1306. What Is Your Life?

What Is Your Life?

Mat_6:23-34; Rev_18:11-18

A Debased Idea of Life (Mat_6:25).

A False Idea of Securing Life (Mat_10:39).

A Divine Comparison of Values (Mat_16:26).

Saving the Life (Heb_10:39).

The Believer's Sacrifice of Life (Act_20:24).

The Believer's Reward (Mat_11:29).

Trafficking in Lives (Rev_18:12-13).

The word "psukee" is a Greek word translated sometimes into the English word "life," and at other times into the English word "soul." The word is one of three words which make up the whole man.

The whole man is thus described: "That your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1Th_5:23).

The "soul" is that part of the man which has contact with his fellow-men. The word is often used, Scripturally, to designate the whole life of the individual–the space between birth and death.

The "spirit" is that part of the man through which he has his contact with God. The spirit alone understands the things of the Spirit of God. The natural man, that is, the soulish man, the man of soul, cannot understand the things of God for they are spiritually discerned, that is, discerned through the Spirit.

The spirit of man is renewed and enlightened by the Holy Spirit of God.

The "body" is that part of the man which lends him contact with material things. The body has five senses–seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling and tasting. These senses act as the medium through which the body reaches out to material things.

It is the purpose of this lesson to discuss exclusively the "life," or the "soul" of man.

There is much that needs to be said, and we trust that the lesson will prove exceedingly helpful.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR