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Spirit: immaterial and immortal part of human beings.] the spirit shall return to God that gave it. Eceles. 12. An immaterial intelligent substance. spirit is a substance in which thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving do subsist. Hence, An immaterial intelligent being. By which he went and preached to the spirit in prison. I Pet. 3. God is a spirit John 4:23. Life or strength of resemblance; something eminently pure and refined; that which hath power or energy; an apparition; the renewed nature of man Mathew 26:41, Galatians 5:5. The third person in the Trinity.
Hebrew: ruah [roo’-akh]: Spirit [232], breath [27], side [6], mind [5], blast [4], vain [2], air [1], anger [1], cool [1], courage [1]. from (ruwach); wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figurative life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extensive a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions) :- air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit ([-ual]), tempest, × vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Rûaḥ may also represent speaking, or the breath of one's mouth: "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth" (Psa. 33:6; cf. Exod. 15:8; Job 4:9; Job 19:17). frequently represents the element of life in a man, his natural "spirit": "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, … All in whose nostrils was the breath of life …" (
Gen. 7:21-22). In these verses the animals have a "spirit" (cf. Psa. 104:29). On the other hand, in Prov. 16:2 the word appears to mean more than just the element of life; it seems to mean "soul": "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits [nasb, "motives"].
Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament and New Testament Words.
The Spirit was given to us to run and control our life to the point of Lordship. He is a perfect gentleman and will never usurp His will over ours but will with our consent join with us in the living of every minute of every day. His goal is to come along side to help which is the meaning of Spirit in the New Testament. He is like the suit worn in the movie ‘Iron Man’ where Robert Downey Jr. would put on this special made suit and it would empower him to do amazing feats that the world would look at and drool over, wishing they could do something like that to empower them to accomplish much more.
I am here to tell you we have much more than this to accomplish much more grander feats than flying around somewhere needing special power or electrification. None of that is necessary to the believer as he is completely empowered to perform miracles of all kinds, things that Iron Man could only dream about. So where is the problem and why aren’t we seeing this occur. The church in general has died to the supernatural in that it spends much of its time dealing with the intellectual and reasoning away what God intended for His people while living on the earth. The soul reason for the following: John 14:12 (KJV) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. So, what about this statement do we not understand except for doubt and unbelief. This will change and the Holy Spirit will make sure as many are looking for something more real than the world of the flesh.
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