WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040 We were discussing this thing of the carnal and 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:09.800 the spiritual. And we've been asking the question, 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:14.640 what is the difference between the spiritual 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:19.320 man and the carnal man? One thing we were sure 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:24.460 of, and that is the fact that both are in the 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:27.620 body of Christ. Now, at first, I know that's 00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:32.359 very startling. extremely startling to those 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.280 who have felt that anything that had to do with 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:39.460 the carnals whatsoever could not be a part of 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:43.020 the body of Christ. And yet, going back to the 00:00:43.020 --> 00:00:46.219 third chapter, 1 Corinthians, the first verse, 00:00:46.539 --> 00:00:53.020 Paul is saying, and I, brethren, and using that 00:00:53.020 --> 00:00:56.500 word brethren, we know that he's addressing those 00:00:56.500 --> 00:01:00.609 who are... in the body of Christ, or they never 00:01:00.609 --> 00:01:04.489 could have been his brethren. And it's just like 00:01:04.489 --> 00:01:10.709 that. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you 00:01:10.709 --> 00:01:16.250 as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as 00:01:16.250 --> 00:01:22.069 unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, 00:01:22.069 --> 00:01:27.569 and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able 00:01:27.569 --> 00:01:33.370 to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For 00:01:33.370 --> 00:01:38.170 ye are yet carnal. For whereas there is among 00:01:38.170 --> 00:01:44.450 you in vain and strife and divisions, are ye 00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:51.349 not carnal and walk as men? Read the entire third 00:01:51.349 --> 00:01:56.019 chapter of 1 Corinthians. Then you'll remember 00:01:56.019 --> 00:02:01.659 that during that heart -to -heart talk, I went 00:02:01.659 --> 00:02:07.859 back again to, in my way of thinking, is one 00:02:07.859 --> 00:02:16.020 of the most beautiful portions of God's Word, 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.520 the most wonderful Word that ever came from the 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:22.479 pen of Paul. It's just one verse of Scripture. 00:02:23.789 --> 00:02:28.289 The 23rd verse of the 5th chapter of 1 Thessalonians. 00:02:28.629 --> 00:02:33.349 And this is where I left you. And the very God 00:02:33.349 --> 00:02:39.289 of peace sanctify you wholly, completely, entirely. 00:02:40.889 --> 00:02:46.229 And I pray God that your whole spirit and soul 00:02:46.229 --> 00:02:52.330 and body be preserved blameless unto the coming 00:02:52.330 --> 00:03:00.090 of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what is the difference 00:03:00.090 --> 00:03:05.469 between the spiritual and the carnal? Paul certainly 00:03:05.469 --> 00:03:09.069 knew human nature. Paul certainly understood 00:03:09.069 --> 00:03:16.270 men. And he prayed that their spirit and soul 00:03:16.270 --> 00:03:21.870 and body not just their body, not just the soul, 00:03:21.969 --> 00:03:26.710 not just the spirit, but spirit and soul and 00:03:26.710 --> 00:03:34.909 body be preserved entire without blame at the 00:03:34.909 --> 00:03:39.629 coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Man is a trinity. 00:03:40.430 --> 00:03:45.659 You are a trinity. I am a trinity. I am not just 00:03:45.659 --> 00:03:50.379 body, neither are you just body. I am not just 00:03:50.379 --> 00:03:56.780 soul, neither are you just soul. You are not 00:03:56.780 --> 00:04:04.520 just spirit, neither am I just spirit. Man is 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:08.620 the strange combination of body, soul, and spirit. 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:12.759 If you are a part of humanity, you are a trinity. 00:04:13.419 --> 00:04:17.839 The combination of the spiritual and the temporal. 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:27.980 But see something. The essential thing in human 00:04:27.980 --> 00:04:32.459 personality is not the body. And sometimes I 00:04:32.459 --> 00:04:36.279 think that we concentrate more on the body than 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:41.160 any other part of our trinity. We live for the 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.769 body. We work for the body. We concentrate on 00:04:45.769 --> 00:04:55.589 the body. We just cater to the body. Remember, 00:04:55.649 --> 00:05:02.569 God is a spirit and man is made in the divine 00:05:02.569 --> 00:05:08.949 likeness and man must worship in spirit of every 00:05:08.949 --> 00:05:12.970 person, every human being. Whether in the church 00:05:12.970 --> 00:05:17.550 or outside, the supreme fact is the spiritual 00:05:17.550 --> 00:05:23.490 fact. The spiritual factor is more important 00:05:23.490 --> 00:05:28.430 than any other part of man. There's nothing that's 00:05:28.430 --> 00:05:31.610 more important to you than the spiritual factor. 00:05:32.509 --> 00:05:36.389 What's wrong with the world today? There are 00:05:36.389 --> 00:05:39.529 millions who are asking that question. And we 00:05:39.529 --> 00:05:45.189 have just as many. As we have those who are asking 00:05:45.189 --> 00:05:48.230 that question, what is the matter with the world? 00:05:49.750 --> 00:05:55.769 Very simply, I give the answer that God's Word 00:05:55.769 --> 00:06:01.529 gives. It's because we have forgotten the spiritual 00:06:01.529 --> 00:06:06.610 side of man. Just pause for a moment. Consider. 00:06:08.430 --> 00:06:14.089 Millions today. are living who have completely 00:06:14.089 --> 00:06:22.129 forgotten the spiritual side of man. They have 00:06:22.129 --> 00:06:26.170 forgotten that they are a trinity, that they 00:06:26.170 --> 00:06:31.350 are more than body, that they are more than flesh, 00:06:31.589 --> 00:06:37.430 that they are more than the temporal. Every human 00:06:37.430 --> 00:06:43.829 being I don't care who that one is. If he is 00:06:43.829 --> 00:06:49.990 a part of humanity, if his heart beats, if there 00:06:49.990 --> 00:06:54.870 is a pulse, if there is life in that body, that 00:06:54.870 --> 00:06:59.610 man must face the fact that he is a trinity. 00:07:01.170 --> 00:07:05.470 He is more than the temple. He is more than flesh. 00:07:09.129 --> 00:07:12.970 He is the combination of temporal and eternal. 00:07:14.750 --> 00:07:22.509 He is body, soul, and spirit. And he has forgotten 00:07:22.509 --> 00:07:28.250 the spiritual part. What's the matter with the 00:07:28.250 --> 00:07:36.670 world? The world is made up of human beings. 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:45.220 We talk about the world so loosely, and yet it 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:50.600 is made up of human beings. We talk about our 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.360 nation, about the United States of America. We 00:07:54.360 --> 00:08:00.699 think of it in terms of a nation, and yet a nation 00:08:00.699 --> 00:08:07.699 is made up of human beings. And no nation, no... 00:08:07.980 --> 00:08:11.740 nation in the world is stronger than its spiritual 00:08:11.740 --> 00:08:16.399 forces. And it's just like that. The United States 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:20.060 of America. We may boast of our air power. We 00:08:20.060 --> 00:08:24.899 may boast of our navy. We may boast of the fact 00:08:24.899 --> 00:08:29.579 that so great has been our scientific ability 00:08:29.579 --> 00:08:32.720 that we've been the first to the moon. And yet, 00:08:32.779 --> 00:08:38.440 as a nation, We are no stronger than our spiritual 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:44.940 forces. And no man is stronger than the emphasis 00:08:44.940 --> 00:08:49.799 that he has put on the spiritual part of his 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:53.220 life and living. That's the most important thing 00:08:53.220 --> 00:08:59.620 in the world to you. I pause so that you might 00:08:59.620 --> 00:09:03.080 have time to consider. What emphasis have you 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:11.360 put on? The spiritual part of you. There's the 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:19.480 body. An equally definite factor. But the body 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:26.279 is there as the instrument of the spirit. It's 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:31.279 so simple. And through the body, the spirit receives 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:36.759 and makes contact with others. Through the body, 00:09:36.980 --> 00:09:44.240 it expresses itself to others. In that wonderful 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:48.240 spiritual experience, and when we talk about 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.519 the new birth experience, remember, it's something 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:55.039 that's spiritual. It's something that's individual. 00:09:56.220 --> 00:10:00.500 It's a transaction between the individual and 00:10:00.500 --> 00:10:04.730 God. Between the individual. and the Lord Jesus 00:10:04.730 --> 00:10:11.250 Christ. It's spiritual. No one can see that spiritual 00:10:11.250 --> 00:10:15.490 experience. But it's as real as God Himself. 00:10:15.809 --> 00:10:23.610 It's as real as Jesus Christ. And we stand justified 00:10:23.610 --> 00:10:29.350 before God by faith. Yet, that spiritual experience 00:10:29.350 --> 00:10:35.399 is evidenced through that individual and through 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:41.399 that body by the Spirit. Therefore, we stand 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:46.080 justified before man by the life that we live 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:51.820 through the body. We talk about the Holy Spirit, 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:59.039 but no man has seen the Holy Spirit. You know, 00:10:59.100 --> 00:11:05.570 and I say this reverently, I'm sold on the Holy 00:11:05.570 --> 00:11:10.009 Spirit. I cannot give a heart -to -heart talk. 00:11:10.509 --> 00:11:14.990 I can never stand behind the pulpit without speaking 00:11:14.990 --> 00:11:18.870 of the Holy Spirit. And yet, I have never seen 00:11:18.870 --> 00:11:22.389 the Holy Spirit. Neither have you seen the Holy 00:11:22.389 --> 00:11:30.409 Spirit. But you can see the Holy Spirit through 00:11:30.409 --> 00:11:36.129 my life as He gives... evidence of Himself through 00:11:36.129 --> 00:11:40.490 my body. And there is a place where literally 00:11:40.490 --> 00:11:48.450 we yield our body unto Him, and this body of 00:11:48.450 --> 00:11:52.129 ours becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit. Even 00:11:52.129 --> 00:11:54.629 though I cannot see the Holy Spirit, even though 00:11:54.629 --> 00:12:00.129 you cannot see the person, the visible person 00:12:00.129 --> 00:12:04.759 of the Holy Spirit, In this body of mine, yet 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:08.940 he gives evidence of himself and his power through 00:12:08.940 --> 00:12:14.259 the body. As I yield the body unto him, and the 00:12:14.259 --> 00:12:17.980 same is true in that one who has surrendered 00:12:17.980 --> 00:12:25.279 his body to the Holy Spirit. Do you understand 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:28.539 what I am saying? Pastor, it's nice to see you. 00:12:28.659 --> 00:12:34.600 The body is. important, vitally important, even 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:39.860 though it is temporal. Yet the body is to be 00:12:39.860 --> 00:12:44.320 used as the instrument of the spirit, not only 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:51.120 the Holy Spirit, but your spirit. For through 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.799 the body, the spirit receives and makes contact 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.720 with others. Through the body, it expresses itself 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:04.120 to others. The body, An ideal personality in 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:10.220 the divine economy is secondary. The body is 00:13:10.220 --> 00:13:15.820 so secondary and yet so important to the spirit. 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.139 What's the soul? Oh, that's been discussed so 00:13:20.139 --> 00:13:27.320 much. And yet that too is so important. The soul, 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:31.580 the consciousness. The mind, the intelligence 00:13:31.580 --> 00:13:43.759 is invested not in the body, but in the spirit. 00:13:45.899 --> 00:13:52.539 Now see something, and this is scriptural. God 00:13:52.539 --> 00:13:59.580 formed man of the dust of the ground. Now that 00:13:59.580 --> 00:14:07.399 is the body, but that is not the man. You look 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.379 at me, you see my body, you pass me on the street, 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:15.500 or you see me on the platform, or you greet me 00:14:15.500 --> 00:14:19.360 and say, as you look upon my body, that's Catherine 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:25.600 Kuhlman. You know me by the color of my hair, 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:32.860 the color of my eyes. Katharine Kuhlman. That's 00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:38.679 the body, but that's not really me. Follow me 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:44.480 in the scripture. God formed man of the dust 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:48.659 of the ground, and he breathed into his nostrils 00:14:48.659 --> 00:14:53.960 the breath, the breath of life. That is the spirit. 00:14:54.220 --> 00:15:00.529 And so man became a living, conscious soul. And 00:15:00.529 --> 00:15:04.889 here we have the combination of the temporal, 00:15:05.129 --> 00:15:09.750 that which goes back to the dust of the earth 00:15:09.750 --> 00:15:14.250 from whence it was formed, and we come back again 00:15:14.250 --> 00:15:19.029 to the spiritual, the eternal, that which continues 00:15:19.029 --> 00:15:25.009 forever and ever, the soul and the spirit. And 00:15:25.009 --> 00:15:28.600 so here we have three planes. The spirit. the 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:32.679 mind, the body. And every man and every woman 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:37.179 is living either being mastered by the body, 00:15:37.299 --> 00:15:42.019 which is the lower plane, or by the spirit, which 00:15:42.019 --> 00:15:47.559 is the higher plane. And the mind is affected 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:52.080 by that part of personality to which the mastery 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:57.559 of the person gives himself over to. If I... 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:01.779 descend to the level of the material, if I consent 00:16:01.779 --> 00:16:07.779 to that, then all my thinking is fleshly. It's 00:16:07.779 --> 00:16:11.139 carnal. If I give my thinking, if I give my mind, 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.200 if I give myself completely over to the body, 00:16:14.340 --> 00:16:19.440 to that which is temporal, then all my thinking 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:24.360 is carnal. That's the Word of God. On the other 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:28.379 hand, If I lift my whole personality to the spiritual, 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:33.039 then my thinking is spiritual, and I'm mastered 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:37.580 by the Spirit. Now, I'm not referring to the 00:16:37.580 --> 00:16:40.240 Spirit of God for the moment. Of course, He enters 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.620 into the Christian experience, as I told you 00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:46.399 a moment ago. But remember, the Spirit of God 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:49.500 comes when I am dead in trespasses and sins, 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:53.080 and He gives me new life. And it is when the 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.059 life of the indwelling spirit takes possession 00:16:56.059 --> 00:17:01.919 of my spirit that all comes under the domination 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:10.819 of that spirit. It's so simple. It's just so 00:17:10.819 --> 00:17:14.220 simple that really a child can understand and 00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:19.500 yet I'm talking to thousands who have never caught 00:17:19.500 --> 00:17:23.000 that wonderful vision. of having yielded unto 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:33.160 him all of you. You have permitted yourself to 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:41.059 be mastered by the flesh. And you've used your 00:17:41.059 --> 00:17:47.339 body to satisfy the lusts of the flesh. This 00:17:47.339 --> 00:17:49.140 very moment, and that's exactly what's wrong 00:17:49.140 --> 00:17:54.609 with the world today. We have forgotten the spirit. 00:17:55.950 --> 00:18:01.670 And we're permitting the flesh to master our 00:18:01.670 --> 00:18:07.549 lives. The desires of the flesh to master our 00:18:07.549 --> 00:18:14.569 body. But we're more than flesh. We're more than 00:18:14.569 --> 00:18:25.740 body. What I'm talking about, what Paul is talking 00:18:25.740 --> 00:18:30.400 about, is not something that takes place after 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:42.640 death. How often we like to think of consecration 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:54.730 after death. No. He has not made us yet. He is 00:18:54.730 --> 00:19:05.289 making us now. Now, beloved, we are to present 00:19:05.289 --> 00:19:13.309 our bodies as a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable 00:19:13.309 --> 00:19:19.069 unto him which is... Our reasonable service, 00:19:19.309 --> 00:19:25.109 the most reasonable thing in the world. What 00:19:25.109 --> 00:19:28.549 Paul is writing about here in 1 Thessalonians, 00:19:28.549 --> 00:19:36.009 the fifth chapter, is here and now, not after 00:19:36.009 --> 00:19:43.650 death. And I come back again to that 23rd verse. 00:19:45.900 --> 00:19:51.279 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, 00:19:51.539 --> 00:19:58.359 completely. And I pray, God, that your whole 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:08.339 spirit and soul and body and he names the spirit 00:20:08.339 --> 00:20:15.019 first. We have put everything first in this day. 00:20:15.980 --> 00:20:25.619 Accept the spirit. The spiritual. Your whole 00:20:25.619 --> 00:20:37.099 spirit and soul and body. Your whole body. Be 00:20:37.099 --> 00:20:47.400 preserved blameless. Not after death. No. Be 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:51.859 preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord 00:20:51.859 --> 00:20:56.420 Jesus Christ. That means now, today, this very 00:20:56.420 --> 00:21:03.619 moment. Preserved, kept. Oh, to me this is thrilling. 00:21:03.660 --> 00:21:09.950 This is marvelous. And he will preserve you if 00:21:09.950 --> 00:21:13.730 you are willing to be preserved. He will keep 00:21:13.730 --> 00:21:19.150 you if you're willing to be kept. Blameless. 00:21:20.210 --> 00:21:25.170 The greatest desire of my life is to see Jesus. 00:21:26.089 --> 00:21:30.670 I want to look upon the face of Jesus. And when 00:21:30.670 --> 00:21:39.829 I do, I want to be blameless. when I stand in 00:21:39.829 --> 00:21:41.529 his glorious presence.