Greeting. Proverbs 21:23Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. Does my mouth and what I believe have anything to do with the keeping of my soul? Everything beloved and you are going to need Spiritual help. Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. We will allow the Holy Ghost to illuminate the Spiritual meaning of the above verse and others as He wills. The subject of their soul is usually on everybody’s mind at one time or another. Movies and video games seem to be also Intrigued with this subject. One video game system has over a dozen games with the word soul in the title. One old television series shows a man playing a pool game over the possession of his soul against the devil. Thus, the Bible is the only Spiritual book that contains instructions for the saving of our souls. With the word soul mention close to 500 times in the Bible where does one begin? The Prophet Elijah prayed for a young child soul to return. 1Kings 17:17  And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the women, the mistress of the house fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath leftIn him. No breath left in the child. At this point in this letter, I am waiting on God’s wisdom to appear in the scripture. These things do not always come at once and It could takes days or weeks for God to give us the spiritual answer. 1 kings 17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again. It is a strange thing to have talked to someone and you leave the room and when you return, they are dead. Nobody must tell you their breath has left you feel it. Psalm 104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. When God hides His face from us, we are in darkness and His light is knowledge of His word. But because of the darkness in our heart, we cannot comprehend that light. John 1:5  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Our heart is a very dark spiritual pit, but we believe otherwise: very few will allow God to reveal what is hidden there. 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. God light gives Spiritual knowledge to those that desire to hear the truth.  1 Kings 17:22And the Lord heard the voice for Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. Where did the soul go and what does revive means to God? The soul went back to the dead, the soul is an understanding of God’s word, not a physical thing. John 20:22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. How do we know if we have received the Holy Ghost? 1 John 2:27  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. The first man which will try to teach us, will be our own person or the carnal mind. This man of sin in all of us mocks the things of God and deceives us into thinking we interpret God’s word as he sees them. A child in the Bible represent someone without any spiritual understanding of God’s words. How does one began to get a spiritual understanding of God’s word or a soul? 1 Peter 2:2  as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. Every person starts off a babe, or child in the understanding of God’s word or no Spiritual understandings. How can a Christian spiritually grow if they never time to ever try to study the Bible: they are not Christian and a desire to study fails? We simply justified ourselves because we have more urgent things to do and after all, God knows my heart: you bet He does. Luke 9:59  And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. We all make times for the things we desire. Luke 9:60  Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom ofGod. This verse tells us spiritually we are already dead: without an understanding of spiritual things. Jesus did not rebuke the person who justified himself because of a physically dead father but let him do what he thought was important. No television program or sporting event, neither relatives that want to waste your time with foolishness should stop us from following the Lord. Let us look at another verse with the same word, dead in it: saying we are all born spiritually dead. Luke 24:4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shininggarments. Our minds get perplexed because we go to the scriptures thinking we can comprehend a living God in our dead carnal way of seeing. Luke 24:5and as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

 Michael Rudolph Hodges 7/22/2021      END OR PART 1