Part 2
LET US NOT PLACE OUR HAND ON THE GLORY, or anything that we produce. THAT BELONGS TO GOD ALONE. FOR HE ALONE, IS ABOVE ALL, THROUGH ALL, AND IN YOU ALL, Jews, gentiles, bond, free, male, female, we have all been redeemed, justified, reconciled, by one act of obedience, and HE has reversed the curse that Adam and Eve sold the entire human race into. This was an automatic curse by Adam’s disobedience and an AUTOMATIC curse reversed BY THE OBEDIENCE of the last man, ADAM, for all of mankind.
In the garden, from the very beginning of man’s creation. The choices were clear: Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from all of the trees in the garden, and the trees were placed for a food supply, for nourishment, and for health and well-being. But even from the tree made available with the promise of eternal. FROM THE TREE OF LIFE, but they never did eat from this tree and all of the benefits and promises and the potential of becoming an eternal being with the gift of eternal life that could be theirs, had they eaten from this tree called LIFE, FIRST, However, the forbidden tree, in the middle of the garden, also was placed there with some promise and GOD’S COMMAND, you MUST NOT EAT. This tree is called, THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL.
For in the day that you eat of that tree, YOU WILL DIE. In this perfect paradise of GOD, there are two trees, two choices: all other trees, ok and fine, but this one in the middle of the garden, don’t eat from this one. Is this not just like our human nature? When we are told not to do something, that becomes our point of focus; it’s all we think about, it’s all we can see, it becomes our heart’s desire. They did eat, they did die. However, it was a SPIRITUAL DEATH that produced all types of guilt and shame, I am aware of the fact that I need to cover this thing up a bit just because we know now that we are naked. We also know that HE will be here this afternoon; HE DOES, every day, you know when it starts to cool down a bit. However, after years of living, with physical life.
This life did come to an end that day, for this death happened to one of the sons. So GOD, IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE, knew that they would eat from the forbidden tree, BUT GOD: WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, KNOWING of man’s failings and weakness, provided the PLAN OF REDEMPTION BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, to restore this same fallen weak man, BACK INTO A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP, so we could be: ( made right,) once again. ROMAN 3 – 5 The first man, Adam and Eve, sold us into a condition called sin, and JESUS CHRIST, The last Adam, came and paid the price: or death penalty that was leveled against Adam and Eve and there seed that followed them. They did produce after their own kind, and that remains in our DNA to this very day. For this disobedience against the creator and the ultimate authority. BUT GOD, who is rich in MERCY, Reversed the curse So we could walk and talk not only in the cool of the day but all day long. Just as if you are, talking with your BEST FRIEND.
With your normal speaking voice, not with a lot of vain repetitions, repeating your: HAIL MARY’S, OR WHATEVER and other traps you may have been trained into by parents or by any religious instruction you may have received from a performance-based format. NOW GRACE HAS BECOME MUCH GREATER THAN SIN WILL EVER BE. Grace outruns sin any day of the week. Just ask, PETER, PAUL, MARY, DAVID, ME, YOU. Everyone who calls on the NAME OF THE LORD receives MERCY, GRACE, and FORGIVENESS, and we find a HIGH PRIEST that can and does sympathize with our weakness to help us in our time of need.
However, it has been my observation that when feeding the saints in CHURCH, we feed them from this very same tree that produces death, or WHAT’S GOOD? WHAT’S BAD? WHAT’S EVIL, WHAT’S UGLY? DON’T DO, DON’T DO, DO, ROMANS 7 Tells this story best. A study diet from this forbidden tree, what is good, what is bad, seems to produce the same result as it did back in the garden: SPIRITAUL DEATH, or at best, stunted SPIRITAUL GROWTH; we are killing our babies even before they are born. It’s called aborting our kids and grandkids because we are mothers, feeding breast milk that has been tainted from the nourishment consumed from the wrong tree: The tree called THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. That was never intended to bring about eternal life AND ONLY FEEDS OUR CARNAL MAN.
Fallen man was not allowed to go back into the garden and eat from THE TREE OF LIFE And become an eternal human being because once sin and death became a part of the DNA of mankind and human nature. This is the JESUS CHRIST that the SPIRITUAL MAN SHOULD BE FEEDS FROM. The result of eating from this tree is: WHAT he was referring to from the PARABLE, in St. John 6: 53 – 60, YOU MUST EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD, HE GOES ON TO EXPLAIN, THE WORD THAT I SPEAK UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE, this is what brings about the ETERNAL LIFE that was forfeited by eating from the forbidden tree first. In fact, GOD placed one of HIS angels at the entrance with a flaming sword so that no one could return back into this garden, eat from the tree of LIFE, and live forever in this now broken, fallen, and compromised condition with the death penalty attached.
That is how JESUS CHRIST could make the claim: I AM THE WAY, I AM THE TRUTH, I AM THE LIFE, no one comes to the FATHER except through ME. Unbelievers still remain in death. It is my strong conviction that the UNPARDENABLE SIN of BLASPHEMING is UNBELIEF. Never coming to and receiving the only ONE that restored us to a HOLY GOD. Believing in your heart and Confessing with your mouth that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. Romans 10 (You are still a dead man, walking) only to remain in death or in the realm of Adam. However, to move from Adam into the REALM of being IN CHRIST is so simple. But to as many as receive HIM, ( JESUS CHRIST) TO THEM, HE HAS GIVEN THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD. It’s all about receiving the finished work of redemption that JESUS CHRIST provides,
HIS ONE TIME OFFERING WAS AND IS the ( ONCE AND FOR ALL PAYMENT ) Yes, GOD still hates sin; in fact, HE hated it so much that HE, had to make a choice between HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, for the RECONCILIATION AND JUSTIFICATION of all of HIS CREATION, and you and I are the results of HIS CHOICE, SO HIS DECISION was to make the offering, of HIS ONE AND ONLY SON TO BE THE SIN OFFERING FOR ALL, To reconcile the entire world and creation back to HIMSELF, and HE, HIMSELF BECAME OUR PEACE. ( COLOSSIANS 1 & 2 TELLS US ) and in that one, OFFERING was the choice to REMEMBER OUR SINS ON LONGER and to bring all of us back into HIMSELF.
We now have a brand new address where we have our new identity ( IN CHRIST ) We have been removed from the death penalty caused by sin, But you still have the ability to sin, and the choice is still yours, however REMOVED FRON THE PENALTY of sin the ( consequences ) of your bad choices still remain to this day. Let me explain it this way. Under this NEW WILL AND TESTMENT, JESUS CHRIST MADE HIS OBEDIENT SACRIFICE, TO MAKE HIS BLOOD AN ATONMENT for the sin of the entire world. Everyone born of woman has been redeemed, and this free gift called [ ETERNAL LIFE ] gift has been made for all of mankind, into HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, or into an inheritance account, that can never perish, spoil, or fade with your name in this will. ( Predestinated )
(Watch for the next post coming soon…)