The battle between the mind of human beings and the schemes of the devil is the battle of life and death of the soul not the body. Jesus came to save the souls of men; His whole life was to teach how to walk in the spirit and not in the body in this physical world. This is why He said, “I speak only that which I hear from the Father, not my own but the will of the Father” (John 12:49). The will of the Father is in the spirit. Here, Jesus showed clearly that He had the ability to hear something from the Father and decide not to say or perform according to what He had but He constantly fought to perform the works of the spirit. That is the only way to take the soul through the path of eternal life (John 17).
Jesus was praying to the Father and He said “those who believe in me are one with me yet I am one with the Father”. Therefore, the Father and human beings are united only in Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:18), But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
All souls have been saved from hell! For the Bible says Jesus came to save the world (John 3:17) but not a few people. (John 3:16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. That is why Jesus told Nicodemus that only the
one who is born of the spirit shall be able to enter the kingdom of God (John3:5).
When one is not born of the Spirit then the soul forever remains a subject to the body and the Bible calls such a creation dead because the body is dead without the Spirit (John 2:26). The souls which end up in hell are the very souls which were saved but did not believe.
How is it easy to make the soul agree with the spirit? Is it through self effort? “But the Counsellor, 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”, (John 14:26). The Holy Spirit was the one that was assigned the work to make the souls of human beings follow the ways of the Spirit.
Listen closely, righteousness can never be achieved through self-effort. For only in Christ, we were made the Righteousness of God. Hence, the Holy Spirit is the one that convinces human beings of this and helps them to maintain this position.
So yes, it is easy for the soul to agree with the spirit but only to the person who trusts completely the Holy Spirit. Hell is not a place which is supposed to make God be perceived as bad. God has
no evil in Him, He is full of goodness and joy. Hell is simply a place of dead creation that willingly never wanted to live and that is why the Bible refers to it as the second death (Revelation 20:14). God did everything that He had to do to save the world, He gave out the one He valued the most in heaven, His only son, to die. It is therefore not fair for Him to live forever with a creation that is not one with
Him.
He is a God of peace and love and not of rebellion. This is why the new gospel is called of peace and reconciliation meaning that He reconciled us to Himself.
The only reason to every failure in this life is because the soul has not prospered, for when the soul has not prospered there can be no success. (3 John 1:2)”Beloved, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you even as your soul prospers”.
(Romans 12:2) says let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then and only then can one start doing what is pleasing to God. So, the mind is the battleground because nothing can come to life without first being thought about.
God thought of the world before He spoke and saw. The devil knows that if he can manipulate the mind, then he can make a person to willingly sin and therefore capture the soul which has already been saved! The devil is very very crafty.
That is why Jesus said the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
all your soul and with all your mind (Mathew 22:37). The mind is the soul’s key to eternal life.
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