Good day brethren. Hope the Lord is been gracious unto us all. My name is Sis Atuma Hope and am doing this post to share my lessons of the mass indoctrination Day 10.
We learnt from the teaching according to 2Corin. 4:16 and 18, that man is composed of two forms; the outward man, and the inward man. In that same Bible verses, Paul one of the Apostles was comparing the outward man and the inward man; according to him the outward man is perishable while the inward man can be renewed daily. The outward man is of the physical while the inner man is spiritual.
Man can be defined as a creature, created by God in His own image and likeness, that has been given the dominion over all other creatures(Gen. 1:26).
we also learnt that a true believer who is of God has these two beings completely as there are men who does not have the inward man as man as written in Matthew7:15 and 2 Peter 2:12, these men have only the outward being as man and their inward beings has taken the nature of a beast or wolves, the beastly beings is what they have inside them and for this reason, in the book of 2 Corinthians 13:5 said, we are to examine ourselves, assess ourselves and be true to ourselves if we still have the inward man as man and not beastly. One way to know if we still have the inward man as man according to the Bible book of Psalms 40:8 is having delight in the laws of God as God's Word is for our profiting. It gives delight for one to be able to fulfill the commandments of loving our fellow men like the way we love ourselves.
We also saw in the teaching in the book of John 8:12,that Jesus is the Light of the World and those men with the beastlike beings inside preferred darkness to light and all they can think of is evil (John3:19). Therefore they are always concern with the outward adorning, they do not clean their inward man and are fully adorned outwardly. According to the book of 1 Peter 3:3-4, a true Christian should adorn the hidden man of the heart. Adorning of the hair with jewelries is prohibited and scientifically , continously coloring the hair with hair dyes can cause breast cancer for the hair dye contains these product para-phenylenediamine (PPED). Adorning the outward man with expensive jewelries and arrays can even cost us our lifes.
The Spiritual result of adorning one's self can make us to forget God and humanity is not found in them anymore but pride. According to Jeremiah 2:30, in vain that we make and adorn ourselves. We should be contented with the natural look, for God's Will is that we appreciate how He creat us and in the book of 1 Peter 3:4, we should adorn ourselves with an incorruptible apparel and the ornament of meekness. Also Saint Paul in 1Timothy 2:9 - 10, recommend women adorning themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety.
God bless us all as keep yielding ourselves to the hearing and doing of His word. You are invited to join us in the mgci programs.
