How the Word of God Becomes Spirit and Life

Alright, thank you, brother. Now then, first Adam, soul. Do you have that man in you? You have the man Adam in you. He is a living soul. Is he a life-giving soul? He is an entity within himself. He is just a living soul. There was a second Adam. Oh, I’m sorry. There was a Last Adam. Hallelujah. Praise God. There was an Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam. And finally, one day God said I’m going to put an end to this, and there was a last Adam, and that last Adam was who? Jesus Christ, and he became the what? Can you guess? He became the new man. And in that day, he became a life-giving spirit.

Now then, if you wanted great power, where would you go? Well, I would suggest that you go to the army or to the navy, or to the Marines. There’s power there. If you want wealth, where would you go? Well, I would recommend you go to Fort Knox. Maybe you’d better hurry. There’s not much left there. But there is wealth at Fort Knox. If you want to have wealth, go to Fort Knox, but if you want life, where do you go? The army can give you power. Fort Knox can give you wealth. But the Spirit gives you life, so you come to the Spirit for life. Jesus Christ is that Life. What else is he? He said he is the Word, so when you come to the Word, you come to the Life, when you come to the Life, you come to the Word.

Okay, do we have another scripture?

I Corinthians 6:17. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

All right. Praise the Lord. Do you know that verse again? He that is joined to the Lord. By the way, that verse just said, He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. It doesn’t even say with the Lord. It just says, He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Brother, there really is only one spirit inside of you, not yours and the Lord’s. There’s just one. The two have become one. If you took tea out of this glass and poured it into a bottle and you took tea out of this glass and poured it into a bottle and shook it up real well, could any scientist on earth separate the two again and put them back in their glasses? No, they have become one and brothers and sisters; the Lord came into your spirit, and you are one with him.

Okay, we need some more verses. I just wanted to go through each one of these and explain them.  Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. This is the uniting of… Oh boy, you just asked one of the deepest questions in scripture, brother. This is Adam and Eve. She is bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, but what is Eve a picture of? The church, and what is Adam a picture of? Christ. So, the church is life of his life and spirit of his spirit, you see? Praise the Lord. The church is just like Christ as far as that goes. In a real sense, it is the corporate Christ; it is the life of his life and the Spirit of His Spirit.

Okay. Now, brothers and sisters, let us go to Hebrews 4. If at any time I lose you, please let me know.

Alright. For the word of God is what? Did I not tell you where it is? Hebrews 4:12 Excuse me, brethren. Hebrews 4:12. I guess when I think of Hebrews, I think of this verse. Have you all realized now just how many verses there are in the Scripture that deal with the soul and the spirit? Had you ever seen this before, sisters and brothers? Now you find out that’s about all that is in there.

Alright, Hebrews 4:12a.  For the word of God is quick (living), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword…

For the word of God is what? Living. Now what’s living? The word of God is living, and it has authority. What translation does anyone have here of the next word? Do you have it? Is living and what? Active. Alright. It is living, and here would be a better place for the word ‘quick.’ It is living and active. And brethren, someday we are going to look at the activity of the life within you. We have never done that. Maybe very soon we can get into this. Alright, the Word of God is living and it is active. Have you ever felt the Lord active in you? I know you have. Do you ever feel Him resisting you? Or quickly leading you? Or could you almost feel him restless inside of you? Brethren, sometimes I almost feel his footsteps walking up and down. I really mean that.

Alright. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the dividing of what? Soul and spirit. Alright, now, brethren, I want to talk to you as brothers and sisters for a moment. We have been really looking at the Spirit of God, the Spirit in our spirit. We’ve been looking at the higher life in our life.  We have been looking to find out that we are to live by a life higher than ours. Then we discovered this real negative thing, that we have a soul, and we’ve been running around here thinking, well, we’ve been living a spiritual life, and suddenly, amazingly, find out we have been living a what life? A soulish life. But so many people who think they are really living a Christian life. a spiritual life, brothers are living by the grit and the effort and the sweat of their own life for God. They are not; they are serving God in their own strength, and they are not ministering the Life

And I guess, brothers and sisters, those of us who have really been guilty of ministering out of the power of the human soul, I guess we have to go further back to the end of the line than anybody. I’ll tell you, brothers and sisters, I know you feel it’s so old at 22. You just go and say, Thank you, Lord Jesus, I’m not as old as Gene Edwards. Do that. Just thank you, Lord, that you caught me when I was young. Now, Lord, keep me caught. Just keep me caught, and Lord deal with my soul.