Wednesday, December 10, 2008

work on...

I wanted to clarify the difference between justification and sanctification.
Justification is to be freed from guilt or blame. It is the way God sees us. And it is set about through the cross. Justification is a one time event (seen or unseen) that allows us to have access to God through the Holy Spirit and sanctification is the process that takes place when that Spirit conforms us to the image and likeness of Christ ending somehow in glory.


Pneuma (pnyoo'-mah) /Ruwach (roo'-akh)
spirit, ghost
From pneo; a current of air, i.e. Breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit -- ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind.

Psuche (psoo-khay')/ Nephesh (neh'-fesh)
soul, life, self
From psucho; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from pneuma, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from zoe, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew nephesh, ruwach and chay) -- heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.

Zoe (dzo-ay') (Greek)/chay (khah'-ee)(Hebrew)
lifetime
From zao; life (literally or figuratively) -- life(-time).

Soma (so'-mah)
body
From sozo; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively -- bodily, body, slave.

Sozo (sode'-zo)
heal, be made whole
From a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saos, "safe"); to save, i.e. Deliver or protect (literally or figuratively) -- heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.



We are limited
There is only so much we can do. We have a capacity, a range. We need to choose where we put our time.


/ can't do
/ can do ok
{ can do well
\ can do ok
\ can't do

We have a spectrum unique to ourselves. Some narrow and focused others wider and shallower some both. In Christ we can do all things. Do the things that Christ would do.

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