Our Bible Class on Sunday was
privileged to have Mary as our teacher, and I took notes and present an edited
message.
In the beginning God gave
Adam and Eve dominion over the earth and the animals. He told them to eat of any tree except one;
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
We are reminded that Eve listened to the lies of the serpent and yielded
to temptation, also giving to her husband of the forbidden fruit.
Eve knew better, but she rationalized in her
mind that perhaps God was not being fair and she was missing out. After all, being like God was something to be
desired. This random act of rebellion
caused them to lose everything resulting in the human race to also suffer the
loss of Paradise .
Knowing they were naked, they
hid from the presence of God, but a person can run from God, but they can never
hide.
To cloth them, God slew an
animal and made the first sacrifice for sin.
To prevent them from partaking of the tree of Life, it was necessary to
remove them from the garden and pronounce upon them the curse of toil and hard
work in order to make a living.
A Cherubim with flaming
swords was stationed at the garden entrance to prevent anyone from re entering
the garden of Eden and to guard the tree of life.
God created man with a Free
Will and the ability to make choices; and desired that we would worship Him
freely because He loves us.
God spoke directly to Adam
and Eve and continues to speak today.
Genesis 12:1-2 Abraham was another one God spoke directly to,
giving him a promise that He would make of him a great nation.
Abraham’s wife Sarah was barren
and began to consider how to help God fulfill His promise. She talked her husband into taking her
handmaiden and having a child. Foolish
Abraham listened to his wife and from that child has come nothing but trouble
to this world. Hagar was a servant and
she knew she had to obey her mistress, so we cannot blame Hagar.
Because man has a free will,
it did not take long for everyone to do what seemed right in their own eyes and
wickedness became common place. Men
began to make onto themselves idols to worship and they became vile and evil.
God repented that he had made
man but Noah found grace in His sight.
God instructed Noah to build an ark to save his family from a flood of
destruction coming soon over the earth..
Christ is our shelter in the
floods of life. He preserves us and our
household.
We must know personally that
God is real and that He desires to walk and talk with us as individuals.
God made man in His own image
and we are to be conformed into the image of Christ.
At Jerusalem
Peter knew that all believers Jews and Gentiles
can also have the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 15:8-9 (KJV)
And God, which knows the
hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and
them, purifying their hearts by faith.
God The Holy Spirit dwells in us when we receive Jesus. He is the
one who speaks to us with a still small voice, and we can directly communicate
with Him daily.
