The Real You

I. The Real You.

‘SK’=Sense
 Knowledge

A. ‘God is a Spirit’. Jn 4:24.   ‘And they that worship Him…’ How      
      can we do this?                         

B. You are created in God’s Image. Gen 1:27 . 

C. Therefore you are a spirit. 

  1. 1P3:3-4. ‘The Hidden Man’. The world calls this man the 
      ‘subconscious mind’.

  2. Eph 3:16. ‘The Inner Man’

  3. Lk 16:19. Who went to hell? Who went to ‘Abraham’s 
      bosom’?    Where was the body? 

‘G’=Guidance

  4. 2 Cor 5:6-8. Who is at home in the body?

  5. Phil 1:21-24. Who is going to depart and be with Christ?

  6.  Heb 12:9. Why do you think your Father is called ‘The Father 
      of spirits’.

D. You are a spirit, You have a soul, You live in a body. 1Thess 
     5:23.

E. When Adam sinned, he died spiritually and lost his 
     righteousness. Gen 2:17.

F. He lost contact with God. His spirit man died. All information must now comes from senses. 

  Our Three-Fold Being

Part	Realm Contacted	Activity	Voice	Our Part	
 Spirit	Spirit	Spiritual: The part that knows God. Inner man; the ‘real you’.	Conscience	Get saved, then 
feed it the Word.	
   Soul	Mental	Mental: Intellect, emotions and will. Part that reasons and thinks.	Reason	Renew it with
God’s Word	
Body	Physical	Physical: Part that deals with physical realm. “Our house”.	Feelings:
5 Senses	Keep it under the
spirit’s control	

 HOMEWORK NHS-1

___.   God is a soul.

___.  God created man (us) in His own image.

___. God said that if Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, that the day they ate of it they would surely die. 

___. And the day they did eat of it, Adam & Eve died physically.

___.  We are souls, we have a spirit and we live in a body.

___. If we are Christians our spiritual  (heavenly) Father is God Himself.

___. Our heavenly Father is the Father of Christians (i.e. those who are born again plus little children before they reach the age of reason) while Satan is the father of all others. Hint: Jn 8:44, 1Jn 3:10, Gal 3:26, Mt 13:38, Acts 13:10, Col 1:13.

___. Our Father loves us as much as He loves Jesus. That’s because we’re sons and daughters too

___.  Paul said in Phil 1:23 that he had a desire to depart from his physical body to be with Christ which would be far better. The person that would depart from the physical body would be _____.

___. The part that departs to be with Christ when we die physically, is our physical body.

___. Paul went on to say that for him to remain in his body would be better for the Philippians.

___. When Paul said this, he was indicating that the real ‘Paul’ was not his body- but his spirit.

___. This is the same with us Christians. We are spirits just like Paul is. When we die physically, our spirit will go to be with God.

___. All people will live forever somewhere because they are spirits. Spirits never die.

___. The rich man’s body went to hell. That’s how he could see Lazarus.

___. The angels carried Lazarus away after he died, but his body stayed behind. 

___. The Lazarus that went to ‘Abraham’s bosom’ (‘side’-NIV) was his spirit - not his body. 

___.  If a man is not born again, all information that he gets must come from his four senses.

___. After we are born again, we can receive information from God as well as our senses.

___.  **Bonus: Heb 11:3. The physical world we live in was created by a spirit being out of invisible matter. So, really, the spirit world is more permanent and real than this physical world.