in the purpose and plan of God. Can anyone
deny the relationship between the body and spirituality?
In addition to a spirit and a soul we also have a body.
However healthy may be the intuition, communion and
conscience of our spirit and however renewed the emotion, mind and
will of our soul, we can never develop into spiritual men and
women—never be perfected but continually lacking in some way—if
our body is not as sound and restored as are our spirit and soul. We
should not neglect our outer shell while attending to our inner
components. Our life shall suffer if we commit this blunder.
The body is necessary and important; otherwise God would not
have created man with one. By accurately searching the Scriptures
we can discover how much attention God pays to man’s body, for the
Bible has a lot to say about it. Most singular and awesome of all is
the fact that the Word became flesh: the Son of God took upon
Himself a body of flesh and blood: and though He died He wears this
garb forever.
The Holy Spirit and the Body
Romans 8.10-13 unfolds to us the condition of our body, how the
Holy Spirit helps it, and what ought to be our right attitude towards
it. If we appropriate these verses we will not misunderstand the place
of a believer’s body in God’s plan of redemption.
“If Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin,
your spirits are alive because of righteousness” (v.10). Initially both
our body and spirit were dead; but after we believed in the Lord
Jesus we received Him into us to be our life. The fact that Christ by
the Holy Spirit lives in the believer forms one of the essential tenets