The division of soul and spirit is necessary in order for God to
live and work through us without restrictions.

The body is open to the sun light and elements.
The soul is lit by the mind, will and emotions.
The spirit is enlightened by the Spirit of God.

Only God can minister to our spirit, as the Holiest Place of all.

The Holy Place is the soul.
The soul limits those who attend it.

The Outer Court is the body.
The human body is open to external experiences.

The Inner Court, or Holy Place, is the soul.
It is the area of  3-fold activity: altar, table of showbread and candlestick.
Altar is the mind, Lamps are the emotions and table is the will.

The soul must surrender to the spirit, it is the Holy of Holies,
and the Shekinah Glory of God rests here.

1 Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

The tabernacle of God had 3 components which portray the 3 parts of a person,
we are the temple of God in this age.

The Body of Believers is the Temple of God.
Ephesians 2:19-22, Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners,
but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. . . .

Jesus call his body a temple: John 2:19-21, Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

The spiritual man and the natural man can only be
divided by the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God.

Hebrews 4:12, For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The blood is the life of the soul and body.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood.

Colossians 3:22 Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh,
not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.     

Psalm 84:2  My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

When our heart is under the direction of the spirit, it is holy, joyful and peaceful.

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.