Lord: As the crisis in the nations of the world continues, it is of vital importance that My Church remains focused and steadfast. The first thing for you to take hold of is this. The financial and political crisis in the world today is a direct result of a turning away from Me, and a complete acceptance of the gods of worldly power and wealth!
My church too, is self-absorbed, and beguiled by the gods of this present darkness. The organisation has become the cause, the purpose, and the end of the churches' existence. Buildings, rituals, priestly structures and statements of faith, have blinded the eyes of the church, and become the gospel they blindly follow. While many still pay lip service to the importance of Holy Scripture, few really believe the words to be from Me, and nor can they say why it is important. Many faithful servants of the church have abandoned the front line, because they have not been given the equipment they need to advance. They are like soldiers without armour or weapons.
Now, today, is the time to change all this! I am calling you My people, to take up both the armour and the weapons I have bestowed on My church since the onset of time. Clothe yourselves with all the equipment I have provided, and do as the first Christians were commanded to do, "Take the Gospel in to all the world, and make disciples of all the nations." So, what is it that the church has abandoned that it needs to take up again?
First of all, I am calling my people back to the time of their conversion. The first moment they realised that they were sinners and needed someone to get them out of the pit of sin they were in. The recognition that you are sinners is a vital first step. It is however very easy for those who have recognised that truth, to forget, or not realise, that for many, there is no recognition of there being such a thing as sin. Modern, western teaching in schools and colleges, is so straight-jacketed by godless dogma and political correctness, that it is too scared to teach about sin and righteousness. The Biblical concept of original sin is washed away by the belief that man is no more than a chance bundle of chemicals and electrical pulses, and if that were the case, free-will, morality, righteousness and sin are no more than figments of a chemical reactions' imagination. So, in coming back to first principles, the moment you first realised you needed salvation, you must look at sin, and recognise what it is you need salvation from, and where it came from. The secular world cannot answer that question, but I have already supplied the answer for you in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Right there, in the first three chapters, I have spelt out, and painted a vibrant picture of what took place when I created the Heavens and the Earth.
Come back to, and hold on to, the first simple truth in this journey, that I am the Creator God, and in the beginning, I created everything out of nothing. When you look through the most powerful telescopes man has ever produced, and look into the deep reaches of space, everything that you can see, and all that is beyond your sight, I created. When you look into the most powerful electron microscope, and observe the mechanisms that inhabit the molecules of the building blocks of life, everything you observe, I created. There is nothing you can see that I did not make. On those first days of creation, everything that I made was perfect. It was all exactly as I designed it and it was good, very good! This My children, is the truth. I do not lie! What I am telling you today is exactly the same as I have told My children down all the years of history, since the first man, Adam, walked on the Earth. I have recorded this truth in My account of creation in your Bible. When it comes to foundations of faith, this is the beginning. When it comes to a choice between believing about origins, are you going to believe the one who was there, and brought all things into being, or those who don't want to face Me, who were not there, and who have made up all sorts of fanciful myths, to excuse their unbelief? Myths that are having each day to be modified by yet more myths, as they realise, but don't admit, that their wild stories just don't add up or fit the observable facts. My word however, has both stood the test of time and explains everything from a first-hand observer's vantage point.
Now, the reason I am labouring this is because we are talking foundations to the true Gospel here, as you will see in the days to come, as I progress with the story.
Having established that I am the Creator, and that Genesis is My account of how I created the world, the next truth to hold on to, is that I told the truth when I recorded that all things were created in six days. No, I did not use eons of time or any other unit. From the beginning of creation to the finish of creation took six days! The reason I am emphasising this fact is to show you that Man was created right at the beginning. He is not an afterthought; he is the purpose of creation! He does not come at the end of eons of death and destruction, and countless life death cycles. I placed man in the garden I created on the sixth day of creation, when all was still perfect. Indeed man was a part of the perfect creation I made. When I saw all that I had made on the last day, I could see that all of it, man included, was very good! I still remember that day as if it was this morning, and I well remember the delight on the man's face, as he beheld everything I had made for him.
The garden I made for him was a joy to make, and a wonder to behold. In a way you could call it a nursery, for the man and the woman I made, were created adult. They had no human parents to learn from. I had to be their teacher. The garden was a wonderful place for them to explore and to learn from. Every day I walked with them and talked with them. Everything they asked and every question they had, I answered them. I brought every living thing before the man to see, to recognise and to name. Even as I taught the man and the woman all about the creation, creation itself was flourishing. The plants were bearing seed and bringing new plants into being, the animals were maturing and giving birth after their own kind, the birds filled the air, and the sea teemed with life. The harmony within the world was a wonder to see, and was like a symphony in my ears. The Garden of Eden was paradise; it was perfect.
The greatest risk I took in defining the creation as perfect, was that in so doing I created the possibility of the imperfect. By defining something as good, creates the possibility of bad! When I told the man that he had the freedom to eat from any tree in the garden except the tree in the centre, it was to begin the process that you now call evil.
Evil originated with an act of disobedience. It was a rebellion against Me, choosing to listen to a serpent and believe his word rather than mine. In making that decision, man brought disharmony and dis-ease into the perfection I had made, and paradise was shattered. From that moment on, all creation began to creak and groan, to age and decay. The perfection was lost, and man's relationship with Me, of love and trust, was tried to the limit. Sin came between the perfection that is Me, and the evil that is man.
The parallels between the situation in the Garden of Eden, and the situation in the world today are numerous. For a start they are both caused by not believing Me and disobeying My simple rules for life. That is the reason why mankind needs a Saviour. That is why something was and is needed, to restore the balance and harmony of the original creation, and man's once perfect relationship with me. This is why I want my church to return to, and understand the origins of sin, so that you can come to the realisation that, you need a Saviour! In the coming week I want to show you afresh, the steps needed to restore the church, to a vital, vibrant, vehicle, to take the Gospel of salvation into all the world.
My church too, is self-absorbed, and beguiled by the gods of this present darkness. The organisation has become the cause, the purpose, and the end of the churches' existence. Buildings, rituals, priestly structures and statements of faith, have blinded the eyes of the church, and become the gospel they blindly follow. While many still pay lip service to the importance of Holy Scripture, few really believe the words to be from Me, and nor can they say why it is important. Many faithful servants of the church have abandoned the front line, because they have not been given the equipment they need to advance. They are like soldiers without armour or weapons.
Now, today, is the time to change all this! I am calling you My people, to take up both the armour and the weapons I have bestowed on My church since the onset of time. Clothe yourselves with all the equipment I have provided, and do as the first Christians were commanded to do, "Take the Gospel in to all the world, and make disciples of all the nations." So, what is it that the church has abandoned that it needs to take up again?
First of all, I am calling my people back to the time of their conversion. The first moment they realised that they were sinners and needed someone to get them out of the pit of sin they were in. The recognition that you are sinners is a vital first step. It is however very easy for those who have recognised that truth, to forget, or not realise, that for many, there is no recognition of there being such a thing as sin. Modern, western teaching in schools and colleges, is so straight-jacketed by godless dogma and political correctness, that it is too scared to teach about sin and righteousness. The Biblical concept of original sin is washed away by the belief that man is no more than a chance bundle of chemicals and electrical pulses, and if that were the case, free-will, morality, righteousness and sin are no more than figments of a chemical reactions' imagination. So, in coming back to first principles, the moment you first realised you needed salvation, you must look at sin, and recognise what it is you need salvation from, and where it came from. The secular world cannot answer that question, but I have already supplied the answer for you in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Right there, in the first three chapters, I have spelt out, and painted a vibrant picture of what took place when I created the Heavens and the Earth.
Come back to, and hold on to, the first simple truth in this journey, that I am the Creator God, and in the beginning, I created everything out of nothing. When you look through the most powerful telescopes man has ever produced, and look into the deep reaches of space, everything that you can see, and all that is beyond your sight, I created. When you look into the most powerful electron microscope, and observe the mechanisms that inhabit the molecules of the building blocks of life, everything you observe, I created. There is nothing you can see that I did not make. On those first days of creation, everything that I made was perfect. It was all exactly as I designed it and it was good, very good! This My children, is the truth. I do not lie! What I am telling you today is exactly the same as I have told My children down all the years of history, since the first man, Adam, walked on the Earth. I have recorded this truth in My account of creation in your Bible. When it comes to foundations of faith, this is the beginning. When it comes to a choice between believing about origins, are you going to believe the one who was there, and brought all things into being, or those who don't want to face Me, who were not there, and who have made up all sorts of fanciful myths, to excuse their unbelief? Myths that are having each day to be modified by yet more myths, as they realise, but don't admit, that their wild stories just don't add up or fit the observable facts. My word however, has both stood the test of time and explains everything from a first-hand observer's vantage point.
Now, the reason I am labouring this is because we are talking foundations to the true Gospel here, as you will see in the days to come, as I progress with the story.
Having established that I am the Creator, and that Genesis is My account of how I created the world, the next truth to hold on to, is that I told the truth when I recorded that all things were created in six days. No, I did not use eons of time or any other unit. From the beginning of creation to the finish of creation took six days! The reason I am emphasising this fact is to show you that Man was created right at the beginning. He is not an afterthought; he is the purpose of creation! He does not come at the end of eons of death and destruction, and countless life death cycles. I placed man in the garden I created on the sixth day of creation, when all was still perfect. Indeed man was a part of the perfect creation I made. When I saw all that I had made on the last day, I could see that all of it, man included, was very good! I still remember that day as if it was this morning, and I well remember the delight on the man's face, as he beheld everything I had made for him.
The garden I made for him was a joy to make, and a wonder to behold. In a way you could call it a nursery, for the man and the woman I made, were created adult. They had no human parents to learn from. I had to be their teacher. The garden was a wonderful place for them to explore and to learn from. Every day I walked with them and talked with them. Everything they asked and every question they had, I answered them. I brought every living thing before the man to see, to recognise and to name. Even as I taught the man and the woman all about the creation, creation itself was flourishing. The plants were bearing seed and bringing new plants into being, the animals were maturing and giving birth after their own kind, the birds filled the air, and the sea teemed with life. The harmony within the world was a wonder to see, and was like a symphony in my ears. The Garden of Eden was paradise; it was perfect.
The greatest risk I took in defining the creation as perfect, was that in so doing I created the possibility of the imperfect. By defining something as good, creates the possibility of bad! When I told the man that he had the freedom to eat from any tree in the garden except the tree in the centre, it was to begin the process that you now call evil.
Evil originated with an act of disobedience. It was a rebellion against Me, choosing to listen to a serpent and believe his word rather than mine. In making that decision, man brought disharmony and dis-ease into the perfection I had made, and paradise was shattered. From that moment on, all creation began to creak and groan, to age and decay. The perfection was lost, and man's relationship with Me, of love and trust, was tried to the limit. Sin came between the perfection that is Me, and the evil that is man.
The parallels between the situation in the Garden of Eden, and the situation in the world today are numerous. For a start they are both caused by not believing Me and disobeying My simple rules for life. That is the reason why mankind needs a Saviour. That is why something was and is needed, to restore the balance and harmony of the original creation, and man's once perfect relationship with me. This is why I want my church to return to, and understand the origins of sin, so that you can come to the realisation that, you need a Saviour! In the coming week I want to show you afresh, the steps needed to restore the church, to a vital, vibrant, vehicle, to take the Gospel of salvation into all the world.
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