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 3 The Divine Purpose

Key Scriptures

I Corinthians 15:45

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit

1. Man has tremendous power and can do many things, split the atom, but he cannot split the soul and the Spirit, only God can.
   
   Hebrews4:12
   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.


2. Man can control his environment and fly to the moon but he cannot control his emotions. He must learn to control himself and understand himself better.
   
   Man can fly, and go beneath the sea, but he himself is in chaos.


3. Man must learn that he is a triune personality. The most important part of him died when Adam transgressed against God. It is only revived when rebirth comes accepting Jesus
   
   
   
   1. Ephesians 2:1-2
      
      1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
   
   
   2. John 3:1-3
      
      1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
      
      Man's intellect and emotions will lead him away from God, they are wild and do not want to be harnessed. Man must learn from God, through the Holy Spirit that the three parts of man can be made one.