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THE THREEFOLD

NATURE OF MANMan is a spirit, he has a soul and lives in a body.

Ibrahim A. Isaac


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The Threefold Nature of a Man

And the God of peace himself sanctify you

wholly; and may your spirit and soul and

body be preserved entire, without blame at

the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ASV)

Man is a spirit, he has a soul and he lives in a

body. With the body man interacts with the physical

world, with his soul which consists of the mind,

intellect, will, feeling, conscience, memory and

imagination, man makes decision. With his spirit

(man himself) he relates with God.

Man is spirit

Lets look at it from when God created man:

Genesis 1:27 And God created man in his

own image, in the image of God created he

him; male and female created he them.


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Note that sometimes spirit is referred in the

scripture as a part of man just as in the above versebut in real case man is spirit, in some cases spirit is

referred to a heart.

Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of

the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the

belly.

1Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the

Lord is one spirit.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.And

since God is Spirit according to John 4:24, He is the

Father of the human spirit.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he

himself is judged of no man.

1 Corinthians 2:15. The spirit faculties are Faith,

Hope, reverence, Prayer and Worship.


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Man is a living Soul

And Jehovah God formed man of the dustof the ground, and breathed into his

nostrils the breath of life; and man became

a living soul. Genesis 2:7

The gates to the soul are the imagination,

conscience, memory, reasoning, affection, in

general, the mind, the intellect, will. Man as spirit

will be understood more as we continue with Mans

soul because youll be able to compare and contrast

between your spirit, your soul and your body. The

Bible refers to the spirit of a man sometimes as the

inner man, the soul is like the middle man and the

body is the outward man. The spirit of a man

receives illumination from God at the new birth,

that is, the moment one receives Jesus into his life,

and the soul of a man receives illumination from

the recreated human spirit as he feeds of the Spirit

of God through the faculties of the his spirit: Faith

(Gods Word, Romans 10:17), Hope, Reverence,

Prayer and Worship. Only a recreated human spirit

can get his soul illuminated.


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On receiving Jesus into your life, your spirit

becomes new, your spirit become recreated, and theold is done away with, thats why the scripture says

in 2 corinthians 5:17 (AMP) that Therefore if any

person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a

new creation (a new creature altogether); the old

[previous moral and spiritual condition] has

passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has

come! This new spirit man is one with God,

1Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the

Lord is one spirit. But some people dont behold

this new man that is born, not immediately because

the soul of man has not yet been changed, man is

completely responsible for his soul, he has to

continually yield his soul to the Spirit of God, that

is, Gods word in order to undergo transformation

from God, but any seizure of mans soul from the

Spirit of God, the soul will automatically yield to the

lusts of the world and get affected by. This is satans

primary goal; to stop mans access to God.

The recreated human spirit is perfect. There have

been so many debates around the world, many still


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wonder if a man can get perfect, few believe and

many dont. I repeat,the recreated human spirit isperfect because he is in union with a perfect God

through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ taught and said

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is

perfect Matthew 5:48 (NIV), Jesus was preparing

men to live the life He was about to suffer for and

resurrect, as a result, many didnt not understand

the teachings Jesus gave them, even the disciples

said This is a hard teaching John 6:60 (NIV),

man couldnt accept the things of God, man

couldnt love unconditionally, until after the Holy

Spirit came upon the disciples in the upper room

(Acts 2). A Christian is a believer of the finished

work of Jesus Christ, remember Jesus Christ said

be perfect, after the Holy Spirit came, Apostle

Paul said but now He has reconciled you in His

bodyin His flesh through His deathso that He

can present you to God holy, blameless,

and totally free of imperfectionColossians 1:22

(VOICE). Apostle Paul also wrote to the Ephisians

and began with praising God for His blessings, he


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of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good

and acceptable and perfect will of God.James 1:21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness

and overflowing of wickedness, receive with

meekness the implanted word, which is able to

save your souls.

Whenever a recreated human spirit functions from

the Spirit, he has his mind in a transformation

process and this is not constant, it is a continual

thing since we ought to live by the Spirit. When

man has his soul transformed he can control his

body because he cannot live according to the flesh

and its desires, And they that are of Christ Jesus

have crucified the flesh with the passions and the

lusts thereof.Galatians 5:24. Man was not made to

be controlled from the senses, or the physical world

(for we walk by faith, not by sight);2

Corinthians 5:7, only when a mans soul is

transformed by Gods wordwill he know the will of

God, God reveals divine realities to the human

spirit through His Spirit, then this is revealed to the

soul of a man after that the man has transformed


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his mind with Gods word so that he will know that

it is God, in the world today there are a lot of voices,but how will man know the right one if his mind is

bombarded with noise. The Holy Spirit of God can

give impressions to the soul of a man in order to

lead him in the way that he should go, we can

understand this by the words spoken by Apostle

Paul in Romans 9:1: I speak the truth in Christ I

am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy

Spirit. Conscience is a part of the soul. You see,

God leads man by His Spirit, by laying a message in

mans Spirit thereby causing an impression in the

soul, but this is not the only way God leads man,

God leads man through His word. Man has to

continue building himself, that is, his soul and

transforming it by the word of God and the faculties

of the Spirit mentioned above, otherwise, he will be

giving way to be driven by the outward man which

is the body and its senses, this is why the bible tells

says Guard your heart with all diligence for out of

it are the issues of life (Prov. 4:23). Gods Word is


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God Himself (John 1:1), and God is Spirit (John

4:24), this makes Gods word spirit(John 6:63).

Satan knows fully well that he can dominate the a

man if he has access into the soul of a man,

therefore he doesnt care if a man goes to church

where there is no manifestation of Gods Spirit in

evidence (he is agitated when there is a

manifestation of the Holy Spirit), he just doesnt

want the human Spirit to come in contact with the

Holy Spirit.

The soul is the seat of the passions, the feelings and

the desires of man; satan is satisfied if he can

master these. You see, Man can only be tempted in

something he desires, but what God is doing is to

transform man, his thinking, his desires, his

passions to His kind of thinking, desires and

passions through his word. John 15:7 says If ye

abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask

whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.


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It is from the soul where fleshy lusts, desires and

appetites arise, 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beseech youas sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly

lusts, which war against the soul;

The soul of a man is never directed towards God

until after the spirit of man has become

regenerated, man can never love God or the things

of God until he is born again.

Psalms 23:3 He restoreth my soul: He guideth me

in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Psalms 103:1 A Psalm of David. Bless Jehovah, O

my soul; And all that is within me, bless his holy

name.

Mans Body

Talking about the body of a man, God word says:


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Know ye not that your bodies are

members of Christ? shall I then take awaythe members of Christ, and make them

members of a harlot? God forbid. Or know

ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is

one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall

become one flesh. But he that is joined unto

the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication.

Every sin that a man doeth is without the

body; but he that committeth fornication

sinneth against his own body. Or know ye

not that your body is a temple of the Holy

Spirit which is in you, which ye have from

God? and ye are not your own; for ye were

bought with a price: glorify God therefore

in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:15-20

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