The spiritual man (Reflecting the Christ)
By Apostle Joshua Selman

Philippians 1:6

Galatians 6:9

It matters that we submit ourselves to the word of God.

Matthew 4:4

The times that we are in right now will test everything you know and will reveal the things we do not know.

Psalms 36:9

2 Timothy 3:7

Every time the word of God comes, it stops you from remaining at the same point

Psalms 107:20

2 Corinthians 2:7

There's a difference between knowledge, understanding and wisdom.

Knowledge is a coordinated gathering of information.

Knowledge is the foundation of wisdom.

There cannot be wisdom without knowledge.

There cannot be understanding without knowledge.

The assignment of knowledge is to bring within your space information that can be profitable.

Understanding is comprehension. The working dynamics that release the profit captured in that knowledge.

Wisdom has to do with the practical aspect of engaging what you understand; the correct application.

So without action it's not wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:7

Hebrew 4:2

Wisdom is connected to mighty works

John 13:17

Romans 8:6

That means the only to truly find life and with it peace is to be spiritually minded

1 Corinthians 2:14

NETWORK BREAK

Galatians 4:19

The quality of a believer eventually in his faith work is not just dependent on his new birth experience, but the degree to which Christ is formed in that person.

The bible identifies 3 kinds of believers.

Romans 8:6-8

1 Corinthians 2:14

1. The natural man the man who does not have the faculty to receive spiritual things. The end point of a natural man is that he becomes critical and frustrated with spiritual things, because they don't make sense to him.

   “How do you call on the name of a God you can not see?”

   Romans 10:8-10

   Truly a day is coming upon the earth where those who are not in Christ will be doomed for eternal damnation

   Romans 3:23

   But Jesus has come as a mediator

   Something may not be wrong with a natural man financially, physically or otherwise.

   The greatest need of an unbeliever is to introduce him to Jesus and pray he accepts him willingly.

   Any man without the Christ is called the natural man

   The natural man is not even aware of his spiritual state.

   Jesus calls sinners harvest not sinners, if you see them as sinners what will come out from you is resentment not compassion.

   Revelation 20:12

2. The carnal man one who is now saved but is driven by senses.

   The carnal man is actually a believer but something is still wrong with that person. The administration of eternal in it's experience has not been furnished in that person.

   How to know a carnal man:

   • The absence of transformation by the word of God. He has not sustained what the bible calls the mind of God. He is not spiritually minded.

     What principally defines carnality is mindset.

   Such a person is still alive to self and the desires of the flesh.

   There 2 things that you deal with as you surgeon this path of faith.

   A sin problem

   A flesh problem

   With one salvation prayer the sin problem is gone, but the you can't kill the flesh. Paul said(as touching the matters of the flesh) I die daily, I put my flesh under subjection. There's an active participation on my own part to put my flesh at bay.

   Romans 7:22-24

   A large percentage of believers are still in this realm.

   Even though saved, he still acts like he used to act.

   The danger of carnality is that your life because of a consistent misrepresentation of the image of Christ

   • Your experience in terms of result and that of the unbeliever will not be different.

     The profit of being saved cannot be differentiated from an unbeliever.

     And the bible makes understand that one who is carnal is still a baby

     1 Corinthians 3:1-4

     John 16:12

     One of the ways you know you're being carnal is endurance for sound doctrine.

     One of the proof of carnality is putting your attention on a man instead of God.

     Romans 8:6

     Ephesians 2:1-3

     There are people that the things that they do is not counseling that will change it, they need an altar call.

     There's a deliverance through transformation.

     The teaching ministry is the cure for some people's state.

     But then, there are many teachings that are either imbalanced or not correct completely.

     Doing more bad than good

3. The spiritual man

   This is not a man open to the realm of the spirit, because and occultic man is not a spiritual man.

   The realm of the spirit is not heaven, it is another phase of reality that rules of engagement accessible to all men with or without Christ. The condition to be out and interact with the realm of the spirit is that you have to be assisted by another spirit, and it does not have to be the spirit of God.

   What kind of man is defined as the spiritual man.

   Things, features, proofs that a person is a spiritual man

   1. Any spiritual man you know must have encountered Christ through the new birth experience.

      Act 16:16 - Even though she could see accurate visions, she wasn't saved.

   2. You must encountered the person and the ministry of the holy spirit

   3. A spiritual man is one who has a thorough comprehension of the principles of kingdom as revealed by God in the scriptures.

   4. A spiritual man is one who has access to the secret of the kingdom (I may have missed this due to the poor network)

      Clear sign you know it's the holy spirit is that he'll never force you

      The basis of obedience is that the power to choose must remain, anything that constrains you by force is not from the holy spirit.

      If you run life by your understanding, you will make many mistakes.

      Proverbs 3:5

   5. You are willing to submit yourself onto transformation.

      When you submit to the word of God something begins to happen to you.

      You need to ask yourself, whose mindset am I representing?

      The believer who cannot give up anger can drive away relationship.

      What about lust? One fleshly attribute is like a virus that can wreck a man!

Ephesians 4:13

A man can attain unto a state of maturity where your life becomes a wholesome reflection of Christ to his fullness to your world to the earth.

If you are training people to become like Christ, these are the areas you must focus on:

1. The nature of Christ - the people you are leading are not becoming like Jesus if his nature is not manifesting and not reflecting in them.

   Galatians 5:22

   These are what we should find in a spiritual man: love, joy, peace, long-suffering(patience), gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness(teach-ability), temperance(self-control)

   The first thing we should get is the character and the nature of Christ

   1 Corinthians 13:7

2. The mind or the wisdom of Christ

   1 Corinthians 2:7

   Luke 1:17

   After crying out for the nature of Christ to be more like him, but in addition to being like him, you have to justify His nature by supplying to your world a dimension of wisdom they know can only be found in Christ.

   Philippians 2:5

   You will never be able to do any work of the kingdom and excel without wisdom

3. The works of Christ

   Acts 10:38

   With power - When it has do with the work, power was introduce

   Doing good - bringing life, this is beyond charity

   healing everyone that was oppressed by the devil

   3 words you shouldn't forgot when it comes to the works of Christ: Power, the Holy spirit, Satan.

   John 20:21

   When the sick are healed supernaturally, that is the work of Christ.

It is the nature of Christ plus the mind/wisdom of Christ plus the works of Christ that represent the fullness of Christ.

When this 3 dimensions are captured in your life, you are truly a spiritual man.

If you are to choose between the power and the nature of Christ, choose the nature of Christ.

Pray:

Ask the Lord to balance these areas.

The nature of Christ, the mind and wisdom, and the power to do his works.

The attributes of the flesh that misrepresent God in my life, I pray that they die and give room you.