Seattle, September 13, 2005. (82)
GOD IS A SPIRIT. He is not a man, He is that which is timeless, belonging to an entirely different manner of life. The Spirit life is life eternal. God, who is Spirit is substance. That which is Spirit is far more real than the worldly, for it is everlasting. The natural man was created to live in this world, having a body, soul and spirit. The Lord breathed into the nostrils of Adam, the “breath of life,” and he became a living soul. The Lord had completed the man whom He had made. The body with its life sustaining blood lay before the Lord. Not until the “breath of life from the Lord was breathed into Adam did his heart begin to beat and his blood circulate throughout his body. Gen. 2:7 His body and soul were activated by the breath of the Lord. Note, Adam is called “a living soul.” In the order ordained of the Lord the body lives by the blood and the blood [soul] lives because of the very breath [Spirit] of the Lord. The first act at the birth of a child is to make certain that it is breathing. It must breathe life giving oxygen into its lungs that the oxygen might be circulated through the body, by the blood, in order to live. The breath we breathe is unseen, yet its existence cannot be denied. We cannot touch it, or grasp it but we are very aware of it as it fills our lungs. So with the Spirit of the Lord. We may not see Him. We may not lay hold of Him, but we are very much aware of His presence when we are filled with the baptism of the Spirit.
THE LORD IS THAT SPIRIT. Paul is not relating to just any spirit and most certainly not to the spirit of man. He is emphasizing the fact that the Lord, is THAT SPIRIT. The true Spirit as well as the Spirit of truth. He is that Spirit which brings human kind into a real affiliation with the Lord. The presence of the Spirit of the Lord always brings freedom wherever He is manifest. He is the means whereby we are able to live in liberty from all that binds. 2 Cor. 3:17 All natural life has it beginning in Adam, who was but a living soul like all of us, having life only for this world. So, now in Christ and by the Spirit, He who is known as the last Adam is a life giving spirit. Real life, eternal life is found in Him and only in Him. 1 Cor. 15:45 Because the Word is Spirit and Life it can only be made effective by the anointing of the Spirit. John 6:63 The Word without the Spirit is unproductive. It must be motivated by the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:6 The Word and the Spirit work together in full harmony. The Word, is the recorded knowledge of whom and what the Lord is. It is the Spirit who reveals the Christ of God, using the Word, and making known to us how very real and precious He can be to those who love Him.