I want to thank God for you today. I want to bless the name of the Lord for allowing you to return. It is always a blessing to learn and understand the things of God with you. Tonight is such a bless night to learn the ways of God. I want to get into the lesson 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.
The Lord has me stuck in the beginning, and I want to stay there as the Lord would have me. Last week we were talking about the woman in the man, and that is such a powerful subject. The Lord is powerful in that He can create, and recreate. And it took the Power of God to use His mental magnifience in creating a woman from a man. He used His words to pursue what He wanted. He used the Power in His words to distribute His goodness on His Creation, called Mankind. It was God who said that it was not good for man to be alone. It was God who planted the man, and decided that He would give naming rights to God's other creations.
God used His words to display His power, and demonstrate order to all that He created. By God using His words put into perspective that the animals weren't higher than the man. And the man wasn't higher than God. God's words put into perspective that He was the supreme power source. And because God was the main power source, Adam should have known that He needed to consult God on a new situation that presented itself that Adam wasn't familiar with. Temptation was something that God had not presented to Adam, at least through another human, yet we now know that there is a time and a place for everthing. So, this means that the order of the Lord was set in place before temptation came into place. The Lord did not tell us how long before the woman was created that temptation sat in, but we know that it was after the woman was there.....And so we know as believers that the temptation came through the serpent, which was more crafty then any of the beast of the fields that the Lord God had made. So, as a believer we must know that Adam was familiar with the animals because He was naming them. So, the one unfamiliar piece was the temptation coming from the woman, who was manipulated by a demon inhabited snake...
My God....the word of the Lord is amazing. I look forward to our meeting time next week. EBH
