15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. The body is not meant fo r sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. The context shows us that becoming one spirit with the Lord Jesus was analogous to becoming one with the spouse and or in some cases, even someone whose not your spouse (as in sexual immorality e.g. (If the Father and Son make their home with the believer, why don’t they teach the believer, why send the Holy Spirit as a delegate?) “Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.īut the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” Or is neither the Father nor the Son present just the Holy Spirit representing the Father and the Son? “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.” Is the Father (or the Father’s Spirit) present too? On account of “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” Amen.How should this verse be understood exactly? Is there now only one spirit? Or two united spirits? (And where is the location of this spirit exactly? Inside the believer perhaps?) Bring unity in our division, Lord, and give us your Spirit of Peace, for the sake of Jesus. Give your Church one heart and one mind, that we may speak with one voice. Give us to drink again of the one Spirit that binds your people together. Thank you for my friends and the gifts I see them using, especially … Lord God, Heavenly Father, thank you for arranging the members of the Body so carefully! Thank you for the variety of your gifts, and for the unique life you continue to give me to use for your glory. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body-whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free-and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. The Holy Spirit dwells in you as an individual but the Spirit also resides in us, together, as the Body of Christ.Īll these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines. And the soul that enlivens the body is the same Spirit who fills the temple. Each of us has unique gifts and functions we bring to the whole as we, together, bring the life and activity of Jesus to the world.
We are each individual parts of a living, breathing, human body-the Body of Christ. We are being built together into a beautiful structure where heaven meets earth and the Spirit of God takes up residence. We are each individual stones in a massive edifice. A body needs a soul a temple needs the very presence of God. The Bible can sometimes talk about the people of God collectively as a body or temple but empty bodies and empty temples are no good for anything. And the Resurrection of the Dead is the final victory over that separation: God finally putting human bodies and souls back together the way they were designed in the first place. But what God designed to go together, sin now pulls asunder.ĭeath is the final, physical consequence of brokenness between God and humans and between humans and God’s perfect creation. You were not created to be a temporary, mortal body that momentarily houses an eternal soul your immortal soul belongs in an immortal body. That’s one reason why death is such an affront to God’s glory and power and intention and design. God gave us bodies and souls that belong together. Human beings are unique in all creation: God designed us to be physical and spiritual creatures.
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