Course 4: Understanding the Flesh and the Soul

About this course

Course 4 of The Journey of Life marks a turning point in the series, moving from insight into Scripture toward personal inner transformation. After learning how to encounter the Word as living and meaningful, this course invites you to explore how that truth reshapes the inner life.Here, we gently examine the soul, the flesh, and the spirit—not as abstract ideas, but as lived experiences that influence thoughts, emotions, desires, and choices. Many people sense an inner conflict but struggle to name it. This course offers language and awareness for understanding that tension without judgment or pressure.Rather than focusing on external behavior, the lessons invite mindful awareness of the inner world. You’ll explore how emotional reactions differ from spiritual responses, how patterns form within the false self, and how truth brings healing rather than suppression. Scripture and spiritual language are used thoughtfully, as reflective tools that point toward lived experience.This course is not about striving for perfection. It is about learning to listen more deeply, notice inner movements with compassion, and allow alignment to unfold over time. As the soul learns to rest under the guidance of the Spirit, clarity and peace naturally increase.Course 4 also prepares you for the next stage of the journey, The Cross Within — Dying Daily, where inner surrender and transformation deepen into a lived way of walking with God.

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