The Hidden Man of the Heart

The Hidden Man of the Heart

(1Pe 3:4) but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the sight of God.

2Cor 4:16, Eph 2:15, Rom 6:6

These series of studies on the “Hidden man of the Heart” is the delving into the the realm the recreated human spirit. It is the search for the secret of real spirituality. It the recognition that the real man is not the man of the senses or the reasoning function the human personality but that it the recreated spirit that has received the life and the nature of the Father.

The passages of scriptures above, the spirit man is refer to as inward man, outer man, old man, hidden man. Hidden means he is concealed or hidden from the physical sense, that is to say the he is shut away from the physical natural man.

The church as a whole is not familiar with the recreated spirit. We have develop our bodies and our minds to the extend that it becomes beneficial to us. But as for the real man – the recreated spirit, the church is still in the stage of infancy in the development of the forces of the spirit.

The thing that we call conscience is actually the voice of the spirit. When we learn how to develop this faculty of the the spirit-the recreated spirit-and keep in vital fellowship with the Father through the Word, there is no limit to where we can go in spiritual things.

The Holy Spirit was given to us to lead us. The primary way that He leads us is through the inward witness or the inward man within. Your spirit corporation with the Holy Spirit brings light-love-life flowing in your life.

Galatians 5:22-23 mentions the fruit of the recreated spirit. Love, joy and peace are the forces of the human spirit that comes into the believer when he receives eternal life and the nature of God.

The secret of the life of being led by the Spirit is to know the truth the Bible reveals regarding the Inward or the inner man. The more we get acquainted with man – the real man- the recreated spirit –walking the spirit is no longer a mystery.

It is something that becomes a reality of a daily basis

1. Man created a spirit, soul and body

Read the following scriptures as a foundation for this section:

Genesis 1:26, 27-2:7
John 4:24
2 Cor 5:17
Heb 12:9
Heb 12:22-24

Man was made in God’s class. The Word of God says the God is a Spirit. He is made in the image and the likeness of God. God, a Spirit created man in His own image. Man, therefore, was created or made a spirit in God’s class. God‘s image is spirit and man was made in that image, also a spirit being.

Just like God is eternal, man is also an eternal being. Man was created a companion and associate of God. He was made to rule over all the creation. When man sinned against God I the Garden of Eden, man partook of Satan nature which is spiritual death.

Eph 2:1-4

Before the fall, man’s spirit ruled the human personality and the body and the mind of man was under subjection and the control of the spirit of man. When he sinned, his spirit received the nature of the adversary and became subjected to the body. Since then the human personality was ruled by the senses.

The spirit was being made the prisoner of the five senses. Since then, there has been a cry form the spirit of man to be free. A cry for freedom to be restored to the original state before the fall to rule over the body once again.

2. The names of the spirit man

In Ephesians 4:23-25 he is called the “old man”. He is also referred to as the inward and the hidden man of the heart in Romans 7:22 and 2 Peter 3:4.


When a man comes to Jesus and receives him as savior and Lord the Holy Spirit recreates the spirit into a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17 mentions emphatically that this recreated spirit is a new creation in Christ Jesus-a new species of being which existed before.

The real man is the spirit man or the hidden man of the heart.
The person who was recreated was not the mind or the body but it is the spirit of man. It was this man that was recreated in Christ Jesus.


3. Prophecy of a New Creation

Ezekiel 36:26

Man is going to be recreated. The nature of Satan or the sin nature is to be taken out of him. He will no longer be called “old man” but called a “new man” in Christ.

He is to be a new creation in Christ Jesus.

The new creation came into being on the day of Pentecost and has the ability to stand before the Father as though as sin has never been. 2 Cor 5:21, Romans 8:1, 2; Romans 8:37-39

The New Creation ahs become the righteousness of God. The spirit man was recreated by the Holy Spirit in the New Birth had the nature of God imparted to him. 2 Peter 1:4