“GOD’S REST”!! (Pt 1)

 

TEXT: Genesis 2:1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  Vs 2: And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

God is a supernatural Being and He doesn’t need to rest via a bed, chair, or footstool, so to speak.  John 4:24: God is Spirit!  Revelation 4:8 says that “The four living creatures rested not day and night”.  We know that these “living creatures” had found “rest” in God and were continuously praising and worshipping Him because they are total overcomers in every area of their lives.  But if we don’t get these “four living creatures” (our personalities) conquered now, while we’re in these flesh bodies, we certainly won’t enjoy “God’s rest”, which He wants us to enjoy right now.

·         Revelation 4:8: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within; and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

These four living creatures are part of our make up in relation to heart, soul, mind, and body – the areas Jesus said that we must love God with.

·         Mark 12:30: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:  this is the first commandment.

God’s “rest” from what He had created and made, doesn’t define God’s rest as some might expect.

When we were growing up, at the Church we attended, we had what was called “Children’s Day”.  Each child would participate reciting a scripture or poem, and my sister Brenda did a speech with demonstration entitled “The Creation”, and wow she handled it for the glory of God even at such a young age.  She always mentioned during God’s creating process how He always “thought and then He said”.   But at that time we had no idea just how powerful those words were!  But we know now!

So in Genesis chapter one all that God created, He first thought it or saw it in His mind then He spoke it into existence.   We know that God is God all by Himself, but as my sister Mary often says, “But He chose not to be by Himself”!   In reality, God has always had “a body” of people that He used to fulfill divine purpose.  So He gives the dominion over the creation to a man called Adam, a group of people, composed of both male and female. 

·         Genesis 1:26: And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth”.  Vs 27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

·         Genesis 5:1: This is the book of the generations of Adam.  In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Vs 2: Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

This all came out of “the Beginning” who was Jesus Christ.  Jesus wasn’t created:  Galatians 4:4: When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.  Everything proceeded out of God through CHRIST!  So the “beginning” wasn’t a calendar date but a person, the Man Jesus Christ.

·         Colossians 1:15: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

·         Vs 16: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:  all things were created by him, and for him:

·         Vs 17: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

·         Vs 18: And he is the head of the body, the church:  who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

·         Revelation 3:14: Unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God”.

St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same (you and I) was in the beginning with God.

 That Word in the Greek is logos, meaning (something said including the thought); also the reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; the Divine Expression (Christ).  Every thought, mental faculty or motive God (Elohiym – our Creator) had for His creation began in Christ.  

Even after the creation had fallen, Genesis chapter 3, and God became angry:  Genesis 6:5: And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  Vs 6: And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.  Yet He restored it back unto Himself in Christ!  2 Corinthians 5:19: To wit (know), that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. 

Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created. 

This was Elohiym, God our Creator at work.  Elohiym in Hebrew means gods in the ordinary sense, but especially of the supreme God.  Elohiym being plural in number refers to rulers, judges, either as divine, representatives at sacred places or as reflecting divine majesty and power; God; angels; sons of God.  “El” means “strength, mighty, Almighty, God, Immanuel”.

This does not mean that there is more than one God:  Isaiah 45:5: I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God besides me:  I girded thee though thou hast not known me:  vs 6: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me.  I am the LORD, and there is none else.

·         Psalm 82:1: God (Elohiym) stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods (elohiyms):  vs 6: I have said, “You are gods (elohiyms); and all of you are children of the Most High”.

“Most High” means that God is “Elyown, the Supreme” (highest in rank, power, quality, achievement, above all, etc)], and that will never change!

·         John 10 (the Jews trying to arrest Jesus):  vs 32-34: Jesus answered them, “Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me”?  The Jews answered him, saying, “For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou being a man, makest thyself God”.  Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods”?

[What they didn’t realize was this - it wasn’t that Jesus was trying to make Himself God, in reality it was that God had chosen to make Himself Man in Jesus]!  They were looking at God in the flesh body of Jesus and didn’t know that it was GOD!

·         St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God:  Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

(That’s in relation to us too):  St. John 1:2: And the same [we His people-His sons (male & female)] were in the beginning with God.  (1John 4:17): As he is, so are we, in this world.

That’s why in Genesis 1:26: And God (Elohiym) said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth”.  Vs 27: So God (Elohiym) created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

In Genesis 1:24, God (Elohiym) said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind”:  and it was so.  This was when “man” (human beings) (male & female) of all races stood up also.  This “living creature” (male & female) which was spoken forth from the earth was a product of the earth (the sensitive soul; flesh or carnal nature) before God makes him into His image, after His likeness.  Once God made man (Adam – male & female) into His own image, he was the “son of God”, with God's very nature in him which is “love”.  Like Father, like son. 

·         Luke 3:38 (in relation to Adam): Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

 Adam was created when God said “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them (male & female) have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.  Vs 27: So God (Elohiym) created man (Adam) in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. God (Elohiym) put these people in charge of the creation so that He (God) could “rest”.  

·         Genesis 2:1: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished”.

It was finished in God’s mind because He now had some people that could do what He was doing. 

Finished is from the Hebrew word kalah’, (meaning to cease; prepare; complete; determined; fulfilled):  [cessation of God creating].  

·         Vs 2: And on the seventh day God ended (kalah’) his work which he had made.

 [Finished and ended are from the same root word].

Genesis 2:4, the LORD God is ready to show up and follow the command God had given in Genesis 1:28:

·         And God blessed them (Adam – male & female), and God said unto 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”!

The male and female God gave the command to “have dominion” in Genesis 1:28, were the LORD God taking over the creation in Genesis 2:4 by the command of God.  This is why God could “rest” in Genesis 2:2.  He had some people in the earth that could do what He commanded them to do as His authoritative agents ruling and reigning in the earth over the creation.

Genesis 2:1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished (ended, or complete) and all the host of them.  God had “kalahed” (finished; ended) His work. 

That word “host” in Genesis 2:1, is from the root word tseba’ah (tseb-aw-aw’) which is a mass of persons (or things), especially organized for war (an army), (also work in general under or for a superior); a campaign; appointed time, soldiers, company.

Now somebody has to make what God saw in His mind in chapter one come into being – and it was this “mass or company” of people” called the LORD God (Jesus) (Yehovah’).  The name Jehovah (Yehovah) means the “self-Existent” or Eternal”.

 Self as a noun denotes the identity, or character of any person or thing.  Further defining of Jehovah (Yehovah) as being “self-Existent” is “hayah” meaning to exist, be or become.  It goes on to the word “hava”, meaning “to breathe”; to be thou (or you and me)!  That’s why God said in Genesis 1:26: “Let us make man in our image”.  He was saying, let us make man in our “tselem” or phantom or ghost; or shade.  It’s like having a lamp with the shade covering the light bulb.  God in man as man, but you don’t know that that man is God unless He (God) gives you the revelation of Himself as that man (male or female).

God the Father revealed to Peter who Jesus was:  Matthew 16:13-20, Jesus was asking His disciples who men were saying He was and who they (the disciples) thought He was, but Jesus was more concerned about who the disciples thought He was: 

·         Vs 14: And they said, “Some say that thou art John the Baptist:  some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets”.

·         Vs 15: He saith unto them, “But who say you that I am”?

·         Vs 16: And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”.

·         Vs 17: And Jesus answered and said unto him, “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona:  for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven”.

Unless God reveals Himself to us or His Word to us by revelation out of the higher realms of spiritual elevation, we will never get the true understanding of what He’s saying to us!

Jesus was God in flesh form and as he is, so are we, in this world (1 John 4:17).

·         St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God:

·         Vs 2: And the same (US [you; me]) was in the beginning with God:

·         Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

The difference between “create and made”:  when something is created it starts from a thought in the mind – but to make something you need substance (matter; protoplasm; material, etc)!  A seamstress or tailor can have an idea of what they want to make, but to bring it into existence, they need material, needles, thread, etc, and use the pattern they’ve created in their mind, put it together and come forth with a beautifully designed suit, etc.  But God, all He had to do was think about it, and spoke everything into existence!  He is “Elohiym” our Creator God!

Create is from the root word bara’, meaning “to cut down” (a wood or tree); to make something; select, feed (as formative processes); choose; dispatch; make fat. 

·         And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden (Genesis 3:8). 

These “trees” they hid amongst weren’t cedars, maples, pines, oaks, elms, as some suppose, but they were people. In God’s language “trees are people”:

·         Isaiah 61:3: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit  of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. 

·         Mark 8 (when Jesus healed the blind man):  vs 24: And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. 

God had to cut him (Adam – male & female) down to actually remake him and reform him.  Create means to select, to feed (through formative [a shaping; forming; metamorphosis] processes).  Something has to be fed into something else to bring it into formation.  A seed has to be planted in order for a crop to come forth.

Made is from asah’, meaning to do or make; wrought; commit; execute; prepare; work; perform; dress; maintain; accomplish; advance; appoint; bestow; bring forth.  God saw everything in His own mind then He spoke it and executed His plan by advancing (progressing) man into the position He wanted him to be which was God-ship authority.

Jesus is the “Tree of Life”, and the Father had to “cut down this Tree” and put Him through formative processes via the cross so that He (Jesus) could bring restoration or reconciliation back to the creation after the fall. 

Again the “Beginning” is not a calendar date but the Man Jesus the Christ!  Genesis 1:1: In the Beginning (Jesus Christ) God created the heaven (the spiritual aspect [the CHRIST, the Anointed One and His Anointing]), and the earth (the flesh aspect [the Man Jesus]).

·         Revelation 1:8: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

·         Revelation 3:14: Unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God”.

·         Revelation 13:8: And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

[God saw the “ending” (fulfilling of all things) in the “beginning”]!

So when you talk about the logos word you’re not talking about the rhema word.  The rhema word is the word that pours from God in a continuous stream of thought.  This is what He commands us to live by (Matthew 4:4): Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word (rhema), that proceeds out of the mouth of God, which is what He’s feeding into us forming us into what He wants us to be.  The “logos” is something said (including the thought). God sees what He wants in His mind, speak it and it comes into being! 

When God rested He had already created and made.  Now He has to have someone to help Him make what was in His mind come to pass.  God needed someone to help take care of the earth.  God had to give someone the wisdom to know what to do.  So God “made man” (male & female) – appointed and brought him (them) forth in dominion, authority, and power  to accomplish His purpose which was to become His agents, representatives, ambassadors to rule and reign over everything that lived, moved, and creeped upon  the earth.  In Genesis 2:4, this was the LORD God at work.

Why was God able to rest?  The word “rest” is from the root word shabath’, meaning to repose, to desist from exertion.  One of the definitions of “repose” in Webster’s Dictionary is to place trust in someone; to place power in the control of some person or group.  “Re” means to do again, and “pose” is to put in a certain attitude, as models posing takes on a certain effect.  God “repositioned” man from that which was earthy to that which was heavenly and entrusted him (male and female) with His attitude of love, and gave them the dominion, authority and power to rule over the creation, and they did until the fall.  But prior to the fall God had people (male and female) that were ruling and reigning over the creation by His command!  God didn’t give them a job to do but He gave them a command to have dominion over the earth.  

God rested on the seventh day Genesis 2:2.  Did you notice:  Genesis 1:5: And the evening and the morning were the first day:  vs 8: And the evening and the morning were the second day:  vs 13:  And the evening and the morning were the third day:  vs 19: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day:  vs 23: And the evening and the morning were the fifth day:  vs 31: And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.  In man’s mind, the days begin with “the morning and the evening”.  But this lets us know that “God’s day” starts in the “evening”.   “Evening” is from the root word e’reb (eh’reb), meaning dusk; night.  It is the going down of the sun, the dusk, or facing the darkness.  What follows the darkness is “light” or the beginning of the dawning of a new day, or the rising of the Sun.  We were walking in darkness, but when the light shined upon us and we received the “Alpha rays”, it gave us life!!  St. John 1:4: In him was life; and the life was the light of men!

·         Colossians 1:13: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, which is the “kingdom of light”!

Seven is God’s number of completeness; wholeness; perfection, and the “evening and the morning” wasn’t attached to the seventh day!  God is “Eternal”. 

Hebrews speaks in relation to Melchisdec’s origin, who is Jesus:  vs 3: Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither “beginning of days”, nor end of life.  The seventh day has no “beginning” nor “ending”!  God’s “ending” is a fulfilling of one thing, and He begins something else. So on the “seventh day” God “rested”,  and when “man” moves into the place where God is, he to can “rest”!  We can only get into this place by faith through Jesus Christ.

·         Matthew 11:28: Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

This word “rest” is from anapau’o, meaning to repose [be exempt (free from a rule or obligation which applies to others)], remain:  to refresh; take ease/(also from pau’o, meaning to stop, restrain, quit, desist, come to an end: cease; refrain (to take one’s rest willingly).  That’s why Peter said, “Cast all your care upon him because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).

This word “rest” is describing us being refreshed (invigorated; restored; ventilated; enlivened; renewed; revived] from the burdens of religion (philosophy, vain deceit, traditions of men, rudiments of the world) (Colossians 2:8).

·         Vs 29: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:  and you shall find rest unto your souls.

This word “rest” is anap’ausis, which is an intermission (an interval of time between periods of activity).  Such as the time Jesus died on the cross, His burial, His resurrection and ascension so as to destroy the works of the devil and give us the victory over sin, death, hell, and the grave!  During this time He prepared the way for us to be recreated and refreshed.  To them that believe, we have been replenished, stimulated, and revived so as to recover strength with eternal and everlasting life.  By faith, it happens here and now, not out beyond the blue.  

Exempt in that definition of rest is from the Latin “ex” (out) and “emere” (to buy). We have been freed from the yoke of the law, and we are saved by grace through the shed blood of Jesus the Christ. 

·         Romans 8:2-4: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

·         Ephesians 2:5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened (made alive) us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved):  vs 8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of ourselves:  it is the gift of God.

      Hebrews 9—10 (explains it all clearly):  vs 22: And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

For those that believe in the Son of God and have accepted Him as Savior, are delivered from sin, death, hell, and the grave!

This rest of God is only found in the Holy Ghost!  Matthew 11:29: “You shall find rest unto your souls”. You can be anointed and yet not rest because of your soul department.  The “soul” houses the emotions and until the “roar of the “lion” (emotions) has been silenced or conquered by the Lamb (the personality of love), we will not have God’s rest.

God doesn’t have a soul.  The only soul He has is yours and in Him our souls shall find (obtain) rest”! 

God is Spirit (John 4:24) – the soul God had was found in Jesus!  “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death” (Matthew 26:38).  

When He said, “I lay down my life for the sheep” (John 10:15) – He was laying down His “soul” aspect to give us victory in ours. 

The word “life” in this verse is not “Zoe life” which is eternal life, but that word “life” is from the root word “psuche”, which connotes the irrational and mortal soul that needs to be conquered by the love of the Lamb so that it can live!  Jesus conquered His soul showing us that we through Him can conquer our soul too!

·         Psalm 16:10: Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

·         1Peter 3:18-19: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:  by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison.  Vs 22: Who is gone into heaven (the higher realms of spiritual elevation – not out beyond the blue), and is on the right hand of God (a place of power); angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

This is in relation to the conquering of the soul:  1Peter 5:8: Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.  You don’t see “Lions”  driving down the street with a middle finger up in the air, until you cut someone off in traffic or in Walmart “raising hell when someone break line in front of them, then you see the "lion" roaring and carrying on” in that person.

·         Revelation 6:1: And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, “Come and see”.

[This first beast was the “lion”:  (Revelation 4:7): And the first beast was like a lion (soul – emotions)]:  [and the second beast was like a calf (strength – body)]:  [and the third beast had a face as a man (heart – spirit)]:   and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle (mind)]. [These are the four faces of man’s personality].

The opening and releasing of this first seal is the conquering of our “emotions” (the lion).  When the “lion” is conquered then the white horse and his rider can ride forth (Revelation 6:2).

Horses in scripture, symbolize strength that which man cannot control.  This horse is a “white horse” or a horse of “light”.  White is from the root word leukos’ meaning “light”.  This is us the sons of God becoming “super-humans”, walking in the "righteousness of God!

·         Luke 10:19: I give unto you power (exousi’a) to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy:  and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

This word “power” is the root word exousi’a, in the sense of ability; privilege; force; capacity; competency; freedom; mastery; SUPER-HUMAN; potentate; authority.  Webster defines “superhuman” as having a nature above that of man; divine; greater than that of a normal human being.  When we are walking in the Spirit we are surpassing that which pertains to man.

·         Zechariah 10:3: For the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock, the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in battle!

 We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture (Psalm 100:3), that God has made His goodly horse in battle! 

Revelation 6:2, the “rider” of this horse is carrying a “bow”, not a bow and arrow as religion preaches, but this “bow” is the root word “tik’to”, meaning to produce (from seed, as a mother, plant, earth, etc); to bear; be born; bring forth; be delivered; be in travail.

In the Greek “mother” is meter (may’tare) or mother.  In Hebrew it is from em (ame), as “the bond of the family”.  This typifies the church as the “mother” reproducing and bringing forth sons of God made in the image and likeness of God Himself as Jesus was.  1 John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in this world.

When the “soul” (lion – emotions) is conquered then the other beasts (calf; face as a man; flying eagle) can also be conquered and bring us into the fullness of the stature of Christ in the earth!

·         3 John 2: Beloved, I wish above all things that thou may prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.

[One’s prosperity does not hinge on how much wealth you have, but it hinges on the “prosperity of your soul”]!!!

John 4:24: God is Spirit.  Man is spirit, soul, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23).  God communicates with man through his spirit.  Adam lost spirit fellowship with God when he fell from his divinity back into his humanity.  Through Christ we have now been repositioned back into spirit fellowship with our Heavenly Father. 

·         John 4:23-24: The hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:  for the Father seeks such to worship him.  God is Spirit:  and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

We are “spiritual beings” having a “natural experience”.  Once we relinquish our stand with the carnal mind which is death, we move back into spiritual mindedness, which is life. 

·         Romans 8:6): To be carnally minded is death:  to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 

This is what we had with the Father in the beginning.  God has always wanted and had some sons (male and female) to be just like Him, and I’m grateful He has chosen you and me that believe this, to be like Him through Jesus Christ in the earth.  1 John 4:17: As he is, so are we in this world!

“THIS IS THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL, GOD IS MAN IN FLESH FORM AND MAN IS GOD IN FLESH FORM”!!!  Had God left man out of the equation, He would have been Spirit without a form.  But because He placed man in the equation, man is the Spirit God with form!

God rested because Genesis 2:2 states “And on the seventh day God ended His work which he had made”. 

This word “work” (mel-aw-kah’) means deputy-ship (to deputize [appoint as deputy]), ie ministry, general employment (never servile).

A “deputy” is a person appointed to act for another!  So God deputized Adam (male and female), and told them to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth (Genesis 1:26).  Vs 28: And God blessed them and God said unto 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”.  These people God had deputized were the LORD God Adam.

 “Work” is also from mal-awk’, meaning to dispatch (to send promptly as on an errand) as a deputy, messenger (of God) [prophet, priest, or teacher]: angel; messenger; an ambassador. 

In Genesis chapter 2, the LORD God “deputized” the “man” [Adam] (male & female) that he “formed” of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and made him (them) a living soul” (vs 7).

·         Vs 16: And the LORD God commanded the man saying, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:  for in the day that thou eat thereof thou shalt surely die”.

·         Vs 19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them:  and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof.

·         Vs 20: And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field..

In this day God is still “deputizing” His people, but it’s being done through Jesus the Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost! 

Jesus deputized the 12 apostles: 

·         Matthew 10:1: And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 

And the Holy Ghost has and is deputizing us:

·         Acts 1:8: You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:  and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Through our love for our Heavenly Father and obedience to Him, let us enter now into “God’s rest” (calm, peace, love, gentleness, eternal life, divine health, dominion, authority, and power)!!

·         Hebrews 4:9: There remains therefore a rest (sabbatismos’) to the people of God.  Vs 10: For he that is entered into his rest (katap’ausis), he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.  Vs 11: Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest (katap’ausis), lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Pastor Gracie Perry