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Gloria Copeland — Possessing The Mercy Of God Part 2
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Many do not understand that they are a triune being—
spirit, soul and body. They have been so conscious of the
natural world they have assumed their physical bodies are
their true identity, but not so. Our physical bodies are just
our earth suits. My coat would be a good illustration of
this. I am the life of my coat. When I move, the coat moves.
If I were to die, it would be like taking my coat off because
dying is simply the laying aside of my natural body.
What I am saying is that we have majored in the minor,
which is the natural realm. We get disturbed over what we
are going to wear, what we are going to eat and what is
going to happen to us. Even preachers have emphasized
the minors. They have spent a lot of time preaching to
women about what they wear. The Bible says in 1 Peter
3:3-4 that a meek and quiet spirit is important and not the
plaiting of hair or the wearing of gold or apparel.
How women dress is a minor point. God is really talking
about the spiritual attitude of a woman and whether or
not she is trying to call attention to herself through her
dress. A woman who has a meek and quiet spirit will come
to church to worship God and to help others. She will not
come to try and show off her wardrobe.
It is true that some women are dressing to get attention
out of pride, but if you major in the spirit, you will settle
this matter with God and begin to dress to please Him.
Likewise, if you will do the same with mercy and major
in it, then the minor of God’s wrath will take care of itself.
In short, if you will concentrate on the quality of life your
spirit is living, you will have no trouble with your body.
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Possessing The Mercy Of God Part 1
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In most of the religious world, we have majored in the minors
and minored in the majors. We have majored in God’s anger and
minored in His mercy. But Psalm 30:5 says God’s anger “is but for a
moment,” (The Amplified Bible) and Psalm 136 says that “God’s
mercy endures forever.”
There are other areas where we have gotten the wrong perspective,
too. In majoring on the body and minoring on the spirit,
we have placed the wrong emphasis on the physical realm.
The truth is that the existence of the spirit realm is as real
as the existence of the natural realm. When we were born
again, we were born in the spirit. We have tried to get the
things of God to go from the outside in, instead of from the
inside out. We need to turn inside and let what was born
in the spirit flow outward.
Healing is a good example of this. It comes from inside
the spirit man out into the body. We have wanted to have
healing rubbed on us like an ointment. We have tried to
get a treatment by getting into the prayer line expecting to
receive healing the way we put on a salve.
Many people have a hard time receiving from God because
they approach healing this way. They have had little
understanding of the difference between the physical and
the spiritual realm. They have failed to understand what
Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:6: “That which is born
of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit.” The flesh represents the natural, or physical realm
that is perceived by the five physical senses. By contrast,
the spirit realm is more real than what we see, hear, feel
and taste.
We must understand that God, a Spirit, created the
natural realm. This makes the spirit world, the realm of the
Creator, the authority over the natural. Therefore, it would
be foolish to consider that the creation is more powerful
than the Creator.
When you confessed Jesus as Lord, your spirit was
born again. Ephesians 4:24 says you were created in
righteousness and true holiness. You are made in the image
of God. You are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a
body. To worship God, you must enter the spiritual realm.
Jesus said those who worship Him must worship Him “in
spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).
Gloria Copeland
