Hope is an Anchor 🩵

 Dear Dad’s (Randall Hartinger) BLESSED teaching today. Enjoy.

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HOPE IS AN ANCHOR for the spiritually-minded.

06/19 Daily Exhortation (Heb.3:13;10:25;Matt.6:11;Luke 11:3)…

Hebrews 6:19 (KJB)  Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil…

This AM, my sweet 5 year old came up to me and inquired, “Dad, what does HOPE mean?” I explained that hope is a strong desire for a promise, like the hope of heaven and our excitement for it.

I later settle down to do this charge, and realize the good providential connection. Also, I had enjoined the church to glorify the Lord spirit, soul, and body today. JESUS THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING. 

Let’s enroll today for a brief class in ANATOMY ACADEMY…

Genesis 2:7 (KJB) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Man is a SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY. 

Testimony: So, in the early 90’s (pre-marriage), one Thursday night, I felt led of the Lord to GO OUT AND FIND A BIBLE STUDY. Well, Thursday night Bible studies are HARD TO FIND (ha ha). I just drove out by faith like Abraham and headed down a “country in the city” road looking for “church buildings.” Well, I saw one. CLOSED. Hmmmm…. I was driving. By now, it was after 7 PM. It seemed to me IF THERE WAS GOING TO BE ONE, it would be 7 PM. I then see this denominational church building up ahead. LIGHTS WERE ON. I’m getting excited. I pull in to the parking lot. A dozen cars are there. I walk in, Bible in hand, excited about the Lord’s leading. But I then see CHOIR PRACTICE. Somewhat deflated, I then see a lady approach me and she says, “Oh, you must be here for the 7:15 BIBLE STUDY.” I exclaim, “Yes ma’am. I sure am!!!!” I walk in, in my early 20’s, and a half dozen much older folks are in a room where the pastor was about to teach. Everybody looks puzzled. They welcomed me but wanted to know who told me about the study. I said, “THE LORD DID.” In short, the pastor was about to teach against man having spirit, soul, and body. He was teaching “dichotomy” or that man is simply body and then the spirit/soul are the same. 

GOD HAD ME THERE TO HELP OUT. GLORY TO GOD!!! I raised my hand, “So, are you saying there is no division between the spirit and soul?” He answered, “Yes.” I said, “What about THIS VERSE?” 

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

It says the word of God DIVIDES between the spirit and soul." He squirmed about and stumbled. Hemmed and hawed. 

I raised my hand again. How about THIS VERSE?: 

1 Thess. 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Youch. Needless to say, I was never invited back. NOTHING QUITE LIKE A BIBLE TO CLEAR UP A RAT’S NEST OF FALSE TEACHING, HUH? 

You are the TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST. Another 6:19 for 6/19: 

1 Cor. 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

A temple has the MOST HOLY PLACE (SPIRIT), the inner court (soul), and an outer court (body). 

Man thinks BODY, SOUL, SPIRIT. God calls it “spirit, soul, body” in proper order. Man goes for the outside first. God goes for the INSIDE FIRST. 

The spirit is personified as a “male” in the Bible, and the soul is poetically personified as a female FOR A REASON. Soulish people are more emotional. Spiritual people are leaders and stable. The Bible speaks of hope as an ANCHOR of the soul (Heb. 6:19) “within the veil.” See, the spirit man, in the HOLY OF HOLIES, anchors our soul. A woman needs a man for anchoring. Thusly, men are the leaders of a church and family, etc. If not, you’ll be ALL OVER THE MAP on an emotional roller coaster ride (see Isaiah 3:12, etc.) and well, see MOST families today. This is why Proverbs says that the soul spares for crying. But the spiritual man will take the HOLY GHOST AXE TO THE ROOT, balanced by the soul. 

All Christians are called to be SONS OF GOD donning the WHOLE ARMOUR as spiritual soldiers. 

The temple above (heaven) is a focus. Watch these 6:19’s today: 

1 Tim. 6:19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Matt. 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Mt 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Mt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Note that your “heart” is synonymous with your spirit, the heart/center of man, the crux of the matter…)

How about YOU TODAY? What is in control? Your spirit, soul, or body (flesh)? –r <3