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TO THE GLORY OF GOD
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Study No 13 THE NATURE OF MAN - Part 3
THE PARTS OF THE SPIRIT
A. CONSCIENCE
1. This is one of the greatest gifts God gave to man for without
it none could be saved. The Holy Spirit comes to convict of
sin, and of righteousness and judgement, John 16:8, but unless
there was a part in unregenerate man that could respond to Him
it would be utterly wasted. It is the conscience which
constantly accuses of evil and leads to God. Rom. 2:15.
2. In the redeemed life the conscience is still active but now
assumes a higher role, - that of bearing witness to
righteousness in a positive way instead of a negative way.
Note the comparison of Rom. 9:1 and 8:6 and Psalms 51:10. 1
Cor. 5:3 shows that illumined conscience can now exercise
godly judgement in determining between exterior good and evil
as well as the internal.
3. The function of the conscience is to search the life in order
that everything evil and irrelevant may be rooted out. Prov.
20:27, Acts 24:16, Heb. 9:14, Psalms 32:2-7 (Amp.).
4. It is essential to have a clear conscience (2 Tim. 1:3) for
there to be a proper reception of the voice of God. If the
conscience is guilty the intuition will be faulty and the
communion broken. Heb. 10:22 - 1 John 1:5-7, 1 John 3:21.
5. If the conscience is not operating on the correct level in a
redeemed life, and still continues to bear witness to past
evil deeds in a condemnatory sense, it can be overruled and
brought into harmony with God's forgiveness, 1 John 3:20; Heb.
9:14.
6. The conscience does not operate on a debit-credit and running
balance system. It cannot subtract a bad deed from a good one
and leave you with some credit in hand. It can only register
disapproval for evil and no amount of good will cancel that
registration, until the blood of Christ is applied to it. For
this reason no one can be saved by good works.
B. COMMUNION
1. This faculty of the spirit is absolutely basic to man. This
is one of the reasons why God created man. Gen. 3:8. John
4:24 makes it plain that God must be worshipped in spirit.
There is a level of relationship out of this faculty of
communion where God and man can be totally one - where pure
and actual love can flow between them.
2. It is out of this part of the spirit that we "pray in the
spirit". Much ordinary prayer originates in the mind of its
self orientated characteristic. Praying in the spirit is to
allow that redeemed organ of man to respond directly to God
under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and pray in tongues. In
this way the mind of man cannot interfere with the pure desire
of the cleansed human spirit. Note Eph. 6:8; 1 Cor. 14:14-15;
Luke 1:47, Philippians 3:3.
3. As noted previously, a clear conscience is essential to
complete communion with God. Though we are encouraged to
approach boldly, it is always on the basis of a cleansed heart.
Heb. 10:22.
C. INTUITION
1. There are two kinds of knowledge - sense knowledge, which
comes to us through our mind from the information fed in by
the 5 senses. Then there is revelation knowledge. It has
nothing to do with the mind at all. This is the knowledge
which comes directly from God through our communion with Him.
Guidance, understanding or spiritual truth and spiritual gifts
all have their rise in this part of the spirit. It was by
this impartation from God that Peter realised who Jesus really
was. Matt. 16:15-17.
2. Everything we know of God must be of this order. Knowledge of
God derived in any other way than be His personal revelation
is mere philosophy and is but a human concept or idea of God
instead of real knowledge. 1 Cor. 1:21 - "the world by wisdom
knew not God" - hence all the world religions. Job 11:7. Note
the difference between earthly and heavenly wisdom. James
3:16-17.
3. It is important to activate and use this faculty
intelligently. Many Christians miss the voice of God to them
because although they feel the "promptings" of God, they do
not know how to understand them. In times like this the mind
must become the servant of the spirit and receive direction
from the enlightened and inspired faculty of intuition,
instead of assuming that such thoughts are irrelevant or
nonsense. Though there is a possibility of error here, those
walking in the spirit will have their conscience bear witness
to the truth, Rom. 9:1. The following scriptures indicates the
fact of divine revelation to the human spirit, 1 Cor. 2:11,
Mark 2:8; 8:12. John 11:33(RSV); 1 John 2:27; 1 Cor. 2:9-10;
Gal. 1:12; Eph. 1:17-18; 2 Cor. 3:6. The relationship between
God and man as indicated by 1 Cor. 6:17 is very similar to the
human marriage relationship - there is fellowship and love.
There has to be a clear conscience and trust between partners.
And there is always a certain intuition between married
couples as well.
END of Part 3