In the image and likeness of His spiritual father is a Spirit, has a Soul and lives in a Body.
Mankind is a spirit being whether he is born again or not.
Man is a Spirit and he has a soul, that are not one and the same.
When you are born again your spirit is made a new by the Spirit of God and is renewed daily.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This verse explains the three part being of Man kind.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
The real you is refered to in the bible as the inward man or hidden man of the heart.
1Pe 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Ro 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
2Co 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
This is vital for Christians to understand they are a Spirit being and they have a soul.
Soul as in the new testament is made up of The mind, the will and the emotions.
The Spirit man is new!!
The soulish man must be renewed:
Jas 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Notice Man's responsibility concerning his soul, in James ch 1 verse 21.
Ro 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans also tells us to do something, it is our responsibility to renew the soulish man with the word of God.
Many Christians try to commune with God out of their soul and it will not happen, Our father is a Spirit and he communicates to us thru our Spirit, not our mind (Satan's playground).
The heart of man is not his physical heart, but the very core of His Spirit where the lord abides and where faith cometh to and out of the Heart, not the mind.
As for our heart,checkout Jer.17:9. As for the law, not our covenant. It would be like if your parents told your older sister if she made A's and b's she could have a new car so you struggle to get all A's in 2nd grade. They will not give you a new car,even if you get it.
Why not? Because it was not your covenant.
Our covenant goes far beyond the law, our covenant is love. If we love as Jesus instructed us to love, we do not break any laws. But if we keep the law because it is the law, we might as well not bother, that just is not good enough.
The Pharisees followed the law to the exact letter,but Jesus said that wasn't good enough.
