SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 25 TOPIC: THE HIDDEN MAN OF THE HEART (The Human Spirit)

TEXT: ROM. 8:1-17

M/VERSE: JOHN 4:24

AIM: The human body as we see it physically is only a House in which the spirit and the soul live. The

body, soul, and spirit that make up the human being must be preserved blameless at the coming of our

Lord Jesus Christ (1Thess. 5:23). At death, the spirit and soul leave the body and go to their home. This

week we shall study the human spirit which is the only link between God and Man through Jesus Christ.

LESSON PLAN:

1. What part of the human being is the Spirit?

2. How can one serve God in spirit?

3. How do we describe the sense-ruled Christian?

1. Man was created in the image and likeness of God. He is in the same class with God (Gen. 1:26-

27, 1Peter 3:4). God formed man out of the dust of the ground. This is the body, and God breathed into

his nos-trils the breath of life. This breath constitutes the spirit, and also forms the soul that contained

all organs including the five senses (Gen. 2:7). Psychologists call this inward man of the heart a

subconscious mind because they recognize that “Conscience” is a voice from inward per-sonality. This

subconscious man is the real man. This real man (the spirit) is like God. It never grows old. It is neither

mortal nor immortal. It is Eternal. Faith is a product of the recreated human spirit.

2. The part that is recreated is the human spirit. Then this hidden man of the heart is capable of

development along spiritual lines through the word of God as the reasoning faculties are along

intellectual lines through experimentation (Acts 24:16, Acts 23:1). When the human spirit is recreated, it

has to be obeyed and developed to let him govern us. Af-ter we are recreated, the Holy Spirit through

the word can lead us into marvelous developments. The New Birth is the recreation of the spirit of man.

That recreated spirit is to dominate the reasoning faculties and govern them (Gal. 5:16-17). When man's

spirit is recreated, the light which has come to him through Jesus Christ is in that recreated spirit

pointing only in the direction of pleasing Father God (John 8:29). Note the warning in Lk. 11:35, and

contrast it with Lk. 11:36.

3. In 2Cor. 10:3-6, we are told that though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the

flesh. God is here telling us that even though we walk in the senses, our warfare is not according to the

senses; for the weapons of our warfare are of the spirit. Through the false teachers, the senses suggest

strongholds, imaginations and erect high things that the sense-ruled Christian will shudder.

He is never able to take his place in Christ because the senses have blinded his reasoning faculties (Eph.

4:17-19, 1Cor. 3:1-3). As love governs the spirit-ruled Christian, the sense-ruled Christian conceived evil,

hatred, and corruption.

CONCLUSION: Only true repentance can make you be in sweet fel-lowship with God. Repent and be

saved. No sinner is a Christian. Read your bible daily.