I want to thank God for leading you back to this place. This week has been an amazing week in the Lord, and I am thanking Him for each second. But, it is truly a delight to be sharing the word of God with you. Last week, we talked about the word influence, and I want to elaborate on it further tonight. But, before we begin let's honor the Lord in prayer.
Dear Lord, Our Creator, and the Mastermind of our existence. We humble ourselves before you and We lay every weight aside. We ask that if we have done anything wrong against you that you would forgive us of our sins, iniquities, and our trespasses. We ask that you clean and purge us of all unrighteousness for your namesake, that we might be living vessels of your holy doctrine. We offer ourselves to you as living sacrifices, and we lay side every sin that so easily besets us. We offer the fruits of our lips to you in praise and thanksgiving, and we thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His unfailing Love toward Us. We give you all the glory and honor in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
As our last week's discussion was centered on influence, I want to talk about the most powerful encounter recorded in history. And that was when Eve took the forbidden fruit to Adam, and influenced him to eat of it. As believers in the word of God. We know that God has given us free will and volition. This means that we have a choice. We can choose life, or we could chose death. And so Adam letting the woman influence him was the one thing that I believe most upset God. And the reason why I am saying this is because when Adam and the woman were hiding behind a tree covering themselves with the fig leaves. God said, Adam Where Art Thou? God did not call the woman out first. He called Adam, and to make the word of God plain in our mouth, God addressed Adam in His anger. And it was Adam who wanted to shove the blame on God. As if he would make God take the blunt of the punishment for creating the woman. But, what I have come to understand saints of the Most High God is that God doesn't tolerate the blame game. He will not let you or I tarnish His great name. When the Lord created the earth, the bible says that He looked at all that He had created and it was very good. And because we know that God is that Spirit, and that we are to live off of every word that precedes out of the mouth of God, we know that the wicked one was going to challenge God's assessment.
But, because God is Holy. There has never been a situation where He has lost control. He allowed temptation to be in the garden to demonstrate to satan that all power rest in the hands of the Almighty One. God showed that the enmity between the serpent seed, and the woman's seed was not going to persist because God was still allowing the wicked to live in a place that He created. The bible says that the whole earth is the Lord's, and that He is even kind to the unthankful and the evil. This means that no one could ever one up God, because He created the heavens and the earth. He gave the man a woman, and He could deal with her carelessness in obeying directions. God knew that the punishment He was going to give her was going to put her back in her place. He knew that she could never be a god, and the wicked one, satan had given her the same false illusion that he had given the angels that fall with him. And that God had a plan for them, as He does for all of us who disobey Him.
Sin, He will not tolerate. The bible teaches us that hell was created for satan and his angels. And that hell is enlarging itself daily. This means that regardless of what God created. He has room to keep creating. He can put you in a place in your mind that makes you think you are a caged animal. For the bible says that in the end he is going to turn us over to a reprobate mind. Tonight I am asking God to keep us. I am asking God to see that we are going to do His will, and not our own. Tonight will you see that though God created you that He is not going to tolerate you blaming Him for your own personal destruction. He gave you something to Glorify Him with, not to turn around a wish you never had. Well, until next week. May the peace of our Lord and Savior be with you. EBH
