Worship call 0679 Blessedness

When Adam made that faithful decision to sin against God, he found himself cast from the Lord positionally out into the outer Darkness away from a personal relationship with His creator.

IN that place there was no hope for the soul. He had immediately become positionally a child of the darkness destined to live forever under the curse.

The Greatest and most terrifying sound that came to Adam’s ears that day, was the voice of the Lord who asked.

“Where are you?”

And though Adam ran from the presence of the Lord, what would have happened if the Lord did not speak to Adam ever again?

What would have happened to this earth that was void and empty in Genesis 1:2 if God had not spoken?

Answer: Nothing

It would have been left in the darkness.

The Lord lifted the curse from our first parents by the means of a redeemer.

The Lord Provided the means of salvation but he did not lift the consequences of sin. We find that in personal application in our lives. we know that when we confess our sins that God is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, but it does not mean that the consequence for that sin is lifted.

What would be the ultimate consequence if man was allowed perfect environment having no worries of the consequences of sin?

Man would forget God and the Hell that awaits Him on the other side.

Therefore, man with his fallen nature was no longer compatible with perfect environment, he was set out and away from it. Cherubim were placed outside the gate with a flaming sword to protect the entrance back into the garden.

Adam would live to be 930 years and imagine what it was like to watch the seed which he himself had planted take root and spread throughout the world.

The first recorded murder was of his own son by the hands of his other son. I wonder if it was the first funeral that Adam and Eve had attended. It would not be the last.

Cain was expelled away from God and from him came a civilization of corruption. Cain planted the seeds which His own father gave him to plant

A broken world was further emphasized in Genesis 5 with the words repeatedly

“And He Died.”

The Curse carried on and escalated to the time of Noah

Genesis 6:5 (NASB95) — 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And though the Lord brought about a great reset, man’s heart continued its further venture into the outer darkness.

The Tower of Babel was first one world order and a coup against God. Man hailed his own achievements and for their efforts the Lord confused their languages, and the population was forced to go out into the world to create nations, and with them they took their evil religion into the world.

At Sodom and Gomorrah we discovered sexual perversion of the civilization and a people who brought judgment upon themselves and a destruction to the land that used to be watered like the garden of Eden. The dead sea is a memorial to God’s judgment against the wickedness of a decadent society marked by sexual perversion.

You see there is nothing new under the sun. Man continues to run from God. Man continues to seek his own way and falling further into misery. Not seeing that he is wretched, poor, and blind until its late sinking so far into the Darkness that the Lord hands them over to a depraved heart.

If being independent from God is so glamorous and gay, why then is anyone committing suicide?

The Happiness that is here is Matthew 5 starts with the great spiritual reset. It began with the teaching of Christ. the sermon on the mount which becomes an invitation to enter the kingdom which was at hand.

The Kingdom is what it is supposed to be. For it is the establishment of the Kingdom by God that reverses all that which the scheming of Satan had ever produced. It reverses the curse and will bring blessing, for the kingdom of Heaven will cohabit the earth and God’s will on earth will be as it is in heaven. It will be a place where righteousness dwells.

God starts however not with the environment but with the heart.

Mark 8:36–38 (NASB95) — 36 “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? 37 “For what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

You see the kingdom is attached not only to the environment which is to and for our pleasure but it also and must be attached to a right relationship with our creator bringing joy to both the creature and his creator.

Jesus taught much about the Kingdom to come.

And when Jesus died those that were anticipating the kingdom, they were probably for three days, the most miserable lot on the planet.

1 Corinthians 15:19 (NASB95) — 19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

For to them, Jesus took all the hopes of this kingdom with him to the grave.

But

Jesus brought all of those hopes back in His resurrection.

Our happiness, our elation, begins with that torn vail that separated man from the holy of holies. Our elation begins with such words that is spoken by our Lord as

Matthew 11:28–30 (NASB95) — 28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

The invitation to abide

John 15:4 (NASB95) — 4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

The simple words spoken to the hearts of man

“Come”

“Follow me”

No, we are not living in the kingdom, yet.

The conditions of this world do not produce joy and happiness, at least not perpetually.

But because my Savior lives, so does the promise of this kingdom and in that hope in that confident expectation my heart experiences the Joy of that kingdom seeing it only through the prism of the promises made by the faithful one.

John 20:29 (NASB95) — 29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

Such blessedness is impossible apart from the knowledge of the Kingdom that we gleam from scripture and with the Holy Spirit opening our eyes of our hearts to it.

Therefore, the Unconverted and the Carnal are blind to this kingdom to come and thus cannot experience the blessedness that is offered to those whose kingdom is theirs.

John 3:3 (NASB95) — 3 Jesus answered and said to him (Nicodemus), “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

The beatitudes set up a personal sense of destiny and the living of lives in the light of eternity.

And though the current state of the world is a disaster and chaos, the believer whose heart is set on the kingdom, finds his and her Makarious in that which is already but not yet.

The reality within the heart, knowing that there is a kingdom that is coming, and that the believer in Christ will be present in that wonderful abode with their Lord.

The Apostle Paul sums it up.

Romans 8:18–25 (NASB95) — 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life. 30 “But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.

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