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    The Body of Man
    The Body of Man
    The Body of Man
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    The Body of Man

    By Michael Maher

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    The bible clearly teaches us that our bodies are not our own, but that they in fact belong to God. One way that we can understand this concept, is to view our body as a house that we are renting. God is the owner of the house, and we are His tenants. As tenants, our land lord expects us to look after His property, and He will hold us to account if we damage it in any way. This book teaches us what God expects us to do with our bodies.

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    PublisherMichael Maher
    Release dateSep 20, 2017
    ISBN9781370526659
    The Body of Man
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    Michael Maher

    From childhood, Michael E.B. Maher has always known that the Lord's call was upon his life for the ministry. When he was saved at the age of twenty-two, almost immediately the Lord Jesus began to deal with him about entering the ministry. However, it was only many years later that he committed to the Lord to answer the Lord's call to the ministry. And so, in 2014 Michael Maher Ministries was begun. From the beginning, the mandate given to Michael from the Lord Jesus was to preach the word. And so, this ministry preaches the word of God on every available platform around the world.

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      The Body of Man - Michael Maher

      THE BODY OF MAN

      Michael E.B. Maher

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in this teaching are from the New King James Version of the bible.

      Revised 2021

      ISBN:

      Books by Michael E.B. Maher

      Foundation Doctrines of Christ

      Repentance from Dead Works

      Faith toward God

      Doctrine of Baptisms

      Laying on of Hands

      Resurrection of the Dead

      Eternal Judgement

      Man, the Image of God

      The Will of Man

      The Spirit of Man

      The Conscience of Man

      The Mind of Man

      The Body of Man

      Gifts of the Church

      Spiritual Gifts

      Ministry Gifts

      The Revelation Gifts

      The Power Gifts

      The Speaking Gifts

      End of the Ages

      The Last Days

      The Seventh Seal

      The Millennial Kingdom

      The End of the Age

      Standalone

      There is Sin to Death

      Prayer

      Being Unforgiving

      Being led by the Spirit

      Born Free from Sin

      The Two Gospels Explained

      Being led by the Spirit

      Of such is the Kingdom

      Rich through His Poverty

      Suffering as a Christian

      Growing Strong in Spirit

      The Believer’s Authority in the Earth

      The Prayer of Faith

      Predestined to His Purpose

      Holy Spirit Encounters

      The Bible Creation Account

      The Blood of Christ

      The Church and the State

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      The outward man

      Chapter 2

      The tenant’s responsibility

      Chapter 3

      The owner’s responsibility

      Chapter 4

      The temple of the Holy Spirit

      Chapter 1

      The outward man

      The inward and outward man

      John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (4) Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? (5) Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."

      There are certain truths revealed to us in the New Testament that cannot be understood unless we have a clear understanding of the nature of man. It is only in the New Testament that our Lord Jesus reveals to us the full make-up of God’s creation called man. In the above quoted passage of scripture our Lord revealed for the first time the fact that it is the spirit of man that is born-again. Because Nicodemus had no understanding of the make-up of man he couldn’t grasp the truth that our Lord was trying to teach him. This is just one illustration of why it is important for us as believers to have a clear understanding of just how God has created us, for without that understanding we will be like Nicodemus and miss out on spiritual truths as revealed to us in God’s word. In this series of teachings we examine each part of man as revealed to us in the scriptures and the role each part plays in our walk as believers.

      2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

      There is a lot more to man than that which we see in the natural, i.e. the physical body of man. In the above quoted passage of scripture the apostle Paul teaches us that there is an inward man and that there is also an outward man. Our outward man consists of our physical bodies, which includes the physical organ of our brain. This is the part of man that is mortal, and so this is the part of man that is growing older day by day, which is why the scripture states that our outward man is perishing.

      2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

      It is the inward man which is the real person and it is the inner man that is an eternal being, for it is our inward man that leaves the earth when we die. The inner man of believers departs to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven, while the inner man of unbelievers departs to Hades where they are held in torment. The apostle Paul teaches us in the above quoted passage of scripture that as far as believers are concerned to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, referring to our inner man leaving our earthly bodies to ascend into heaven.

      Psalms 139:13-14 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. (14) I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.

      In scripture, the inward man is sometimes referred to as the soul, i.e. when Noah and his family were saved from the flood the Holy Spirit tells us that eight souls were saved (1 Peter 3:20). The inward man is also sometimes referred to as the heart, for the Holy Spirit also speaks of the hidden person of the heart (1 Peter 3:4). And so just as the outward man i.e. our physical body, is made up of different parts which all have different functions, so our inward man is also made up of different parts which also have different functions. In the above quoted passage of scripture the Holy Spirit reveals to us that God has formed our inward parts (plural), thus indicating that the inward man is made up of more than one part. In that same passage of scripture we read that God covers us in our mother’s womb, which speaks of the physical body (our outward man) that God prepares for our inward man to dwell in. To more clearly understand the concept of our inward man being made up of different parts we can look at the natural. In the natural the physical body of man is a complete whole. But our bodies are made up of different parts and each part of the body of man has a different function. For example the brain has one function and the heart another. And so just as in the natural, so the inward man also has different parts and each part has a different function. Nevertheless just as all the parts of the body make up the whole body, so all the different parts of our inward man

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