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God does not want His children to walk in darkness as the people of this world do. We are children of light and God tells us to “walk as children of light.” The Bible says,
Do not live your lives as though there is no God.
The Bible says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Proverbs 9:10)
To fear God means to continually be aware that we live in God’s presence all the times, to remember God is supreme and to honor Him as our God. We will not displease Him or grieve Him. You will no longer be so concerned about what others may think of you or how they remark you. What you are concerned of is how to please the Lord.
“So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him ” (II Corinthians 5:9)
Our God is all-wise. All the true wisdom comes from Him. God delights to give His wisdom to all those who come to Him and ask for it. The Bible says,
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him”(James 1:5 )
We are constantly being exposed to the thoughts, ideas, and values of the world. Before we were saved, we accepted the ways of the world. Consequently our minds were filled with many wrong thoughts and ideas. To get rid of them, we have to renew our mind with the words of God. The Bible says,
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2)
“Renewing” our minds means replacing wrong thoughts and ideas in our minds with God’s truth and words and we will be transformed to be more like Lord Jesus.
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
Being wise means choosing what God wants us to do and do what pleases God only.
“If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.” (John 13:17)
Jesus is the Word of God，He is the Lamb of God，He is the living Bread which came down from Heaven. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Jesus is the Good Shepherd, He is the Resurrection and the Life, Jesus is the true Vine, He is the One who died for our sins. He is the living, resurrected Christ.
“For the Lord takes pleasure in his people” (Psalms 149:4)
There is no part of his people’s interests that the Lord does not consider, and there is nothing which concerns us that is not important to the Lord. How comprehensive is the love of Lord to us!
“The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighted in his way.”
We, as believers of Christ must be rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about our smallest affairs. We can turn to him regarding all matters, for in all our afflictions he is afflicted also, and just like how a father pities his children, so does he pity us also.
Christ’s love has brought to us – justification, adoption, sanctification and eternal life! The riches of his goodness are unsearchable, we shall never be able to tell them out or even conceive them.
We are all beloved children of the Lord, watched over by the Lord, taken care by the Lord, provided in all things by the Lord, and defended by the Lord – all through the precious blood of Christ.
All his corrections are sent to us with love, to purify us and to
draw us nearer to himself. We have to accept it with a heart of gratitude and be rejoice over it.
Adam was created in the image of God. Adam’s original nature was pure and he was sinless.
However he had a free will to choose to obey God or to disobey Him.
God caused Adam to go into a deep sleep and took a rib out from Adam and with it formed a wife for him. Adam named his wife as Eve, which means “mother of all living ”
God blessed Adam and Eve and said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1:28)
God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful garden called “the Garden of Eden.” Their duties are to care of everything in the garden.
There were many different types of trees in the garden, but two types of trees were different from all the others. One of these was called “the tree of life” and the other, “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Adam and Eve were permitted to eat freely of every tree in the garden except one type of tree — “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” God commanded them not to eat the fruits of this tree and warned them,
“but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die ” (Genesis 2:17)
Adam and Eve were living happily in the Garden of Eden and they enjoyed the wonderful fellowship they had with God, their Creator. In the cool of every evening, God would come and visit them in the garden.
But one day, Satan, in the form of a serpent, entered the garden and began talking to Eve. He said to Eve,
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1)
Satan’s plan was to deceive Eve into disobeying God.
Eve replied, ”We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest ye die.” (Genesis 3:2- 3)
Satan’s said, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4, 5)
Satan was implying to Eve that, by eating the fruit of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Eve and her husband would be as wise as God.
Eve looked at the fruit and thought about what Satan had told her. She decided to believe Satan! Eve was being deceived !!!
Satan was successful in deceiving Eve. Eve actually believed what Satan told her! She was deceived into believing the lie of the enemy. Why was Eve deceived? Because she chose not to believe God’s word.
We too will be deceived if we do not believe what God has said!
Eve offered the fruit to her husband, Adam. Now, Adam had to make a choice. Adam knew what God had said. However, he took the fruit and ate it. Adam fell into sin ! He was deceived also !!!
Adam’s sin was disobedience. He disobeyed the direct command of God. He chose his own will instead of choosing God’s will. Adam rebelled against his Creator, God and chose to obey Satan, the first great rebel.
Adam’s disobedience brought death upon himself ! But what kind of death was it? It was a spiritual death. He died spiritually that very day.
Physical death is separation of the spirit from the body. But Spiritual death is the separation of God’s Spirit from man’s spirit. It means to be cut off from the life of God, to die spiritually.
When Adam and Eve sinned against God, their spirits were cut off from God’s Spirit. They died spiritually.
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