(this is only a 'deposit' of the holy spirit 2 Cor 1:22, Eph 1:14 2 Cor 5:5) This spirit the Father gave the exalted Jesus, and he has then given it to those called that 'they be one' with him and the Father.
He calls this the 'spirit of Christ' because the spirit that guided and drove Jesus is the same that is of God - Christ obeyed his Father and was at one with His purposes - this 'spirit of co-operation and service' is what God desires all men eventually receive - the same that was active in Jesus. Only God can do this by sending his spirit into us to begin the transformation process. Our human spirit is also corrupted (from Adam) and must be realigned, renewed, repurposed. The spirit that resides within the devil and his fellow workers of evil is also from God, but has become corrupted by sin. Galatians 4:6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"Īll spirit comes from God. This is what it means to be of 'one spirit'. Jesus' prayer is for us to be aligned with God's purposes - just as Jesus was - completely at one with his Father having the same intent, same purpose, same outcome, same means. 21 that they may all be one even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, John 17:16-21 17 “Sanctify them in the truth Your word is truth. “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. One body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and all were made to drink of Thus, becoming one spirit with Jesus means participating in the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).ġ Corinthians 12:13 (ESV) For in one Spirit we were all baptized into Now this could be understood as the incarnate Jesus Christ (the head and his body, the church together) as being like the one Spirit (the Holy Spirit) who is divine.Īlso that Jesus Christ in his literal body was made immortal and the church which is also his body will be made immortal (see Phil. The unity of the church with Christ was liken with this kind of union albeit not to be construed literally because Paul specifically said that the church becomes one spirit, not one flesh, with Christ in verse 17 ( he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.) The union of Christ and the church is therefore spiritual in nature.Ĭhrist and the members of his body (the church) become one spirit. Under sexual union, the two that are separate merged and in some sense, become one. do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? verse 16.).
Here the union of Adam and Eve in Genesis was interpreted in the context of sexual union like sexual immorality (i.e.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. The body is not meant fo r sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. The context shows us that becoming one spirit with the Lord Jesus was analogous to becoming one with the spouse and or in some cases, even someone whose not your spouse (as in sexual immorality e.g. (If the Father and Son make their home with the believer, why don’t they teach the believer, why send the Holy Spirit as a delegate?) “Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.īut the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” Or is neither the Father nor the Son present just the Holy Spirit representing the Father and the Son? “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.” Is the Father (or the Father’s Spirit) present too? On account of “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” How should this verse be understood exactly? Is there now only one spirit? Or two united spirits? (And where is the location of this spirit exactly? Inside the believer perhaps?)
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