1 Thessalonians 5:23
Blessing and Admonition
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your
whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God does divide spirit, soul, body, apart!
soul VS spirit, these are not the same thing.
Then there is the mind, which I identify as part of the soul so then it can be trained according to the flesh or according to the spirit.
You will be carnally minded or spiritually minded
But to the spirit of man, God has given eternal life for those in Christ, those born again, born of God are spiritually alive. And they are joined to the God's Spirit as one spirit with Him
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God
is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
As in a marriage, a man and wife are joined bodily, so that they are one flesh. That is how God views their relationship
Same thing spiritually, either man or women born of God are joined as in a marriage, recall the talk of the wedding feast
1 Cor 6
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body
with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Marriage—Christ and the Church
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so
let the wives
be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might [
g]sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord
does the church.
30 For we are members of His body, [h]of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife
see that she respects
her husband.
1 Cor 5, it is the spirit which is saved, not the flesh, mind, soul, body, which makes good sense as that spirit is joined to God as one spirit with Him. The body, flesh, mind, soul of a man is not so joined.
So that if your spiritually minded and growing in the grace and knowledge of God, that spiritually mined spirit will retain a reward.
And not have everything about them burn up at the judgement seat.
1 Cor 3
Watering, Working, Warning
5 Who then is Paul, and who
is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field,
you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation
with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on
it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and
that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone [
b]defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which
temple you are.
1 Cor 5
Immorality Defiles the Church
5 It is actually reported
that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even [
a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are [
b]puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord [
c]Jesus.
6 Your glorying
is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore [
d]purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed [
e]for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.
Immorality Must Be Judged
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to [f]keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
