Notes from my reading of the Book

The Total Man/ Exploring the Human Spirit, Soul & Body

by Lester Sumrall (ISBN 0-937580-57-0)

Lesson 1

Key Scriptures


Psalm 8:
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:






Hebrews 4:

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.






1 Thessalonians 5:

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What is man? That is what this study is about. The message of these lessons is a truth from the Bible. It is an important lesson in this end-time.

First we must establish the fact that there are two kinds of truth, historical and pertinent. Historical truth is truth of history. The fact that you are viewing this blog or that I typed it are historical truths. Though you may argue the facts of the Bible, we will assume them to be fact here, so we can say that Noah building an Ark, Joshua bringing down the walls of Jericho and Jonah coming out of a whale to preach to the Ninevites, are historical.

The other truth, pertinent, is the truth that God has prepared things for us that we will need to live life, and to be delivered from the problems of today. They are:

• Salvation from Jesus


• Water Baptism to bury the old man and to walk in the new life


• The Gifts of the Holy, to prepare us for spiritual warfare


• Divine Deliverance from demons


• Vital living faith


• Prophetic truth

The purpose of these studies will be to show that man is a triune being and that when God created him, man was a perfect being.