Hypocrites and Backsliders Lesson 23

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Hypocrites and BackslidersLesson 23

• Spiritual Death

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Simple Mitosis
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Meiosis in the Male
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Meiosis in the Female
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The Three Part Man

• Throughout both the Old and New Testament, the
  Scriptures reveal that man has been created with
  three basic parts the body, the soul, and the
  spirit.
• This trichotomous view of man is apparent even
  from the moment of mans creation.

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The Three Part Man

• Genesis 27 Jehovah God formed man with the dust
  of the ground.
• With this act, God created mans body.
• The verse continues, And breathed into his
  nostrils the breath of life.
• Breath is derived from the Hebrew word neshamah
  which, significantly, is translated spirit in
  Proverbs 2027 The spirit neshamah of man is
  the lamp of Jehovah.

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The Three Part Man

• We can thus conclude, that Gods breathing into
  man the breath of lives produced mans spirit.
• Zechariah 121 corroborates the creation of mans
  spirit by telling us that just as Jehovah
  stretched forth the heavens and laid the
  foundation of the earth, He also formed the
  spirit of man within him.

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The Three Part Man

• Genesis 27 concludes And man became a living
  soul.
• The soul (mans intrinsic person) was the issue
  of the breath of God entering into the nostrils
  of the body of dust.
• The biblical record of the three-step creation of
  man clearly reveals him to be tripartite.

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The Three Part Man

• The New Testament continues and expands on this
  revelation.
• First Thessalonians 523 says, And the God of
  peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your
  spirit and soul and body be preserved complete,
  without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus
  Christ.
• Here Paul enumerates mans three distinct parts
  spirit and soul and body, the repetition of the
  conjunction and serving to reinforce their
  distinctness.

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The Three Part Man

• Furthermore, Hebrews 412 specifies The word of
  God is living and operative and sharper than any
  two-edged sword, and piercing even to the
  dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and
  marrow.
• All three parts are once again mentioned in this
  verse the joints and marrow pertain to the body,
  and the soul is explicitly separate from the
  spirit.
• These Old and New Testament references exemplify
  the Bibles consistent presentation of the
  tripartite man.

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The Three Part Man

• In Clarence Larkins book Dispensational Truth or
  Gods Plan and Purpose in the Ages, he describes
  man as a trinity made up of body, soul, and
  spirit.
• He then proceeds to compare the threefold nature
  of man to the three sections of the tabernacle.

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The Three Part Man

• The Threefold Nature of Man may be illustrated
  by the TabernacleThe Tabernacle and its
  Courtyard is a type of the Threefold Nature of
  Man. The Courtyard represents his Body, the
  Holy Place his Soul, and the Most Holy Place
  his Spirit
• After the completion of the Tabernacle it
  remained empty of the Presence of God until the
  Spirit of God descended and took up His abode
  in the Most Holy Place.

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The Three Part Man

• So a man may be complete as to body, soul and
  spirit, but his spiritual nature will remain
  unregenerate until the Holy Spirit enters and
  takes possession of the spirit compartment of
  his nature.
• This happens when the New Birth takes place.

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The Three Part Man

• The difference between plant and animal life is,
  that the plant has not conscious life, while
  the animal has a living (conscious) soul.
• The difference between animal life and human life
  is, that while animals have a living soul man
  has more, he has a spirit.

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The Three Part Man

• In Earths Earliest Ages, G.H. Pember employs
  Scripture to refute the erroneous notion that man
  has only two parts as well as prove that man is
  tripartite.
• Thus in the very beginning of Scripture we are
  warned against the popular phraseology of soul
  and body, which has long sustained an erroneous
  belief that man consists of but two parts.
• There are, however, one or two passages in which
  a reference to the threefold composition of our
  being could not be obscured.

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The Three Part Man

• Such is the very remarkable verse in the Epistle
  to the Hebrews For the Word of God is living,
  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 (Heb. iv. 12).

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The Three Part Man

• Here Paul plainly speaks of the immaterial part
  of man as consisting of two separable elements,
  soul and spirit while he describes the material
  portion as made up of joints and marrow, organs
  of motion and sensation.
• Another obvious passage is the well-known
  intercession of Paul for the Thessalonians And
  I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be
  preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
  Jesus Christ (1 Thess. v. 23).

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The Three Part Man

• Now the body we may term the sense -
  consciousness,
• the soul the self - consciousness,
• and the spirit the God - consciousness.
• For the body gives us the use of the five senses
  the soul comprises the intellect which aids us in
  the present state of existence, and the emotions
  which proceed from the senses while the spirit
  is our noblest part, which came directly from
  God, and by which alone we are able to apprehend
  and worship Him. (End Pember)

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The Three Part Man

• In Watchman Nees book The Christian Life and
  Warfare originally published in 1927, he clearly
  demonstrates from 1 Thessalonians 523 that man
  has three parts.
• The Word of God does not divide man into two
  parts, the soul and the body.
• Rather, it divides man into three parts the
  spirit, the soul, and the body.
• First Thessalonians 523 says, Sanctify you
  wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be
  preserved complete.

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The Three Part Man

• This verse clearly shows a distinction between
  the spirit and the soul.
• Otherwise, it would not have said, Your spirit
  and soul, but rather, Your spirit-soul.
• Since God has said this, we can see that there is
  a distinction between mans spirit and his soul.
• From this we can conclude that man is divided
  into three partsthe spirit, the soul, and the
  body.

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The Three Part Man

• The first chapter of Watchman Nees book The
  Spiritual Man is entitled The Spirit, The Soul,
  and The Body. Here, Nee further emphasizes and
  elaborates on the fact that man is composed of
  three parts.
• First Thessalonians 523 says, The God of peace
  Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit
  and soul and body be preserved complete.

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The Three Part Man

• This verse clearly divides a person into three
  parts the spirit, the soul, and the body.
• Here the apostle mentioned the believers being
  sanctified wholly.
• This means that the whole being of the believers
  is to be sanctified.
• What did he mean when he said that a person is to
  be sanctified wholly?

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The Three Part Man

• He meant that a persons spirit, soul, and body
  are to be preserved complete. This is very clear
  a complete person has a spirit, a soul, and a
  body. (end Nee)

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The Three Part Man

• In order to accurately and adequately define the
  spirit, soul, and body we must first identify the
  sphere in which each part functions.
• First and most crucial is the spirit, the faculty
  that enables man to communicate with God.
• With his human spirit, man can worship God, serve
  God, and know God intuitively.

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The Three Part Man

• Second, the soul is that part which forms the
  personality of man and enables him to contact and
  function within the psychological realm.
• Finally, the physical body with its five senses
  enables man to relate to and communicate with the
  physical world.

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The Heart of Man

• Mans heart, as revealed throughout Scripture, is
  to be a composition of all the parts of the soul
  as well as of the spirit, namely the conscience.
• It may sound odd to hear that the heart as a
  separate and distinct component of man, is a
  summation of several other parts.

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The Heart of Man

• Genesis 65 And Jehovah 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. Furthermore, as Matthew 94
  reports, Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said,
  Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?

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The Heart of Man

• To identify the will as pertaining to the heart,
  we must consult Acts 1123 Who, when he arrived
  and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged
  them all to remain with the Lord with purpose of
  heart.
• In addition, the second half of Hebrews 412
  speaks of the Words ability to discern, the
  thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Both purpose and intentions are functions of
  the will, indicating that the will, likewise, is
  part of the heart.

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The Heart of Man

• The Bible clearly indicates that all three
  components of the soulthe mind, will, and
  emotion (from the body)also affect the heart,
  together with the spiritthe conscience and the
  ability to worship and commune with God.

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The Heart of Man

• Several other portions of the Word prove that the
  emotion originating in the body also affects the
  heart.
• In John 166, the Lord tells His disciples, But
  because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow
  has filled your heart.
• Later in that same chapter, the Lord continues,
  Therefore you also now have sorrow but I will
  see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no
  one takes your joy away from you.

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The Heart of Man

• Since sorrow and rejoicing, human emotions, are
  so evidently linked here to the heart, we can say
  that mans emotional faculty plays a part in the
  function of the heart.
• Finally, the Word makes it clear that the leading
  part of the spirit (the conscience) is also
  integrally related to the heart.

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The Heart of Man

• Hebrews 1022 strongly links these two Having
  our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
• Additionally, 1 John 320 warns, Because if our
  heart blames us, it is because God is greater
  than our heart and knows all things.
• Blame and condemnation are the primary functions
  of the conscience, further proof that our
  conscience affects our heart.

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The Heart of Man

• So, what is the Heart of Man?
• It is the Doing and Being part of man.
• Mans decisions and actions.
• It is where Mans decisions become part of him
• As a man thinks in his heart, so is he
• After a person has ruminated the contents of his
  mind (thinking), the emotional contribution from
  his physical body, and made a determination as to
  his choice, his volition passes it into his
  heart.

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The Heart of Man

• Of course, the Spiritual Function of man, his
  connection to God, should have influenced the
  decision-making process, but as we shall see,
  Spiritual Death has eliminated this from mans
  decision making process, and therefore his heart.
• Genesis 65 And Jehovah 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.

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The Three Part Man

• Next, we will quickly review from our last 2
  lessons, information about the 7 Deaths in the
  Bible, and some pertinent passages related to
  Spiritual Death (SD).
• Then we will introduce more pertinent passages
  and add them to our knowledge base, before we
  enter into a study of the Mechanics of Spiritual
  Death.

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The Doctrine of Death

• The 7 Deaths of Scripture (Thanatos)
• Physical Death
• Spiritual Death
• The Second Death
• Positional Death
• Sexual Death
• Operational Death
• Temporal Death

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The Doctrine of Deaths

• Spiritual Death Ephesians 2 1 Romans 512 1st
  Cor. 1522 Prov. 1412
• The Spiritual Relationship with God is absent.
• The Soul and God are separated.

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Spiritual Death

• Death is separation.
• A physical death is the separation of the soul
  from the body.
• Spiritual death, which is of greater
  significance, is the separation of the soul from
  God.??
• In Genesis 217, God tells Adam that in the day
  he eats of the forbidden fruit he will surely
  die.
• Adam does fall, but his physical death does not
  occur immediately God must have had another type
  of death in mindspiritual death.

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Spiritual Death

• This separation from God is exactly what we see
  in Genesis 38.
• When Adam and Eve heard the voice of the Lord,
  they hid themselves from the presence of the
  LORD God.
• The fellowship had been broken.
• They were spiritually dead.??
• When Jesus was hanging on the cross, He paid the
  price for us by dying on our behalf.

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Spiritual Death

• A person without Christ is spiritually dead.
• Paul describes it as being alienated from the
  life of God in Ephesians 418. (To be separated
  from life is the same as being dead.)
• The natural man, like Adam hiding in the garden,
  is isolated from God.??
• When we are born again, the spiritual death is
  reversed.
• Before salvation, we are dead (spiritually), but
  Jesus gives us life. And you hath he quickened
  made alive, who were dead in trespasses and
  sins (Ephesians 21).

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Spiritual Death

• Ephesians 21-3
• "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
  in which you formerly walked according to the
  course of this world, according to the prince of
  the power of the air, of the spirit that is now
  working in the sons of disobedience. Among them
  we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our
  flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of
  the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
  even as the rest."

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Spiritual Death

• (Eccl 127 KJV)  Then shall the dust return to
  the earth as it was and the spirit shall return
  unto God who gave it.