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12.4 Pneumatika
This is an often used word in the New Testament, especially in context with the works of the Holy Spirit in Corinth. It means: the spiritual, inspired by the Spirit, belonging to the Spirit of God, from the spirit.
In this way a clear distinction is being made between the spiritual (pneumatikos), the natural (psychikos) and the touchable, the flesh (sarkikos).
The word pneumatikos is also used together with:
the law
Romans 7:14 “We know that the law is spiritual (or from the Spirit);”
goods
Romans 15:27 “…For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews spiritual blessings, “
1 Corinthians 10:3 “They all ate the same spiritual food.”
men
1 Corinthians 2:15 “The spiritual man makes judgements about all things,”
1 Corinthians 3:1 “Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual “
1 Corinthians 15:44 “…it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.“
the church
1 Peter 2:5 “… you also like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
expressions of the Spirit
see 1 Corinthians 12 and 14
songs
Ephesians 5:19 “…Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.”
and in common:
1 Corinthians 2:13 “This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.”
1 Corinthians 9:11 “If we have sown spiritual seeds among you, …”
This same word is also used in context with the powers of darkness (Ephesians 6:12).
So the emphasis is on being ‘out of the spirit’ and not on being ‘out of men’.
So the pneumatika of the Spirit doesn’t come into existence out of human sources, but out of the Holy Spirit.
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