UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 1

This is a teaching I did on SALVATION between Feb 1 - Feb 3, 2019 on Facebook.

GOD WANTED A FAMILY

The sovereign Lord of the universe at a time at his own pleasure and will wanted a family whom he could relate with. In the school, we teach that a family is a group of people who are related by blood or by marriage. At one time or the other we start longing to have a family of our own. This is true for the kind of family that God wanted except that God is not a human, so he doesn’t have blood neither does he marry. God is a spirit. The word “spirit’ does not mean God is a wind or some kind of ghost. The nature of God cannot be fully captured by man, so one of the words we have deemed fit for Him, is Spirit. Since we know that a spirit is invisible to the human eyes, and God is invisible, so we could best describe him that way. So there is no way he could have a blood.

So God who is a spirit craves for a family of spirits whom he could call his offspring. That they might all become one in the Godhead.

Hebrews 2:10 puts it this way…

…it was fitting that God, FOR WHOM and through whom everything exists…

God created the angels first, we know how that the angels were created as spirits, but God seem to have another formula and picture in mind aside a spirit whose image and likeness is different from His. So God brought the idea of creating man. Man was made in the Image and Likeness of God. Man was made to be like God himself. Man was God’s offspring created to relate with him and that they may be one. So man came out of God. Man was produced by evolving out of the Godhead.

Now watch this…

Man was first in God’s mind before he created him. Before time began, man was in the mind and plan of God. By “mind” don’t assume that man was just a THOUGHT in the mind of God. The mind of God is indescribable. You remember he told Jeremiah that he knew him and has ordained him before he was formed in his mother’s womb. This is exactly how God’s mind looks like. It looks like a summary plane of life. God is alpha and omega. He is Omnipotent – all knowing, so his mind is not our own kind of mind. You get it?

Now back to Genesis..

So God said “Let us make man….” When he was creating other things, he didn’t say ‘let us’ and this verse looks like they have been talking about man before. “And God said, let us make man…” so if I would report the situation, I would say “And God said, the man we talked about, let us make him in our own Image and Likeness”…

That was how man was created immediately and God created man in his very image.  Note how the bible clearly state that God created man in Genesis 1 and later another man was formed in Genesis 2. The man in Genesis 1 was created; the man in Genesis 2 was formed! What happened was that the created man in Genesis 1 was a Spirit just like God wanted. You would see how that God had already blessed them (not him) and told them to multiply and replenish the earth. The account in genesis clearly says he created them: Male and female. So the created man was male and female, not male. Adam was first male and female. That’s why in Genesis 2, after God had formed man, he breathed into his nostrils…

You see, Moses does not have the Holy Spirit and also does not have the Mind of Christ as we believers do today, so the only way he could capture what was released from God was to call it the BREATH OF LIFE. Actually it was the Spirit man that was created in Genesis 1 and already existed in God that was released into a body. You see how he also called the body, he called it DUST. But if you check, you will agree that your body is not dust neither is it clay. Those were the best words suitable at that time. So God released the CREATED SPIRIT of man into the FORMED BODY of man and the bible says there was a reaction….

Spirit Man + Body Man = Soul Man …..

That’s where the problem began…Although God had to do this because the spirit man needed to interact with the World he just created (however, there is a greater reason according to his eternal counsel). So now see what God did after that…remember that the spirit man was male and female? So God took the part that was female from the spirit man (again there was nothing to capture that, so it was called a rib) actually it wasn’t a rib, as in the bone in your body right now. It was much more than that. It was the female section of Adam that God took to make a woman. Notice how that God didn’t breathe into the nostrils of the woman again, before she came alive. God need not to that because the rib was the spirit woman and now we have a man and a woman.

God’s desire with his family is to share a common kingdom over his entire creature. God had created already angels. Now God created the world, full of different kind of creatures and wanted man to rule over them. That’s exactly how he puts it in Genesis 1:28 when he created them…

“And God blessed them, and God said to them. Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth”

Finally, God successfully made something that will function just like him. God took charge of the heavens as God and asked man to take charge of the earth as God. Man was made God on earth. That was why God brought every creature later to man to name them. Only a creator has the power to give a name to a creature. So God demonstrates how that he has given the earth to Man. He finally had a family and was in constant communion with Adam and Eve until the fall…