Salvation of the soul

<p class="p1">SALVATION OF THE SOUL </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">We will be looking at the meaning of these two words today – Soul and Salvation.</p> <p class="p1">The Bible tells us that as human beings we have a body and a soul and a spirit.</p> <p class="p1">1Thessalonians 5:23 may your spirit and soul and body be kept strong and blameless …</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Our soul sits between our spirit and our body. It receives information from our spirit through our conscience and intuition which informs our soul about what is happening in our inner world. The soul also receives information from our body’s five senses which informs it about what is happening in our outer world.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">The soul processes each of these areas of information through its three modes of activity, which are the mind, the emotions and the will.</p> <p class="p1">The mind receives information and orders it according to what it ranks as being of value to our life.</p> <p class="p1">The emotions/feelings react or respond to information as to whether it is helpful or harmful</p> <p class="p1">The will finally decides how to act upon the information when it has evaluated what the mind has considered, and how the emotions and feelings move it one way or the other.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Our area of focus today concerning the salvation of the soul is about how our soul responds to the inner world of our life in the spirit.</p> <p class="p1">And this is where the soul actually relates to the two different worlds of our inner spiritual life and they are a) the natural human spirit and b) the human spirit that is joined by faith to God’s Spirit.</p> <p class="p1">All of us have a human spirit that was created in the image of God before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4) and that is the reality of the inner world of humanity since Adam. It is perhaps the most vulnerable part of our being and is open to being wounded and isolated and feeling d