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 2 The Total Man

Key Scriptures

(Gen 1:26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

(Gen 1:27) So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

(Gen 1:28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

1. Man was created, he did not evolve...(v.26)


2. Man was created to have dominion (v. 28a)


3. Man ruled planet earth. (v. 28b)


4. Man and God talked together, via the spirit, together in the Garden


5. Adam, of his own free will, rebelled against God.


6. He lost his heavenly clothes, fire, when he sinned.
   
   
   
   1. (Eze 8:1) And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
      (Eze 8:2) Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
      (Eze 8:4) And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
      
   
   
   2. God presented Himself much the same way from the burning bush to Moses
      (Exo 3:1) Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, [even] to Horeb.
      
      (Exo 3:2) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.
      
   
   
   
   
7. We establishe last time, that man is a three part being, spirit soul and body. Part of Adam died. What part?
   His body continued to live, the Bible teaches that.
   His soul did not die, that is the thinking part of man
   The part that died was the spirit, the part that communicated with God.
   


8. Adam walked out of the garden seperated from God. He lost part of his triune nature. From this point forward, Adam and those that follow him will not be a total man.