David Diga Hernandez - I Am a Spirit

Hello, I’m David Deer Hernandez, and you are watching Encounter TV. Today on Encounter TV, I’m going to be ministering a message on spiritual identity. Many believers live defeated, discouraged, and experience a powerless spirituality, but the Holy Spirit is about to change that for you. When faith comes, it comes by hearing God’s word, and you’re going to hear the word of God today in this message on spiritual identity. I believe that as you listen to this message and learn to identify in the spirit, you’ll see transformation like you’ve never thought possible.

Let’s go now to Laale, California, where I’m ministering this message on spiritual identity. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, «Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.» Now, we look to our Heavenly Father, and we all acknowledge that God, as we understand Him through scripture, is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There are three in unity—Tri-Unity, Trinity. These three are one. Though they are three different persons, man is still expressed in three ways: body, soul, and spirit.

Say this with me: I am a spirit who has a soul that lives in a body. Now, are you your body? Are you your soul? Say, «I am a spirit who has a soul and lives in a body.» Are you your body? No. Are you your soul? No, you are your spirit. I’ll say it one more time: I am a spirit, I am a spirit who has a soul that lives in a body.

Now, I’m going to illustrate this. What I want to talk about here is that man is trifold. Say it with me one more time because I want this to really stick with you: I am a spirit, I am a spirit who has a soul, that lives in a body.

Now, your body is often referred to in scripture as your flesh, and when reading scripture that includes the word «flesh,» you have to be careful. Sometimes, Paul the Apostle is talking about your physical body, and other times he is talking about the sin nature. In one sense, they are one and the same. I like to call your body your Earth suit; it’s how you participate with the world around you. It’s how you communicate with other people, how you relate to your reality; it’s what you experience on a day-to-day basis. It’s eating, sleeping, going to work, relationships, finances, emotions—everything in your life that you experience is most often experienced in the natural. Your body is your Earth suit.

Then there’s your soul. Your soul is your mind, will, emotions, and personality. Your soul is the place of decision; this is what makes you a unique person. This is where you make choices and decide what to think, ultimately affecting what you feel. Your soul is the central place. It is where you can choose to live in the realm of the flesh or in the realm of the spirit.

Now, to his right is the spirit. The scripture states this in 1 Corinthians 2:10–12: «But it was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit, for His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. We have received God’s Spirit, not the world’s spirit, so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.»

Now your spirit, as the scripture says, is your communication with God. The Bible indicates that nobody knows God like God’s Spirit; in the same sense, nobody knows you like you know yourself. In an even deeper sense, nobody knows you like your spirit knows you. So, the depths of you fellowship, commune, have friendship, and communicate with the depths of God through the Holy Spirit. The depths of God connect with the depths of your being in the realm of the spirit.

This is why when Paul the Apostle says to pray without ceasing, it’s possible. Because though your mouth is not praying, your spirit is always fellowshipping. Though you are not always aware in your mind of what God is doing, somewhere in the heavenly realm, a celestial conversation is taking place 24/7, whether you’re aware of it or not. This is why Jesus said you must be born again. Think about it: the spirit is your connection with God, but the Bible says that those who are in sin are dead in spirit. You were born in your body, which has a soul, but before you meet Christ, your spirit is dead, which is why you can’t communicate with God; dead men don’t seek anything. God sought you out and brought you life, and it was your spirit that was brought to life. So, Jesus said you must be born again of the spirit.

This is why He says, «Don’t be afraid of the one who can just destroy the body.» He says, «Be afraid of the one who can destroy both the body and the soul in hell.» You’ll notice He doesn’t mention the spirit there. That’s because the spirit does not go to hell; those who are alive in the spirit, their home is heaven.

Now we can go a little deeper. So, you have your body, your soul, and your spirit. I am a spirit who has a soul that lives in a body. I am not my body; I am not my soul.