Topic: The Trinity of Man
Text: Job 1:6-9

The battles of life must first be fought in the spiritual realm before you can experience victory in the physical realm. Every believe should seek to understand the secrets of victory in spiritual warfare. An understanding of all the components which man is made of is crucial to the understanding of what it takes to overcome the devil. Man is a trinity, made up of spirit, soul and body. Or, better put, Man is spirit with a soul, living inside a body. The body is just a house inside which we live. Our souls can be called our minds or our reasoning faculties. Out spirits are actual persons. We can take an analogy by using the example of how football used to be like in the older days. In those days, football was made up of an outside jacket, with a tube inside it. When air is pumped inside the tube, the leather is able to bounce. One can safely say the air is the football. The moment you release the air, all the other components are useless. Our spirit is like the air in the football. When someone dies, he breathes the last breath and what we have lest is a lump of flesh. The spirit is surrounded by, as it was, the soul. Both of them are housed in the body. The spirit is mentioned first in our above Bible passage because the spiritual controls the physical. Whatever happens in the physical has already been settled in the spiritual. A good example is found in Job 1:6-19. There was a discussion in the spiritual realm between God and the devil. God called Job a perfect man, and the devil said Job was because God had prospered him, and that if all that he had were withdrawn, job would change. God then permitted the devil to try Job. It was after this that lightning began to fall, raiders began to raid and walls of houses began to collapse. How then can we handle spiritual attacks? You must locate the enemy’s hideout and attack the problem from the root. If you win the war in the spiritual realm you will win it in the physical realm.

Memory Verse: Job 1:10 ‘ “Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”