TWO NATURES OF MAN
ADAM
AND EVE WERE CREATED IN PERFECTION IN THE IMAGE OF GOD AND IN HIS
LIKENESS , BUT THEN SATAN DECIEVED THEM INTO EATING FROM THE TREE
OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. UP UNTIL THIS TIME, ADAM &
EVE, HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF EVIL BECAUSE THE LIKENESS OF GOD IS NOT
EVIL
{GEN-1:26-GEN-2:9}
WHEN
THIS HAPPENED SIN ENTERED INTO MANKIND. THEY WERE BANNED FROM THE
GARDEN OF EDEN BECAUSE OF THE TREE OF LIFE. IF THEY HAD EATEN OF
THE TREE OF LIFE AFTER THEY HAD INHERITED THE SIN NATURE, SIN
COULD HAVE LIVED FOREVER.
{GEN
3:22}
IN
THE 4TH CHAPTER OF GENESIS,
THIS SIN NATURE IS DEALT WITH BY GOD WHEN HE TOLD CAIN THAT ANGER
WAS SIN &IT'S DESIRE WAS TO OVERTAKE HIM (MANKIND )BUT HE
(MANKIND) MUST MASTER IT. CAIN WAS JEALOUS BECAUSE GOD WOULD NOT
EXCEPT HIS SACRIFICE, CAINS SACRIFICE SYMBOLIZED SELF WORKS
BECAUSE GOD HAD CURSED THE GROUND. GOD REQUIRED A BLOOD
SACRIFICE. HE STILL DOES
-------JESUS NAME---------
CAIN DID NOT MASTER IT & KILLED HIS BROTHER. GOD WAS FORCED
TO PUNISH SIN IN CAIN. CAIN ALSO DID NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
HIS SIN, HE BLAMED ABEL, THIS WAS THE SAME THING THAT ADAM &
EVE DID. THIS IS THE SIN NATURE TO BLAME OTHERS FOR OUR SIN'S.
{GEN
4:7}
GOD
CONTINUES ALL THRU THE OLD TESTAMENT TO DEAL WITH THE SIN NATURE,
HE DESTROYED ALL THAT WAS LIVING ON THIS EARTH EXCEPT 8 PEOPLE
AND THE ANIMALS IN THE ARK , BUT SIN WAS STILL THERE IN NOAH'S
BLOOD.
{GEN
6:7,8}
GOD WILL NOT DEAL WITH A SINFUL NATURE. THE ONLY WEAPON AGAINST THE SINFUL NATURE IS THE BLOOD. THE LAW WAS INSTITUED IN MOSES DAY TO KILL A PERFECT ANIMAL FOR RESTITUTION OF SIN. THIS ONLY WORKED FOR A TIME AND THEN MAN WOULD SIN AGAIN. GOD ONLY DEALT WITH MEN WHO OBEYED HIS WORD, MANKIND COULD NOT APPROACH GOD DIRECTLY BUT HAD TO GO THRU A MAN OF GOD PROPHET) OR A PRIEST.
THE LAW OF GOD IS MAPPED OUT IN THE 28TH CHAPTER OF DEUTERONOMY-IF WE OBEY GOD'S WORD (BIBLE) WE WOULD ENJOY GOOD THINGS BUT IF WE REBEL & REFUSE WE WILL BE DEVOURED BY THE SWORD (BIBLE). THE WORDS WE SPEAK,IF THEY DO NOT LINE UP WITH THE BIBLE THEN THEY ARE REBELLIOUS WORDS.
WE WERE CREATED IN GODS IMAGE SO THE WORDS WE SPEAK WILL COME TO PASS, GOOD OR BAD. IT IS UP TO US. WE MUST CONQUER SIN IN OUR LIFE, THRU ACCEPTING JESUS AS OUR SAVIOUR.
JESUS DIED TO GIVE US THE POWER TO CONQUER SIN BY ACCEPTING AND APPLYING HIS BLOOD. THEN AFTER HE WENT TO BE WITH THE FATHER , HE SENT HIS OWN SPIRIT BACK TO US TO HELP US CONQUER OUR SINFUL NATURE.
THE
HOLY SPIRIT IN US, LONGS FOR FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. WHEN WE ACCEPT
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE,WE BECOME ONE WITH GOD AND THIS GIVES US THE
RIGHT TO BECOME HIS SON'S AND WE CALL HIM ABBA FATHER
(PAPA-DADDY) IN THIS FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FATHER THRU THE BLOOD OF
JESUS,
{JOHN
17:26-JOHN 15:12-JOHN 10:27-30-ROM 8:15}
THE
SPIRIT WITHIN US LONGS ONLY TO PLEASE GOD. IF WE TRULY LOVE HIM
WE WILL WANT ONLY WHAT HE WANTS. IF WE SERVE HIM THRU OBLIGATION
(TO ESCAPE HELL). OBLIGATION WILL NOT STAND THRU CONSTANT
CONFLICT, BUT TRUE GODLY LOVE WILL STAND THRU ANY AND ALL
CONFLIFT.
{ROM
5:1-8}
JESUS
DEATH DEFEATED THIS SINFUL NATURE, WE NOW HAVE PROVISION THRU HIS
BLOOD-
{1
JOHN 1: EPH 2:13.14}
SALVATION,HEALING
AND FINANCIAL PROVISION.PEACE,JOY AND ALL GOOD THINGS.
{JOHN
10:10 - ACTS 28:9 -GAL 5:22 JAS 5:16-1 PET 2:24- 3 JOHN 2- PS
35:27}
THIS
IS THE GOSPEL, PURE AND SIMPLE, WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST
LOVED US AND OUR DESIRE SHOULD BE TO PLEASE HIM.
{I
JOHN 4:18}
THE OLD TESTAMENT= IS OUR HISTORY BOOK, IN IT WE SEE THE SINFUL NATURE OF MANKIND AND THE HOLY NATURE OF GOD.
NEW TESTAMENT= 4 GOSPELS IS THE BRINGING IN OF THE NEW COVENANT OF GRACE--THRU THE DEATH OF JESUS.
ACTS= IS THE POURING OUT OF THE HOLY GHOST. THE HOLY GHOST TEACHES, GUIDES AND COMFORTS US.
ROMANS= TEACHES US THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LAW AND GRACE. WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE.
PAULS WRITINGS (THE EPISTLES)= TEACH US HOW TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT AND NOT TO FULLFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH.
REVELATIONS= PROPHESY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH AND IT'S SINFUL NATURE AND THE COMING GLORY OF THE NEW JERUSELEM WITH THE NATURE OF GOD THRU OUR KING JESUS.
WHEN JESUS SAID IT IS FINISHED-EVERYTHING WAS GIVEN TO EQUIP MANKIND TO OVERCOME HIS SINFUL NATURE. WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN WE BLAME GOD BUT WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE, WE SEE THAT GOD DOES NOT ALLOW ANYTHING, WE DO. IT IS TRULY OUR CHOICE
GOD'S WAY THRU JESUS NAME OR SATAN'S WAY THRU OUR SINFUL NATURE. YOU CHOOSE!
YOUR POWER OF CHOICE WILL DETERMINE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE AND DESTINATION.
REV. 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death, But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
MAT. 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
ON JUDGEMENT DAY WE WILL BE JUDGED ON WHAT WE SAY. ACCEPT THE BLOOD OF JESUS TODAY
TODAY=ASK JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR HEART THEN READ THE WORD TO FIND OUT THE HEART OF GOD THE FATHER & THE LOVE OF JESUS FOR MANKIND. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT,HE WILL CLEANSE YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL BECOME A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO ABUNDANT LIFE.
by
Dee Owens
Devotional #4 - 1/25/02