Debrecen Messages #9 – The Functioning of the Human Spirit and Adam Invited to the Fellowship of the Godhead

I’m really off the subject, but this is important to know. Many of you out there on camera know, you’ve heard me speak on this before, but I really consider this a serious subject.

I think that the group that you belong to has blended all three of them together. They have the emotional part, and they have the will part to evangelize, and they’re getting intellectual. And we tend always to move toward the intellectual. The commencement exercise in which I graduated from the seminary, I believe, if I remember correctly, in that graduation class, there were three men from the assemblies of God who got doctor’s degrees from our Baptist seminary. They were there for a reason. They went out to their own denomination and founded a seminary. And before that, they’d only have Bible schools. And those Bible schools were fun because it was all emotional, but the assemblies of God are tending toward the intellectual. Everything moves toward the intellectual.

The mind is what is what blew up in the fall. And I just want to remind you again, this is going to sound very strange, but Adam had a simple intellect. He had a very palatable, moldable will. And his motions were not distorted. He could love, and he loved passionately, but it was not out of control. A very balanced gentleman.

Well, the last thing about him, as we see here, and God breathed into the dust and he became a spirit and a soul and a body, or a body, a soul, a spirit, and a body. The last thing is, he had a body. And it has five senses. And, you know, I always marveled that God could think up five senses. I don’t know about you, but I, every once in a while, I stop and think about that. He could have left out feeling, or tasting, or hearing, or even seeing. And we would have never dreamed up that.

I had the privilege of meeting Helen Keller once, quite by accident, and in private. She never knew what it was to see or to hear. She had no idea what it was. Do you know who Helen Keller was? You don’t, you’ve never heard of Helen Keller. Helen Keller, at the age of 16 or 18 months, came down with a disease. I believe it was quite familiar when she lost her hearing and her eyes. She became the most famous woman of the 20th century. She learned to speak. There’s been a motion picture made of her life. She became a very incredible person. By the way, she was a devout Christian. Helen Keller was brought back from being not much more than a dog. She had, there’s no way to communicate to her. Only with this. And she had a teacher who taught her through the fingers. The woman’s name was, I know that woman’s name, Mrs. Sullivan.

And Helen called her teacher. She had everything that she knew through her hand. She became a world traveler and established institutions for the blind all over the world. And people were always saying to her, oh, if only you had your sight. And she says, I don’t know what that means, but I would love to hear. I’d like to know what a bird does.

It’s amazing what God did when he gave us this body. And I don’t ever want to leave the impression that I think poorly of the human soul. Today, the human soul is very damaged. And sometimes the soul is put down in our speaking. The body was magnificent, and the soul is wonderful enough that Jesus died for it. And we must never forget that. Now, our soul gives us a lot of trouble. But it’s a marvelous thing. And your soul is still very similar to your spirit. And the two should work together. But your body is also marvelous. Unfortunately, ours is indwelt by sin.

We’ve been given the senses of the body to be able to apprehend the physical things around us, those things that are made out of mass. Our body really does belong to this world. And for those of us who have fallen, well, that includes everybody, including Adam, doesn’t it? But those of us who have fallen, God has given no provision for the salvation of your body. Do you know that? He gave up on your body. He did not die for your body. He did not save your body. Your body is a hopeless situation because sin lives in it.

Now, He lives in your spirit. Sin lives in your body. And guess what they argue about? Who is the master of this sword? That’s exactly correct. Sin dwells in you, in your body, as surely as God dwells in your spirit. And they both are living and active, and they’re in there, and they are fighting over your soul. Your soul is the center of the conflict of the ages.

Nonetheless, when God created it, it was a masterful thing. It was a glorious thing. Now, that’s what God made when He made Adam. Something spiritual, something for God, something for Eve, and something for the garden. Something for the body, something for the soul, something for the spirit. And when I say Eve, many other things.

Now, please read The Beginning and part one of The Divine Romance, and you’ll get more acquainted with this wonderful unfallen person named Adam. I said to you in our last meeting together, he was as perfect as God could make things perfect. Adam was perfect. God had gone to the ends of his abilities. In creation, he was perfect. The only thing that could make him any better was for him to have something that was uncreated.

Now, I’m going to close this by introducing something else. And that’s the place where man lives. Now, brothers and sisters, those of you watching on video, please know this, that it was very, very, very, very important to God where this species lived.