THE OUTWARD MAN AND THE INWARD MAN

Man, primarily, has a two fold nature: the outward man and the inward man. In 2 Corinthians 4:16, Paul clearly distinguishes between these two when he said, “For which cause we faint not; but though our OUTWARD MAN perish, yet the INWARD MAN is renewed day by day.” He lets us know there’s an outward man and there’s an inward man.The outward man is the physical body and its five senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste). These senses are his medium for relating with his environment. That’s why the human body can only receive information from this world through its five senses. The inward man, however, is the human spirit and his soul (the seat of his mind, will, emotions, reasoning, and intellect). He’s the one the Bible calls “the hidden
man of the heart.” He’s not seen with the natural eyes, because he is the “man within the man.”
Now, every one of us is a spirit being, and our inward man is the real person living in the physical
body. That’s the one who receives Christ’s salvation. When you believed and confessed the Lordship of Jesus, it wasn’t your body (your outward man) who
was reborn; it was your inward man—your human spirit— that was born again.Your human spirit has spiritual senses, and they

function through your soul and its mind. This shows
why your mind is so powerful and important, because
it is the connector of your spirit to your body.