What is the significance of the soul?

 

What is the significance of the Soul?

Since the soul and the spirit are mysteriously linked together and forms the heart, which is central to all our emotions and will, it is considered to be the new man in the spirit, and its significance is to:-

a. Keep and sustain it

This we do by taking heed to ourselves, and diligently keep ourselves, lest we forget the things our eyes have seen, and lest they depart from our hearts all the days of our lives, and we should teach them to our children and our grandchildren. We also are to "Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits" (Deuteronomy 4:9; Psalms 103:1-2).

b. Seek the Lord

For we have been admonished saying; "You will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29).

Also, with my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You" (Psalms 119:10-11).

c. Love the Lord

For the admonition is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with our entire mind and with all our strength.' This is the first commandment." And the way the love of God is expressed is by obeying Hs commandments, for thus says the Lord, "For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments" (Deuteronomy 5:9-10, 6:5, Mark 12:30).

The Lord said again, "Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!" And Jesus said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments" (Deuteronomy 5: 29; John 14:15).

d. Serve the Lord

For this what the Lord said to His people, "And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good?" (Deuteronomy 10:12).

And as we have been duly instructed saying;" And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ" (Colossians 3:23-24).

e. Store God's word

For the Lord instructed His people saying; "Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up" (Deuteronomy 10:18-19).

f. Keep God's law

To those who are special to God this is what He says; "this day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.'

"Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken" (Deuteronomy 26: 16-19).

g. Obey God

For this is what the Lord promised those who returns to Him, "And you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you.---And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live".

"The Lord your God will make you abounds in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the Lord will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 30:2, 6, 10).

h. Get Wisdom

There is security in wisdom, and one is advised to, "Get wisdom! Understand! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you honor, when you embrace her. She will place on your head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory she will deliver to you." And, "He who gets wisdom loves his own soul" (Proverbs 4: 5-9, 19:8).

 The soul is definitely not the same with the body, because Jesus said in no uncertain terms, "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28).

And so, the significance of the soul, the living being is to allow the nature of Jesus Christ to be formed in us and ultimately at the first resurrection will be reunited with the physical body which will be transformed from corruptible to incorruptible and from mortal to immortal. Only those in the first resurrection that will inherit immortality,

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With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph