Now Christ is the Spirit today.
Now Christ is the life-giving Spirit;
So turn to your spirit and say—
O Lord, Amen, Hallelujah!
O Lord, Amen,
O Lord, Amen, Hallelujah!
Now Christ is the living Word too.
The Spirit will flow in our spirit,
The Word will be life to us through—
Calling upon His name;
Praying, reading, praising and
Calling upon Him.
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Singapore
Amen!
Hannover, Germany
now Christ IS the life-giving Spirit!
Amen!
Stony Brook, NY, United States
Christ is the life-giving Spirit! He died, I died! He lives, I live because of Him!!
Portland, Oregon, United States
Keep us burning in SPIRIT LORD
Arundel, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Steve, It is quite simple, When Jesus died he told his disciples to wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit. They did and the Holy Spirit came to them. This was as a direct consequence of His death. Some people special people had received the Holy Spirit over history, but the Spirit was not available to all until then. So by believing in Jesus and asking for His Spirit it is available to YOU. So He is the life giving Spirit. O Lord, Amen, Hallelujah!
Detroit, MI, United States
What does it mean that the last Adam became a (not "the") life-giving Spirit in 1 Cor 15:45b? Does it mean that the 2nd of the Trinity became the 3rd of the Trinity? No.
1Cor 15:44 It is sown a soulish body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a soulish body, there is also a spiritual one.
45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.
46 But the spiritual is not first but the soulish, then the spiritual: (RcV)
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v45 explains "soulish body" and "spiritual body" in the previous verse.
A soulish body is a body dominated by the soul. Thus it is written in Gen 2:7 that when God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life, Adam became a living soul. Adam had a body, soul and spirit, but the whole Adam became a living soul which means that his body was dominated by his soul.
The last Adam (Christ) corresponds to the first man Adam.
"life-giving spirit" corresponds to "living soul", where "living" corresponds to "life-giving" and "spirit" to "soul".
In a corresponding way that Adam in creation became a living soul because his body was dominated by his soul, so Christ in resurrection became a life-giving spirit because His body is dominated by His spirit. So the resurrected Christ's body, soul and spirit is a life-giving spirit.
Christ's human spirit is not just "living" like Adam's soul, but is "life-giving", which is infinitely superior.
(Side note: Most translations translate "soulish" in vv 44 & 46 as "natural". That may be a correct meaning, but it loses the connection between "soulish" in vv 44 & 46 with "soul" in v45. The Greek word which RcV translated as "soulish" is the adjective form of the Greek word for "soul". )
Austin, Texas, United States
Christ is the life-giving Spirit!
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Thank God we have a spirit.
Irvine, CA, United States
O Lord, Amen, Hallelujah! Christ is the life-giving Spirit to us!