The Heart of Man !

The Heart of Man : Jesus has a physical body--- a flesh and bone body--- but not flesh and blood. You recall that after His resurrection He appeared to the disciples and they were frightened and supposed they had seen a spirit (a ghost). Jesus said to them, "Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me have" (Luke 24:39). He asked them if they had any meat. They Gave Him a piece of boiled fish and a honeycomb, And He ate it before them. And then there was the time when Peter said, "I'm going fishing," and the others went with him. Suddenly they saw Jesus standing on the shore. He spoke to them and they went to Him. He had finished on the fire and He ate with them. Yes, Jesus has a physical body right now-- a resurrected, flesh and bone and physical body. God is a Spirit (John 4:24). Notice that I did not say, "God is spirit." Some think God is Spirit, and that that means He is a sort of impersonal influence. No, God is a Spirit. However, the fact that God is a spirit does not mean that He has no shape or form in the spiritual realm, because he does. Angels are spirits, the Bible says, and they have a form or a spirit body. In the Old Testament, the prophet of God prophesied deliverance when the city was besieged, and everyone laughed at him because they were in starvation, hunger, and famine. Even his servant reprimanded him, so Elisha prayed, "Lord, I pray thee, opened his eyes, that he may see" (2 Kings 6:17). Elijah wasn't talking about his servants physical eyes, but his spiritual eyes. When the eyes of his spirit were opened, he saw Angels of fire, horses and chariots of fire all around the city ! And sometimes, as God wields, Angels have the ability to take foam or appearance in the natural realm where we can see them-- but only as He wills. The Bible says that God talk to Moses face-to-face; so we know He has a face. A cloud was there, however, and Moses could not see God's face, for God said, "thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live" (Exodus 33:20). And then God said, ". . . I will put thee in a cliff of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts. . ."(Exodus 33:22-- 23). My point is this: God is a Spirit, yet He is no less real because He is a Spirit then He would be if He had a physical body. Jesus with His physical body in heaven now is not more real than the Holy Spirit, or God the Father. Spiritual things are just as real as material--- more real, in fact. In (1 Peter 3:4) our spirit is called "the hidden man of the heart." The inward man, the spirit, is called "the hidden man." He is a man of the heart, of the spirit. He is hidden to the physical or the natural man. The natural man does not know he is there--- but he is; and he is the real man. In (Romans 7:22) the spirit is called "the inward man." The terms "inward man" and "hidden man" gives us God's definition of the human spirit. Man is a spirit; he has a soul; he lives in a body. With his spirit, man contacts the spiritual realm; with his soul man contacts the intellectual and emotional realm; and with his body man contacts the physical realm.