1 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,240 All right, I want you to do me a favor tonight. 2 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,440 I've got a few scriptures that we're going to be putting on the 3 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,440 board and and The Tonight, tonight's sermon title. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,680 We had a genius moment right before we did that. 5 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:25,560 Put that up there, guys. Here we go. 6 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,120 We're going to talk about illegal entry. 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,000 That seems to be the hot subject right now, right? 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,120 And, and we're going to talk about citizenship. 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,640 And I'm going to let you know in advance tonight, I'm going to 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,280 leave you hanging, all right, because I'm going to cover two 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,280 different subjects this evening. And I, I want you to take some 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,600 notes. And the reason why, you know, 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,800 and this is at the request of the highest level, the apostle 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,200 of our church that has told me exactly what he wanted me to 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,760 share about, which is my honor and and privilege to be able to 16 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,720 do so. So, but I want to make sure that 17 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:05,760 we do as I prayed, have ears to hear and eyes to see because 18 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,920 it's going to be critical in these last days because people 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,200 have been watching you. I don't know if you know this or 20 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,920 not. Your neighbors have been 21 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,400 watching you. They see you get up every Sunday 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,160 morning. You know, they don't have to 23 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,000 wonder where you're going. You know, they also often think 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,320 we ought to go too, right? But the thing that we need to 25 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,640 make sure that we have is an understanding on how to 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,160 communicate. All right, the salvation message 27 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:35,320 and being able to get in the Kingdom. 28 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,280 And we're going to cover some things tonight because over the 29 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,800 years of being, you know, in the ministry and, you know, at our 30 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,440 previous church, I was on staff as an associate to our pastor, 31 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,280 David EMI in Sand Springs. OK. 32 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,680 And one of the things that I noticed during altar calls and 33 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,000 different things like that, that, you know, our our apostles 34 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,880 and I don't know, I get thrilled every time that he ministers 35 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,280 because we never know what we're going to get. 36 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,240 It's like, you know, chef's surprise or something, right? 37 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,759 And, and, and the thrill that I get in listening to that, even 38 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:12,240 in when he's he's communicating the Kingdom. 39 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,720 I've had some people say, man, if I hear another Kingdom 40 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,200 message, I'm just, I'm going to leave. 41 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:25,080 I said, let me show you the door because we going to teach on the 42 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,600 Kingdom, OK, And and I never get tired of hearing it ever. 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,080 I mean, it was so life changing. It was the the missing piece in 44 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,800 my life. When I heard it on that June 45 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,480 7th, 2009. It it just made. 46 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,560 I said, man, that just answers everything. 47 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,920 Melanie and I, you know, we're in the car. 48 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,400 She looks at me, she goes, I've waited my whole life to hear 49 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,320 this message. And we have, if you've been in 50 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,400 church any length of time, you know, I find myself, you know, 51 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,680 going to church, you know, you're going through the 52 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,040 motions. But when you finally hear 53 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,280 something that puts everything together, connects all the dots, 54 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,880 it is the Kingdom of God and understanding. 55 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,640 And really what was interesting is in 2007 on Black Friday, 56 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:11,200 everybody know what a Black Friday is. 57 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:17,000 That's when your wife and all the, the women folk go crazy and 58 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,720 we'll get up early, go shopping, stuff like that. 59 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,760 Well, I refuse to do such things. 60 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,840 So what I did was I used that day to get before the Lord and 61 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:33,000 just find out how I was doing, you know, did I miss anything I 62 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,080 got anything else left to do? I only got a month. 63 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,720 Help me. And the Lord spoke to me and He 64 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,120 said just two things that year. He said #1 you're not Kingdom 65 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,200 minded enough. And I had no idea what he was 66 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,160 talking about. I said, well, one, if you say 67 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,120 that I am not Kingdom minded enough, I must not be Kingdom 68 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,800 minded enough. I'm pretty sharp. 69 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,440 And I said, OK, you're going to have to show me what you're 70 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,560 talking about. Well, that was 2007. 71 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,120 I studied, I mean studied and went through every scripture in 72 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,960 the New Testament on the Kingdom of God, had a list of them, 73 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,560 printed the list of them. And Pastor David asked me, He 74 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,680 said, hey, I'm going to give you 2 Wednesday nights. 75 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,760 I'm having deja vu, I'm going to give you 2 Wednesday nights. 76 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,040 And I want you to teach what you've learned and what the Lord 77 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,120 showed you about the Kingdom. Listen, I got up there and I 78 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,680 still didn't know nothing about the Kingdom. 79 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,840 And I gave the two best shots that I could. 80 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,720 And it wasn't until we got down here and I was supposed to go 81 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,760 with Apostle Earl to hear Miles Monroe. 82 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,640 I didn't know it was Miles Monroe, but we got in town that 83 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,160 week like 2:00 in the morning on Tuesday, he's leaving. 84 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,360 Friday he comes up, he comes back totally changed and I 85 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,480 missed out on it, man. But you know what? 86 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,840 I have run a good race catching up. 87 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,320 There is no doubt about that. So the reason tonight is so 88 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,080 important is that I am going to share because like I said, you 89 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,880 know, I've seen so many altar calls and, and different ways 90 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,960 that, you know, they do them at the end of service is your 91 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,640 tradition of them. And they'll ask people, you 92 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,640 know, if you want to, you know, you want to be saved. 93 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,880 That's that's the title basically of what we're going to 94 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,600 talk about is what is true salvation according to the 95 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,200 Bible. And but, you know, they say if 96 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,920 you want to be saved, he said, you know, just come down front, 97 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,120 you know, confess your sins as Jesus come in your heart and 98 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,040 you'll be saved. And they fill out a little card. 99 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,880 When I was a kid, that's what they did. 100 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:42,960 All right. Well, one of the things that I 101 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,360 found out years later, those steps are not in the Bible. 102 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,840 Who could confess all their sins? 103 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,720 If you could remember half of them, you'd be doing, I guess, 104 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,640 good. And we ain't got time to let you 105 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,400 come down here and confess all your sins. 106 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,960 We'd be here for days, probably some of you. 107 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,760 And then to ask Jesus to come in your heart. 108 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,400 There is no place in Scripture that says ask Jesus to come into 109 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,160 your heart for salvation. It is not in there. 110 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:20,720 So we want to know what is in there. 111 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,960 And it's going to be important that you give an accurate 112 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,760 picture to somebody that asked about the hope that's within 113 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,280 you. As Peter said, he said, he said 114 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:35,200 be always ready to give an answer to those that ask about 115 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,920 the hope that lies within you. We want to give them an accurate 116 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:43,360 answer. So tonight we're going to start 117 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:48,280 in Genesis chapter 1. And really what I want to lay 118 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:52,160 out is this is one thing that that I found when we have had 119 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,080 people come down and they'd want to get saved and we pray a 120 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,160 prayer with them and then the next morning they'd wake up. 121 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,760 So we get them, we get them saved on Sunday, they wake up on 122 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,440 Monday, right? And then they ask a question, 123 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,920 what did I need to get saved from what, what was what was 124 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,280 coming, what was happening that I needed to be saved. 125 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,320 All right, we're going to talk about what happened. 126 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,680 All right now scholars tell us this is that if we go to the 127 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:26,120 first chapter of Genesis that the the creation in chapter 1 128 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:33,800 when he began to speak, he was really making a covenant because 129 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,960 see, when God makes a covenant, he speaks it in his existence. 130 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,120 Really that is the only way Josh right now is teaching blood 131 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:47,160 covenant in FCU and there's two elements to the among many, but 132 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,600 there's two main elements to a covenant and it is a blessing 133 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,640 and a cursing. You can't think about a blessing 134 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,240 and you can't think about a cursing in your head and say 135 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,080 you're cutting covenant. In order to have a covenant, it 136 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,440 has to be spoken. You have to speak it. 137 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,600 So God made a covenant as his speaking when he began to 138 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,680 create. And scholars tell us they've 139 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,120 lit, they've labeled all the covenants through the Bible. 140 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:17,960 The first covenant is the Solaric. 141 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,200 It's called the Solaric of the solar system, of the stars, of 142 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,680 the moon, the sun, the first days of the first days of 143 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,040 creation. That was that was the time where 144 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,799 God created everything. Then he gets into the 26th 145 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:35,720 verse. Everybody should have it 146 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,320 memorized. Somebody asked you about it. 147 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,640 You need to know what it says because you may not have your 148 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,080 Bible. You may have left your phone on 149 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,120 your desk, whatever you need to have that verse. 150 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,280 Jot this verse down. Genesis one verse 26. 151 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:54,520 OK, this is what He said and God said after He had created 152 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,240 everything else, we get to the 6th day and he said, and God 153 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,160 said let us make man in our image and after our likeness and 154 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,040 let them have. And you need to note the word 155 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,640 dominion, all right? He said you're going to have 156 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,040 dominion over the fish of the sea, that fowl, the air, over 157 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,400 the cattle, over the earth, and over every creeping thing that 158 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,960 creeps on the earth. So in other words, he's letting 159 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,480 him know I'm going to create this being. 160 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,840 He's going to have the image. That's what the word image mean. 161 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,640 He is going to have the outward appearance of me, and he's going 162 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,320 to have my likeness or my traits or some characteristics that 163 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,120 look just like me. All right. 164 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,120 Then he says, and here's what I'm going to do. 165 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,760 Once I get him in the planet, I'm going to give him dominion 166 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,520 of everything that I created the first five days. 167 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,800 OK, that's the plan. All right, so when we look at 168 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,520 the word, I want you to know the word dominion in the Hebrew, it 169 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:56,160 is the word radah, RADAH, radah. And here's what the definition 170 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,360 is so that you understand what God's intent was. 171 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,520 It means to rule, to dominate, or to tread down. 172 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,440 In other words, He's given them the authority to be able to 173 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,480 tread down on something if necessary. 174 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,040 But he says I'm giving you the rule of the planet. 175 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,640 I want you to dominate the planet. 176 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,400 Now, if you think about it, really when it comes to a 177 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,280 government that God is setting up, and we've proven this so 178 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,640 many times, apostles gone over scripture, over scripture and 179 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,000 scripture, you know, talking about that God was setting up a 180 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,160 government. And for me, that was the key, 181 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,800 the link that I needed because I learned all that stuff about the 182 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,480 Kingdom. But the word government is what 183 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:48,320 changed everything for me. OK, It wasn't a religion, all 184 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,520 right. Now, when he said you got 185 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:55,000 dominion, He created man in verse 27 in his own image and in 186 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,880 the image of God created him male and female. 187 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,400 He created them. That ought to put a stop to all 188 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:06,600 the stuff that's going on today. I mean, you got to get back to 189 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,200 the original facts. He created a man, He created a 190 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,200 woman. You look at all the animals. 191 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,600 He created a male, He created a female. 192 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,640 All right, I, I'm so sorry that people are confused about that. 193 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,560 I mean, come on, you know, all right, now, verse 28, it said, 194 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:28,960 and God blessed them. Now remember, in order to have a 195 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,160 covenant, there's got to be a blessing, all right? 196 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,040 He blessed them and said, all right, be fruitful and multiply, 197 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:42,680 replenish the earth, subdue it and have dominion over the fish 198 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:45,000 of the sea that fowl the air and over every living thing that 199 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,720 moves upon the earth. So again, we have the same word, 200 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:53,280 radha in the Hebrew, all right, that that means I, I created you 201 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,920 to rule and to reign in this planet. 202 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,080 All right, The first thing that we need to get an understanding 203 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,720 on our part as rulers and those that reign is you can't rule and 204 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:11,760 reign without saying something. Can you imagine a king? 205 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:22,320 Come on, people are waiting. What's he going to say next? 206 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,120 So we can do something and he never says anything. 207 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,360 You only rule and reign based upon your words. 208 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:34,000 What it is, are you saying that's how God, it designed it 209 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,920 for us? OK, so let's take a look. 210 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,520 Because when we see, we see the fact that we were created to 211 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,640 rule. We were created to reign. 212 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,280 He gave us all the creation to rule and reign over. 213 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,000 We weren't supposed to rule and reign over each other. 214 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,240 You know, people ask me my thoughts on football. 215 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,600 I like football, but I don't know there'll be football in 216 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,520 heaven. Why? 217 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:02,040 Because God never designed us to try to dominate, dominate each 218 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,680 other. If you want to see domination of 219 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:07,720 each other, watch a football game. 220 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,400 All right. But I can't say that that was, 221 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,640 you know, part of his original plan of entertainment, that we 222 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,840 needed entertainment. OK All right. 223 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,560 I want to go to the next covenant that God had once he 224 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:24,440 got man created. All right? 225 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,160 Now, I think it's interesting. It's in Genesis chapter 2, 226 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,480 verses 15 through 17. I look at the book of Genesis 227 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,920 chapter 1 as as kind of like a table of contents. 228 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,600 It lets us know what he did on each day. 229 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,800 You know, I mean, he said let there be and there and, and it 230 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,160 was. And then, you know, there was a 231 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,080 couple of days in there, like the 4th day or so. 232 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,680 He said let there be more than once. 233 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:54,400 So that means, you know, he's heading toward a vacation day. 234 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,280 Don't we all get real busy right before vacation? 235 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,640 You know, in fact, whoever we're working for for probably wonders 236 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,520 how come they don't work that fast all the time. 237 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,880 It's amazing how we come alive before vacation. 238 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,960 We get more done than we got done in the whole month, right. 239 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:18,000 So he tells us in here in the the the next covenant is called 240 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,800 the Edenic covenant Eden with the economy end of it. 241 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,640 The Edenic covenant, which is God has spoken. 242 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,680 So he's getting ready to speak some things. 243 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:32,560 Once he got the creation of the garden done in verse 15, it said 244 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,880 and the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of 245 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:41,160 Eden to dress it and to keep it. OK, I've often pictured that in 246 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,800 my mind. How do you do that? 247 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:48,320 He put him in the garden. Did he go pick him up by the 248 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:54,800 head and put him in the garden? But it says he took the man and 249 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,640 put him in the garden. Now notice he had a job 250 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,040 description. Now it's interesting to note 251 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:07,200 that in the 2nd chapter, verse 5, God lets us know one of His 252 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,040 major intentions on bringing man in the garden. 253 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,640 He said, listen, he said before things began to grow, before 254 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,200 even a, a, a leaf shot up out of the ground. 255 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,480 He said there was no rain. He didn't let anything start in 256 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,720 the earth because he did not have a man to till or he did not 257 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:32,160 have a man to toil in it. So that lets us know in advance 258 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,000 that God was looking for a good manager. 259 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:41,240 He's still looking for good managers over his creation, over 260 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,240 the things that he gives you. You have to ask yourself, am I 261 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,920 qualified to be a manager? Well, that's what he said in 262 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,320 here. He wanted him to dress it, which 263 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,680 meant manage it, to toil, to take care of, to cultivate the 264 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,640 garden. Then he said to keep it. 265 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:03,680 And the word keep in the Hebrew is the Hebrew word shamar, and 266 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:08,840 it means to hedge about, to guard or to protect. 267 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,440 Now it's interesting because you have to ask the question then 268 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,640 what was he supposed to guard and protect it from? 269 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,680 Well, we'll find out here in a minute. 270 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,000 But God intended him and let him know. 271 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,960 I need you to. He said, saying of every tree of 272 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,080 the garden. In verse 16, He said he 273 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,000 commanded the man. So here is the part of the 274 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,400 blessing of the the Edonite Covenant, he said, and the Lord 275 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,880 commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden you may 276 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,880 freely eat, that's a blessing. In other words, there's no 277 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,360 limits. You can eat of all the trees of 278 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,760 the garden. But he said, but there's one 279 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:54,240 tree in verse 17, but of the tree of the knowledge of good 280 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,160 and evil, you shall not eat it. For the day that you eat it, you 281 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:03,880 will surely die. No, we usually puzzle. 282 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,400 Earl lets us finish that for me. The day you eat it, you shall. 283 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,359 Surely we we all know that one, right? 284 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,599 Now let's talk about the Hebrew word. 285 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,200 It's very simple, all right. In the Hebrew, it is the word 286 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:22,160 muth, pronounced muth. And you know what it means dead. 287 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,440 That's what I mean. It mean basically he's just 288 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:34,360 talking about death and and and you know, I don't know. 289 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:36,160 We have no record that he explained it. 290 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:38,840 Think about it. Don't eat it. 291 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,400 The day you eat it, you surely die. 292 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,760 I've looked at Melanie and I go, what is this die? 293 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:49,200 What is die mean? What is that right? 294 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,320 We have no record that they understood it, but we don't have 295 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,040 a record that didn't. Now, I'm sure based upon the 296 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,640 communication and the vocabulary and the different things that 297 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,320 God probably spoke more to them than we have record of. 298 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,360 What do you think? Right. 299 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:09,560 So of course, of course he did. Now still part of that covenant 300 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,960 in the Garden of Eden. We go to chapter 3. 301 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:20,480 All right now he tells us in there that he said there's just 302 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,920 one commandment. You're blessed to eat everything 303 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,160 and have everything that you have need of even told him that 304 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,760 in the last part of chapter 1. He said, listen, I've given you 305 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,320 herbs, I've given you trees with fruit with seeds in them. 306 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,600 He said that'll be your food for you and, and and he said it's 307 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,520 it's going to be abundant. You will have no lack in this 308 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,800 garden. You get to chapter 3 and it 309 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,480 starts out saying, now the serpent was more subtle than any 310 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,640 beast of the field which the Lord God had made. 311 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:56,160 And he said unto the woman, yeah, hath God said, you shall 312 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,120 not eat of every tree of the garden? 313 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:04,040 Note this down. This is the first account, and 314 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,960 I'm going to give you 4 points on the operations of Satan 315 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,120 because we find out in Matthew in Mark chapter 4, this Satan 316 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:19,120 comes immediately to steal the word that was sown in the hearts 317 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:21,520 of men. You recall that? 318 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:29,520 So chapter 3 is pretty immediate after chapter 2 by most counts, 319 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,280 right? So let's take a look at the next 320 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:39,320 few verses as we see what trouble came and basically got 321 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,040 us into the condition that we're in. 322 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,640 All right #1 when you take a look, he said the servant was 323 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,320 more subtle. He began to ask a question. 324 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,680 You shall, you shall not eat of every tree in the garden. 325 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:55,040 This is the first account we have of doubting the word of God 326 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:00,280 that Satan comes to get you to doubt what you've heard. 327 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,640 He starts questioning what you heard. 328 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,800 You get a little symptom in your body. 329 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:14,280 And all of a sudden the question is, did God say he'd heal all 330 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,040 your sickness and disease? If so, how, how'd you get that? 331 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:24,400 How, how how's that feel? So that's that's his, his first 332 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,000 way of getting in, always getting you to question what you 333 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:36,400 heard God say next verse he said, and the woman said to the 334 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:41,560 serpent, we may ate of the we may eat of the tree fruit of the 335 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,800 trees of the garden. Verse 3 but of the fruit of the 336 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,520 tree in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat 337 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,840 it, neither shall you touch it lest you die. 338 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:59,640 The second thing that Satan always will try to get you to do 339 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:06,160 is add to the Scripture or come up with some kind of weird 340 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:12,600 interpretation of the Scripture. Now what did she add? 341 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:21,800 All right, He said the Lord said don't eat it or even touch it, 342 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,480 lest you die. We have no record that God said 343 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,840 that. All right, I bet I know who said 344 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,640 it. I bet Adam did. 345 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:36,320 Can't you see he's macho daddy savage woman. 346 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,720 Now God told me that we are not to eat in this tree. 347 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,800 I'll tell you what, you don't even touch it. 348 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,680 Let me get you straight. You're not even going to touch 349 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:49,480 it. You understand? 350 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,680 I know where that came from. But that's a the, the, the, the 351 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,200 critical part of understanding the word of God. 352 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,720 And this is what's so funny. You know, I have people come out 353 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:06,640 and say, done the Bible, say somewhere and then they'll quote 354 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:13,880 something and it is so far off I go, oh man, I said you, it's 355 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,240 obvious to me you haven't read it. 356 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:19,480 You hadn't read the Bible lately, especially on that 357 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,160 particular 1 you just happened to quote. 358 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,480 You know, I've had people over the years. 359 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,600 Here's an example. I had one one time that I went 360 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,320 into their office and and we were, you know, basically 361 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:35,520 soliciting them for a contract. And she blurted out a few little 362 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:44,600 choice words and then said God blanket and I go, I guess my 363 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,280 face said a lot. OK, But she said, oh, I'm sorry. 364 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,200 I, I didn't mean to take the Lord's name in vain and I go, 365 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:58,880 well, I said doesn't bother me because first thing I learned 366 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,520 about God that that's not his name. 367 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:07,480 God is what he is. His name is Jehovah. 368 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,760 And if you'll read the Scripture and do a little research in the 369 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,400 original language, you'll find out that the word vain means 370 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:22,840 something that has been declared empty, idle and nonproductive. 371 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:28,160 So when God says you will not take my name in vain, he's 372 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,960 letting you know I have a name. And along with my name, like 373 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,600 you, all that work for companies have a little title on your 374 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,560 business card. God has a lot of titles. 375 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:44,600 So he has Jehovah Rufa. He said I am your healer. 376 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:53,720 I am your healer, so when you say I got this and I and the 377 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:59,160 doctors say it's terminal, you better be careful of the next 378 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,880 things coming out of your mouth because if you say anything 379 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:10,240 contrary to God is my healer, you're that close to taking his 380 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,160 name in vain. Does that make sense? 381 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:16,360 But you don't get that face value because everybody's got 382 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:19,000 their own interpretation of what they think the Scripture means. 383 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,640 Be intelligent. Study it for yourself. 384 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,000 OK, so he says in there. He when he said in there, 385 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,480 neither shall you touch it unless you die. 386 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,960 She's adding to it. That devil always wants to add 387 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,880 something. He wants you to add something. 388 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,840 He wants you to get away from the meaning so you won't receive 389 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,840 what it says you can have. Does that make sense? 390 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:42,200 All right, here's a here's the next thing he said and the 391 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,240 serpent next verse, verse four. And the serpent said unto the 392 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:51,000 woman, you shall not surely die for God does know that in the 393 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,360 day you eat thereof, then your eyes will be opened and you'll 394 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:55,000 be as God's knowing good and evil. 395 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:01,000 Here's where the devil gets you into contradiction of what God 396 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,960 said. He flat out lied. 397 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,720 That's why Jesus called him the father of all lies. 398 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,560 He blatantly says God says the day you eat it you will. 399 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:21,400 The devil says you won't die. So now she's got a decision to 400 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,840 make right now she's heard a contradiction to the word. 401 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,560 Did you know? Like those reports from the 402 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:36,520 doctor, the devil can set them up to be contradictions to what 403 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,400 you believe. Don't fall for it. 404 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,800 Did I say that loud enough? Don't fall for it. 405 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,520 So that's the third way that he gets in there and he's he's 406 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,480 trying to do what? Snatch the word out of your 407 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,520 heart. Then you get to the sixth verse 408 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,320 and it said when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 409 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,440 it was pleasant to the eyes and the tree to be desired to make 410 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,320 one wise. She took the fruit and did eat. 411 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,920 Here's a good here, here's a good one. 412 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:12,520 Listen to this and gave to her husband with her and he did he 413 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,040 you know, I I even heard in the old days, you know, some 414 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:22,600 ministers said, you know, if it wasn't for the woman, we 415 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:30,040 wouldn't be in this mess. You know, Sir, really, if it 416 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,840 wasn't for the women, we wouldn't have anything. 417 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,400 Can it? Can I get an Amen? 418 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,080 At least half the half the room. It'd be all right. 419 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:44,680 OK. She ate and that fool was 420 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,440 standing right there next to her because it didn't say. 421 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,960 She chased him down in the the garden to say here, here, here, 422 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,080 eat this. Grab the Hick. 423 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,040 No, he was standing right there, arm's length. 424 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,960 Handed him the fruit and he ate, which is the final step 425 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,840 transgression of the word of God. 426 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,520 So that's all he's trying to do. He's going to he's going to lie 427 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,640 to you, he's going to twist the scriptures in in front of you. 428 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,200 He's going to contradict the scriptures just so he can get 429 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,080 you to transgress. OK, so it's interesting because 430 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:25,040 you think about as they ate and they transgress God's word. 431 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,040 Weren't they supposed to die when that happened? 432 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,920 I mean, he said it, but he didn't fall over dead. 433 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,400 So that tells us. And those that were ministering 434 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,040 to there must be different types of death. 435 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:55,920 OK, because here's the point. First verse in chapter 5 says he 436 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:02,000 lived to be how old? Anybody know off their head, off 437 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,920 the top of their head, 930 years old. 438 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:15,480 I thought he's supposed to die. So one of the things that we 439 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,920 need to realize, and this will help you because I've had many, 440 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,360 many conversations with several different, I would call them 441 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,080 cults. They are a culture, OK? 442 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,280 That's why they call them cults. They stick together like birds 443 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:35,840 of a feather and there's one particular one that is alive and 444 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,720 well in planet Earth today and they do not believe that you 445 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,720 have a spirit man on the inside. They just believe that when you 446 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,880 die, you just go into a soul sleep. 447 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,840 That is not scriptural. When you see, and you need to 448 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:55,080 note this down, anytime you see the word death mentioned it, it 449 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,520 paints the picture of a separation. 450 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:06,680 So apparently when they ate of that fruit coming very soon is a 451 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:14,440 separation or death. OK, now technically speaking, 452 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,560 let me give them to you real quick. 453 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,560 There's three types of death mentioned in the scripture. 454 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,000 One is spiritual death. That's what we believe happened 455 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:27,000 to Adam when he ate that fruit. Spiritual death, spiritually 456 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,640 separated from God. Second one is physical death. 457 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,280 Because of that, disobedience and sin came in the earth. 458 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,000 The wages of sin. I'll give you the Scripture here 459 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,400 in a minute, but the wages of sin is death and it can be 460 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,120 either spiritual or physical, right? 461 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:53,480 The last one is what is called the second death and you can 462 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,280 find it referenced in Revelation chapter 20 verse 6. 463 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,480 And he said those of us that are righteous, the power of the 464 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:07,000 second death has no power on us. OK, so when we take a look at 465 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,520 that now here we come to the beginning of another covenant 466 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,080 that God has to make after the fall. 467 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,400 So we understand that when they ate of the fruit, there was a 468 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:25,760 death or there was a separation. He lived to be 930 years. 469 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,880 But something has happened to the relationship with the 470 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,600 Creator. All right, you go to verse 7. 471 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,560 All right, And we start another one called the Adamic Adamic 472 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,240 Covenant. And he said the eyes of them 473 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,680 were both opened and they knew they were naked and they sewed 474 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,040 fig leaves together and made aprons. 475 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:52,000 OK, now something happened that, you know, basically when they, 476 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,920 they knew they were naked and, and I've studied this out a lot 477 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,640 just to say what was the significance? 478 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,000 Really what I think is either they were, they were clothed 479 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,480 with a glory of God and all of a sudden that what, when it, when 480 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,840 it, when they, they ate of that fruit, it was totally gone. 481 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,080 I think that also there's some other things that I've, I've 482 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,880 given thought to is what kind of body is a glorified body? 483 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:23,040 Jesus said my body after he rose from the dead, He said, I, I 484 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,560 need you to handle me. I'm flesh and bone, not like a 485 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,720 spirit has. So I'm kind of curious as to 486 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,120 where the heart and the capillaries and everything came 487 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,680 in because there's no indication that Adam had any of that. 488 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,120 There was no mention of blood. There was no mention of it. 489 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,360 Last week. Apostle Earl got up here and he 490 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,800 said the most deceptive thing in the life of a human is 491 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,880 breathing. Anybody remember that? 492 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,520 That something happened in the separation of the spirit of, of 493 00:31:54,520 --> 00:32:00,280 man with God that I wonder if he had to create something in them 494 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:06,040 to keep them alive because we're all walking around all right now 495 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,160 that's just theory, all right. There's no, no scriptural basis 496 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,760 for it. But all of a sudden there comes 497 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,400 an emphasis of blood. And even the point they said 498 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,320 without there is life is in the blood. 499 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:24,520 Prior to that life was in God. And so, you know, and, and so 500 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,520 I'm wondering what it is that they look so different or the 501 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,720 notice that they had, but they said in verse 8, they, they, 502 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,760 they heard the voice of the Lord God. 503 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,520 And this is, this is interesting because basically it just refers 504 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:43,120 to God as God until we get here. And now he's Lord God. 505 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,360 And he said, the Lord God walking in the garden in the 506 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,840 cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid 507 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,840 themselves from the presence of the Lord amongst the trees of 508 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,760 the garden. And the Lord called unto Adam 509 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,480 and said unto him, where are you? 510 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,400 All right, And we're playing hide and seek. 511 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,840 And it wasn't that God didn't know where he was. 512 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,400 OK, God, probably a garden pretty well, and he probably 513 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,000 knew where he was, but he wanted him to ask himself the question, 514 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,760 where are you? OK, that's the same question 515 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,640 that we need to ask those. They're not born again. 516 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:31,000 Where are you? And let them know there is a 517 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,800 place that they can be and they don't have to settle for where 518 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,560 they are now. OK, so he tells him, he said, 519 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,040 where are you? And then he, they said unto him, 520 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,400 they said, we heard your voice in the I said, I heard your 521 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,640 voice in the garden. And I was afraid because I was 522 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,560 naked and I hid myself. Now I love how God cuts to the 523 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,160 chase here. He says, who told you you were 524 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:00,200 naked? And then we didn't start a 525 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:05,000 conversation on all that because the next question was, did you 526 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,520 eat of the tree? Where have I commanded you not 527 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:13,320 to eat of? And here we go very first place 528 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:19,120 in Scripture that man thinks he's going to get away with 529 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:24,520 blaming somebody. And this is sad because he said 530 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:34,159 the woman that you gave me said she gave me the tree and I did 531 00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:37,280 eat. So he wasn't just blaming her, 532 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,679 he was blaming God. Like if you hadn't given me the 533 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:47,679 woman, we wouldn't be in this mess, boy. 534 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:55,920 All right, Verse 13, he said, God said to the woman, what is 535 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,200 this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent 536 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,200 beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord said unto the 537 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,840 servant, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all 538 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,360 the cattle, above every beast of field. 539 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,000 Upon the belly shall you go, and the dust you will eat all the 540 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,480 days of your life. All right. 541 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,640 So he, he, he first said, you know he leave, he goes to Adam, 542 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:16,840 right? You can see this, right? 543 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,880 Said, Did you eat of the tree? I told you not to eat the woman 544 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:28,480 that you gave me, did it? What have you done? 545 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:38,560 Well, the serpent beguiled me, OK, Because you did this. 546 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,080 This is what's going to happen. All right. 547 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,080 Now you got to get an understanding that the serpent 548 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,760 wasn't the devil. He was a created being, just 549 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,640 like every animal that God had created the first six days. 550 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,640 OK? He was under the influence of 551 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:03,800 the devil and began to lock. Now here's the funniest part to 552 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:10,040 me. How does it make you look when 553 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,840 you carry on a conversation with a snake? 554 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:21,160 How intelligent does that look? Now here's the here's the thing 555 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,600 I got against Adam is that he was told to guard and protect 556 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,080 the place. So we got this snake carrying on 557 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:34,280 a conversation with his wife, and he must have stood there and 558 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:41,560 listened to all of it instead of getting a big old stick and do 559 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,200 what I do to snakes. You beat them beyond 560 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,960 recognition. You don't even want to know 561 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,040 there's a snake there, all right. 562 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,360 But he tells them he, he, he, he lets them know you're going to 563 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,240 crawl on your belly. He said you're going to be all 564 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:01,480 the days of your life. Then in verse 15, I believe he's 565 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:07,120 changing talking to the source of the conversation, he said, 566 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,280 And I will put an indemnity between you and the woman in 567 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:16,080 between your seed and her seed. It shall bruise your head and 568 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,400 you shall bruise his heel. He's talking to the devil there. 569 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,080 Snake didn't have nothing to do with that. 570 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,200 Ain't got no seed, all right, not dealing with that stuff. 571 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:27,880 But he tells him, he said to bruise. 572 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,800 Now let me give you give you a, a picture of this bruised thing. 573 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,480 All right. In the in the Hebrew, it is the 574 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,560 word shoof. Shoof. 575 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,960 OK. And it has one picture. 576 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,800 Crush it. That's what you what I just 577 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,440 said. You do to snakes, right? 578 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:49,120 You crush them. Now two things are getting 579 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:56,200 crushed. 1 He said the seed of the woman is going to crush your 580 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:01,400 head and you are going to crush his heel. 581 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,560 Here's a question, which do you think is easier to get over? 582 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:13,320 Can you get over heel pain a little better than head pain? 583 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,960 But he said use the word crush that that's what's going to 584 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,520 happen. He's letting him know in advance 585 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:24,640 how this is going to go down and he said that now to give you a 586 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,840 little significance to understand because he said the 587 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:36,800 woman seed, not the man seed, the woman seed basically has to 588 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:43,720 have the man seed to create be saying she won't have to have a 589 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:47,760 man seed. Her seed is going to come in 590 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:54,240 contact with the divine seed. You will try to crush his heel, 591 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,560 but know this he's going to crush your head. 592 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,880 All right. So when we see that we need that 593 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,160 we need to understand now he gets done with the the snake, he 594 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,200 gets done with the devil and he goes to the woman and he and in 595 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:15,320 verse 16 and he lets her know that that the level of what this 596 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,920 curse is brought on because of disobedience. 597 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,760 And in in in covenants, when they pronounce the blessing, the 598 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,040 curse comes when you're disobedient to the blessing. 599 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,800 All right, so he tells, he tells her, you're going to multiply 600 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,680 your sorrow in conception. So you'll bring four children 601 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,520 and your desire to be your husband and he will rule over 602 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:41,680 you. All right. 603 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,680 Now, I like the illustration I heard years ago that he was, she 604 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:53,960 was taken from his rib or his side to be beside man, not a 605 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,880 foot bone or a headbone. She does, is she not to be over 606 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,200 him and she's not to be under him. 607 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,920 All right. She's supposed to be beside him, 608 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,880 right? So when when he, he, he lets her 609 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,760 know that. And it's interesting. 610 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:14,480 The arena of of discomfort and everything is going to be in the 611 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:19,400 realm of conception. All right, now you go to 17. 612 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,320 And he said unto Adam. He said, Because you have 613 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,920 hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and you've eaten the fruit 614 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,840 which I commanded you. All you that you should not eat 615 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:33,800 of a curse is a ground for your sake and sorrow shall you eat 616 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:39,600 all the days of your life. It's interesting to me that the 617 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:46,000 curse on man was dealing with God's provision. 618 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:54,840 It seems like when he got the curse or what is going to happen 619 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,880 to him in the separation between him and God, his revision is now 620 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:05,160 going to be sorrowful. The word sorrow in the Hebrew 621 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:13,600 means worrisome. So where God provided 622 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,080 everything, part of the blessing of the Garden of Eden, all the 623 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,720 abundance that he had to have and he could have, he said now 624 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:24,680 he's going to worry. Where's it going to come from? 625 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,880 How come this isn't working out right? 626 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:33,960 Unfortunately, people today are still living under that curse. 627 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:41,720 And I think it's interesting also when we talk about the 628 00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:45,000 curse over the land and and if you'll notice if you finish it 629 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,280 on down, he said, you know, thorns and thistles, sweat of 630 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:52,560 your face. You know in verse 18 and 19 that 631 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,320 it's going to be it's going to be toil. 632 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:59,800 It's going to be work to get the earth to produce now because of 633 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,040 this separation. But I thought it interesting. 634 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:10,280 What was the first temptation Jesus had to go through had to 635 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:14,400 do with his provision. Seems the devil's always after 636 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:19,680 our provision and he told him he said, listen, he said he said, 637 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,360 you know, I know you're hungry if you are the Son of God, 638 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,760 command that these stones be turned into bread. 639 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:33,560 Jesus response was phenomenal. What did he say? 640 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:42,560 It is written and he said, Man shall not live by bread alone, 641 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,920 but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 642 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:58,120 All that we have read thus far has been because man did not pay 643 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:05,760 attention to the word of God. The fall of man was really a 644 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:11,920 failure to follow the word of God and shows us how important 645 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,640 the word of God is to us. The Kingdom is based upon the 646 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:21,720 words of God. You receiving or not receiving 647 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,480 or having the abundant life you're supposed to have is 648 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:31,600 extremely dependent. Not independent, but dependent 649 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,160 on the things that have proceeded out of the mouth of 650 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,240 God. All right, now I think it's 651 00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:42,520 interesting. Verse 24 is the ultimate OK 652 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,840 where he says he drove the man out. 653 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:51,560 He placed in the east garden, the east of the Garden of Eden. 654 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:56,240 Cherubims with flaming sword turned every way to keep the way 655 00:43:56,240 --> 00:44:00,920 or the road to the tree of life. All right, here's what you need 656 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,520 to realize. In the separation in the Kingdom 657 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:10,400 of God, what he lost was not only the provision, but the very 658 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,160 number one thing he lost was dominion. 659 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,280 He didn't lose a religion, right? 660 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,680 He didn't lose a thought on how God operates. 661 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,400 He lost his dominion. He lost the relationship where 662 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,760 God came in the cool of the day to sit down and talk to him. 663 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:37,640 All right. Now it's interesting that 664 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,280 there's no mention in this first part that we've read in the 665 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:50,440 first 3 chapters the word sin, because that sin is what 666 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,440 separates us from God at our birth. 667 00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:00,600 So we have to find out where did anybody write anything about sin 668 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:05,800 so we know where we stand when we come into this earth. 669 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,680 All right, I want you to go to Romans 5. 670 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:26,760 Paul explains this perfectly verse 12, Wherefore as by one 671 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:35,320 man sin entered into the world, and death or separation by sin, 672 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:43,680 so death passed upon all men. For that all men have sinned. 673 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,080 Is that clear? Who sinned? 674 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:56,600 Adam did it even though it didn't call it Adam, you sinned. 675 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:01,880 God didn't say that he transgressed, which is sin. 676 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,640 All right, A and and here's what you need to know about the word 677 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:10,880 sin in the Greek language. It is the word hamartia, and 678 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:16,000 hamartia means very simply miss the mark. 679 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:22,600 In the old English times, they used it when they called out 680 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,000 somebody missing an archery target. 681 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,680 Sin. That's the picture that you have 682 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,880 arrows, you're shooting the arrows. 683 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,800 If you miss the target, it's sin. 684 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,120 When we don't obey the word of God, we miss the mark. 685 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:48,120 And it happened by one guy and because of him it explains it 686 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,440 perfectly. Everybody that you will talk to 687 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:55,440 you that does not know Jesus has sinned according to that verse. 688 00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:59,840 Right now let's read on and go to verse 17. 689 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,600 He said, for by if one man's offense death reigned by 1 much 690 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:05,760 more. They which will receive 691 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,760 abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, they 692 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,760 shall reign in life by 1 Jesus Christ. 693 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:17,480 Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men 694 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,080 to condemnation. Heard it. 695 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:25,960 I saw a great post the other day that you know, somebody had 696 00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,320 asked the question why would a loving God send anybody to hell? 697 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,960 And the guy said God doesn't send anybody to hell. 698 00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:39,920 As a matter of fact, when you were born, you were born on the 699 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,880 road to hell. You are headed that direction. 700 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,400 The thing you need to realize that God gave an exit ramp and 701 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,680 if you don't take it, it isn't his fault. 702 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,520 We're going to talk about the exit ramp next week. 703 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:03,240 OK, Then he said for as many As for as by verse 19, for as by 704 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,480 one man's disobedient, many were made sinners. 705 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,640 So by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 706 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,160 So I'm giving you this is kind of a preview next week. 707 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:18,760 OK, that those verses, it lets us know sin came into the earth. 708 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:25,040 Every man born, every woman born after that time, they are born 709 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:30,080 in sin. They need a Savior. 710 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:37,000 OK, now Romans 323, jot it down. This is kind of what is commonly 711 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,920 called the Roman Rd. because we need to let people know they're 712 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,560 sinners. If they don't know, all right, 713 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:45,960 For all of sin and come short of the glory of God. 714 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:52,920 Romans 323 OK Romans 623 For the wages of sin is death, 715 00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:58,880 separation, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus 716 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,000 Christ our Lord. That's what we want, eternal 717 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,520 life. If there's eternal life, guess 718 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:08,560 what else there must be eternal death or separation. 719 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,320 That was the second death that I told you about. 720 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,200 It's eternal separation from God in the lake of fire. 721 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:21,800 OK, now what? There is something that allows 722 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,960 us to partake of the gift that I'm going to go over next week, 723 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,360 and I want to give it to you in one word tonight. 724 00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:33,760 So we wrap it up. All right, Matthew 2628, listen 725 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,160 to this for this is the blood of the new covenant. 726 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,840 Jesus was talking. This is His last communion, His 727 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,760 last Passover with the guys, He said, which is shed for many for 728 00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:52,000 the remission of sin. So the Bible talks about many 729 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,040 times. I'm going to give you another 730 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,440 one. There's a it's, it's mentioned. 731 00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,840 The word remission is mentioned in the New Testament 10 times in 732 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:04,400 verse in Hebrews 922. All right, It says, and almost 733 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,440 all things are by law purged with blood and without the 734 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,480 shedding of blood, there is no remission. 735 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,440 You need to know the word remission. 736 00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,520 You need to use it when you're visiting with people that God 737 00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,760 has made a way and one of the ways that He does remission. 738 00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:29,720 And this is the word Ephesus. Ephesus is the word for 739 00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:31,880 remission. It means freedom, pardon, and 740 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:36,880 deliverance. But here's it is a forgiving and 741 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:43,520 a pardon so strong that it lets that sin go as if they'd never 742 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:48,320 been committed. That's what remission is about. 743 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,640 And we're going to get into that next week and take a look at, 744 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:59,040 you know, how do we become citizens in the Kingdom of God? 745 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:04,600 You need to pay attention, need to bring a notebook or something 746 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,160 to take notes to get this into you and part of you. 747 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,760 Why? Because you're going to need to 748 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,760 be sharing it when people ask you, how do we get saved? 749 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,400 This tonight tells you what you needed to be saved from the fall 750 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,600 of Adam. He, he lost his dominion in the 751 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,840 Kingdom, and we need to get that back because that was God's 752 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,280 original tent. Amen.