Thank you Brother George and Sister "JaeByrd" for the info.
Brother George I've been looking at the wrong site. (I failed to add kjv at the end.) I will read off of your web page, no need to send a hard copy; thanks for offering.
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Enclosed therein is an approximately 250 page study on the heart (and the other "Faculties" and "Substance" of man). Please read the study first (at least those parts that may be of interest to you), and then we might get into some fruitful discussion, because honestly, I would be the first one to confess that I don't have a complete handle on everything within the study - especially about the "spirit" within man - NOT the Holy Spirit.
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This has been, and continues, to be a very interesting study to me. I continually see scriptures that seem to address and apply to the specific aspects of man's triune being. In some cases, it seems to me that when the word "mind" is being used, it is actually addressing the mind of man's "spirit" and not the mind of his "soul".
Like the verses in 1 Corinthians 2:10-16, for example.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
In my opinion, there are those amazing scriptures that proclaim our absolute "righteousness" in Christ Jesus. "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (2 Corinthians 5:21). and, "In the body of his flesh through death, to present you
holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:" (Colossians 1:22).
I know the realities of my daily life in thought, word, or deed, and yet, I stand and rest in the promises of scripture. In Christ, I am made the righteousness of God! In Christ, I am deemed holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight! Is that amazing?
My soul (mind, will, and emotions) certainly sins. No good thing dwells in my flesh. So what's righteous? What's holy, unblameable, and unreproveable? I've concluded that it is my reborn, renewed, regenerated, "spirit" which is sealed until the glorious day of redemption.
And now, I must reckon, by faith, these realities of who and what I am in Christ. I should abstain, flee, put off, put on, pray, study, rightly divide, reckon, yield and yield not, and mortify. Not in order to obtain righteousness or holiness, but because I already am righteous and holy in Christ Jesus. I've come to realize the practical victory (not entirely) and exceeding joy that comes from simply turning fully to the Lord Jesus Christ for grace to help in my time of need. For power to live the genuine Christian life. None of me, all of Him!
I look forward to reading your study on the "heart" and the "substance" of man.