DEAD MAN WALKING

SPIRIT SOUL AND BODY

(1) Spirit— The dimension of man which deals with the spiritual realm. The part of man that knows God. (2) Soul— The dimension of man which deals with the mental realm. Man's intellect. The sensibilities and will. The part that reasons and thinks. (3) Body— The dimension of man which deals with the physical realm. The house in which we live.

I want you to begin thinking of yourself in a new light. Don't think of yourself as just a physical being. Think of yourself as a spirit being who possesses a soul and lives in a body.

God isn't going to do anything with our body or our mind. God contacted our spirit. We contacted God with our spirit, and our spirit (the inward man, the hidden man of the heart) became a new man in Christ. Now it is up to us to do something. Paul said that we need to (1) do something with our bodies—"present your bodies a living sacrifice;" and (2) do something with our minds —"be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." One of the greatest needs of the church today is that God's people renew their minds with the Word of God. Just because a person is a Christian, and even filled with the Holy Spirit, doesn't mean that he has a renewed mind. The mind becomes renewed with the Word of God.

Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" ().

When Adam sinned something happened to his spirit nature. In other words, we see the new birth in reverse. When he sinned, he didn't cease existing as a spirit being, but his spirit became separated from God and the nature of the devil came into his spirit. He became a spiritual child of the devil. Jesus said of the Pharisees, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it" (). This nature of the devil began to manifest itself in the human race.

The death which reigned from Adam to Moses was not physical death but spiritual death, which is separation from God. When God gave the law to Moses and set up the Levitical priesthood whereby atonement could be made for sins, then spiritual death did not reign over the people because the sin that separated them from God was atoned for. Yet they continued to die physically. Therefore, refers to spiritual death. IF YOU BELIEVE IN ME GOD ACCOUNTS IT AS RIGHTEOUSNESS