Isn’t it amazing that we come into this world by default as sinners?
( Romans 3:23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; In another place it says in (Psalm 51:5) Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Job also declared in (Job 14:1) Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world preaching that man needeth to be born again! (John 3:3) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
So the question that we ask ourselves is; Why are we sinners even though we did commit any sin? And why there are deaths in the world? Methuselah could only live up to 969 years. And why do we need to be born again?
We can only answer these mind boggling questions by the Word of God which liveth and abides forever. (1 Peter 1: 25) But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Now for the answers, we have go back to the beginning. For there is a genesis of everything in this world.
The Lord God Created Man in his own image. (Genesis 1:27- 28) “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
How were they to be fruitful and multiply?
So in Chapter 2, Man was formed out of the dust of the earth and man become a living soul. We further read, God planted a garden eastward of Eden and placed man in it. (Genesis 2:7- 9) “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
Now mention is made of Two important trees. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge good and Evil. Are these Trees literal trees? For scripture must always interpret scripture!
For as much as man became a living soul, The Lord God commanded man to dress the Land, subdue and replenish it.
So God put man in a deep sleep and took the feminism part from him which is a rib and made a woman for the man.
Adam was created a son of God, because he was in the original creation He was created in the image and likeness of God. Created out of Nothing. However Eve was not because she was a by-product of the man. She was formed by a rib from Adam.
The Serpent was the most subtil of all the creatures that God had created. He was the only species who could talk. He was very much like Adam, although he was not created in the image of God as a son of God. He was Adam’s servant. Somehow he yielded himself to Satan as an instrument to seduce the Woman. (Satan knew that he could not deceive Adam who was an original creation of God, but he could get to him by working on his by-product, the Woman, who was a part of Adam.) And before Adam could get to know his Woman, Satan had beaten him to it by playing on the words of God’s commandment concerning the “trees”.
From the dialogue in Genesis 3, we can see that both the Woman and the Serpent actually knew that the fruits of every literal fruit-bearing tree in the Garden of Eden was good for food and could be eaten. They also knew that the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” which was “in the midst of the garden” (of the physical body, and not the literal Garden of Eden), was forbidden. The eating of this “tree” would bear the fruit of death, as God had warned.
Hence, the Fall in the Garden of Eden caused God to conceal or hide the “Tree of Life”, the Divine Law of INTIMATE relationship which would conceive and produce Spiritual Life from Mankind (Gen.3: 24), “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” and since then all men have been born after the flesh by CARNAL (sexual) desire. And (Romans 3:23) “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” Yes, all of us fall short of that Shekinah glory of the Word of Life. We are all not born according to that “Tree of Life”. For this cause, the ORIGINAL SEED WORD of God in the Person of Jesus Christ was sent to mankind that they might believe Him and be born again of the Spirit and the Water of His Word. He was the Word of God God’s Divine Way, Divine Truth and Divine Life that was prefigured by the “Tree of Life”. To possess true life, we must be born according to the Word of the “Tree of Life”.(Peter 1:23) “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever”
Every person who is born into this world is born of the “corruptible seed” which Eve, being deceived by Satan, received out of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. But a true child of God is born again of a seed that is incorruptible, the Word of God (that is, the Logos) , The Original Seed, The Spoken Word, that cannot be destroyed for It lives forever as the Tree of Life.
There is no life outside of the WORD of God. (John.3:7) “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” and be in Spiritual relationship with that Man called Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is the Divine Word, the Divine Person whom God has provided to restore mankind back to Life again. Spiritual union with Him, the “Tree of Life” will give you Eternal Life.
God bless you for reading,
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST 