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Before Christ, you're physically alive but spiritually dead. When you're born again, your spirit unites with the Holy Spirit, giving you eternal life and freedom from hell. Jesus warned about fearing the one who can destroy both body and soul.
Before Christ, you're physically alive but spiritually dead. When you're born again, your spirit unites with the Holy Spirit, giving you eternal life and freedom from hell. Jesus warned about fearing the one who can destroy both body and soul.
Before you came to know Jesus, you had been born in this physical world. You had been born with physical sight and physical hearing. You had been born with physical senses and a physical being to exist on a physical plane. Before you came to know Jesus, you had a soul. That is, you had a personality, you had a will, you had emotions, you had desires, you had thoughts, but you were dead in the spirit. That is, you weren't alive unto God. You weren't alive unto that union. You were an outer shell of who you are now. And when you were born again, you were born again in the Spirit. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. When you came to life in the Spirit, when receiving Christ, now that spirit came alive, united with the Holy Spirit. And as a believer, you now live out of that place of union. Think about what Jesus said. Jesus said, don't be afraid of the one who can destroy just body, he said, be afraid of the one who can destroy both the body and the soul in hell. Notice there that Jesus doesn't mention the spirit, because those who are alive in the spirit don't go to hell. And so we've received this new life.
