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The primary, leading part of the spirit is the conscience. In Romans 9:1 Paul testified, My conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit. When this passage is compared to Romans 8:16, The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit, it becomes apparent that the conscience is located within the human spirit. The Spirit of God witnesses with our human spirit, yet at the same time our conscience witnesses with the Holy Spirit. By association, then, the conscience must be part of the human spirit.
The Scriptures likewise reveal that the fellowship pertains to the spirit. Christ Himself told us that God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness (John 4:24). Worshipping God is altogether a matter of contacting God in fellowship. Furthermore, Ephesians 6:18 mentions praying at every time in spirit, another form of fellowship with God. Based on these verses we can conclude that fellowship is a component of the human spirit.
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Finally, we must see in the Scriptures that the intuition is also a part of the spirit. First Corinthians 2:11 says, For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? This verse shows us that there are things which only the spirit of man knows, and which the soul is unable to know. This function of our intuition has the capacity to know and discern apart from human reason or circumstantial experience. For example, in the gospel of Mark the scribes were silently reasoning within their hearts about the Lords statement, Child, your sins are forgiven. In response to their reasoning, immediately Jesus, knowing fully in His spirit that they were reasoning this way within themselves, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts (2:8). This verse further illustrates that the spirit can have an inner sense and knowledge independent of the reason or outward circumstances upon which the souls discernment relies so heavily. This spiritual sense, or intuition, is an essential faculty of the human spirit (Witness Lee, Economy 56-59).
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