By God's mercy and grace, He brought a sinner like me to His love. It is amazing how freely He gives these things. I have been thinking on His desire to save us all. He sent His beloved and honored Son to this earth to die for us all. It is His desire and freely given not by anything I could ever do but by His love for us all.
I have always needed a technical description of things on almost every subject. Praise God that He has been showing me things that I have always had such longing questions. One book that God led me to was Amazing Grace. It broke things down for me in a way that I really needed. Thinking over time on these things, I would read and search the Word, asking God to open my eyes to see. One question I have always struggled with is why the Tree of knowledge of good and evil was forbidden to eat. As I agree with the fact that this represented Man's choice to either obey God and freely receive His will and trust in Him or reject Him altogether, I also now believe that the tree represents the Law given to Moses, God's total PERFECT LAW.
As we know, God said if you eat of this tree you will die. Before eating of this tree, man was in a spiritual partnership with God. I heard one time it was put this way "as man was naked, the Spirit of the Lord was like clothing to man." (Spirit being the Holy Ghost) At this point, man was free from the law. Being under the law has always brought death. And it was not just physical death but the spiritual death between God and man as well.
God knew man could never ever live under His perfect law. The penalty for this has always been death. What has changed then since the curse was put on all of us by this one sin in the Garden of Eden. Well first, until Christ died for humanity, the Spirit (Holy Ghost) was absent since this separation in the Garden of Eden. But the "finished work" of Jesus paved the way for us to receive the Spirit once again. What a beautiful thing this is to me. My separation from God was fixed 2000 years ago at the cross.
Another thing I think of is the line in the sand that Christ drew. One way I look at it is when Jesus drew it, His statement was that this line will forever separate the law from His new covenant when His death and resurrection took place. Allowing for God once again to be with humans through the Spirit. When Jesus said "My God, My God" on the cross, this was a cry one to the Father and second one to the Holy Ghost. For at that moment, Jesus was separated for the first time from both. How horrible that moment must have been for Jesus.
How thankful I am for that line that Jesus drew and how now I can have fellowship with God through the Holy Ghost, paid for in FULL by the blood of the Lamb on the Cross. For His one act 2000 years ago, I am saved and free from the law and now live in fellowship with my God.
I have always needed a technical description of things on almost every subject. Praise God that He has been showing me things that I have always had such longing questions. One book that God led me to was Amazing Grace. It broke things down for me in a way that I really needed. Thinking over time on these things, I would read and search the Word, asking God to open my eyes to see. One question I have always struggled with is why the Tree of knowledge of good and evil was forbidden to eat. As I agree with the fact that this represented Man's choice to either obey God and freely receive His will and trust in Him or reject Him altogether, I also now believe that the tree represents the Law given to Moses, God's total PERFECT LAW.
As we know, God said if you eat of this tree you will die. Before eating of this tree, man was in a spiritual partnership with God. I heard one time it was put this way "as man was naked, the Spirit of the Lord was like clothing to man." (Spirit being the Holy Ghost) At this point, man was free from the law. Being under the law has always brought death. And it was not just physical death but the spiritual death between God and man as well.
God knew man could never ever live under His perfect law. The penalty for this has always been death. What has changed then since the curse was put on all of us by this one sin in the Garden of Eden. Well first, until Christ died for humanity, the Spirit (Holy Ghost) was absent since this separation in the Garden of Eden. But the "finished work" of Jesus paved the way for us to receive the Spirit once again. What a beautiful thing this is to me. My separation from God was fixed 2000 years ago at the cross.
Another thing I think of is the line in the sand that Christ drew. One way I look at it is when Jesus drew it, His statement was that this line will forever separate the law from His new covenant when His death and resurrection took place. Allowing for God once again to be with humans through the Spirit. When Jesus said "My God, My God" on the cross, this was a cry one to the Father and second one to the Holy Ghost. For at that moment, Jesus was separated for the first time from both. How horrible that moment must have been for Jesus.
How thankful I am for that line that Jesus drew and how now I can have fellowship with God through the Holy Ghost, paid for in FULL by the blood of the Lamb on the Cross. For His one act 2000 years ago, I am saved and free from the law and now live in fellowship with my God.
