We human beings really are vessels to contain God.
For example
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels . . . " (2 Cor. 4:7)
The kingdom of God is within you.
To say this affirms that we are vessels. Consider now the rest of vessel passage above.
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out of us."
The treasure is the life of Jesus meant be manifested from within our vessels.
"Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body." (v.10b)
We have this treasure in earthen vessels.
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
I do believe the inheritance is not because of the natural fallen man but the new man.
If we have this treasure in earthen vessels then we are vessels meant to contain the treasure - the life of God which is now the life of Jesus. Our glorified bodies in the kingdom age is something of which we presently have no experience.
But we will not be merely spirits but human beings with glorfied bodies STILL vessels containing the treasure.
Transfiguration is to change the body of our humiliation conforming it to it body of His glory.
So though we have yet not experience we know we are to possess a body like the body of His glory.
"Who will transfigure the body of our humiliation conforming it to the body of His glory, according to His operation br which He is ableeven to subject all things to Himself." (Phil. 3:21)
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God does not mean we have no glorified bodies.
Even in the Old Testament man as a vessel is seen in the prophet Isaiah.
God looks to a certain kind of man within whom He may have His dwelling place.
"Thus says Jehovah
Heaven is My throne and the earth the footstool for My feet;
Where then is the house that you will build for Me,
And where is the place of My rest?
For all these things My hand has made
. . .
But this kind of man will I look, to him who is poor.
And of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word." (from Isaiah 66:1,2)
This is God saying heaven cannot contain Him. But He looks to a transformed. perfected, and sanctified man as a place of His dwelling. First we see this is the Lord Jesus Christ. He was the topmost manifestation of
"this kind of man". And He was a vessel being God become a typical man, yet without sin.
The mingling, as you put it, is the creation of a New creature that has never existed before, which is a combination of a spirit from God
placed within the earthen vessel that is combined with the Holy Spirit to produce, through sufferings, a son of God that is a wholly
spiritual being that has life within himself (eternal), and to whom nothing shall be impossible.
Yes, the regenerated man is the new creation.
The Spirit from God IS the Holy Spirit.
The human spirit is joined to the Holy Spirit to mingle into
"one spirit."
"He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit." (1 Cor. 6:17)
The Lord being with our spirit in a mingled way is the very GRACE by which we can live. That is like "power steering" in us.
We cooperate and He operates.
This enjoyment of living Christ is the inward grace that is with us and with our reborn spirit.
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen." (Galatians 6:18)
No wonder we need to be strengthened with power to abide more in our spirit.
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." (Phil. 4:23)
The same thing again. We need to exercise our spirit and strengthen that "organ."
Calling on His name, prayer, praise, and of course obeying His leading strengthens this empowering inward grace.
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spiorit." (Philemon 25)
Where is this empowering? Where is this divine enabling? Where is this perfect human life?
It is with our spirit. It is the grace of Jesus Christ with our reborn spirit.
One way I exercise my spirit is by calling on the name of the Lord -
"O Lord Jesus. O Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus I love You."
What power flows into my soul when I turn to my spirit where the Spirit of Jesus is.
Here are Paul final written words in the New Testament. Last words are always very, very important words.
And he tells TImothy one thing he must never forget. That is that the Lord is WITH his spirit.
The last words of Paul -
"The Lord be with you spirit, Grace be with you." (2 Timothy 4:22)
Those attributes are attributes of
the Father as "It is your Fathers good pleasure to GIVE you the Kingdom." That is all the fullness of God.
The flesh will profit nothing, as it is only the enemy of your spirit while it matures, and once matured the body will be put off
and you will be what the Lord Jesus is. And that is not a man, for we shall be changed and see him as he is for we shall be like Him.
The glorified body is said to be
PUT ON.
Paul said they desired not to be unclothed and found naked but clothed upon with their dwelling from heaven - a glorified body.
In the following chapter to which Paul said
"we have this treasure in earth vessels" (4:7) he speaks of the moral body being swallowed up in the divine life with a
"building from God".
"For we know that if our earthly tabernacle dwelling is taken down," - meaning physical death and the putting off of the body
"We have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
For also in this we groan, longing to be CLOTHED UPON with our delling place from heaven,
If indeed, being CLOTHED, we will not be found NAKED.
For also, we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, in that e do not desire to be UNCLOTHED, but CLOTHED UPON,
that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life." (2 Cor. 5:1-4)
Full salvation then is not that we be DISEMBODIED spirits.
Our full savation is that we receive a glorfied body.
And the garuantee of this is within our spirit as the pledge of the Holy Spirit.
"Now He who has wrought us for this very thing is God, who has given to us the Spirit as a pledge." (v.6)
The nature of a glorfied body, no Christian yet can tell us. But we know we got a glimpse of it in Jesus
during His transfiguration on the mountain. That was a preview of the kingdom of God.
"Truly I say to you, There are some of those standing here who shall by no means taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingsom. And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and brought them up to a high mountain privately. And He wasTRANSFIGURED before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as the light." (Matt. 16:28-17:2)
According to His promise, some standing there (three of them) witnessed the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.
It does not say they would see the second coming before they died. But says they would see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.
He gave them a preview, a foretaste of the coming glorification of the body.
The analogy in the bible to whom the promise was made, is the offspring of the union of the half brother and sister Abraham and Sarah,
whose Father was Terah, and their son Isaac.
You too are a product of a union of halves, spiritually speaking.
I would like more time to consider your analogy here.
The spirit that is within a human is feminine. As David acknowledges
"Let my soul make HER boast in the Lord." The Spirit of Christ is the union of the Spirit of Jesus and the Holy Spirit that is sent into
your hearts crying Abba Father" It is this union of the overcoming Spirit of the Son mingled with your feminine spirit that creates the NEW creature, a new spiritual son of God.
I have no problem acknowledging that all believers are virgins to Christ.
And the Spirit of Christ is that eternal Spirit who is Jehovah God.
He had compounded into Him the life, living, death, resurrection of the man He became.
We might say the RAW Spirit of God was compounded with the ingredient of the man Jesus and His living, His attainments, is obtainments, His resurrection and exaltation. This Divine Spirit was then compounded with the life of the incarnated God-man.
And in this the God-man is able to impart HIMSELF into our innermost being as the life giving Spirit He became in resurrection.
" . . . the last Adam became a life giving Spirit." (1 Cor. 15:45)
And the fullest salvation is the sanctification of the WHOLE being - human spirit - human soul - human body.
"And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, ithout blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thess 5:23)
Here is a song I wrote on Second Corinthians 5.
After all we are the BRIDE OF CHRIST. Brides are feminine last time I checked, and once having received
seed from her husband is capable of reproducing said offspring of the husband. The flesh of man inherits nothing! It is of the dust and
remains dust once its usefulness has been used up.
Don't you believe in a gorified body?