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Dennis Newkirk, Lead Pastor……………………………………….…..November 5–6, 2016

God Designed Us in Order to Supply His Life and Glorify

Himself1. God created us as three-part beings:

Trichotomy (Gen. 1:26–27).

a. What is the image of God (John 4:23–24)?

b. God went beyond His image in creating man (Gen. 2:6–7; 1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 4:12).

i. Spirit

ii. Soul

iii. Body

6. Sin ruins the whole person (Gen. 2:16–17; Eph. 2:1–3).

7. Salvation is God’s act of regenerating our spirit and from

our spirit, He will change your life (Eph. 2:5; Rom. 12:1–2;

1 Cor. 15:52–53).

An abridged list of theologians whose anthropology affirmed the tripartite human: Recent: Gleason Archer, S. Lewis Johnson Jr, Lewis Sperry Chafer, F.B. Meyer, George Lang, Robert Lightfoot, Arthur Pink, Herbert Lockyer, Andrew Murray, A.R. Fausset

Reformation: Martin Luther

Early: Eusebius, Irenaeus Origen, Clement of Alexander, Justin Martyr

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2. Our spirits are created in the image of God to relate to God (John 4:23–24; Job 32:8).

3. The soul is not specifically defined, but it relates to the person.

“In spirit and in truth (ἐν πνεύματι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ). Spirit (πνεῦμα) is the highest, deepest, noblest part of our humanity, the point of contact between God and man (Rom. 1:9); while soul (ψυχή) is the principle of individuality, the seat of personal impressions, having a side in contact with the material element of humanity as well as with the spiritual element, and being thus the mediating element between the spirit and the body.”1

 

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1Vincent, M. R. (1887). Word studies in the New Testament (Vol. 2, p. 121). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

4. The body relates to the world through the five senses and in other ways.

5. When one aspect of our lives is affected, every aspect is impacted.