I want to start out by saying welcome back. It is a delight to share in the word of God with you. Last time with meet we were talking about the power of our words. And last week our session time was postponed because of a prayer meeting. But, I want to talk about our responsibility as it relates to the things of God. 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.
For the past couple of weeks we have been traveling through the beginning, and I know that the Lord would have me to stay there. But, last week as I was sitting praying at Ford Field I was talking with a woman that wanted to discuss Adam and Eve. And as I sat there listening to her talk about how she felt as though chaos had enter the garden because the woman had established a relationship with the serpent. And that he had been conversing with her because the Word of God never said she was startled. And as I sat there listening, the Lord impressed upon my heart to discuss the perspective the Lord had given me.
When you look into scripture the word of God says that the serpent presented himself to the woman, and spoke to her concerning the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, the word of God never said that Adam was approached by the serpent. The word of God does tell us that the woman gave her consent to the serpent by eating of the tree, but the next immediate action was that she took it to Adam. And as I was sitting in the prayer meeting contemplating the word of God, I had to ask myself using scripture that Adam never questioned the woman's intent. He simply ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, never once questioning what it was that she was bringing him or where it came from. And as I sat there listening to the woman at the prayer meeting talk, I said to myself Lord Adam knew, but then He blamed You.
As I am thinking from a place of humility you and I have to know that we are responsible for the things that we do or have done to anger God. He has given us dominion over the earth, which means that anything that we do that causes us to have to stand before God is going to have a direct response to our responsibility.
