IT IS A LIFE FASHIONED ON GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN

In God’s original plan, the human personality was a unity. The human spirit, dominated and directed by the Holy Spirit, was supreme in authority over the soul and the body, so the Holy Spirit, through the channel of the human spirit, made and kept the whole being spiritual.

As we have seen in chapter 17, sin began its deadly work in Adam’s spirit by severing it from the divine Spirit, thus alienating it from the life of God and making it a death chamber. Sin also dethroned it as sovereign over the human personality and made it a slave to the soul and body. Thus, sin left the human spirit darkened and dethroned. Salvation must begin where sin began; the human spirit must be quickened. The sovereignty of the Holy Spirit over it must be restored, and its supremacy over soul and body must be revived.

The human spirit was made the container of the eternal life of God.
Salvation always outruns sin, for “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” In the quickening of the human spirit, God not only made it cease being a death chamber, but He made it the container of the eternal life of the triune God. Through the new birth, He implanted within it something which had never been there before, the divine, spiritual, eternal life of the triune God in the Person of Christ the Son in whom “dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

1 John 5:11-12
“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”

The Holy Spirit comes to dwell in this quickened spirit, feeding and fostering this new life within so that it may grow up “into a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13). The Holy Spirit renews this divine life within daily.

Ezekiel 36:26-27
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”

2 Corinthians 4:16
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”

The spiritual man is one in whom the human spirit is supernaturally recreated through the implantation of God’s uncreated life at the new birth. Into this quickened spirit, the Holy Spirit has come to abide, control, renew, and energize. Between them, “a perpetual partnership” is established. Through this supernatural reunion of the divine Spirit and the human spirit, Christ and the believer are joined into one spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:17
“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”

Through this act of God in regeneration, the maladjustment within the believer’s human personality is remedied. A proper balance between the constituent parts is restored; the sovereignty of the spirit over the soul and body is revived. The human spirit is again the premier in the governmental affairs of the human being, and the soul and body are its loyal and faithful underlings.

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Hallelujah! Through our being born again, You have restored the proper balance between our spirit, soul, and body under the sovereignty of Your Holy Spirit. We Praise You, Lord!