The whole tenor of Scripture reveals that God is a family man, and building His family is fundamental to what He is doing in the earth. He is repeatedly referred to as our Father, and we are His children. However, there can be no Father, or children, without a mother. Paul lamented in 1 Cor […]
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The Exile Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate
The Exile Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate
The Covering Now the man called his wife\’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them (Gen 3:20-21). These Scriptures clearly state that His blood cleanses us from all sin and from all unrighteousness. For us
The Covering Now the man called his wife\’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them (Gen 3:20-21). This is considered the first prophecy of the atonement sacrifice of Christ. Adam and Eve had tried to
All relationships are built on trust. In our fallen nature, we exercise authority for our own selfish reasons. As we are changed, and begin to grow in the love of God, authority is exercised for the sake of others. As authority is exercised in love, the bridge of trust is built step by step. Because
The Curse on the Man Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it all the days
The Curse on the Woman To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gen 3:16). The Lord created the man and woman to procreate, but childbirth was not intended
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For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on
The Curse on the Serpent And the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life; and I will put enmity
Blaming Others And the man said, “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” The Lord does not forgive excuses; He forgives sin. He is always ready to forgive us if we repent. To repent is to acknowledge that it is our fault, and we
Blaming Others And the man said, “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate” (Gen 3:12-13). The man said that
The Bible is a wonderful gift, and should always be the basis of all doctrine and teaching. However, the Lord does not just relate to His people as the Teacher. He is also our Shepherd, and the sheep follow Him “because they know His voice” (see John 10:4). He is also the Prophet, and He
The Voices And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” (Gen 3:11) Those who do not know God believe that it is a form of insanity to think that you have heard the voice of God. However, the Scriptures
Fear- And he (Adam) said, “I heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself ” (Gen 3:10). Jesus was the Lord of glory and yet He emptied Himself to become a frail human child. He made Himself utterly vulnerable, even allowing corrupt, fallen
The Voices And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” (Gen 3:11) It is interesting to note that Adam and Eve did not think it was strange that a serpent spoke to them. From this we can deduct that
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Fear And he (Adam) said, “I heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself ” (Gen 3:10). The first mention of fear in the Bible is in the above verse. There is a pure and holy fear of God, and there is an
The month of June is the fourth (4th) Jewish sacred calendar month called Tammuz (Ezekiel 8). It is also reckoned as the tenth (10th) month following the Jewish civil calendar. According to the Gregorian calendar, June is the sixth (6th) month. The spring season has come to an end and the summer is beginning to
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The Covering (iii) We read in Eph 1:7-8: In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us. In Eph 2:13 we are told, “But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by
The Covering Now the man called his wife\’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them (Gen 3:20-21). This is considered the first prophecy of the atonement sacrifice of Christ. Adam and Eve had tried to
Authority is exercised in love All relationships are built on trust. In our fallen nature, we exercise authority for our own selfish reasons. As we are changed, and begin to grow in the love of God, authority is exercised for the sake of others. As authority is exercised in love, the bridge of trust is
The Curse on the ground because of Man We also see that the ground was cursed because of the man. He had been given authority to rule over the earth, so when he fell, all that was under his authority fell. Disharmony and death spread to all because of the man. Because of this, he
The Curse on the Man Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it all the days
The Curse on the Woman (iii) Eph. 5:22-28. Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also
The Curse on the Woman (ii) It is apparent that the man did have a leadership role before the Fall because the command to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge was given to the man. But there is a difference in “leading” and “ruling.” Even though they were to rule over the creation, it
The Curse on the Woman To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gen 3:16). The Lord created the man and woman to procreate, but childbirth was not intended
The Curse on the Serpent (ii) Because the devil feeds on the carnal nature of man, when we fall into carnality we are feeding and strengthening his domain in our lives. We must learn to feed our spirits, not our carnal nature. We feed our spirits by keeping what we read, watch, or even think
The Curse on the Serpent And the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life; and I will put enmity
The Fall Deepens (iii) The environment is not the problem. The Lord put man in a perfect environment and he still sinned. If the environment was the problem, then the Lord would have needed to just redeem the environment and not man. The Lord gave authority over the environment to man. When man is redeemed,
The Fall Deepens (ii) The Lord does not forgive excuses; He forgives sin. He is always ready to forgive us if we repent. To repent is to acknowledge that it is our fault, and we made a mistake. Blame-shifting instead of repentance is to further build the barriers between ourselves and God, and ourselves and
