Say this after me right now. Say: “I am a spirit.” “I have a soul and I live in a body.” Amen. Your body is your house. You have a soul. You are not a soul. You are a spirit. Amen. This is the real you. You are a spirit. You have a soul, you live in a body. Amen. So each part has its own functions that God has given.
Right? Of course your body has the five senses. You have the sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. So those are your bodily functions. Alright? In other words, anything that activates this is activating your body. The function of the soul is this: the mind, emotion, and will. So your emotions. Whether you feel joy or you feel elation, you feel peaceful or you feel depressed, you don’t feel good and all that, it’s just an emotion.
Alright? It’s all in your soul. It’s not true in your spirit. Alright. Now, emotions can affect your body. And it’s the thing that we’re gonna look at as well. But then look at the will. The will is actually in your soul. You decide in your soul. Okay? So these are the functions of the soul. And what are the functions of the spirit? The spirit is communion, intuition, and conscience.
Now communion is communion with God. That’s where you commune with God. You don’t commune with God with your body. Okay? You don’t say: “Oh, I feel God.” It is true that sometimes you feel God. That’s fine and good, but don’t rely on it. Amen. You commune with the Father in spirit. “Those the Father seeketh such to worship Him.
” “Those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” Alright? So that’s where you commune with God. And it’s the most intimate communion. Amen. Even bodily, if you sense Him. What’s going to happen when you don’t sense Him bodily? When the bodily sensations are no longer there? I know people cry sometimes in the tangible presence of God and you know, I want people to have experiences like this.
And I’ve seen them and I’m not knocking that. Okay? But I don’t want us to depend on those things. God says: “We walk by faith in the spirit realm” “and not by sight.” Okay? And then you can also contact God with your emotions. “God, I want to feel You, Lord.” Feelings of felicity. You know: “I feel that You are near.” No, no.
Don’t depend on that because your feelings can go up and down. Amen. But in your spirit man, you have communion with God. Just realize it. And that’s why when you pray in tongues, you are actually praying in the spirit. Whereas praying with understanding is praying with your soul, with your mind. Your understanding.
So the deepest part of communion with God is actually in your spirit. That’s one of the functions. And then, intuition. Now, intuition. Even though people are dead spiritually but the word “dead” doesn’t mean a cessation of all the spirit’s functions. Even for people who are not saved, they still have a certain amount of communion.
