Romans – The Play Part 5

Now listen very, very carefully. The Spirit, as of right now, the Lord, as of right now, has done half His work. I don’t know whether to say half or two-thirds. That’s kind of hard for me to say. We are three parts, although we are a whole. Now, I don’t know whether to say He has taken care of the spirit and redeemed the soul, or to say that because His Spirit is in our spirit, He has saved our soul. So, I would say to you, one way or the other, you’re either half saved or two-thirds saved. One of the two. Half saved if you’re looking at just the soul being saved. Or, if you see the work as being done both in your spirit and in your soul, then you’re two-thirds saved, but the other one-third of you is not saved.

Now, we have to be very careful at this point because back in the third century, people read this passage and said, “Then let us go out and mortify our flesh,” and became very extreme. The body became something very, very evil and something very, very wicked, knowing that the soul was okay and the spirit was okay.  They beat the body till it bled, wouldn’t let it eat, wouldn’t let it drink. Would look up into the sun until they went blind.

Hey, listen, there’s nothing wrong with your body, saints. It’s the sin that’s inside your body. And God has reckoned that dead to the cross, but He has not yet come and redeemed the body. It has not yet been turned into something spiritual. But the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to let you know that it’s coming. That, that hour and that day will come when He will finish what He has started.

“I know not why God’s wondrous grace to me He hath made known, nor why unworthy Christ in love redeemed me for His own. But I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which He has committed against that day.”

Now, how do I know that?  By what means am I persuaded? I am persuaded by the witness of the Holy Spirit. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.  If the Spirit of the Father is in you—the Spirit of the one who raised up Jesus’ dead body dwells in you—then, my dear friend, you can bet your bottom law that He who raised up Christ Jesus’ dead body is also…

Do you see the future tense here? Will. Will….will also give life to your mortal bodies. And how will this be done? By the indwelling Spirit. We think of a new body as coming to us from out. No! The new body is coming to you from within – on that day when He will do what He has already done in His Son and for His Son, the explosion will be from within.

Brothers and sisters, you will hear me say this many times: I have no doubt whatsoever that I have a glorified body right now, inside of me somewhere, waiting for the trumpet. And there’s going to be an explosion. And I will put off my mortality. And I will put on immortality—by the Spirit who indwells me.

Somewhere in the Spirit of God, in the Spirit of Christ, in the Spirit of my Father, somewhere deep down in me, Him who indwells me, Him who resides in me, Him who has made His house in me, has my redeemed, new, glorified body waiting.

Praise the Lord. Now, do you know what that means? That means that on the day that I get that body, I will be fully saved. Now then—the war will end, sister. It’ll be over with. You’re going to feel so good that day. You know how good you’re going to feel?

Lisa, you’re going to feel as well off as you are right now. Well off. Do you understand?

The Lord has already said that the sin you do is not you, but it is the wrong that you do. That which you don’t want to do but do. It is not you, but sin that dwells where? In your mortal body. He has isolated sin there. He has promised to give you a new body. But He has already raised your spirit and redeemed your soul. And He has damned the work of sin in your body. So, on that day, you’re going to feel as good as you already are. The difference is, there will be that outward feeling. I’m going to use the word feeling, folks. Those of you who don’t believe in feelings—I’m sorry here. If you’ve ever had a really good day and your body worked just right, one of those rare days. One of those days when your spirit really worked just right. You really felt good about God, and Christ, and the Church, and saints, and even yourself.

Well, you’re that well off all the time. There is now no condemnation for you. The soul is redeemed. The spirit is regenerated. The spirit couldn’t be better off.