We've been talking about, I've been talking about living in wholeness for a while, like

12 years, and but my last few messages, I've been talking about living in wholeness and

talking about the fact that your spirit, a soul and a body, and last time I spoke, I

think was probably three weeks ago. We talked about the fact that your soul, your spirit,

has needs, and we talked about the fact that we spend a lot of time trying to meet the

needs of our spirit, that we need the Bible, we need prayer, we need fasting, some of you,

and they're just stuck. That we learn, that we come a church week after week, and we learn

how to be spiritual. But, you know, we're now learning how to live in wholeness, and I think

that's really exciting the last several years, just learning how to live in wholeness, learning

how the fact that the Lord actually loves the whole man, and we'll talk about today that

we are a new creation, that literally, that your flesh loves God. No one ever hated his

own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it Paul said in Ephesians chapter 5, when exhorting

husbands to take care of their wives as they take care of their own flesh. David said,

my soul and my flesh cry out for the living God. And so we're beginning to see that not

only do we need to take care of our spirit, but we need to begin to take care of our soul.

And so, last couple of weeks, we've been talking about the fact that we need to learn to

manage our appetite, we need to learn how to manage the appetites of our soul, that our

soul has needs, like it needs significance, it needs attention, it needs affection, it needs

love, and so on and so forth. And so, and the goal, one of the things that we talked about

was the fact that if we ignore the, if we ignore the needs of our, of our soul, it's just

like if you, if you ignore the needs of your body, I mean, can you imagine jumping in a

pool and you, you go underwater and you're drowning and someone's like, oh, that person

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