God's Design

By Rev. James K. Pritchard

God's Design is about the individual's physical needs with scripture of science. Next is relationships with friends, the opposite sex, parent to child, adult child to parents, etc., then marriage, and finally, your relationship with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781646289882

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God's Design

Rev. James K. Pritchard

Copyright © 2019 Rev. James K. Pritchard

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2019

ISBN 978-1-64628-987-5 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-64628-988-2 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

For Man

For Health

For Body Maintenance

For Christian Relationships

To Make One

For Man to Know and Have Fellowship with Him

The Purpose

I wrote this to help you understand these important things:

How God designed you and your needs

The differences between males and females

Relationships with friends and family

Relationships of parents to children, children to parents, and between brothers and sisters in Christ

Your marriage

God’s design for you to know and have fellowship with Him

God wonderfully designed all aspects of our being. Do not just absorb the knowledge in this book. Apply these principles to your life. Become convicted to the love God has specifically for you and you will begin to see and know the Lord as you never have before. This will affect your relationship with Him and others, and you will understand yourself better.

Do not misuse these principles to prove you are better than others. Follow them to build the body of Christ.

I urge you to use this as a teaching tool in your family and church. It contains much information you will not get from secular sources. Christians have answers in the Bible that they may read occasionally. God gives us a wealth of knowledge, but we are ignorant because we do not realize what we have.

God’s Design

For Man

The Triune Nature of Man

Man is triune, having three parts—body, soul, and spirit—as described in 1 Thessalonians 5:23. In this book, we will use the different parts of man to see the effect of sin and of salvation on each part.

Salvation comes only through faith in Jesus. Otherwise, you are a slave of sin and son of the devil. This changes only when you repent and cry to Jesus for salvation. God gives us the means, but we are responsible by faith to exercise those means.

What you have learned and experienced about love (or the lack of it) from your parents partly shapes your view of the world. If you grew up in a Christian home, you have a much different view than if you grew up in a non-Christian home. Your decision to accept or reject Christ partly depends on your upbringing.

This book will help you see how marvelous God’s plan for you is and show you how to relate to others in their walk.

The Parts of Man

The body is the material part of man that God created (Genesis 2:7) as the instrument by soul and spirit related to the physical universe to fulfill His will.

The soul is the immaterial, intermediate between body and spirit. As seat of the mind, it contains intelligence, thoughts, memory, and emotions, which are feelings of joy, sorrow, affection, fear, and hate. The soul contains the will, the mental faculty through which you choose a course of action.

Temperament is how you think, react, and behave. The Bible calls this the flesh, the old nature and the old man (Psalm 103:1 and 2 Corinthians 1:23).

The spirit is the immaterial part of man, related to worship and communion with God. It contains intuition, which is knowing without conscience or reasoning. Conscience is the moral or ethical aspect of conduct. This gives you the ability to fellowship with God by sharing thoughts and feelings. This comes by praying, studying God’s Word, and singing spiritual songs.

How Sin Affects the Spirit

Psalm 58:3 says the wicked are estranged from God from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. Humans instinctively know how to sin.

The conscience, as described in 1 Timothy 4:2, shows a contrast with human intuition: Speaking lies in hypocrisy: having their conscience seared with a hot iron. Titus 1:15b says, But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled. If your conscience is warped, it cannot tell you what is right.

Communion

First Corinthians 2:14 says, But the natural man received not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned or dead and separated from God, so cannot have fellowship with God. Proverbs 28:9 says, Their prayers are detestable. They go worshiping others thing not God, says Romans 1:25.

The Mind

God says, My thoughts are not your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8). Proverbs 23:7a says, For as he thinketh in his heart so is he. Romans 1:28b adds, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.

Romans 1:21c says, Their foolish heart (mind) was darkened. Romans 1:28a notes, Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge their ability learn and comprehend was made difficult.

The Emotions

Romans 1:26 says, For this cause God gave them up to vile affections that were introduced in Genesis 3:10 when Adam said, I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, and hid myself.

Fear produces doubt, worry, suspicion, shyness, timidity, depression, indecision, superstition, hesitancy, inferiority, withdrawal, aggressiveness, cowardliness, haughtiness, and loneliness.

Genesis 4:5b contains the first description of anger: Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Signs of anger include bitterness, wrath, malice, clamor, envy, resentment, revenge, criticism, hatred, jealousy, gossip, attack, sarcasm, intolerance, and lack of forgiveness.

The Will

People have two kinds of will: the aggressive/perverse (rebellious) or the passive/simpleness. Both are rebellious.

Of the froward will, Proverbs 16:30 says, He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things, moving his lips he brings (chooses) evil to pass. Proverbs 16:28 says, A froward man soweth strife, and Proverbs 2:15 talks about those whose ways are crooked, and froward in their paths.

Proverbs 14:15 says, The simple believeth every word (are easily deceived). Proverbs 14:18 adds, The simple inherit folly.

Examples of warped temperament include the foolish man and the strange woman. These people are loud, self-focused, stubborn, and unreasonable. They have angry thoughts, pull pranks, and tell sinful jokes.

Angry men and angry women are contentious, short-tempered, use harsh words, and think they are doing right.

The scorning man and foolish woman are moody, prideful, pessimistic, critical, vengeful, and dishonor parents.

The slothful man and fearful woman are unmotivated, fearful, procrastinate, love sleep, and think themselves wise.

The Body

Romans 5:12 says, Wherefore as by one man sin entered in to the world, and death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. This brought disease that eventually leads to physical death. Aging is due to sin, so our life expectancy is about seventy years. As described in Psalm 90:10, The days of our years are three score and ten, and by reason strength they be fourscore, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

The Effects of Salvation

Salvation restores the spirit to know what is right, says Jeremiah 31:33.

Salvation allows the conscience to know how to resist sin (1 Corinthians 10:13 and Romans 6:22a), to be restored (Galatians 4:47), and describes how salvation restores communion with God.

The mind’s thoughts instruct man what to think (Philippians 4:8). Salvation restores the mind (Romans 12:2) and allows God to enhance knowledge (1 Corinthians 8:2). A saved person’s memory is able to help others because of Christ’s words (Colossians 3:16).

The Holy Spirit restores emotions to such things as love, joy, peace, faithfulness, mercy, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, temperance, forgiveness by the Word of God, kindness, charity, thankfulness, humility, long-suffering, forgiveness, and the peace of God, says Galatians 5:22–23.

God changes the will of a saved person to confirm to His. Philippians 2:13, Ephesians 5:21, Romans 12:1, and Mark 12:30–31 describe this submission.

The Temperament

The foolish man and strange woman gain importance because of their faith in Christ, then become moderate (Philippians 4:5), speak truth (Ephesians 4:25), put God first (Psalm 37:4),