Jesus purchased your glorified body through His death, burial, and resurrection. Although full payment has been made, you still have a corrupted body while you wait to receive your immortal, incorruptible one. At this moment, you don’t yet have the redemption of the purchased possession (Eph. 1:14).
Your soul wasn’t saved either! This sounds strange to many people because they use terminology like “I’m a soul winner!” and “I came to see a soul saved” to describe an evangelist and evangelism. In reality, the New Testament only mentions “soul salvation” a few times—and none of them, in context, are talking about the born-again experience (Heb. 10:39; James 1:21, 5:20; 1 Pet. 1:9). Soul salvation happens when an emotionally discouraged and mentally defeated Christian starts believing God’s Word and then experiences victory, peace, and joy again.
However,
when it comes to being born again, your soul wasn’t the part of you that
completely changed!
If
you were stupid before you were saved, you’re still stupid after being saved.
If you didn’t know math before being born again, you won’t instantly know math
afterwards either. In fact, if you were depressed before you got saved, you’ll
stay depressed until you change the way your soul thinks by believing God’s
Word.
Your
soul can be transformed now to the degree you renew your mind, change your
attitudes, and conform your values to the Word of God. This should happen, and
it’s in the process of happening, but it didn’t automatically happen. In your
soul, old things didn’t pass away, and all things haven’t yet become new.
The
transformation of your soul won’t be completed until you go to be with Jesus!
- Andrew Wommack
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