Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – March 24, 2025 (The Second Day – Genesis 1:6-8) 1 Corinthians 15:46 – Now the spiritual was not first, but the natural, then afterwards the spiritual. Distinguishing Between The Natural And The Spiritual One of the important features of this verse is how it provides insight into the contrast and definition of the spiritual and the natural (1 Corinthians 2:14). These two words: spiritual (pneumatikos) and natural (psychikos), are used by Paul to describe the transition that must take place in our thinking and conduct since we have been born of God. This verse describes the contrast between what is earthly and heavenly. It is important we recognize this is not a contrast between what is demonic, or sinful, and heavenly. Christ Jesus, Who is the life giving spirit because He was not created but incarnated into flesh, gives us the life of the Spirit through the miracle of faith. Whereas in Adam, we have been confined to an earthly existence and subject to every natural law. The new birth is a spiritual birth that comes through Jesus, the life giving spirit, by the Holy Ghost, and results in that which is heavenly. We are a new creation, not shaped from earthly materials, nor conceived through natural means (John 1:15-16, 3:6). We should no longer think and act like mere men shaped and fashioned after Adam, but rather as heirs of God created in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 3:9; Ephesians 2:10; Galatians 6:15; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 3/24/2025
