Worship Call 0625 Returning to the Garden

John 3:14–15 (NASB95) — 14 “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; 15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

The event of the Serpent on a pole is a visual of a spiritual reality, that reality is our eternal Salvation.

Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon (4100 πιστεύω)

πιστεύω [pisteuo /pist·yoo·o/] v

The credit. to accept as true. To receive with confidence from an authority outside of oneself to the point of having a point, an issue or a matter settled having it upon an authority outside of oneself. Believing the things of God, Namely in His son and the work of Salvation on the cross on our behalf that is the means of receiving eternal life results in receiving that eternal life.

In faith which is another word that is translated from Pistis relies upon the strength of the object and not on our ability to believe something.

Believing in christ is the reversal of what took place in the Garden.

Yes it was disobedience, but what came first the disobedience or the lack of faith?

The message either by direct revelation from God which was communicated to Adam in Chapter 2 of Genesis indirectly from her husband conveying as a the spiritual head in the marriage that they were not to take from the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil lest they would die.

Satan suggested that God was holding back on her. that she would not die if she took from the tree, but it would benefit her, that she could be like the spiritual beings having the power discernment and determine on her own evaluating good and evil.

before the woman took from the tree, she had to stop believing God and go out on her own.

So what came first? Loss of faith in what God said? or Disobedience to what God said?

Loss of faith

Point of Doctrine:

1. It took a lack of faith in the word of the Lord that caused the fall of man.

2. It takes a repentance a change of mind, to start believing in the word of the Lord and to respond to the word to reenter into a right eternal relationship with the Lord.

Will in Him Have eternal life

First the connectivity with God is reestablished through regeneration of the spirit. that which was formally dead, the human spirit, is brought to life and a relationship with the Lord is established.

Romans 8:16 (NASB95) — 16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

The first Man was created with a Body and soul and a spirit. the spirit died the moment that turning from faith in the Lord and taking from the tree in disobedience.

We are born again, in the second birth, possessing a body a Soul and a spirit the moment of trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.

John 20:31 (NASB95) — 31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

1 John 5:11–12 (NASB95) — 11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

It is in Christ that we receive among other things, eternal life. I life forever in harmonious relationship with our creator.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB95) — 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

In Him, we enter into the rest that Both Adam and Esha experienced in the Garden.

Hebrews 4:9–11 (NASB95) — 9 So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. 11 Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

Positionally in Christ we have entered into that eternal abode; In Christ;

within the Garden there was the living water, and image of the life of Christ following out of the ground

Genesis 2:9–14 (NASB95) — 9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Life for those who in Christ comes out of the tomb. out of the grave he is the living water.

John 4:10–14 (NASB95) — 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water? 12 “You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

The Couple in the Garden were both naked and were not ashamed expressing perfect sinless relationship with the Lord. We can stand before the Lord having atonement or covering for our sin entering into a harmonious rapport with the Lord.

In the garden there was the tree of life. We have our tree of life. the tree on Calvary where or savior won for us our everlasting life.

You see, faith puts us back into the garden spiritually.

You might say so? I can’t enjoy what my eyes don’t see, and my ears can’t hear or I can’t touch or smell. You cannot because you are not Faithing.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NASB95) — 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight—

we are waiting for a New Heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells. Those of us who are complete beings possessing a Body a soul and spirit having been born again we are desiring an environment that is compatible with our newly given life as perfect Man and woman were placed into an environment that was compatible with their perfection.

Revelation 22:1–7 (NASB95) — 1 Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever. 6 And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place. 7 “And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book.”

Being sojourners in this land, that is not ours and even where we find hostility against us like a trespasser would receive, we have the opportunity on a day to day basis to please God in our faith just as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did.

Hebrews 11:8–9 (NASB95) — 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;