During the course of the teaching, I learnt that the human body is made of two man, the inward man and the outward man. Think about this reality, most times you intend not to do something bad as a Christian, but most times you find yourself doing that. Don't be discouraged, even God's savant apostle Paul suffered from this,
He said this in verse 15 of the above bible chapter, that he most times finds himself doing what he does not want to do. The bible describes the outer man as what can be seen(concrete), and the inner man as what cannot see (abstract)
As a result, I came to understand that the inward man is the spirit man and the outward man is the man of the flesh. Jesus spoke to his disciple telling them to watch and pray, not to fall into temptation, at this point Jesus saw the temptation ahead and woke his disciple telling them to watch and pray, their spirit was willing to pray but their flesh was weak.
It is the wish of every Christian to live upright (without sin), the sprite man is always ready to carry up the task but the flesh man is week,
In this chapter, the bible says that the out-ward man will perish, it is clearly stated here that the outward man refers to the flesh, because only the flesh in our body can perish, in other words decay.
We have not seen or heard where a spirit decayed or died, the bible recorded that the sprite never dies but it is renewed day by day for ever.
take a break to think about this, after the flesh has perish there is another life to live by the spirit, this means the spirit has a longer time to spend with man than the flesh, it was state in this chapter below
This chapter tells us that the flesh is temporal, this is because the flesh is among the things which are seen, God instructed us not to focus all our mind on the things which are seen.
Most Christians are victims of false prophet because their focus in the church of God are on Material things (things that can be seen). There are people that look innocent and Godly physically in the flesh (in their outward man) but in their spirit man, they are ravening wolves, this has been a reality
Since the body of man can contain spirit, if a man no longer walks according to the commandment of God, that same man can be possessed with demonic spirit, the demons now possess his spirit and control his actions making him a ravening wolf in his spirit.
Now listen, like I said, the inward man is of God, it was clearly stated here
The image of God has no sin or any demonic possession, and God is a spirit, this means that the image of God is the inward man in us. Most times when the outward man (the flesh) overcome the inward man(the spirit) through sin, the flesh create more room for other bad spirit to dominate the body,
Is just like having ten tomatoes and nine are contaminated. It won't take a long time for that one to be terminated, this is why you notice strange characters exhibited by friends close to you or your neighbourhood. For example, a false prophet already has his inner man contaminated with demons of lies, he is literally controlled by those demons possessing his inward man (his spirit).
The bible says they appear in ship clothing, but their inward man is possessed with demons.
A man who sleeps with his daughter already has his inward man possessed with demons of sexual lust. The flesh is naturally weak but the spirit is strong. If the spirit is contaminated with another spirit, the man loses control over his action, we have to be closer to God, and ask God for forgiveness when we sin.
And also, God commanded us not to artificially add up anything to our skin for our own good,
God did not say we shouldn’t look nice, but some Christian in this present generation go extra mile to add extra chemical to their skin all in the name of fashion
We have seen so many cases of skin burnt by cream reaction. God that created man knows what is best for man, just like a machine manufacturer, he knows what is best for his machine and he will put every detail you need to successfully manage that machine for a long period of time, if you go against the rules of that manual, that machine may break down any time.
The bible says that, it shall come to pass, that means, a day will come where the side effect of those cream will start having effect on you, making your body to smell. A day will also come, due to cream miss-management, instead of beauty, the skin will be burnt. I have seen these many times in my country, mostly women with burnt skin.
If you can’t eat that cream or diel, then don’t use it, now let me explain something. How people poison themselves unknowingly. The chemical we apply on our body in the form of fancy creams and dye, when we sweat, the cream or dye is washed out of the skin through the sweat pore. But when we don’t sweat, the skin has the ability to absorb those chemicals into the body
Since the sweat gland is connected to the blood capillary, this chemical can be taken by the blood capillary into the body, just the way sweat is taken from the blood out of the body. Some Christians will not refrain from such dangerous act, it is stated in this chapter that men love darkness(false hood) rather than light (the truth)
The holy bible is like a manual to us (Christians), God will always want the best for us as Christians, most times we do all this out of ignorance, and as a result, seen God's commandment like a punishment, he is our creator and he created all things, he know what is best for us and what is not, may the grace to abide by God's word be given unto us.
Thanks for reading, God bless you.