All right, I want you to do me a favor tonight.
I've got a few scriptures that we're going to be putting on the
board and and The Tonight, tonight's sermon title.
We had a genius moment right before we did that.
Put that up there, guys. Here we go.
We're going to talk about illegal entry.
That seems to be the hot subject right now, right?
And, and we're going to talk about citizenship.
And I'm going to let you know in advance tonight, I'm going to
leave you hanging, all right, because I'm going to cover two
different subjects this evening. And I, I want you to take some
notes. And the reason why, you know,
and this is at the request of the highest level, the apostle
of our church that has told me exactly what he wanted me to
share about, which is my honor and and privilege to be able to
do so. So, but I want to make sure that
we do as I prayed, have ears to hear and eyes to see because
it's going to be critical in these last days because people
have been watching you. I don't know if you know this or
not. Your neighbors have been
watching you. They see you get up every Sunday
morning. You know, they don't have to
wonder where you're going. You know, they also often think
we ought to go too, right? But the thing that we need to
make sure that we have is an understanding on how to
communicate. All right, the salvation message
and being able to get in the Kingdom.
And we're going to cover some things tonight because over the
years of being, you know, in the ministry and, you know, at our
previous church, I was on staff as an associate to our pastor,
David EMI in Sand Springs. OK.
And one of the things that I noticed during altar calls and
different things like that, that, you know, our our apostles
and I don't know, I get thrilled every time that he ministers
because we never know what we're going to get.
It's like, you know, chef's surprise or something, right?
And, and, and the thrill that I get in listening to that, even
in when he's he's communicating the Kingdom.
I've had some people say, man, if I hear another Kingdom
message, I'm just, I'm going to leave.
I said, let me show you the door because we going to teach on the
Kingdom, OK, And and I never get tired of hearing it ever.
I mean, it was so life changing. It was the the missing piece in
my life. When I heard it on that June
7th, 2009. It it just made.
I said, man, that just answers everything.
Melanie and I, you know, we're in the car.
She looks at me, she goes, I've waited my whole life to hear
this message. And we have, if you've been in
church any length of time, you know, I find myself, you know,
going to church, you know, you're going through the
motions. But when you finally hear
something that puts everything together, connects all the dots,
it is the Kingdom of God and understanding.
And really what was interesting is in 2007 on Black Friday,
everybody know what a Black Friday is.
That's when your wife and all the, the women folk go crazy and
we'll get up early, go shopping, stuff like that.
Well, I refuse to do such things.
So what I did was I used that day to get before the Lord and
just find out how I was doing, you know, did I miss anything I
got anything else left to do? I only got a month.
Help me. And the Lord spoke to me and He
said just two things that year. He said #1 you're not Kingdom
minded enough. And I had no idea what he was
talking about. I said, well, one, if you say
that I am not Kingdom minded enough, I must not be Kingdom
minded enough. I'm pretty sharp.
And I said, OK, you're going to have to show me what you're
talking about. Well, that was 2007.
I studied, I mean studied and went through every scripture in
the New Testament on the Kingdom of God, had a list of them,
printed the list of them. And Pastor David asked me, He
said, hey, I'm going to give you 2 Wednesday nights.
I'm having deja vu, I'm going to give you 2 Wednesday nights.
And I want you to teach what you've learned and what the Lord
showed you about the Kingdom. Listen, I got up there and I
still didn't know nothing about the Kingdom.
And I gave the two best shots that I could.
And it wasn't until we got down here and I was supposed to go
with Apostle Earl to hear Miles Monroe.
I didn't know it was Miles Monroe, but we got in town that
week like 2:00 in the morning on Tuesday, he's leaving.
Friday he comes up, he comes back totally changed and I
missed out on it, man. But you know what?
I have run a good race catching up.
There is no doubt about that. So the reason tonight is so
important is that I am going to share because like I said, you
know, I've seen so many altar calls and, and different ways
that, you know, they do them at the end of service is your
tradition of them. And they'll ask people, you
know, if you want to, you know, you want to be saved.
That's that's the title basically of what we're going to
talk about is what is true salvation according to the
Bible. And but, you know, they say if
you want to be saved, he said, you know, just come down front,
you know, confess your sins as Jesus come in your heart and
you'll be saved. And they fill out a little card.
When I was a kid, that's what they did.
All right. Well, one of the things that I
found out years later, those steps are not in the Bible.
Who could confess all their sins?
If you could remember half of them, you'd be doing, I guess,
good. And we ain't got time to let you
come down here and confess all your sins.
We'd be here for days, probably some of you.
And then to ask Jesus to come in your heart.
There is no place in Scripture that says ask Jesus to come into
your heart for salvation. It is not in there.
So we want to know what is in there.
And it's going to be important that you give an accurate
picture to somebody that asked about the hope that's within
you. As Peter said, he said, he said
be always ready to give an answer to those that ask about
the hope that lies within you. We want to give them an accurate
answer. So tonight we're going to start
in Genesis chapter 1. And really what I want to lay
out is this is one thing that that I found when we have had
people come down and they'd want to get saved and we pray a
prayer with them and then the next morning they'd wake up.
So we get them, we get them saved on Sunday, they wake up on
Monday, right? And then they ask a question,
what did I need to get saved from what, what was what was
coming, what was happening that I needed to be saved.
All right, we're going to talk about what happened.
All right now scholars tell us this is that if we go to the
first chapter of Genesis that the the creation in chapter 1
when he began to speak, he was really making a covenant because
see, when God makes a covenant, he speaks it in his existence.
Really that is the only way Josh right now is teaching blood
covenant in FCU and there's two elements to the among many, but
there's two main elements to a covenant and it is a blessing
and a cursing. You can't think about a blessing
and you can't think about a cursing in your head and say
you're cutting covenant. In order to have a covenant, it
has to be spoken. You have to speak it.
So God made a covenant as his speaking when he began to
create. And scholars tell us they've
lit, they've labeled all the covenants through the Bible.
The first covenant is the Solaric.
It's called the Solaric of the solar system, of the stars, of
the moon, the sun, the first days of the first days of
creation. That was that was the time where
God created everything. Then he gets into the 26th
verse. Everybody should have it
memorized. Somebody asked you about it.
You need to know what it says because you may not have your
Bible. You may have left your phone on
your desk, whatever you need to have that verse.
Jot this verse down. Genesis one verse 26.
OK, this is what He said and God said after He had created
everything else, we get to the 6th day and he said, and God
said let us make man in our image and after our likeness and
let them have. And you need to note the word
dominion, all right? He said you're going to have
dominion over the fish of the sea, that fowl, the air, over
the cattle, over the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth. So in other words, he's letting
him know I'm going to create this being.
He's going to have the image. That's what the word image mean.
He is going to have the outward appearance of me, and he's going
to have my likeness or my traits or some characteristics that
look just like me. All right.
Then he says, and here's what I'm going to do.
Once I get him in the planet, I'm going to give him dominion
of everything that I created the first five days.
OK, that's the plan. All right, so when we look at
the word, I want you to know the word dominion in the Hebrew, it
is the word radah, RADAH, radah. And here's what the definition
is so that you understand what God's intent was.
It means to rule, to dominate, or to tread down.
In other words, He's given them the authority to be able to
tread down on something if necessary.
But he says I'm giving you the rule of the planet.
I want you to dominate the planet.
Now, if you think about it, really when it comes to a
government that God is setting up, and we've proven this so
many times, apostles gone over scripture, over scripture and
scripture, you know, talking about that God was setting up a
government. And for me, that was the key,
the link that I needed because I learned all that stuff about the
Kingdom. But the word government is what
changed everything for me. OK, It wasn't a religion, all
right. Now, when he said you got
dominion, He created man in verse 27 in his own image and in
the image of God created him male and female.
He created them. That ought to put a stop to all
the stuff that's going on today. I mean, you got to get back to
the original facts. He created a man, He created a
woman. You look at all the animals.
He created a male, He created a female.
All right, I, I'm so sorry that people are confused about that.
I mean, come on, you know, all right, now, verse 28, it said,
and God blessed them. Now remember, in order to have a
covenant, there's got to be a blessing, all right?
He blessed them and said, all right, be fruitful and multiply,
replenish the earth, subdue it and have dominion over the fish
of the sea that fowl the air and over every living thing that
moves upon the earth. So again, we have the same word,
radha in the Hebrew, all right, that that means I, I created you
to rule and to reign in this planet.
All right, The first thing that we need to get an understanding
on our part as rulers and those that reign is you can't rule and
reign without saying something. Can you imagine a king?
Come on, people are waiting. What's he going to say next?
So we can do something and he never says anything.
You only rule and reign based upon your words.
What it is, are you saying that's how God, it designed it
for us? OK, so let's take a look.
Because when we see, we see the fact that we were created to
rule. We were created to reign.
He gave us all the creation to rule and reign over.
We weren't supposed to rule and reign over each other.
You know, people ask me my thoughts on football.
I like football, but I don't know there'll be football in
heaven. Why?
Because God never designed us to try to dominate, dominate each
other. If you want to see domination of
each other, watch a football game.
All right. But I can't say that that was,
you know, part of his original plan of entertainment, that we
needed entertainment. OK All right.
I want to go to the next covenant that God had once he
got man created. All right?
Now, I think it's interesting. It's in Genesis chapter 2,
verses 15 through 17. I look at the book of Genesis
chapter 1 as as kind of like a table of contents.
It lets us know what he did on each day.
You know, I mean, he said let there be and there and, and it
was. And then, you know, there was a
couple of days in there, like the 4th day or so.
He said let there be more than once.
So that means, you know, he's heading toward a vacation day.
Don't we all get real busy right before vacation?
You know, in fact, whoever we're working for for probably wonders
how come they don't work that fast all the time.
It's amazing how we come alive before vacation.
We get more done than we got done in the whole month, right.
So he tells us in here in the the the next covenant is called
the Edenic covenant Eden with the economy end of it.
The Edenic covenant, which is God has spoken.
So he's getting ready to speak some things.
Once he got the creation of the garden done in verse 15, it said
and the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it. OK, I've often pictured that in
my mind. How do you do that?
He put him in the garden. Did he go pick him up by the
head and put him in the garden? But it says he took the man and
put him in the garden. Now notice he had a job
description. Now it's interesting to note
that in the 2nd chapter, verse 5, God lets us know one of His
major intentions on bringing man in the garden.
He said, listen, he said before things began to grow, before
even a, a, a leaf shot up out of the ground.
He said there was no rain. He didn't let anything start in
the earth because he did not have a man to till or he did not
have a man to toil in it. So that lets us know in advance
that God was looking for a good manager.
He's still looking for good managers over his creation, over
the things that he gives you. You have to ask yourself, am I
qualified to be a manager? Well, that's what he said in
here. He wanted him to dress it, which
meant manage it, to toil, to take care of, to cultivate the
garden. Then he said to keep it.
And the word keep in the Hebrew is the Hebrew word shamar, and
it means to hedge about, to guard or to protect.
Now it's interesting because you have to ask the question then
what was he supposed to guard and protect it from?
Well, we'll find out here in a minute.
But God intended him and let him know.
I need you to. He said, saying of every tree of
the garden. In verse 16, He said he
commanded the man. So here is the part of the
blessing of the the Edonite Covenant, he said, and the Lord
commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden you may
freely eat, that's a blessing. In other words, there's no
limits. You can eat of all the trees of
the garden. But he said, but there's one
tree in verse 17, but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, you shall not eat it. For the day that you eat it, you
will surely die. No, we usually puzzle.
Earl lets us finish that for me. The day you eat it, you shall.
Surely we we all know that one, right?
Now let's talk about the Hebrew word.
It's very simple, all right. In the Hebrew, it is the word
muth, pronounced muth. And you know what it means dead.
That's what I mean. It mean basically he's just
talking about death and and and you know, I don't know.
We have no record that he explained it.
Think about it. Don't eat it.
The day you eat it, you surely die.
I've looked at Melanie and I go, what is this die?
What is die mean? What is that right?
We have no record that they understood it, but we don't have
a record that didn't. Now, I'm sure based upon the
communication and the vocabulary and the different things that
God probably spoke more to them than we have record of.
What do you think? Right.
So of course, of course he did. Now still part of that covenant
in the Garden of Eden. We go to chapter 3.
All right now he tells us in there that he said there's just
one commandment. You're blessed to eat everything
and have everything that you have need of even told him that
in the last part of chapter 1. He said, listen, I've given you
herbs, I've given you trees with fruit with seeds in them.
He said that'll be your food for you and, and and he said it's
it's going to be abundant. You will have no lack in this
garden. You get to chapter 3 and it
starts out saying, now the serpent was more subtle than any
beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said unto the woman, yeah, hath God said, you shall
not eat of every tree of the garden?
Note this down. This is the first account, and
I'm going to give you 4 points on the operations of Satan
because we find out in Matthew in Mark chapter 4, this Satan
comes immediately to steal the word that was sown in the hearts
of men. You recall that?
So chapter 3 is pretty immediate after chapter 2 by most counts,
right? So let's take a look at the next
few verses as we see what trouble came and basically got
us into the condition that we're in.
All right #1 when you take a look, he said the servant was
more subtle. He began to ask a question.
You shall, you shall not eat of every tree in the garden.
This is the first account we have of doubting the word of God
that Satan comes to get you to doubt what you've heard.
He starts questioning what you heard.
You get a little symptom in your body.
And all of a sudden the question is, did God say he'd heal all
your sickness and disease? If so, how, how'd you get that?
How, how how's that feel? So that's that's his, his first
way of getting in, always getting you to question what you
heard God say next verse he said, and the woman said to the
serpent, we may ate of the we may eat of the tree fruit of the
trees of the garden. Verse 3 but of the fruit of the
tree in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat
it, neither shall you touch it lest you die.
The second thing that Satan always will try to get you to do
is add to the Scripture or come up with some kind of weird
interpretation of the Scripture. Now what did she add?
All right, He said the Lord said don't eat it or even touch it,
lest you die. We have no record that God said
that. All right, I bet I know who said
it. I bet Adam did.
Can't you see he's macho daddy savage woman.
Now God told me that we are not to eat in this tree.
I'll tell you what, you don't even touch it.
Let me get you straight. You're not even going to touch
it. You understand?
I know where that came from. But that's a the, the, the, the
critical part of understanding the word of God.
And this is what's so funny. You know, I have people come out
and say, done the Bible, say somewhere and then they'll quote
something and it is so far off I go, oh man, I said you, it's
obvious to me you haven't read it.
You hadn't read the Bible lately, especially on that
particular 1 you just happened to quote.
You know, I've had people over the years.
Here's an example. I had one one time that I went
into their office and and we were, you know, basically
soliciting them for a contract. And she blurted out a few little
choice words and then said God blanket and I go, I guess my
face said a lot. OK, But she said, oh, I'm sorry.
I, I didn't mean to take the Lord's name in vain and I go,
well, I said doesn't bother me because first thing I learned
about God that that's not his name.
God is what he is. His name is Jehovah.
And if you'll read the Scripture and do a little research in the
original language, you'll find out that the word vain means
something that has been declared empty, idle and nonproductive.
So when God says you will not take my name in vain, he's
letting you know I have a name. And along with my name, like
you, all that work for companies have a little title on your
business card. God has a lot of titles.
So he has Jehovah Rufa. He said I am your healer.
I am your healer, so when you say I got this and I and the
doctors say it's terminal, you better be careful of the next
things coming out of your mouth because if you say anything
contrary to God is my healer, you're that close to taking his
name in vain. Does that make sense?
But you don't get that face value because everybody's got
their own interpretation of what they think the Scripture means.
Be intelligent. Study it for yourself.
OK, so he says in there. He when he said in there,
neither shall you touch it unless you die.
She's adding to it. That devil always wants to add
something. He wants you to add something.
He wants you to get away from the meaning so you won't receive
what it says you can have. Does that make sense?
All right, here's a here's the next thing he said and the
serpent next verse, verse four. And the serpent said unto the
woman, you shall not surely die for God does know that in the
day you eat thereof, then your eyes will be opened and you'll
be as God's knowing good and evil.
Here's where the devil gets you into contradiction of what God
said. He flat out lied.
That's why Jesus called him the father of all lies.
He blatantly says God says the day you eat it you will.
The devil says you won't die. So now she's got a decision to
make right now she's heard a contradiction to the word.
Did you know? Like those reports from the
doctor, the devil can set them up to be contradictions to what
you believe. Don't fall for it.
Did I say that loud enough? Don't fall for it.
So that's the third way that he gets in there and he's he's
trying to do what? Snatch the word out of your
heart. Then you get to the sixth verse
and it said when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
it was pleasant to the eyes and the tree to be desired to make
one wise. She took the fruit and did eat.
Here's a good here, here's a good one.
Listen to this and gave to her husband with her and he did he
you know, I I even heard in the old days, you know, some
ministers said, you know, if it wasn't for the woman, we
wouldn't be in this mess. You know, Sir, really, if it
wasn't for the women, we wouldn't have anything.
Can it? Can I get an Amen?
At least half the half the room. It'd be all right.
OK. She ate and that fool was
standing right there next to her because it didn't say.
She chased him down in the the garden to say here, here, here,
eat this. Grab the Hick.
No, he was standing right there, arm's length.
Handed him the fruit and he ate, which is the final step
transgression of the word of God.
So that's all he's trying to do. He's going to he's going to lie
to you, he's going to twist the scriptures in in front of you.
He's going to contradict the scriptures just so he can get
you to transgress. OK, so it's interesting because
you think about as they ate and they transgress God's word.
Weren't they supposed to die when that happened?
I mean, he said it, but he didn't fall over dead.
So that tells us. And those that were ministering
to there must be different types of death.
OK, because here's the point. First verse in chapter 5 says he
lived to be how old? Anybody know off their head, off
the top of their head, 930 years old.
I thought he's supposed to die. So one of the things that we
need to realize, and this will help you because I've had many,
many conversations with several different, I would call them
cults. They are a culture, OK?
That's why they call them cults. They stick together like birds
of a feather and there's one particular one that is alive and
well in planet Earth today and they do not believe that you
have a spirit man on the inside. They just believe that when you
die, you just go into a soul sleep.
That is not scriptural. When you see, and you need to
note this down, anytime you see the word death mentioned it, it
paints the picture of a separation.
So apparently when they ate of that fruit coming very soon is a
separation or death. OK, now technically speaking,
let me give them to you real quick.
There's three types of death mentioned in the scripture.
One is spiritual death. That's what we believe happened
to Adam when he ate that fruit. Spiritual death, spiritually
separated from God. Second one is physical death.
Because of that, disobedience and sin came in the earth.
The wages of sin. I'll give you the Scripture here
in a minute, but the wages of sin is death and it can be
either spiritual or physical, right?
The last one is what is called the second death and you can
find it referenced in Revelation chapter 20 verse 6.
And he said those of us that are righteous, the power of the
second death has no power on us. OK, so when we take a look at
that now here we come to the beginning of another covenant
that God has to make after the fall.
So we understand that when they ate of the fruit, there was a
death or there was a separation. He lived to be 930 years.
But something has happened to the relationship with the
Creator. All right, you go to verse 7.
All right, And we start another one called the Adamic Adamic
Covenant. And he said the eyes of them
were both opened and they knew they were naked and they sewed
fig leaves together and made aprons.
OK, now something happened that, you know, basically when they,
they knew they were naked and, and I've studied this out a lot
just to say what was the significance?
Really what I think is either they were, they were clothed
with a glory of God and all of a sudden that what, when it, when
it, when they, they ate of that fruit, it was totally gone.
I think that also there's some other things that I've, I've
given thought to is what kind of body is a glorified body?
Jesus said my body after he rose from the dead, He said, I, I
need you to handle me. I'm flesh and bone, not like a
spirit has. So I'm kind of curious as to
where the heart and the capillaries and everything came
in because there's no indication that Adam had any of that.
There was no mention of blood. There was no mention of it.
Last week. Apostle Earl got up here and he
said the most deceptive thing in the life of a human is
breathing. Anybody remember that?
That something happened in the separation of the spirit of, of
man with God that I wonder if he had to create something in them
to keep them alive because we're all walking around all right now
that's just theory, all right. There's no, no scriptural basis
for it. But all of a sudden there comes
an emphasis of blood. And even the point they said
without there is life is in the blood.
Prior to that life was in God. And so, you know, and, and so
I'm wondering what it is that they look so different or the
notice that they had, but they said in verse 8, they, they,
they heard the voice of the Lord God.
And this is, this is interesting because basically it just refers
to God as God until we get here. And now he's Lord God.
And he said, the Lord God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the Lord amongst the trees of
the garden. And the Lord called unto Adam
and said unto him, where are you?
All right, And we're playing hide and seek.
And it wasn't that God didn't know where he was.
OK, God, probably a garden pretty well, and he probably
knew where he was, but he wanted him to ask himself the question,
where are you? OK, that's the same question
that we need to ask those. They're not born again.
Where are you? And let them know there is a
place that they can be and they don't have to settle for where
they are now. OK, so he tells him, he said,
where are you? And then he, they said unto him,
they said, we heard your voice in the I said, I heard your
voice in the garden. And I was afraid because I was
naked and I hid myself. Now I love how God cuts to the
chase here. He says, who told you you were
naked? And then we didn't start a
conversation on all that because the next question was, did you
eat of the tree? Where have I commanded you not
to eat of? And here we go very first place
in Scripture that man thinks he's going to get away with
blaming somebody. And this is sad because he said
the woman that you gave me said she gave me the tree and I did
eat. So he wasn't just blaming her,
he was blaming God. Like if you hadn't given me the
woman, we wouldn't be in this mess, boy.
All right, Verse 13, he said, God said to the woman, what is
this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord said unto the
servant, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all
the cattle, above every beast of field.
Upon the belly shall you go, and the dust you will eat all the
days of your life. All right.
So he, he, he first said, you know he leave, he goes to Adam,
right? You can see this, right?
Said, Did you eat of the tree? I told you not to eat the woman
that you gave me, did it? What have you done?
Well, the serpent beguiled me, OK, Because you did this.
This is what's going to happen. All right.
Now you got to get an understanding that the serpent
wasn't the devil. He was a created being, just
like every animal that God had created the first six days.
OK? He was under the influence of
the devil and began to lock. Now here's the funniest part to
me. How does it make you look when
you carry on a conversation with a snake?
How intelligent does that look? Now here's the here's the thing
I got against Adam is that he was told to guard and protect
the place. So we got this snake carrying on
a conversation with his wife, and he must have stood there and
listened to all of it instead of getting a big old stick and do
what I do to snakes. You beat them beyond
recognition. You don't even want to know
there's a snake there, all right.
But he tells them he, he, he, he lets them know you're going to
crawl on your belly. He said you're going to be all
the days of your life. Then in verse 15, I believe he's
changing talking to the source of the conversation, he said,
And I will put an indemnity between you and the woman in
between your seed and her seed. It shall bruise your head and
you shall bruise his heel. He's talking to the devil there.
Snake didn't have nothing to do with that.
Ain't got no seed, all right, not dealing with that stuff.
But he tells him, he said to bruise.
Now let me give you give you a, a picture of this bruised thing.
All right. In the in the Hebrew, it is the
word shoof. Shoof.
OK. And it has one picture.
Crush it. That's what you what I just
said. You do to snakes, right?
You crush them. Now two things are getting
crushed. 1 He said the seed of the woman is going to crush your
head and you are going to crush his heel.
Here's a question, which do you think is easier to get over?
Can you get over heel pain a little better than head pain?
But he said use the word crush that that's what's going to
happen. He's letting him know in advance
how this is going to go down and he said that now to give you a
little significance to understand because he said the
woman seed, not the man seed, the woman seed basically has to
have the man seed to create be saying she won't have to have a
man seed. Her seed is going to come in
contact with the divine seed. You will try to crush his heel,
but know this he's going to crush your head.
All right. So when we see that we need that
we need to understand now he gets done with the the snake, he
gets done with the devil and he goes to the woman and he and in
verse 16 and he lets her know that that the level of what this
curse is brought on because of disobedience.
And in in in covenants, when they pronounce the blessing, the
curse comes when you're disobedient to the blessing.
All right, so he tells, he tells her, you're going to multiply
your sorrow in conception. So you'll bring four children
and your desire to be your husband and he will rule over
you. All right.
Now, I like the illustration I heard years ago that he was, she
was taken from his rib or his side to be beside man, not a
foot bone or a headbone. She does, is she not to be over
him and she's not to be under him.
All right. She's supposed to be beside him,
right? So when when he, he, he lets her
know that. And it's interesting.
The arena of of discomfort and everything is going to be in the
realm of conception. All right, now you go to 17.
And he said unto Adam. He said, Because you have
hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and you've eaten the fruit
which I commanded you. All you that you should not eat
of a curse is a ground for your sake and sorrow shall you eat
all the days of your life. It's interesting to me that the
curse on man was dealing with God's provision.
It seems like when he got the curse or what is going to happen
to him in the separation between him and God, his revision is now
going to be sorrowful. The word sorrow in the Hebrew
means worrisome. So where God provided
everything, part of the blessing of the Garden of Eden, all the
abundance that he had to have and he could have, he said now
he's going to worry. Where's it going to come from?
How come this isn't working out right?
Unfortunately, people today are still living under that curse.
And I think it's interesting also when we talk about the
curse over the land and and if you'll notice if you finish it
on down, he said, you know, thorns and thistles, sweat of
your face. You know in verse 18 and 19 that
it's going to be it's going to be toil.
It's going to be work to get the earth to produce now because of
this separation. But I thought it interesting.
What was the first temptation Jesus had to go through had to
do with his provision. Seems the devil's always after
our provision and he told him he said, listen, he said he said,
you know, I know you're hungry if you are the Son of God,
command that these stones be turned into bread.
Jesus response was phenomenal. What did he say?
It is written and he said, Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
All that we have read thus far has been because man did not pay
attention to the word of God. The fall of man was really a
failure to follow the word of God and shows us how important
the word of God is to us. The Kingdom is based upon the
words of God. You receiving or not receiving
or having the abundant life you're supposed to have is
extremely dependent. Not independent, but dependent
on the things that have proceeded out of the mouth of
God. All right, now I think it's
interesting. Verse 24 is the ultimate OK
where he says he drove the man out.
He placed in the east garden, the east of the Garden of Eden.
Cherubims with flaming sword turned every way to keep the way
or the road to the tree of life. All right, here's what you need
to realize. In the separation in the Kingdom
of God, what he lost was not only the provision, but the very
number one thing he lost was dominion.
He didn't lose a religion, right?
He didn't lose a thought on how God operates.
He lost his dominion. He lost the relationship where
God came in the cool of the day to sit down and talk to him.
All right. Now it's interesting that
there's no mention in this first part that we've read in the
first 3 chapters the word sin, because that sin is what
separates us from God at our birth.
So we have to find out where did anybody write anything about sin
so we know where we stand when we come into this earth.
All right, I want you to go to Romans 5.
Paul explains this perfectly verse 12, Wherefore as by one
man sin entered into the world, and death or separation by sin,
so death passed upon all men. For that all men have sinned.
Is that clear? Who sinned?
Adam did it even though it didn't call it Adam, you sinned.
God didn't say that he transgressed, which is sin.
All right, A and and here's what you need to know about the word
sin in the Greek language. It is the word hamartia, and
hamartia means very simply miss the mark.
In the old English times, they used it when they called out
somebody missing an archery target.
Sin. That's the picture that you have
arrows, you're shooting the arrows.
If you miss the target, it's sin.
When we don't obey the word of God, we miss the mark.
And it happened by one guy and because of him it explains it
perfectly. Everybody that you will talk to
you that does not know Jesus has sinned according to that verse.
Right now let's read on and go to verse 17.
He said, for by if one man's offense death reigned by 1 much
more. They which will receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, they
shall reign in life by 1 Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men
to condemnation. Heard it.
I saw a great post the other day that you know, somebody had
asked the question why would a loving God send anybody to hell?
And the guy said God doesn't send anybody to hell.
As a matter of fact, when you were born, you were born on the
road to hell. You are headed that direction.
The thing you need to realize that God gave an exit ramp and
if you don't take it, it isn't his fault.
We're going to talk about the exit ramp next week.
OK, Then he said for as many As for as by verse 19, for as by
one man's disobedient, many were made sinners.
So by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
So I'm giving you this is kind of a preview next week.
OK, that those verses, it lets us know sin came into the earth.
Every man born, every woman born after that time, they are born
in sin. They need a Savior.
OK, now Romans 323, jot it down. This is kind of what is commonly
called the Roman Rd. because we need to let people know they're
sinners. If they don't know, all right,
For all of sin and come short of the glory of God.
Romans 323 OK Romans 623 For the wages of sin is death,
separation, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord. That's what we want, eternal
life. If there's eternal life, guess
what else there must be eternal death or separation.
That was the second death that I told you about.
It's eternal separation from God in the lake of fire.
OK, now what? There is something that allows
us to partake of the gift that I'm going to go over next week,
and I want to give it to you in one word tonight.
So we wrap it up. All right, Matthew 2628, listen
to this for this is the blood of the new covenant.
Jesus was talking. This is His last communion, His
last Passover with the guys, He said, which is shed for many for
the remission of sin. So the Bible talks about many
times. I'm going to give you another
one. There's a it's, it's mentioned.
The word remission is mentioned in the New Testament 10 times in
verse in Hebrews 922. All right, It says, and almost
all things are by law purged with blood and without the
shedding of blood, there is no remission.
You need to know the word remission.
You need to use it when you're visiting with people that God
has made a way and one of the ways that He does remission.
And this is the word Ephesus. Ephesus is the word for
remission. It means freedom, pardon, and
deliverance. But here's it is a forgiving and
a pardon so strong that it lets that sin go as if they'd never
been committed. That's what remission is about.
And we're going to get into that next week and take a look at,
you know, how do we become citizens in the Kingdom of God?
You need to pay attention, need to bring a notebook or something
to take notes to get this into you and part of you.
Why? Because you're going to need to
be sharing it when people ask you, how do we get saved?
This tonight tells you what you needed to be saved from the fall
of Adam. He, he lost his dominion in the
Kingdom, and we need to get that back because that was God's
original tent. Amen.