Section 2
exercise our soul with its faculties. This was the reason God created the soul with the faculties of mind, emotion, and will. Whenever we seek to accomplish something for the Lord, we must use these faculties. However, the serious problem is that when Christians endeavor to do something for the Lord Jesus out of their love for Him, they often are not like-souled. Instead, they are very different in the soul. These differences in the soul are the primary cause of division.
As far as loving the Lord and enjoying fel lowship with Him are concerned, there are no problems. But when we attempt to carry out something for the Lord according to what we have seen in our fellowship with Him in the spirit, we may have problems because we are different in soul from the other saints. In other words, in what we desire to do, we are not likesouled. The source of divisions, therefore, is man's soul.
TWO RESULTS
This difference in soul may have two dif ferent kinds of results. First, some may even go so far as to leave the church life and cause yet another division. Second, some may keep the proper standing on the ground of oneness and