 Good morning everyone. It's great for the students to join. Only three of you are joining. Thank you for joining me earlier. We'll just see in a few more minutes for others to join. Okay, we will end here. Let's switch it off here. So we can begin. Can I ask you to please read us in private please. Okay, Pastor. Thank you. I love you, Heavenly Father. Thank you so much for this beautiful morning. Lord, we thank you so much for bringing us together once in a lot to study your Word. Lord, I especially pray for our dear Pastor Lord as he is a guiding and mentoring Lord, teaching us Lord. Help our Lord to share your Word boldly Lord and especially pray for all of us Lord as we learn from you Lord. Give us a heart to understand the Holy Spirit Lord. You guide us. You lead us. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Okay, so morning this day began lesson 5 The Doctrine of Man. Okay, if you remember what we learned in the Doctrine of Man any points you remember you might say an answer or you can even type it in the chat section. We talked about the Doctrine of Man but basically how he is different from God. God created man in his image and likeness as I mentioned and also man consists of spirit, soul and body which is the essence and is the nature of man. Okay, thank you. Thank you John. Created in image of God. Created in his likeness as well and man consists of body, soul and spirit. One else it began chapter 5 by saying that we were reading Genesis chapter 1 verse 2 where we see that it's clearly stated that God created the universe out of nothing and the Latin word means out of nothing and it means that before God began to create this universe before he began to create the world nothing else existed except God himself and we see that God created the whole universe through his word even shaft in the universe 3. We saw that all the creatures that God created man to be his image or in his likeness so only man is said to be in the image of God and try to understand this phrase image or likeness of God so what does the phrase image or likeness of God mean it means just that you know man is God and it's created to represent God. And we saw that both the Hebrew words for image and for likeness it refers to something that is similar but not identical to the thing that represents or is an image of so the word image can also be used of something that represents something that represents something that represents of something that represents something else okay so we said that the word image or the word likeness refers to something that is similar but is not identical of the thing that represents or is an image of and so the word image and word likeness you know have this fear meanings in the mind of the original leaders and hence we understood what that says that we are created in the image or in the likeness of God that we are like God in the following ways that we have intellectual ability, moral purity we have the spiritual nature we have the creativity we have the ability and immorality and dominion over the earth like God so when we say that God created Adam and Eve in his image or in his likeness we are getting the same that God is holy, he is righteous he created Adam and Eve to be holy and righteous again God is without sin he created that by Eve to be without sin so to speak to Adam and Eve as a friend we speak to a friend God never died so he created Adam and Eve never to die God gave man a mind so that we can hook him, we can understand what God speaks to us or what God speaks to mankind God gave man a heart so we can respond to God in love and we can be faithful to him and also see whether or not to obey God so when we say that God man in his image and in likeness we are basically saying again that God is holy and righteous he created us to be holy and righteous like him God is without sin he created Adam and Eve and Eve to be without sin so he could relate with them he could fellowship with them he could have a relationship God never dies he will never die so he created Adam and Eve never to die he gave mankind a mind so that we can understand him we can know what God is trying to speak to us what God is revealing to us we can understand the will, the heart of God God gave us a heart so that we can respond back to this God who is love to this God who is faithful in love and in faithfulness to him he also can have a will so that we can choose whether or not to obey him through or to follow him so this is basically what we try to understand when we say that man is created in the image and in the likeness of God and we looked at how man is in the likeness of God in his normal mental relationship and the spiritual aspect and I think we start with the spiritual aspect we said that man is primarily a spirit being though we are made up of body soul and spirit we are primarily a spirit being that means we have the spiritual life in us and the spiritual life in us enables us to engage to God as persons related to God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit we are able to in us to a spirit man we are able to pray we are able to praise him hear him speak his words to us again so that is about our spiritual aspect and how we are created in our spiritual aspect in the likeness of God now in our physical aspects we all know that we have a physical body and our physical bodies have been created by God as suitable instruments to represent in a physical way our human nature which has been in God's own nature so through our human nature we are able to represent we are able to reflect we are able to show for God's future through our human nature through our physical attributes through our characteristics the way that we act the way we react the way we talk the way we do things we are able to either reflect the nature of God or we are able to reflect our external nature which is in line with the works of Satan and his acts so we see that in our physical bodies we are created to reflect the nature of God so when we say in the physical aspects we are like God in certain ways it does not mean that God has a physical body what we need to say is that our physical bodies in various ways reflect you know the character of God and that is why God created us so that we can manifest the glory and when we are talking about manifesting the glory of God we are talking about who God is and what he does so who God is is reflected through the work of the power of the Holy Spirit in us that is a true to the Spirit love, joy, peace, patience, kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control and what God does is through the again through the power and the power of the Holy Spirit in us, in when in us that is through the nine gifts of the Spirit so when we say that in physical aspects we are trying to reflect the nature of God as a physical form what we are saying is that our physical bodies in various ways reflect something of God's own character so God did not need to create man but he created us so that we can fellowship with us, we can have communion with us, we can have a relationship with us he also created us for his own glory but in one of your please Isaiah 43 was 7 please Isaiah 43 was 7 anyone? Isaiah 43 was 7 everyone who is called by my name whom I created for my glory whom I formed and made so here we see that you know when we are created and formed by God and we created for his glory and it says that everyone who is called by my name happens when we are known as the children of God when we are part of his family as our Lord and Savior we reflect his glory so God created us for his own glory and he created us to manifest his glory and this also shows how important we are to God because he created us different from the rest of his creation he created us in his image in his likeness, he created us to have communion and whom over the earth he created us to manifest his glory and so we see how important and special and precious we are to God and his purpose in life is therefore to fulfill the reason for which God created us so what is the reason that God created us why did he created us why did he create us yes, go ahead Lubeva I think he created us to have dominion on us okay, thank you thank you Shubhashish, he created us to glorify him, he created us to manifest his glory to basically represent him filled on earth to basically reflect who he is and what he does okay nobody says that my voice is cracking others also having the same experience is my internet connection good are you able to tell me clearly the previous options there's a bit of a crack but I think it's initially when I was doing the recap I saw even my image on the screen falls but now after the screen fight it's okay I can't say it's it's perfect but it's quite okay so if you want to change that my internet strength signal looks really good there's some network issues so anything that you missed out any point you missed out you want me to repeat that again it was a few more kind of you missed me any point that you missed out okay I'm okay okay thank you just in case internet connection is weak then if you missed any point please speak up or just type in the chat section and then I'll repeat that okay but we basically we just began by saying in our physical aspect that we are like God we reflect something of the nature and the character of God and we said that we created basically to for God's own glory we created to manifest his glory and I said that it's you know God created us precious precious to him we are important to him because he created us for his glory he created us to manifest his glory it shows how important we are and I said that man's purpose is to fulfill the reason for which God created us and I asked a question what is the reason for which God created us what created us is basically to have a relationship more than that purpose is so that we can manifest his glory or that means we can represent him represent his nature to me is and what he does here on earth so we've been given this unique privilege this high position great responsibility and you know we have Jesus who's there to help us with the Creator we have the privilege to enable us to to manifest to manifest his glory which means we are able to fulfill the reason or achieve the purpose for which God basically created us so what created us for a purpose that purpose is to glorify him if you're on earth okay thank you sir that's fine any doubts if not really move ahead if none of you have any questions okay Pastor I'm asking just a question sure when what did the I think when God created man actually see what he expected of man because this was the first time he talks to him after creation and I wanted the vast reference that real proves that man was created to glorify God thank you okay so here we just saw this reference in Isaiah chapter 3 verse 7 since you know everyone who's called me who I created for my glory to perform and make so we created to manifest the glory of God thank you pastor if you want more references I will put it up in the stream page for you any other questions anyone else has can I ask you question sure Isaac yeah what about fellowship because in history of creation we saw that when God created man he always came down to the guardian to have fellowship with man so I'm thinking fellowship is also one reason why he created us to have fellowship with him thank you yes you're right Isaac he created us to have communion with him fellowship with him a relationship with him that's the reason why he created us but when we're talking about purpose the main purpose we can say is that we are created to glorify God we are created to represent him here or not we have to fill the earth and we also will see in scripture you know about this I will fill the earth by glory as the waters cover the sea so it starts to fill with glory and he wanted to do that in fellowship with us who he has created and that is why we say that we are important to God God did not just create us to be his slaves or to be his puppets or to do things what he wants us to do he created us as puppets so in his slaves he created us in his image and likeness and he gave us the free will to choose from the very beginning okay so we can choose to obey God or we can choose to disobey him we can choose to do his purposes or not but he makes known his purposes and he stands for us and he's given us the free will to choose so irrespective of what we choose whether we choose to fulfill his purpose of glorifying God God says you know I will fill the earth by glory what does God want us to see and it's basically not for God to show for who he is by saying that he wants us to manifest his glory it's when God wants his glory to be manifested here or not to be covered here on earth it's basically for us to enjoy who he is not for him to get some promotion or some advertisement of who he is and you know kind of try to decode it's not that irrespective of whether we do it or not God is glorious of his mighty he remains who he is and he doesn't need anyone to advertise promote him or his glory but why he wants us to manifest his glory here on earth is so that people can know him enjoy who he is so when you know we basically when we fellowship with God it's him extending all of himself to us so when we are in his presence we are basically receiving all of who he is we are enjoying all of who he is just imagine enjoying all of who he is it's so great so mighty it's so vast so to say and this great and mighty God is just extending all of him all of his glory all of his presence all of who he is his nature and his blessings to us when we you know are in his presence so he wants his own earth to be filled with his you know his glory so that we can just basically enjoy who he is what Adam and Eve need to do is to enjoy God enjoy all of his position enjoy everything perfectly that he has created in the same way he wants us to enjoy him so it's not like a responsibility it's given us ok come on you glorify me you know on earth and you're not doing this way you're not doing that way so it means basically that when we can verify God person to extend we experience personally is the overflow and glory will just overflow out of our lives and will extend to others to people out the people we live with the people we work along with the people we meet it'll just just pour out so basically what you have is what you can give you can't give what you don't have if you're living to please your own like Paul says if you're living to please your own carnal nature then that is what will come as an outflows because what you have is what you can basically give to others but if you're basically feeding your spiritual nature then what you are able to pour out to others is the fruit of the spirit which will just be evident in your life because that is the outflow of what is inside you so the work that is inside you is what you are basically doing in your relationship with God how you are relating with God to the extent you are in his presence the extent that you are submitting and you are living in obedience to him to that extent you are being sanctified and that extent you will just reflect the glory of God so we see that by Jesus living here he manifested the sonship glory that is the glory that we all have we have to see and we see that it will just overflow of who he is so the person his own personality so it's not something that we do or put on we cannot put on because who we are basically in our nature is what we will represent and yes so I think like you said our relationship with God our fellowship with God is very important because out of that relationship will be we will be seeing what we manifest whether we manifest the glory of God that is an outcome of our personal relationship with him or we manifest which is an outcome of the more of our feeding our carnal to the works of the evil one in our lives to help Isaac yes it's okay mom I only remember something when we were young in primary school they asked this question in our religious studies why did God made you I will answer simply God made us to know him, love him and to serve him yeah that's a good answer and as children that's a perfect answer to give but when we grow up you know like Paul says we don't no longer feed on just milk but we want to eat you solid food so here you are in a state where you can understand theology and so you get you can get people into it but what answer you gave is a chance and yes it is a it's the right answer as well okay any more questions good questions thank you any more if you have any more questions okay we will move on to the next point the essential nature of man we know that man basically consists or is made up of for body soul and spirit where do we see this in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 chapter 23 can one of you please read 1st Thessalonians 523 piece 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 chapter 23 may God himself the God of peace sanctify you through and through may your whole spirit soul and body be kept blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ thank you John so sweet hearer as voice so we see that man is primarily a spirit being having a soul and a living living body and we find this trisection mentioned here very clearly so we have a spirit being have a soul and a living body so you are all clear with that what do we understand by soul consist of mind, will and emotions thank you John so soul consists of mind, will and emotions and we also saw that our spirit man is primarily what relates to God who is spirit so we have to like this 1st Thessalonians 5 verse 23 it says the God of peace will sanctify you and keep your whole spirit soul and body in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ okay so let's look at the spirit the Greek it's Yuma so our spirit man is or the spirit being or the spirit part of us is the eternal part of that which means it will never die it can never be destroyed it is something that is eternal it's also a part of us that God relates to the spirit it relates to the spiritual when we are born again we receive the life and nature of God in our spirit so our human spirit receive the life and nature of God and we see that when we are born again the Holy Spirit comes and indwells in us it dwells in our spirit in the Bible you know in certain places where we read his words or the words inner man or innermost being it's referring to the spirit of man okay so in the Bible wherever we read this word belly heart or maybe the words inner man or innermost being it's used to refer to the spirit of man okay then James chapter 2 verse 26 tells us that physically we will die one day but you know when the physical death occurs the spirit leaves the body okay James chapter 2 verse 26 can one of you read that please James chapter 2 verse 26 James 2 26 as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without deeds is dead thank you so here we see you know a body without the spirit is dead so when our physical body dies you know a spirit leaves the body next we will look at the soul and the Greek word is psychic and the soul is the psychological part of us it's the mind the will and the emotions so with our soul we think, we reason we can imagine we can feel the soul can either be carnal or it can be also a spirit filled according to what we are feeding on the carnal nature or whether we are feeling a spirit filled nature the soul can be carnal when we say carnal we mean fleshly our soul can also be renewed and we transform that we can be like God we can reflect his nature we can reflect his attributes to our soul so it depends on which kind of nature that you are feeding the more that you are feeding your carnal that's full of fleshly desires that is when you are you know when you are feeding the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh, the pride of life it means that you are being very carnal or very fleshly and it produces does not produce the life of God the soul life of God but it produces just that it gives the prize to the deeds the flesh which is with the demonic words but when we are transformed the renewing of our mind and we will be like Christ we will reflect his nature we will reflect his likeness and we will also be renewed in our soul now our soul is like a processor it processes information that we receive from the spirit and it also processes the information that it receives from the from our body so our spirit brand, our body we know actually the next inputs from the world around you are five senses so our bodies you know receives inputs to our five senses what is our five senses which are our five senses seeing but hearing, smell taste and yes go ahead Isaac I was calling sin one of the five senses smelling thank you so it's seeing, hearing smell taste and touch and through these five senses our bodies receive or collect inputs from the physical and our spirit also responds through the five senses of hearing a smell, touch taste so we see through our spiritual eyes in the spiritual realm we hear through our spiritual ears speaking to us taste and see that the Lord is good you know that verse is basically we get taste the goodness of God we get also experience touch this movie spirit communicates through through this this sense of touch I'm sure you will learn this when you did learn to police in the last semester okay and also through feelings so when we feel you know stirring in our heart we know that God wants us to respond to do something about it when we feel you know when we feel that we don't have a good feeling that God's telling us don't do don't step into that don't go there don't relate to that verse because we don't have a very present you know feeling inside okay or when there is deep stirring in our heart we know God wants us to back immediately do something about it respond to it also through our taste sometimes through bitterness you know God is telling us a bitter taste experience but he's telling us that you know this is not the right thing or sometimes to smell we can you know when we're just praying we can get a good experience it might not be made from anywhere but we just know that God is pleased with us he's just pleased what we are doing our place our worship our thanksgiving that we are offering to him or he just extending his favor in our life maybe because of the situation that they're going so through our spirit senses actually learned this way I need about the whole bit the last sentence also through our five senses in our spirit man we can experience or we can hear or we can know what God is speaking to us and so whatever we are perceiving through our five senses in our spirit and through our body that goes to our soul as a processor and it processes the inputs that we receive from our spirit man and from our the next one is our body the green one is soma so the body we all know is the physical part of us and to which connects to the physical natural world we connect and also relate to the persons or to other people and then I said that as these input from the physical world through our five senses and and it feeds it into the soul and our soul is the processor in the Bible the body is as an outer man and the natural evil desires of our body and our soul together comprises of what the Bible refers to as the flesh so wherever we see flesh fleshy desires whatever it's talking about our natural evil desires of our body and of our so the last bit is that when created he created men and women he created them both in his image he created both of them in his likeness so both of them he created equal and that means that both of them are equally important to God equally valuable to God and we know this verse that says you know for God there is no male or female all are one in his so you know we should give people respect people importance people value to both you know man and woman and we need to give both of them equal honor like for also minds Timothy as he is overseeing the churches and Ephesus you know he says give honor to fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and also to widows okay so reminding Timothy is reminding the church we need to honor everyone because we are all created people and we are all important in the sight of God however there is differences in the roles of women and men women and these roles are equally important before God okay so that is the end of chapter finally the doctrine of man anyone has any questions any questions no questions okay look at this another reference John chapter 17 which is the high priestly prayer of God of Jesus and Jesus says there that you know it was for I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do so we see that even Jesus being man you know purpose was to glorify God so he says I brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me and now Father glorify me in your presence with the glory I had before with you before the world began I have already elaborated or thought about this when we spoke about the humanity of Jesus Christ in Christology okay and then you also see that you know we ask Jesus ask the Father to give us the sonship glory okay we read in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 23 regarding the sanctification of spirit soul and body so what would the sanctification of spirit mean I use my question so we know the character our mind will emotions everything consists in the soul and also the works that we do in affects our body but just want to know what would be what would it mean to say the sanctification of spirit means so when we look at ourselves we don't look at ourselves in three separate compartments that because the spirit man is having the life in nature of God it is you know it is it is separate and so only the soul and the body has to be worked upon but we look at it we are one whole that is created as a whole so when our body suffers it also our soul and our spirit man also suffers so in our body when we are physically sick we don't really feel like praying we don't really feel like you know when we are disappointed about something that has happened or we we have doctors have told us we have some terminal sickness we get angry with God we are upset with God we are questioning God and a spirit man is also affected as well as our soul so it's all three of them work in perfect unity we have also created as one whole and so if we are just looking at our body and we say we are always responding to the carnal nature it's going to reflect our spirit man how is it going to reflect our spirit man is because our carnal nature has been fed in our spirit man we are not going in the things of God because we are not spending time with God we can't hear and speak we do not know because we are always listening to our carnal nature and also we are always listening to our carnal nature because we are really our carnal nature and so our spirit man is dying is and slowly will become dead that is when our conscience will also be dead to doing something so we see that even when people say they are born again but you know they are doing things and we are saying how can they live like this how can they behave like this so it's we don't look at it separately it's when whatever happens in our body and our soul is also affecting our spirit the same way if we are feeding our spirit man then our carnal man or our carnal fleshly desires is being subdued and that is it's going to get dead in that area spirit man is being that is what is being possessed in our soul and what is being possessed in our soul is what is being reflected through our body so when I'm living a carnal nature and receiving things of the world that is going to my soul that is going to affect even my spirit man so all three have to be sanctified yes to the extent that we submit and surrender all of these three our spirit soul and our body we submit all of those things and to that extent we are able to obey God because when we obey it's not just our body is doing something and our spirit is there somewhere our soul is doing something else no it's all functioning together so everything is being affected yeah good question thank you John anyone else yeah if not we'll have the same class here is that okay just a reminder that you know Monday is your crystallic test okay but we will have the class I will post the question paper later on and I will give you two days is two days okay with all of you to complete the paper yes boss two days or one day is fine what about the others from you know from the other countries you say that say that again let's see how you put clearly can you please say that again sorry I did not understand you yeah the question you are talking about the papers and the time for completion say it again so that we can hear clearly and their response yes it will just be one long question two just one liners and I think about three questions which is a multiple choice so just one paragraph kind of a question the other two will be just one liner answers and three questions will just be multiple choice two days is enough for me thank you Paul what about the others I am going for three days some of us are from deprived background you know from where we are deprived like me I am just using my phone I don't even have access to a computer I have no light in my house so let's say three days maximum also or minimum yeah thank you for sharing that yeah I will give you three days then so those who want to submit in one day two days the rest of you can just have it yes success good morning mom morning I am going to do that three days three days because I love my family for my hands but I am going to do it three days yeah that's fine we will give you three days those who want to submit in one day two days you can take one two but you know we will say three days and I will give you clear guidelines so please read the guidelines instructions it will just help it will help me as well and I am sure you will be able to do the whole thing about having the test is not for you to get grades I just wanted to know how much you understood and this is theology it's very important so I request all of you to please take time to read through your notes even though it's going to be an open book yes but please read understand okay everyone for joining class have a good day and a good weekend and I will see you all okay bye