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Everyone is aware of his own body. It is tangible, temporal, and lends itself to scientific investigation. If you ask a chemist, “What is man?” he might produce an analytical chart and point out to you conclusively that man is so much water, nitrogen, carbon, and various other elements. Yet he would have been referring to only the physical part of man’s being, thus in nature he appears to be identical to the elements of the earth. Genesis 2:7a the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground …

Since the beginning of history, man has sought to be free from the imprisonment of his body to touch that deep inner longing. He has tried to find new ways of pleasing his physical senses, even now with the “virtual electronic world”; yet only to find that nothing really satisfies that hunger deep within. Physical pleasure is so fleeting. Although man has managed to prolong his biological life, still every man comes to the point where he has to admit that the body is a literal dead end in itself.

If you were to ask the psychologist about man, he might say that besides a body, you have a more inward, hidden composition. You have a mind – a consciousness, a thinking organ; we also have emotions – the faculty of inner sense of feeling capable of loving, hating, being depressed, and elated. He might also point out that you have a will, a faculty for choosing, making decisions.

The psychologist would in this manner show that you are not a mere physical being, but a psychological being as well. In short you are a living, thinking, feeling, willing entity – not mere animated dust, but a real live person; with each person seeming to have a unique and distinctive personality. This, he would say, is you. Your real self, he would explain, is your inner-self, your psychological self, while your body is just the outward shell of your being. Scripture confirms this about the soul of man. 1 Cor. 15:45s …The first man Adam was made a living soul; … Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The tree of knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die Gen 2:17

According to the meaning of the word, this psychological part is the soul of man. “Psyche” comes from the Greek word “psuche,” translated in the Bible as “soul.” Psychology is the study of the soul. Each individual has unique faculties of the soul; the mind, emotions and will, comprising the inward person, their personality.

The last two centuries of human history have seen the spectacular rise of the soul’s powers. The great minds of men have contributed an abundance of thought and discovery. The great minds and wills of men have produced an abundance of decisive action in government and culture. Without doubt the soul has soared to its zenith in recent history – yet in spite of man’s great accomplishments, the sense of inner emptiness remains.

We can conquer the moon, work with nanotechnology, and investigate the genome of man, but still, deep within our self, there remains some uncharted territory. Yet, man’s soul is inadequate; his highest thoughts are soon forgotten, his deepest emotions quickly fade, his most adamant determination of will falters. Within the soul of man, the search for a key to man ends in frustration.

I am a good person why must I grow old and die? Gen2:17 God madeAdam in the garden of eden and said “The tree of good and evil thou shall not eat of it for in the day

that thou eatest thereof then you shall surely die. Adam ate of the fruit so Adam and all his kin were/are sentenced to die (no exceptions)

Gen 3:7 the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made them aprons.

Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Here above the animal blood that was shed produced only what would cover their act of sin. Yet, it foretold of a time when “the Lamb of God,” Jesus Christ, would come, shed His blood and die, not to cover sins, but more, to take away the sins of the world of mankind (John 1:29) – if they would only have faith in His blood (Rom 3:25).

He who is saved is “cre­ated in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:10). “In Christ Jesus nei­ther circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumci­sion, but a new creature” (Gal. 6:15). This creation takes the place of the old creation in the first Adam.

“If any man be in Christ Jesus, he: is a new crea­ture: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).

This new creation is “the new man, which after God is created in righteous­ness and true holiness” (Eph.4:24).

The new man is the born -again man, the one born of the Spirit, as dis­tinguished from the old man, or carnal man. But, when a man has exhausted all that the world has to offer he realizes there is no likely possibility of quenching his deepest desire in this world. This then is evidence that man has a deeper need, and that man was probably made for another world.

The blood of the innocent “lamb of God” was shed according to God’s prescribed plan… from the foundation of the world. We do not need to plead, grovel, wail, or to convince God to forgive us. He planned for the forgiveness of our sins “from the foundation of the world.”

Revelation 13:8b … the book of life of the Lamb slain (already) from the foundation of the world.

In the heart of God, Christ was crucified, shedding His blood for the redemption of mankind, from before the world began. Christ’s shed blood was part of the “revelation of the mystery” (Rom 16:25), the secret plan of God that Christ first revealed to the Apostle Paul, for us. Christ’s blood was key to “the eternal purpose that was purposed in Christ Jesus” (Eph 3:11).

It is only the blood of Christ that remits (pays for) a man’s sins. Hebrews 9:22b … without shedding of blood there is no remission. Christ’s shed blood makes the believing man clean and then suitable to receive the indwelling “Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus” (Rom 8:2a). Christ’s shed blood is supreme, matchless, and absolutely

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