A word from heaven.

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Lessons from the lives of Adam and Eve 3

The Power of Words

This was the point Pastor Jo spoke about in one of his sermons as well as myself during the NS camp. Will like to share it with everyone here. Abit lazy, so will copy and paste my sermon notes from the NS camp teaching. hahaa..

We have to understand the power of Words. Everything starts with Words.

In Creation, Words was used.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
~ Genesis 1:3 ~

9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.
~ Genesis 1:9 ~

Jesus was referred to as the Word.

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
~ John 1:1 ~

Satan twists and turn God’s Words

The very same words used to create the heavens and the earth was used to tempt Adam and Eve.
The Devil put doubts into God’s words. He doesn’t have power to create things so he twist and turn God’s words. He taints God’s word. He manipulates God’s word.

The twisting and turning of God’s words

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

The Fall

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

The Questioning from God and pushing of blame

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
~ Genesis 3:1-14 ~

Who told you that? The 1st thing which God questioned was not “why did you sin?”
The 1st thing God questioned was who have you been listening to?
I said before that there is only 2 type of voice. God's voice and the Devil's voice. Your voice will align with either one of them. If you're on your own, you're more likely because of your carnal nature to align yourself with the devil's voice.

Are you listening to God’s voice today or the devil’s voice?
Some of you here today you may just very well be listening to the wrong voice today.
Some of you may be saying that your shepherd does not love you but who told you that?
Some of you here may be saying that God is not in your camp. But who told you that. Did your bible tell you that? No! Not my bible at least. My bible told me that God will never leave me nor forsake me.

Why in the world would God tell you that your shepherd sucks?
Why in the world would God tell you to sleep at home and skip cg?
Why in the world would God tell you to gossip about the person you do not like?

Some of you here may be saying that church is taking too much time. But who told you that? Your feelings? Or your tired soul? Or the Devil?
You recognize the voice of the devil by the content of the words. It will never match the Word of God. It will twist the word of God.

13Don't blame God when you are tempted! God cannot be tempted by evil, and he doesn't use evil to tempt others. 14We are tempted by our own desires that drag us off and trap us. 15Our desires make us sin, and when sin is finished with us, it leaves us dead.
16Don't be fooled, my dear friends.
~ James 1:13-16 ~

Just as he did to eve. He just leaves them there as dead. He didn’t come back and put his hand around eve and say, “Let’s go through the valleys of the shadow of death together.
Application point: If you want to lead a powerful life and overcome the lies of the devil, cling onto the promises of God. Recognize the voice of God. In a war, you need to listen out to the voice of your commanding officer. And Reject the voice of the Enemy.

14"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
~ John 10:14-15 ~

Regards,

jie hui

Labels: Apologetics

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