You know over the years I have heard people in the pulpit talk about the story of Adam and Eve and really made lite of it. I just recently heard someone say that Eve must have been really really fine for Adam to be disobedient to God. I have heard stories like Eve was the weaker vassal trying to make lite that men (physically) were stronger and women (physically/natural) was weaker. It all makes for a good story, but the real truth. It is a story of Salvation.
Question: have you ever wondered why after God created the world in six days and declared everything was good that he would go and put a Garden in it? Have you ever wondered why God said in Genesis 3:22, “Behold, the man has become like ONE of US, to know good and evil”…. Interesting. I challenge each of you to go back and read the Bible not in a physical way, but in a spiritual manner that as we know every Word is from the Mouth of God and in Psalms 78:2, “I will open my mouth in a parable”. When God talks about women and men he doesn’t speak in the physical. He is Spirit and speaks to our Spirits not to our physical being.
The Garden is the Kingdom as it is today. It is a picture of today’s world. Those of us that are in the Kingdom NOW have everything we need. We are free to makes choices only because we have been regenerated back to who we were suppose to be. Eve is not a “female”. Eve is the mother of all, a picture of the Church or the true believers and Adam a picture of Christ. Like Christ took on our sins and restored us, Adam bite of the fruit to become like us. It was a picture of what was going to happen in the natural. Eve (mankind) is the weaker vassal. Just like Adam had not sin until he bite of the fruit; we are not forgiven until Jesus took on our SINS. Now if that don’t bless you. It blesses me over and over again. Even the Seven days of creation is a picture of Salvation.
Now when God said man has become like “ONE OF US”. I hope that God has opened your eyes to know that Jesus when he died on the Cross in the Natural was not really when he died. That was just a point in time; that he really died before the FOUNDATION of this World; that he came to teach us what had already been done spiritually. So, now I ask which person in the Trinity knew Good and Evil? When Jesus took on our Sins he knew Evil. Becareful, I didn’t say he was evil. I said he knew Evil. He also knew Good and so man knew Good and then his eyes was close to good and opened to evil. Jesus had to restore the good back to us.
Oh what an awesome God we serve. God back and read stories in the Bible. Over and over again God is talking about salvation.
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I often hear when I am listening to sermons, “all one must do is receive Jesus in their heart”, “all one must do is “ask Jesus in their heart and they will be born again”. The Bible answer is John 1:13 who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh; nor of the will of man, but of GOD.” So clearly it is written nothing is done from the “will of Man”. To take this a step further if you didn’t ask to be born of your parents or you didn’t receive your parents then what makes you think you can do that action towards GOD? It simple is not possible.
God did create man in His own image, but this does not mean physical likeness because GOD is a Spirit. The Bible speaks of the “hand” of God, but this is merely a word picture to help us understand the concepts about God.
Man is different from animals in that he has the ability to think logically and reason things. Although an animal might learn how to navigate a maze and do so faster and faster each time he cannot logically figure out how to establish a new government or they don’t advance in technology. A beaver’s house looks the same now as it has for thousands of years just like a bird’s nest looks the same now as it always has. Sheep still eat grass and not dead animals and lions still eat dead animals and not grass. That is because like man animals cannot change their nature just like man cannot change his nature. The Bible puts it like this, Jeremiah 13:23: Can the Ethiopianchange his skin, or the leopard his spots? No. it is what it is.
Before man can move towards God, man’s NATURE must be changed. The natural man (the man unregenerate) can do nothing without that change. The nature of Adam, the sinful Adam. Yes you have seen many times where Circus trainers go and teach a lion or tiger how to do different things, but sometimes that lion or tiger attacks people or other animals. It will not surprise anyone who sees it or hears about it because the lion or tiger is doing what it was created to do. So anything can be trained, but it is not surprising when the man or the animal learns to change and reverts back.
When man’s NATURE is changed it is a supernatural (unexplainable) divine ACT that GOD and God alone creates. He is as Adam was before the fall. He can make choices that are good or evil. But because we have the whole story at that point, we will choose God. As the disciples said, where will we go, you are the only one with TRUTH.
If you don’t understand that you had NOTHING to do with your coming to God, then you know nothing of GRACE! It wasn’t til your eyes were opened to the goodness that you could received anything heavenly.
What a GOD. To have such an awesome plan. To HIM I give all the GLORY! For HE and HE alone made me in HIM who I am IN HIM.
In my short walk with God or what I realize has even been a walk with him that HE leads, HE guides, HE ordains, HE HE HE HE is the author and finisher. I totally realize that HE is. Everything that is Everything. He is the total giver of my life and HE has all power in his hands to take. I totally realize that I am HIS child and like any human father HE wants for me better than I want for myself. I totally realize that I am here not for me; but for him. To bring him GLORY in ALL that I do and ALL that I say. This is not my life that I live, but it is the life that I live through Christ. It has nothing to do with me, but everything to do with HIM. Where I go, Where I am, Who I meet, Who I have exchange it is all about my GOD. That he has given me the most previous GIFT that man could ever receive. That GOOD and PERFECT GIFT that only comes from above. I thank HIM with every word I speak, every step I make, that I glorify him and not myself. Words are not enough to convey the awesome LOVE I have for him and the LOVE I know HE has for me.
That he ordain me before the foundation of the earth to inherit this most precious GIFT. It is my prayer that before I leave this part of my life that what he set out for me to do is done or gets done. That I know I have no power within myself to get it done, that it all comes from him. I pray that when I meet him face to face that he says, well done my good and faithful servant. I will strive with the every being in me that I do what he has called me to do.
With all of my heart, with all of my breath, with all of my very being I give to him. Even as I write these words I know that it is all him that I am able to say these things. Thank you for it ALL.
You in and of yourself have no power to come to Christ. God was along in Creation and he is along in your regeneration. You have nothing to do with your physical birth and you have nothing to do with your Spiritual Birth. If you are chosen to received then God will CALL you. He will REGENERATE you. He will CONVERT the heart, so that you may choose him for Salvation. What an awesome plan. What an awesome God. He SANTIFIES you (sets you apart). He Justified you. Thank you for understanding.
I am so looking for a place to be on Sundays. I miss being in Church with others. I get so frustrated because people are deceived and they like it. They have been sold a lie and there is nothing you can do about it. You have no power to make a person to see only God. If it is God’s will that person will “see” the truth.
I just heard a minister say people go to church to make themselves “feel” good and they do. They have this list that they want God to perform in their lives, when if they diligently seek him all those things will come. Maybe not in the form they want, but they will be walking in the things of God.
I so love him and I so thank him for all that he has done. I look back over my life and see his hands on me and for that I honor him. I love him for what he is doing today. I love the plans he has for my life. I love him and everything about him. I want to be among those who just worship him for who he is. There is no one greater and I didn’t have to search to figure that out.
It is my prayer that I connect with other believers that love the Lord no matter what. No matter what is going on in their own lives HE is first. I thank him for him. I thank him for my eyes of understanding.
People teach in Church and laugh about that Saten deceived “EVE”. Who Eve represents is the Church and that is who is deceived.
Be Bless and keep fighting for truth.
The Holy Sabbath is a joining together of goodness and truth. It is the holiest institution of all because it is the joining together called the heavenly marriage between the divine and his church. Since this joining together is a state of peace, people were strictly forbidden to do any work on that day.
This was stated in Moses:
You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. He who profanes it must certainly die; for everyone who does work** on that day, this soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people. Exodus 31:14
Remember the man who did such a small act like picked up sticks on the Sabbath. God told Moses to have the congregation stone him. Numbers 15:32-36.
Blessed is the person keeping the Sabbath (heavenly union) so that he does not profane it. Thus said Jehovah to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths and choose that in which I delight and hold fast to My covenant (marriage covenant), I will give those in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than sons and daughters: will give them an eternal name which will not be cut
off Whoever keeps the Sabbath so that he does not profane it, and those who hold fast to My covenant, I will bring them onto My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Isa 56:2-7
**Work on the Sabbath means everything that springs from the self. If you did “anything” for your salvation (joining together – Marriage, New Birth) that is works, ie., baptism, joining a church, accepting Christ, believed, etc. Everything that comes from man is bad and everything that comes from God is good. The fact that everything, in the case of those who are led by the Lord, flows in down to the smallest particle of life in both their understanding and their will, even down to every single part of their faith and
charity they possess.
God gave man the Sabbath and it is representative of the joining
together of the Lord and the Human Race, this is clear in Ezekiel 20:12:
I gave them My Sabbaths, in order that they might be a sign between Me and them, to know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.
What an awesome God. Today, I asked for wisdom and knowledge. Teach me God what you will have me to know. Today he taught me on the Sabbath. The Sabbath was the seventh day. It was the day that God rested after he made creation. It was the day that a man picked up sticks in Moses day after God told man to rest and God told Moses to have the congregation stone him to death. The work that God did on the six days was the work of our Salvation. He did not want us to do “anything” for our Salvation. People today say they have to accept Christ, be baptized, join a church, say a sinners’ prayer to be SAVED. If you have done any of these things you are not saved you are under the wrath of God. After Christ said “it is finished” and died on the seventh day he rested as well. The new Sabbath was that first day of the week. The day that Christ rose from the grave. It was the day that those who were elect rose up with him. It was the day that Christ married his Church. His body of believers. It was the marriage the union that is talked about in John Chapter 2 that happened on the third day. The old seven day Sabbath was fulfilled when Christ died on the Cross. He fulfilled all the ceremonial laws. The new Sabbath that we are to keep Holy is the “UNION” between Christ and his bride. OMG! You are so awesome.
You have FREED me more!
Thank you Jesus!
If you believe you are still suppose to be water baptized or take a physical communion; please do not attempt to answer this question, Thanks.
Jesus Baptism was following the old testament Law. Jesus came as the High Priest. When a priest was instituted as a high priest He was to be washed in the temple in a big basin his hands and his feet. Then he was ceremonially cleaned even though he had no sin. It was only a ceremony. Now Jesus came as the High Priest but he could not go into the temple to be ceremonial washed because he was not of the tribe of Levi where the Priest came from. He was from the Tribe of Judah. So God sent John the Baptist who was of a priestly line a descendent of Aaron who was the first High Priest and he administered the ceremonial water in the Jordan River and then Christ was ceremonial clean. Remember when he was eight days old he was circumcised. He followed all the old testament law not because he had any sin, but because he came to fulfill everything.
May Grace and Peace Be Multiplied Upon You!
The Bible is becoming clearer only through his GRACE as God unveils his Words to me for greater understanding. It is like knowing you have all the puzzle pieces you just need to put them together so that everything makes sense.
What happened to the Saints in the old testament when they died. Jesus said absent from the body is to be present with the LORD. How can you be present with the LORD if your sins had to wait until Jesus came and shed his blood on the Cross. That would not make sense. Did HE, GOD violate his own rule and bring them up prior because He is GOD?
There is not a clear teaching on whether the Saints in the old testament where saved at the time of their death and if you assumed that they were you were not certain. I could never get the straight of that in my Spirit except to know that the Bible says the LAMB was SLAINED before the foundation of the earth which is spoken of in Revelation. Is the story of Jesus an earthly story of a spiritual meaning. That even though it was done at a particular time on earth which God had set. It was really done before the foundation of the earth. How could Abel who we know was a child of God be forgiven of his sins unless the shedding of Blood had already taken place. How could Abraham, Moses and David be forgiven unless the shedding of blood had already taken place?
The animals dying for our sins in the old testament was a shadow of things to come. It was a ceremonial law. It was a shadow of things to come for those people at that time. Think about it in this way. We are blessed to know that Jesus came and died for our sins on the cross. What if you were in this earth before Jesus came and you saw the Priest killing animals for your sins. You didn’t quite understand what it meant other than God wanted it done. You didn’t quite understand the sacrifice. After Christ came and you heard it was the Son of God, then you understand it was an amazing sacrifice, but without the Spirit you still don’t understand that this too is an earthly story or something happened before the world was created until God opens yours eyes to this truth.
God sent his Son to shed his blood as a demonstration of what was already done spiritually before the foundation of the earth. That is the only way that forgiveness of sins took place before 33AD. They received Salvation the same way we do today. For God is the same yesterday, today and forever.
GOD YOU ARE AWESOME!