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    Soul and Spirit
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    Soul and Spirit

    By Jessie Penn-Lewis

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    Are you a "spiritual" Christian? Penn-Lewis brings biblical truth to bear on the study of psychology in this powerful book. By identifying the dividing line between the soul and the spirit in human nature, she uncovers practical principles by which we can deny our carnal nature, resist the influence of Satan, and truly become spiritual Christians.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCLC Publications
    Release dateNov 4, 2022
    ISBN9781619580947
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      Soul and Spirit - Jessie Penn-Lewis

      Soul and Spirit

      Published by CLC Publications

      U.S.A.

      P.O. Box 1449, Fort Washington, PA 19034

      GREAT BRITAIN

      51 The Dean, Alresford, Hants. SO24 9BJ

      ISBN (mass market): 978-0-87508-341-4

      ISBN (e-book): 978-61958-094-7

      Originally published by

      The Overcomer Literature Trust

      England

      Scripture quotations are generally from the

      American Standard Version of 1901

      This edition 2013

      Contents

      Chapter One: SOUL AND SPIRIT

      The Soul and Its Functions

      The Fall of Man

      Chapter Two: THE CARNAL CHRISTIAN

      The Deliverance of the Cross

      Chapter Three: THE MAN OF SOUL

      The Soul and the Powers of Darkness

      Chapter Four: HOW SOUL AND SPIRIT ARE DIVIDED

      The Cross and the Soul Affections

      The Cross and Soulish Self-Interest

      The Cross and Soulish Grasping of Earthly Things

      The Cross and Soulish Self-Love

      The Pathway of Freedom

      Chapter Five: THE SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN

      How the Soulish Man Becomes Spiritual

      The Laws of the Spirit Life

      The Spiritual Man Is Full-Grown in Christ

      The Spiritual Man Is Made Perfect in Love

      The Spiritual Man Is Perfected into One with All Believers

      The Spiritual Man Walks in the Light

      The Spiritual Man and the Spiritual Body

      Some Dangers for the Spiritual Man

      APPENDIX

      Soul-force Versus Spirit-force

      1. Some Light Upon the Perils of the Last Days

      2. The World Issues of Today

      3. The Psychic Discoveries in the Last Days

      4. The Son Can Do Nothing of Himself

      5. Calling the Psychical Spiritual

      6. The Distinction Between Soul and Spirit

      7. Some Soulish Counterfeits of Spiritual Realities

      Endnotes

      One

      Soul and Spirit

      ". . . the dividing of soul and spirit . . ."

      (Hebrews 4:12, ASV).

      The ignorance of Christians concerning the distinction between soul and spirit is very general and is a primary cause of the lack of full growth in the spiritual life in many devoted and earnest believers. G. H. Pember points out as one cause of this ignorance the popular phraseology body and soul, which has caused a deficiency in the English language. He also says that although we have the nouns spirit and soul—which are too often treated as synonyms—we have no adjective from the latter. The consequence is that the omission of such an adjective has nearly concealed man’s tripartite nature in most versions of the English Bible, where the Greek word which signifies pertaining to the soul is sometimes rendered natural and sometimes sensual (1 Corinthians 2:14, James 3:15, Jude 19).

      Of course Greek scholars know well the different words in the original which stand for spirit—pneuma; soul—psuche; flesh—sarx. To most Christians these distinctions are veiled. The result is that they are unable to discriminate in experience between things that differ and yet which vitally affect their spiritual growth. The need for this knowledge is of more than academic importance, for the fallen archangel Satan, with his superhuman wisdom, knows the make-up of human beings. Posing as an angel of light, he brings to bear all the power of the knowledge which he possesses. He can counterfeit the working of the Holy Spirit and create in the realm of the soul such perfect imitations of the pure life of the Spirit of God indwelling the man’s spirit that the most earnest Christians are liable to be deceived. It is therefore necessary that the teaching of the Scripture upon the distinction between soul and spirit should be made as clear as possible from the Word of God so that even the youngest believer can understand those distinctions.

      The writer is not attempting to meet the need of those who are able to go directly to the Greek New Testament and read it for themselves. Rather, it is to assist those who must have help here as they earnestly seek the aid of the Spirit of God to enable them to grasp the truth and to receive spiritual understanding of spiritual facts set forth in the Scripture as necessary for their growth in life and godliness. Let the reader, then, pause at this point, and in an act of faith take the promise of John 14:26, "The Holy Spirit . . . shall teach you all things . . . and John 16:13, He will guide you into all truth . . . ," with confidence that the Spirit of God will fulfill His office to the teachable child of God. The Holy Spirit is able to teach the believer in experience the distinction between soul and spirit without his ever knowing the truth intellectually. And vice versa, the scholar may see clearly the difference as expressed in the Greek but not know at all what the words mean experientially—i.e., he may hold the truth in mental instead of spiritual power. Then it is but the letter of the Word without the spirit. Therefore, the believer who has been taught personally by the Holy Spirit the dividing of soul and spirit before apprehending the distinction with his intellect is better able to understand and rightly divide the word of truth than the reader of the Greek who is untaught of God. For back of the words in the Scriptures there are spiritual verities which cannot be understood by the natural man—i.e., the pertaining to the soul man (lit. 1 Corinthians 2:14)—and can only be known by revelation.¹

      But first as to the missing adjective! G. H. Pember says that an attempt is being made to use the Greek word psychic for expressing in English the adjective for soul. The word is, however, too Greek, so to speak, to commend itself for general use. In connection with James 3:15, Pember uses the word soulish, and this seems more nearly to express what is needed. Stockmayer also uses this same word—soulish—to signify that which pertains to the soul, for he says in reference to 1 Corinthians 2:14, the Greek text has it, the ‘soulman,’ or ‘soulish-man.’ As ‘spiritual’ is the adjective of spirit, so is ‘soulish’ the adjective of soul. The word soulish therefore might well be generally accepted by English readers as the missing adjective, which will enable us to speak of the soulish Christian as well as the spiritual (1 Corinthians 3:1) and the carnal (fleshy) Christian, and the meaning be understood. For this purpose it will be so used in the present treatise, even though no dictionary lists the word.

      As to the distinction between soul and spirit, Gall points out that not only in the English language is the distinction made, but in every classic language from Hebrew downward. Yet, in the English New Testament only two passages bring out the distinction clearly: Hebrews 4:12—"Dividing soul and spirit—and 1 Thessalonians 5:23—Sanctify you . . . spirit and soul and body." These two, however, are sufficient for the English reader to see that man is tripartite, and not only soul and body.

      The Soul and Its Functions

      Two questions must be asked here: What is the ‘soul’ as distinct from the ‘spirit’? And What are their respective functions? Before we turn to the Scriptures, here are some quotations from other writers which will help us to discover what the apostle means by the dividing of soul and spirit, and thus more clearly understand how spirit and soul and body can be sanctified and preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord.

      Tertullian, one of the Church Fathers who wrote in the early centuries of the Christian era, calls the flesh—or physical being—the body of the soul, and the soul the vessel of the spirit. The soul stands between the spirit and the body, for direct communication between spirit and flesh is impossible; their intercourse can be carried on only by means of a medium²—the soul being that medium.

      The soul was the meeting place, the point of union between body and spirit, also writes Dr. Andrew Murray. Through the body, man—the living soul (Genesis 2:7)—stood related to the external world of sense; through the spirit he stood related to the spiritual world.

      Pember explains the function of each very clearly when he says, "The body we may term the sense-consciousness; the soul the self-consciousness; and the spirit the God-consciousness. Again he says, the body gives us the use of the five senses; and the soul, the intellect which aids us in the present state of existence, and the emotions which proceed from the senses, while the spirit is the highest part which came directly from God, and by which alone we apprehend and worship

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