The Kingdom of God - Part 3

In the beginning God created man, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..." (Gen. 1:26). The key word here is "our" because as mankind we have a triune makeup like God: spirit, soul and body. At the fall when Adam and Eve sinned their spirits died and we know this because they did not physically die when they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17, Rom. 5:12). They did become wise to good and evil (Rom. 1:20-21), but their spirits were separated from God. Before someone is saved they have a body, a soul, and a dead spirit. When a person becomes saved their spirit is "quickened" (Eph. 2:1) or made alive and God instantly performs a spiritual operation/circumcision where he separates their flesh from their soul and spirit (Col. 2:10-15). That's why we can still sin and grace will abound even though it is not expedient or helpful for our walk with the Lord in this life (Rom. 6 and 1 Cor. 10:23). When the rapture comes (1 Thess. 4:14-18) we get new, uncorrupted, heavenly bodies. Read 1 Corinthians 15:38-58... It is very helpful to get the context but verse 50 is the especially important, "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God..." So we have two personalities during this life: that of the flesh and that of the Spirit. This is evident in Romans 7:22-25 and Romans chapter 6.
Corinthians 3:13-15 "Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall
be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
When we sin those sins won't be held against us in eternity but we won't have anything to show for those parts of our life. Of course the neat part is that when we do good works that are worthy of reward they are really thanks to God working in us: Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." 
The glory is always to God!