 So, oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Now, it's fine. All right. The recording has just started. Sorry about the delay I'm not sure what the problem is, but The recording has just started. Let's Pray together and then we will get started in our class today May I request somebody to? kindly Unmute your mic and pray with all of us, please So we can start. If you would like to pray, please go ahead, Harrison Father, we thank you. We bless your name And we give you all the glory. We give you all the honor. We give you all the adoration We thank you for that privilege. We thank you for the opportunity you've given unto us To study at your feet this morning this minute this hour this moment And we ask in holy spirit that you open our minds to receive The words that we're about to hear and we're praying that you will review Jesus to us That we may know him better and serve him better We thank you. Oh god that the words are good. We're gonna hear today Shall not be what's of men, but what's from the throne of grace We actually got that at the end of this class Father, we should not just be hearers of those words But father, we shall also be doers of this word Thank you, father because we know at the end of God will have every cost to glorify your name Be thou exalted For in Jesus much less than my prayer. Amen. Amen. Amen Amen. Thank you, Harrison. Good morning everyone. Welcome to the class BC 214 Developing the human spirit. I hope all of you had a good weekend a good time of worship and fellowship at your respective local churches and had a good time of fellowship And thank you for joining the class today Okay We are going to step up on speed because we have only one hour a week on this class and And there's a lot of ground we need to cover in this course on Developing the human spirit I'm going to go ahead and share the pdf and with this quickly to view Ground that we have already covered and then we will Take things forward So in our introduction we began by saying that we are tripart being spirit, soul and body and then we last week we emphasized that Because god is spirit our primary interactions with him are Is through our spirit or it's a spirit to spirit that means the human spirit interacting with god over spirit Now one of the things and I want to encourage all of us is to Learn to see ourselves as a spiritual person as a spiritual being so from today You've already done it, but for the rest of us from today all of us Then you think about yourself Think about yourself as a spiritual being You're a spiritual person. I mean not not in the sense of interested in spiritual things, but you are a spiritual being That's who you really are And you have a soul and a body to live in this world Right. So the soul on the body Is the apparatus That you that you and I use to live in this natural world, but we are actually spiritual beings and so as spiritual beings First and foremost our goal is to learn to interact with god who is spirit And we also saw from romans one and verse nine We serve god with our spirits or ministry is really a spiritual expression It's the next it's a work of our human spirits or you know, it's what the human spirit is doing Of course, we have to use our mind which is the soul part of us And we have to use our body You know, people have to see and hear us physically But ministry is the is a work of our spirit Empowered by the holy spirit. Of course, we will get to those those elements So we started back from, you know, the time we are born and we said look We can say clearly that Um there is this stage of innocence This time, you know, we don't exactly the age that is but somewhere before We understand right and wrong Before the law comes the recognition of the law comes There is we are alive to god. So as children by default The our human spirit is alive to god and it you know, but then slowly there comes this understanding Of right and wrong and then comes that's the time you're you and I are held accountable for sin Right and because we've saw from roman 7 7 through 10 paul saying, you know when the law came But as an understanding right and wrong came sin came because now i'm responsible And for those who don't have the law we said, you know, roman 7 15 There is the law of god embedded in this human spirit, which is the conscience And we will talk about the conscience as well a little later so Whether we understand the law as in you know through the the word of god For some of us, that's how it would have started But for some of us maybe in the initial years, you know, we had no exposure to the bible Anything like that, but we had a conscience It was the law of god written in our hearts and that's there for every person So there comes this recognition of right and wrong and from that moment on we are held accountable Because sin comes into play, right? And so we talked about that now From what paul said was when sin came death came That means That's the point We realize roman's fight 12 that Through one man sin came into this world at his adam And death through sin And then death passed on all That means every person By default comes into this place of being dead unless of course you're born again before that Death passed on all men for all her sin Right, so that's roman's 512 So this is the default progression, you know from a stage of innocence We come to the understanding of right and wrong And therefore now we're held responsible for sin And with sin comes death So by default death passes to all men And it's not that You and I are reaping of adam's sin In one sense here adam was the first person to sin, but Every person every human person Is held responsible for their own sin. It's not like we are paying for adam's sin. No Adam sin death came in but All of us have sinned personally and Death passes on to all of us Okay, that's that's you know at that early stage Now when we come out of that stage of innocence and cross over to the understanding of rights and wrong the law of god That sin comes and then because of sin death So what is the default state of the human spirit? right that That now i'm talking about someone who's not born again, right? If somebody gets born again, then The life is different right if you come to that But let's just go in this usual default path right now. Some some people have The opportunity of being born again as little children and that's wonderful you know and Especially in churches today Where we can you know, we have children's church and we're able to teach children very early about Share tell them about the gospel and they're able to you know make a decision so, you know Somebody when they are six years or eight years or 10 years of age and Could understand the gospel and give their life to christ and be born again. Wonderful But let's assume that the progression is stage of innocence. They haven't heard the gospel Therefore now they come into this place where The person is accountable to sin the human spirit. What is the condition of that human spirit? Right, so we will look at two passages. You have in Ephesians two. Let's go there please in Ephesians two Verses one two three one two and three. So this is the default condition Of the human spirit, right? So that means I Before I was born again. This was my condition And that's true for all of us before we were born again What was the condition of the human spirit or what was my spiritual condition? Ephesians chapter two This was one two and three could somebody read that for us, please Ephesians two one two and three And you he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins In which you once walked according to the course of this world According to the prince of the power of the air the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience Among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh Fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature Children of wrought just as the others Thank you. Thank you saino so This is he's talking about us Before we were born again So What do we see here verse one? We were dead In trespasses and sins so When it says death, it doesn't mean the human spirit was not existing right our human spirit was there it had the It had a faculty had its faculties, which we will be looking at and it had its Functions Which also we'll be looking at so we'll talk about the Fine faculties of the human spirit and the seven functions of the human spirit So it had its its faculties and functions were there So when it says we were dead in sin, it doesn't mean the human spirit sees to exist. No We were alive in the meaning the human spirit was active but death here is As we will see in Ephesians 4 it is the absence of the life of God So our human spirit was without the life of God And it was in sin and not only was it was the human spirit in sin verse 2 says We lived so there's a manner of life. We walk according to the ways of the world But why will we walk in the course of the world? It says It says We were walking according to the prince of the power of the air The spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience So look at that very carefully The course of the world That means the ways of the world It says we were walking part of the ways of the world And then it says we are walking according to the prince of the powers of the air means we were actually walking according to or in alignment with Demonic from Satan and his demons or you know, basically the kingdom of darkness and it says The spirit that works in the sons of disobedience that means Our whole life my human spirit was under the influence of darkness the kingdom of darkness And it's literally saying the spirit There was demonic influence right spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience That means we were under the influence Of the domain of darkness, which is why we were walking according to the ways of the world And Where's three And therefore how did we conduct ourselves? We lived according to the last of the flesh And of the mind that means we were body controlled we were soul controlled And by nature We were children Of wrath so the very nature of the spirit So now we begin to understand something Of a spirit person the human person the spirit person has a nature It might be saying nature you know, you're who you're who you are your nature by nature fever under The kingdom of darkness fever, you know destined for the wrath of god the judgment of god And because we were under the influence of darkness We walked according to the course of this world We were body ruled we were soul ruled In the wrong sense meaning we were do fulfilling the loss of the flesh and the desires of the flesh and of the mind So that's the life of a person was not born again And paul continues this in chapter four if you'll turn to me Defusions fall And they're going to look once again at um look at verses 17 17 through 19. Could somebody read that for us, please Shall I read it sir? Please go ahead sir For chapter 17 to 19 now this I say And testify in the lord that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds They're darkened in their understanding alienated from the life of god Because of the ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality greedy To practice every kind of impurity. Thank you sir Thank you so Again here he's talking about our life without god What he's saying he says the Gentiles Are the unsaved Are walking in the futility of the mind then is the mind is corrupt is futile is perverse That means our way of thinking is wrong and and therefore and only that Our understanding is darkened So our understanding of spiritual things Is darkened? We don't understand the things of god And we are alienated from the life of god or satan. We are alienated. We are cut off From the life of god. So what is spiritual death? Spiritual death does not mean the human spirit doesn't exist Now it's there The humans so spiritual death simply means we are we don't have a life of god So before we were born again our human spirit was Functioning it had its faculties. It had its functions But it had no life of god It didn't have the zoe the word the Greek there's zoe the zoe life of god didn't have that The eyes, you know, it was darkened. It was in darkness. It didn't have the spiritual understanding And therefore we were living according to The desires of our minds We were walking in spiritual ignorance spiritually. We were blinded We didn't have life of god And we were actually influenced Areas degrees By the kingdom of darkness So that's the condition of the unregenerate or The person who's not born again The of that's the condition of the human spirit Which is then controlled by the mind which is perverse which is You know programmed or it's thinking along the ways of the world And the flesh of the body Which is satisfying all the unclean desires But then What happens we get born again What happens and then we are born again This human spirit Is born from above John chapter 3 verse 1 to 8 The human spirit receives life from god So that's being born again. So the human spirit Does not have the life of god like we see in Ephesians 4 18 We are alienated from the life of god That's why we are dead So spiritual death simply means the absence of the life of god The lack of understanding spiritual understanding of who god is But when we are born again We receive understanding of who jesus christ is we embrace him as our saviour And the life of god is given to us The holy spirit comes in dwellings dwells in us. So we are born of the spirit We are born of god and To be born of god means his life and his nature is imparted to our human spirit So literally we could say that the DNA of the human spirit is changed Before by nature Be the children of darkness And we are born again by nature We become children of god our very DNA changes We receive life and the nature of god where in the human spirit. So the human spirit has nature Has DNA And i've been talking our natural terms and the very nature of the human spirit has changed You're born from above you receive life and nature of god and we become a new creation a new man And what is this new man? It's the life and the nature of god Imparted to the human spirit So first on five one says, you know, we are born of god whoever believes The jesus is the christ is born of god. It's like god giving birth to you So when god gives birth to you his life his nature Now is it your spirit? So to be born again really we are receiving the life and the nature of god We are receiving zoe Which is life and the nature of god given to our human spirit So the human spirit now Has received new DNA it has received The life and the nature of god but what is interesting is That The bible is telling us that this So when we are born again It's almost like we are born as babies I shouldn't say almost We are born as spiritual babies So the human spirit Has been born Again So it is a fully functional human spirit, but it is born as a baby So we are a new creation It means that Some goddess, you know goddess done something in us That now we are born a new with the life and the nature of god Now we can't fully explain it and you are you and I are familiar, you know I don't want to spend too much time on this but you and I are familiar about the conversation that nicodemus had with jesus and John 3 he said you know how can a man go back in his mother's womb and be born but jesus says you know Do not marvel that I say to you you must be born again What is born of the flesh is flesh what is born of the spirit is spirit And he says The wind blows where it Wants you can't tell where it comes from where it's going So as everyone was born of the spirit in other words, you can't explain everything But there's born being born of the spirit is a real thing And we can't explain that whole dynamic of what happens when the human spirit is born again All we can say is the human spirit now receives the life and the nature of god It's like the very dna of our human spirit has changed and now we are our spirit is born Anew but it is born as babies As a baby a spiritual baby So now the human spirit The born again human spirit Has to grow so We are familiar with these verses, but it's good to look at it for speed of two two can somebody read that for us, please Shall I read first? Please go ahead As newborn babes Desire the pure milk of the word that you may grow thereby So here peter the apostle peter is comparing spiritual life with natural life She says as newborn babies So he's saying look there's a comparison here as newborn babies you desire The pure milk of the word that you may grow So which you he's talking about he's talking about the human spirit The born again human spirit Saying the born again human spirit has to grow just like he's a comparison using just like newborn babies The born again human spirit has to grow I mean it has to increase in in various Aspects Of its life character and nature. It has to increase in that. So that is a growth Right. It's a development of The born again human spirit So second peter 318 So it's like a baby right for instance, you know at the baby that's born it has all the features All all the faculties of a human It has all the functions there Are almost all the functions But the faculties and the functions have to be developed That the baby can seek here it can I mean eventually start walking and running and all this the faculties The senses the faculties and the functions are there, but they have to be developed It's got everything to be a a mature person But it has to grow and develop and that is also true Sorry about the noise here. I don't know if my mic is picking up the noise But that is also true About the human spirit Right. So second peter 3 and verse 18. Can somebody read that? second Peter chapter 3 verse 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ to him be the glory Both now and forever amen So he's saying grow again peter's once again saying grow in grace and knowledge Now the word grace here can be understood as Not only in the sense of god's favor That's endowed on our lives or The word grace also can be understood as divine empowerment But the word grace can also be understood as in virtues to grow in the virtues the character And in the knowledge in knowing So there's of our lord jesus christ. So there is this growth this development that has to take place in our spirit If you also go to first john chapter 2 And I just want to point this out to you in this passage Verse 12 to 14 john he's writing to the believers And he is referring to some First on chapter 2 verse 12 to 14 To some he refers to them as little children To some he refers to them as young men And to some he refers to as fathers now obviously He's not referring to physical age You know, he's not referring to little children And he tells them, you know, your sins are forgiven So it's not the you know that only You know physical babies have their sins forgiven And it's not he's not expecting this letter to be read to physical babies That's not the point. The point is he's referring to different stages of spiritual development that he's recognizing among these believers Some of them are like little children Some of them are like young men And some of them are like our fathers. That means they have matured spiritually So if it's very interesting to little children, he's really assuring them of their forgiveness of sins And and talking to them about knowing the father To the young man, he is, you know Commending them for their ability to overcome the wicked one that means they're in that stage where they're living an overcoming life And to the fathers he's saying, you know, now you have known Him, you have known him who was from the beginning. They're now in this place of actually You know knowing God and a very mature and very as mature people so You see the the difference little children emphasis on forgiveness and getting to know the father Young men are that stage of living the overcoming life. The word of God is in your overcoming and fathers You're established in knowing God, you know, so he's talking about different levels of spiritual growth right So what I want us to understand is that all of us are in this progression of spiritual growth. He's talking about our human spirit We have been born again We have received the life and the nature of God But we were born as babies in our spirit And then that that that spiritual person Is growing up is developing right And some of the areas that you know, we just mentioned here that the whole course is about focusing on developing the human spirit, but some of the areas we can say Is and we will come back to many of these things We we will have to increase In revelation knowledge that means in knowing spiritual things because Before we were born again Our understanding was darkened. We read that in Ephesians 4 18 Our under spiritual understanding was darkened. I mean like we had zero knowledge is you know of of spiritual things or maybe Some people were involved in the dark side of spiritual things. So they understood a lot about darkness and so on But about God About who he is about the things of the light Leave a zero because we've spiritually in darkness But now the spiritual man The human spirit has to grow increase in revelation knowledge We also have to increase in our knowledge of the will of God of knowing what is good And acceptable of knowing what is you know, what is the will of God? So the spiritual man will come to a place where I know the will of God, right? It has to grow in knowing the will of God Right The spiritual man has to become strong that means you increase in strength just like You know and as the child grows, okay, maybe it can lift a little, you know little And light things it becomes a Bigger person can lift heavier things and then becomes a young adult can lift solid heavy things. So our spiritual capacity Of what we're able to carry what we're able to do also increases our spiritual strength increases So like this, you know, there are many other areas of developments that Can and has to take place in the spirit and that's what we want to focus on as we talk about in this course And and talk about developing the human spirit You know, we would be you know coming back to many of these Look at many of these verses As we break things down further But what I want to really impress on our heart On our understanding today is you and I Have received the life and the nature of God Into our human spirit That means the DNA is there and what kind of DNA is there? The life and the nature of God Right, this new man is created In the image of God in righteousness and through holiness and Ephesians 4 24 It's in righteousness and through holiness So the DNA of God has been given the life and the nature of God has been given to our human spirit We're born again But the human spirit The born again human spirit Is like a baby living in this You know this external the the the mind in the body this mind of the body And the human spirit has to grow in many areas Like we put a list of down a few things and in the knowledge of God and knowing the will of God in spiritual capacity It has to be developed But now here's the challenge remember we read in Ephesians 2 and Ephesians 4 What was the condition before we were born again Pretty bad We were under the influence of darkness We were walking according to the course of this world We were living According to the soul the mind and the body so we were soul rolled body rolled So now here we are born again. We had taken out of darkness brought into light So the prince of the power of the air Can no longer or no longer has the authority to exert his influence on us because we've been taken out of darkness Into the kingdom of Jesus Christ So spiritually belong to that kingdom his kingdom But We are still in this environment where We are surrounded by people are walking according to the course of this world And our soul and our body Is still What it used to be our soul still used to you know It has been programmed by default To the ways of this world and our body has been programmed to the ways of this world Our spirit has been born again But the soul and the body has not changed So the soul that's why So for the spirit To be able to we are really spiritual beings and the spirit for the spirit to really come through Several things have to happen The human spirit has to be developed the way god wants it to be developed The soul which is the mind has to be renewed The body has to be dealt with it has to be crucified or brought in subjection to The spirit so that's What has to happen The spirit has to grow The soul has to be renewed The body has to be crucified and kept in subjection then The human spirit can exert its influence through the soul through the body And carry out the work of god now If that does not happen now, this is a this is a process and we're going to get into that as well But if the human spirit the born again human spirit doesn't grow What happens to soul and the body still dominate? And that's where we have carnal christians That means They're born again. All right But the soul and the body is still walking according to the course of this world Because that's what it's used to all that before And the human spirit has not developed spiritually. They're not grown The soul has not been renewed The body is not being crucified. So what do we see on the outside? We see An expression of the soul and their body and it looks just like the world And so we still and the bible refers to them as carnal christians But that's a dangerous thing because It could destroy What god has started in the spirit Because paul says in roman's egg If you live according to the flesh You will die Right. So if he continued living flesh ruled according to the Loss of the flesh and of the mind that's according to saying what we did in Ephesians 2 He says eventually it will destroy the very life of god So it's dangerous Instead we had to develop the spirit renew the soul Crucify the body So let me just say one or two more sentences and then we will take time for discussion So the next thing we want to talk about is to Understand the faculties of the human spirit And then we want to talk about how god deals for the human spirit And what is the human spirit capable of in its interaction with the spiritual realm And then we want to talk about developing the functions of the human spirit so that We know the goal is how do we grow spiritually and learn to interact with god In a very very powerful way So that the spirit can dominate the soul The body and express the work of god The way he wants it so Let's pause here and I just want to open up some time for Questions and discussion. Let's look Elisha Elisha's question in Africa tradition it is Lovered that the soul is something that's inherited from our earthly fathers Could that be true and this is of any scriptural evidence in african tradition is believed that the soul is something that's inherited from our earthly fathers Could this be true and this is how any scriptural evidence so every human being is An individual spirit being created by god the soul is Again unique to that individual right In scripture, we do not see anything that Of the spirit or the soul coming or being inherited from the father no the human ancestor Now the spirit is uniquely created by god and given A soul and a body right It's uniquely formed by god for that individual now of course because of the upbringing and The environment and you know the home that we are raised Yeah, there'll be things that we learn now Based on our upbringing but those are acquired not created right so We will learn the practices of The environment in which we grew up according to the culture and the tradition We learn those things But according to the bible spirits full body is unique for every person So, okay, laisha Let me try to answer the other questions I need Okay, anita. I need this question. Please explain that we have sinned um I think you're referring to You know like what we were saying when we moved from the stage of innocence So we come to this understanding of The law of god right and wrong that's when You know, we are responsible. That's when we sin So this early stage like paul said in roman seven seven When he was alive without the law that means before he knew right and wrong Right he was alive to god So that's the stage of innocence, you know as a child But then when the knowledge of right and wrong came whatever that you know age may be The awareness that there is Things acceptable to god and things not acceptable. I don't know maybe age of six or whatever people generally say it's age 12 but I think we understand God and right and wrong may be a little earlier than that But any whatever that age is and that's you know, he says then With the understanding of the law came sin and with that came death So god holds us responsible from that moment on I hope I answered your question. I'm not sure if I understood your question correctly But I hope I just answered it Thank you A follow-up question on the uniqueness of the soul Sorry, sorry say that again I have a follow-up question on the uniqueness of the soul And I I was inquiring if the soul is unique um is it that When you are speaking it was something that came in my mind and I was like So the bodily attribute of the soul And its uniqueness can be seen like on the thumbprint like Someone is so unique In a way that it can be seen on the thumbprint that he is unique. He is alone He is the only one and he cannot come He cannot be he cannot give that inheritance to another person That's what was coming in my brains and I was thinking about it They wanted to inquire. Thank you That's a very interesting thought and the answer is yes, you know And this is the greatness of our god That even though there are so many billions of people every person is Just somebody different from every other person right We all have spirit soul and body Yet none of us are copies you know we're all different and Very interesting obviously mission. Yeah, you know just by looking at the thumbprint or The the eye there's so many things that are just different Among the billions of people Yeah, that's how great our god is right So let's go to the next question from Charles shed more light or speak again about the growth of the human spirit after being born again Okay Shed more light about the growth of the human spirit after being born again. Yeah, so At the moment we are born again by the holy spirit By the word of god, let's be here when the gospel is preached to us God imparts his life and nature to the human spirit right So the human spirit has all the faculties and the functions you know But it's born it has received the life into the nature of god and it is born spiritually as a baby in the things of god And that's where the growth has to take place So we have to grow spiritually Like we said, we've mentioned a few areas like in the knowledge of god and knowing Who god is and so on In the things of god we have to grow in our knowledge of the will of god. What is What is pleasing to god? What is not pleasing to god? We also have to grow in our strength right and just like In the natural you know growth happens as you feed as you exercise as you rest god has given to us Things to develop our human spirit. You feed your human spirit and so on. So we'll talk about that Yeah, how do you develop the human spirit? Now through the ways god has given to us in the bible Okay, so that has to happen and and we can understand how that growth is supposed to Take place I know i'm a little over time But i'll just try to finish answering the questions before we go for a break Let's say Christopher Please explain the stage of innocence in the life of a believer non-believer actually the stage of innocence Can be what we know is at that point You know as as children, you know and again, it's not like our understanding is everything but We are innocent. We don't know right and wrong from A perspective of accountability to god We may know right and wrong from what our parents told us parents will say don't you know Don't throw your toys here or don't You know whatever you know from that aspect We know right and wrong from what our parents told us But we don't know yet right and wrong from in the sense of accountability to god Now what's pleasing to god? What's not pleasing to god? So that's what we say it's a stage of innocence But at some point there's the recognition that there is god who created everything and therefore I'm answerable to him more than being answerable to The adults around us And that's when we are held accountable for us and and you know So that stage of innocence is the same for all people whether you're a believer or not believer because we are not born as believers And neither are we born as non-believers. So at that stage there is you know There is no believer non-believer. It's just a child who is in that stage of innocence But once we reach that stage of knowing that's when we make a choice right we By default many of us would continue as non-believers unsaved until we give our lives to christ Okay, I hope I answer your question question just a follow-up question So how does this have relate to The sin that is passed, you know from from adam to to to every person and Because if that when is that actually passed and how does that sort of relate, you know to the fact that you know We are we are in a sense innocent When that sin has already been passed to us Yeah so That would come in at the point when we recognize What's pleasing to god what's open or what's right and wrong and we Commit sin, right? I I do like let's say the child comes, you know, you know, it's a baby Not done anything. It's innocent so God is not going to judge that child for you know You have sinned or you had an evil thought or No, it's innocent Right and that the baby is growing now At some point there is I You know the child does things right wrong before god. That's their own sin But that propensity to sin comes from adam Right But the child is not being punished for adam's sin being punished for their own sin And that's when death comes in because one sin is enough For death Right so um I think your question was when this that happened so I would say It happens at this at the point when The child has the ability to know that There is right and wrong Morality, let me put it used the word morality becomes aware of moral right and wrong and therefore And the child begins to engage what is wrong That's morally unacceptable for god Sin has come that has come But if the child dies before that example, it's killed in a war Or whatever dies before that the child will go to heaven because It's not going to be it's it's It's not It hasn't morally sinned before god Okay So that child will be preserved and go to heaven Okay. All right. Now we have Seeing a lot of questions. Let me try to answer everything Hmm now four minutes um There we ask question In developing the human spirit, what is man's response to believe in what is god's rule in bringing this about? So god makes the provision is given us his word He's given us a holy spirit. He gives us the instruction how to do it Uh, and then of course, he gives us the grace to do it. That means he empowers us actually to do it But then we have our part to play our will is involved, you know, so Example just very quickly mentioned this in in jude chapter one was 20 and 21 jude says Building up yourselves means you build yourself On your most holy faith praying in the holy ghost That means you are responsible of building up yourself And then the very next to us was 21 keep yourselves in the love of god so God has given the love of god to me, but I have to keep myself in it God has given me the holy spirit and the ability to bring tongues But I have to build myself up by using what god has given to me So there is that, uh, you know, I don't know if it's right to put it like this, but there's equal responsibility God makes the equipping available I have to do the Practicing to develop the human spirit. Okay Thank you Uh, welcome next one elijah Which part of our humans faculty sin soul or spirit? So sin Is a spiritual thing Okay But our soul and our body are involved in the process So Sin is a spiritual thing Something has gone wrong. It's an act of the human spirit But our soul and our body are involved in the process so Uh, so that's when we say deed, you know example I can commit and a person, you know, I can actually kill another person that's murder But the bible also says If you have hated in your heart You are a murderer So In the first case There was action involved. There's a physical action involved The body was involved in the second case There's just a spirit and soul involved But in the eyes of god both are murder in the first case Spirit soul and body were involved because murder started in the heart May there may be in hatred or anger or whatever That resulted in the deed being committed Actually, somebody was killed In the second case, there's only spirit and soul involved Meaning there was hatred in the heart and for whatever reason maybe, you know, you got into argument or whatever But there's hatred in the heart Nothing physical committed, but if you have hated in the heart, you're a murderer in the eyes of god Both people are murderers So sin is spiritual Is expressed to the soul and the body That's it, okay, Eliza Yes, first and second, can I ask a follow up question? Um, okay, okay At death The the soul and the spirits is separated from the body And physical death is as a result of sin So you can take it as physical death The decay of the human body Is as a result of the punishment of sin With the spirits and the soul The spirit is the origin of sin, the soul That takes off it Um, why is it that is it this is the soul that the Bible says the soul that sins Shatter Can you explain that to me The spirit doesn't go through any punishment So, you know, we have to understand the usage of the word soul And I think I've shared this in the notes that the word soul by default does talk about the You know what we refer to as a mind villain emotions, but it's not exclusively used for that the word soul Uh, uh is also used to talk about the life principle the very life of the being So when god says the soul that sins he's not talking just about the mind villain emotions. He's talking about the person You know the entire person so Well, for example, you said what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul so in the new testament That word soul in in that usage and marquet He's not just talking about mind villain emotions. You talk about The whole inner person Right So so we have to understand it in the context. So when god says in the old testament The soul that sins it shall die He's not just referring to mind villain emotions as a compartment But he's referring to the whole person spirit and soul club together You pay the punishment So it has to be understood in the context because the word soul is used You know in in in while be primarily understood as The emotional part of us. It's not exclusively used that way In both old and new testaments Is it okay and in end of chapter one? I've kind of given that list of things you can look up Thank you. All right. We're already into the time of for the next class Let me start a Prabhakar, please some more details on the faculty and functions given to us by god. Okay Yeah, so we're going to get into that Prabhakar. We're going to look at the five faculties of the human spirit And the seven functions of the human spirit, right? So that The chapter is coming up and we will talk about it. So basically the human spirit the real person Has a parallel faculty like you can see can hear can feel Can taste can smell so on spiritual in the spiritual things And then we have seven functions Then it's what the human spirit is able to do So conscience is one of the knowledge is one of them Action is one of those functions. So the human spirit is capable of these things And so we want to develop our faculties and our functions And we're going to learn how to develop those things. Okay, so that's coming up Elasha there's a stage of innocence excuse anyone from judgment Yeah, so we answered that that if the child dies god is not going to send the child to hell because It was in that stage of innocence It didn't have it didn't reach that stage of knowing god stage of morality And being held accountable for sin Okay, and last one Kennedy how does territorial spirit affect our human spirit? Yeah, so that's interesting. We're going to talk about that What we have seen so far in Ephesians two is The prince leave of walking according to the prince of the power of the air According to the spirit of disobedience that works according to the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience So what Ephesians two is telling us is there is this demonic influence on the individual right So into that sense every individual is I mean every unsafe person is influenced by What the prince of the power of the air is doing in that region? And It is also in and so as believers we are also exposed to that I'm not saying you're subject to it, but we expose to it because we're living in this world But we will come to that in another chapter when you say, you know our interactions with the spiritual realm There's a good site to it. That means when we Are when we engage with god, you know our spiritual and body is blessed but if we Expose ourselves to the prince of the power of the air that works now in the children disobedience You know, we don't want that but that can influence us to Certain degrees and we have to be careful Last question from three come out and then we will wrap this up Thank you pastor pastor I just want to know Now as we are discussing on on believers But in what in case of unbelievers where it says that Romans chapter two where it says the Gentiles which have not low By the nature of the things contained in the law. So Um, as it is written that the god has given them that their inner man a low so in that case if Just uh, like we have this, you know, a common understanding that almost every Gentile will go to hell with because they are not without jesus, but Uh, in case if a Gentile as per this word if they if they are if they leave a life If they leave their life without knowing jesus and they leave their life Um, according to the law so can they have the access their spirit you have the access to get into heaven without jesus Oh, okay So if you look in that same chapter in roman chapter two Where in romans 2 15 paul says, you know the unsaved They have the law of god the conscience the law of god written in their hearts, which is the conscience But he goes on in that same chapter And he says in the very next to us. He says God will judge the secrets of men's hearts by jesus Christ according to my gospel. So that means Even though so in romans 2 15 Even though the law of god is written in their hearts and they've been given the conscience How will they be judged romans 2 16? According to the gospel So the answer is They will be judged according to the gospel and what does the gospel say? He who believes is saved and he does not believe will not be saved Right. So the answer is no Even if they live just by their conscience They're going to be judged by the gospel And if you have not embraced christ as their savior There's no other way because jesus said no one can come to the father except through me So our answer to that will be no So can I can I ask one more in that case the people who have not like the Before jesus the jesus who have when jesus has not Came on this earth. So in that case those people who have never heard about jesus So So the it means that everyone will go to hell the people who have never heard about jesus Before jesus came. Yes, absolutely jews. I am not talking about the jews jews But the other part of the world where who have never heard about jesus in that case how how the god we judge their soul So what we do know is Same from roman sub to one and two is that god Had his own way to direct them. So, you know, although How many of millions of people lived? To to direct them to himself Right that was in romans one We read about the creation That god was revealing himself through creation romans two Through the conscience. He was drawing them. So ultimately creation and conscience Are two indicators that have been placed before every person to direct them to seek the true and living god So How he would judge people in the old testament before they actually heard the name of jesus christ. We don't know But what we do know is he had given them two indicators To bring them to himself point them to himself And from then on how that's going to match up with the gospel. I don't know But what paul is saying is from romans one and romans two. He says ultimately everybody will be judged according to the gospel How that's going to happen? I think we should just leave it to god I don't know the details Thank you post. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks. Yeah Okay, so we have already taken 10 minutes into our next class Let's take a break and we will Get back In 10 minutes for our second class. I'm sorry for Going over time on this Okay. Thank you