Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him...” — Genesis 1:26-27

For the LORD takes pleasure in His people... — Psalm 149:4

If man is made in the likeness of God, and God is a Spirit, then man, of necessity, must be a spirit.

God made man for His own pleasure. He made man to fellowship with Him. Man is not an animal. Man is in the same class with God; otherwise, he couldn’t fellowship with God.

Did you ever try to fellowship with a cow? Cows are in a different kingdom that you are in. They are in a different class. You can’t fellowship with them.

But we can fellowship with one another. And we can fellowship with God, because we are in the same class of being as God.

God is a Spirit. And man, created in the image and likeness of God, is also a spirit being.

Do not let your adornment be merely outward arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. — 1 Peter 3:3-4

No one knows what you look like! They may think they do, but they don’t. You—the real you—are a hidden man. You are a spirit; you have a soul; and you live in a body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). What people see is only the “house” you live in.

Some ministers quote two-thirds of First Peter 3:3 and say that women shouldn’t fix their hair and shouldn’t wear gold. But if that’s what Peter meant, then women shouldn’t wear clothes, either! Because if Peter told them not to arrange their hair and not to wear gold, then he also told them not to put on apparel (clothing).

No, Peter is really saying—probably because women are more prone to do this— “Don’t spend all your time on your hair, on your clothes, and on the outward person. See to it, first of all, that the hidden man of the heart—that’s the spiritual person, the real person, the inward person—is adorned with a gentle and quiet spirit.”

Make the following confession:

God is a spirit, and I am a spirit. I am created in God’s image and in His likeness. I am in the same class of being as God. I can give God pleasure. I can fellowship with Him. I am a spirit. I am a child of the Father of spirits. I have a soul. And I live in a body. I see to the adorning of the real me—the hidden person of the heart.