Discovering Your Secret Identity
1. How were you made? (Gen. 1:27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
2. How is humanity in the likeness of God?
3. What three elements of humanity are listed here? (1 Thess. 5:23) “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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B
C
The body is made of three parts: Blood, Bone, and Flesh
4. Why do we have a body?
5. What are the benefits of having a body?
6. What are the disadvantages of having a physical body?
7. Does God have a body?
The soul consists of three parts: Mind, Will, and Emotions
8. What does our mind do?
9. What do we mean when we say, “our will”?
10. List some emotions that people have.
Positive emotions:
Negative emotions:
11. Does humanity have a spirit and soul? (Heb. 4:12) “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged 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.”
12. Does God have a spirit?
13. What happened in the Garden of Eden that changed Adam from the way he was originally created? (Gen. 2:17)” But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Gen 3:6d) Gen 3:6 she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”
14. How did that affect us? (Gen. 5:1-3) ” This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:”
15. How were you born? (Romans 5:12) Rom 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
A. Dead
B. Alive
16. What did God do in order to give you new life? (Romans 5:8) “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (2 Cor 5:21) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
17. Explain what Romans 5:17,18 means: Rom 5:17-18 “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.”
18. Which of the two secret identities in 1 Cor. 15:22 describes you? 1 Cor 15:22″ For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
19. Explain what 2 Cor. 5:17 means: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
20. How does that affect you?
21. Now that you know who you are, how should your secret identity change the way you live?
22. If you are in Christ when your body dies, your spirit will go to ____________.
23. If you are in Adam when your body dies, your spirit will go to ____________.
Are you prepared?