Is Your Salvation In Your Soul or In Your Spirit?

Bishop Ronald D. Roston

Too often, in Christendom, we’re guilty of speaking in religious clichés. We use sayings that sound spiritually correct, but when we measure them against the filter of the Word of God, we find that they come up lacking. One of those sayings is, “God desires to save your soul.” Although there is a truth to this, the reality is that the salvation that occurs in the new birth experience actually happens in our spirit. After the instantaneous rebirth of our dead spirit during the salvation experience, our soul has to be continually saved or delivered on a daily basis.

Understanding the distinction between these two processes in crucial. I must reiterate that man is a soul that has a spirit; both of which live in a physical body. Our soul is comprised of our intellect (mind), feelings (heart), and volition (will). That’s the real us; how we think, how we feel, and how will decide what we will or will not do. If we don’t understand that our thinking, emotions, and will have to continuously be delivered from the pollution of the evil spirit world, we are vulnerable, and in danger of being ambushed. .

Our spirit is the part of us that’s connected to God. The Bible says that God formed man out of the dust of the earth, breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life (Spirit of God), and man became a living soul. (KJV) So we see that the man (thinking, feelings, will, and body movement) did not come alive until he was first infused / filled with the Spirit of God. Man had a spirit that was alive /connected to God. When Adam sinned his spirit died. His body didn’t die, he lived for over 900 years old. His thinking, emotions, and will didn’t die; they lived as long as his body lived. His spirit died; he was told that “in the day that you eat of the fruit, you will SURELY die.” .

Death is nothing more than separation from life. Adam’s spirit was disconnected from God, and that disconnected (dead) spirit was passed on to every child to come out of the loins of Adam & Eve (the Adamic nature). Jesus came to reconnect the spirit of man to God. He came to regenerate our dead, Adamic nature. He came so that our dead spirit could be brought back to life; hence the term “born-again.” .