GOD THE FATHER

 I did a message back in June 2020 entitled “The Mystery of the Gospel”, and in January 2021 “The Mystery of God”.  So this is a continuation of those messages.

I’ll call this part 3:  “GOD THE FATHER”!!!  Part 4 will include “THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST”!!!

We know that “gospel” means “God” (good) and “spell” (tidings)!  It is the “good news” concerning Jesus the Christ the Son of the Living God!

The “gospel” is to awaken man (those that are asleep) out of the sleep of disease, ignorance, obscurity, and death he/she has been in. The “gospel” is to awake the consciousness of man so that he/she can see his/her true existence.  What is man’s true existence!  Man’s true existence is that man is the God who had no form and He takes on that form in man!  Man is God with a form! 

A “mystery” is defined in Webster as something unexplained or “secret”, but in the Greek it is from the root word muste’rion, meaning to shut the mouth; a secret or mystery (through idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites).  In God’s language it doesn’t mean “mysterious” [as something not understood], but that which is outside the range of unassisted natural apprehension which can only be made known by divine revelation only made known by God Himself, the Spirit of Truth.

 “MYSTERY” implies “knowledge withheld”!  Its scriptural significance is “truth revealed” (made known; manifested; preached; understood).

·         Colossians 1:26: Even the mystery which hath been (past tense) hid (apokrup’to) [concealed away (fully); kept secret) [from the “wise and prudent”] from ages and from generations, but “NOW” is made manifest to his saints!!!

Jesus often spoke of His “oneness” and our “oneness” with the Father.  In order for God to “reconcile” man back to Himself, He had to become what “man” is by putting on a flesh body.   And at the same time God was and is showing man that he (man)/(male & female) is God in flesh form!  Jesus was God in flesh form and so are we.

·         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.

·         1 John 4:17: “As he is, so are we, in this world”.

 John 17:20-21: Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:  that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Jesus clearly states and magnifies in this verse the truth of “oneness” (unity or wholeness) in relation to the Father, Himself, and us the Church, which is through the power of the Comforter, the Holy Ghost that He made mention of in John 14:26:

·         But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

This “oneness” with God was made manifest through several “dispensations” but I’m going to touch on three of those manifestations (a dispensing of time that God uses to accomplish something), revealed in the Godhead:  the Father; the Son; and the Holy Ghost.

When something is manifested it is rendered apparent or readily seen, made visible, evident, or obvious.  John 4:24 state, that God is Spirit, but He has shown Himself in different ways throughout the eons of time, or dispensations.               

Paul wrote in Ephesians 1:9-10, “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himself: that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him”.

DISPENSATION is from the root word “oikonomi’a”, meaning administration (of a household or estate); an “economy”:  stewardship.  [It’s the management of household affairs].

God is like a “perfect circle”, you don’t know where it begins and you don’t know where it ends.  He’s like a “molecule” which is the smallest particle of an element or compound that can exist in the free-state and still retain the characteristics of the substance – or still retains and maintains its identity!  God is Spirit, but He put on flesh in Jesus Christ and now He is the Holy Ghost, which is the Father and Son all One in us the Church!

TEXT:  MATTHEW 6:9: After this manner therefore pray you:  “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”.

TOPIC:  “GOD THE FATHER”:

John 4:24, God is Spirit, and in Genesis 1:1, He is Elohim, our Creator, but yet He is also our Father! Father defined in Webster is a male parent; an ancestor; an originator, founder, or inventor; Christian priest; used especially as title. 

The first time “father” is used in scripture is in Genesis 2:24, in relation to “A man leaving his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:  and they shall be one flesh”. 

This isn’t just speaking to natural men leaving their father (small “f”) and mother and cleaving to their natural wives, but this is a revelation of what Jesus Christ was going to do in relation to His own wife, the Church and did!

Ephesians 5:22-33 (an analogy of family and church):

·         Vs 25: Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

·         Vs 26: That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

·         Vs 27: That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

·         Vs 32: This is a great mystery:  but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

When He died on the cross, He left both His Father and His mother, during His crucifixion. Prior to Jesus’ crucifixion He never called God, God, not in relation to His relationship with Him, He always called God “Father”, except when He was dying the death of a sinner on the cross:

·         Matthew 27:46: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying “ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI”?  That is to say, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me”?

Then He turned right around in Luke 23:46 and said:

·         And when he had cried with a loud voice, he said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit”:  and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

John 19:17-27:  [Jesus' crucifixion - His mother and the disciple John]:

·         Vs 25: Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

·         Vs 26: When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother, “Woman, behold thy son”.

·         Vs 27: Then said he to the disciple, “Behold thy mother”.  And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Jesus Christ was willing to leave Father and mother and die for His bride to redeem her unto Himself!

·         Revelation 19:7: Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him:  for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready.

·         Vs 8: And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white:  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Genesis 17 (the covenant of circumcision) (God speaking to Abraham):

·         Vs 4: As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.  Vs 5: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

FATHER in Hebrew is ab (awb), meaning father in a literal and immediate or remote application:  chief, (fore) father, patrimony.  Patrimony is from the Latin pater’, meaning property inherited from one’s father or ancestors; principal; [prince]; first in rank, importance, etc.

The “father” is the head of the household – progenitor, precursor (forerunner), the producer of the seed; provider for the family.

As you search through the scriptures you do not find “father” spelled with a capital “f” in the Old Testament.  It’s only when you get into the New Testament that you find “Father” spelled with a capital “F”, and even then it’s found coming out of the mouth of God’s Son Jesus the Christ:

·         Matthew 5:16: Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Father in the Greek is pater’, meaning, a “father”:  Father.  Pater’ is from a root signifying a nourisher (to provide with substances necessary to life and growth; to foster; promote); protector (to cover; to shield from injury, danger, etc; defend); up-holder (to hold up; to keep from failing; support; confirm; sustain).

In this verse, Matthew 5:16, Jesus didn’t just refer to the Father as being His Father only, but He said “your Father”.  So that tells us that God is also our Father.  When Jesus was teaching the disciples the “Lord’s Prayer” in Matthew 6:9, He started it off with the words “Our Father”!  This is giving proper recognition, honor and respect to our Heavenly Father!

Even though you don’t see “father” with a capital “f” in the Old Testament, yet the “Father” with the capital “F” was there all the time!  That’s why He was able to tell Abraham that he would be “a father of many nations” because the aspect of “Father” was already applicable to God Himself!

 In Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God (Elohiym) created, yet the Spirit or character of the “Father” was present!  The Father aspect of God has always been present!  The “father” passes the seed and the “mother” receives and reproduces the seed and brings it forth.  God said “Let there be” and there was!

We realize that from the beginning God (Elohiym the Creator) established and desired to have a family and a home for His children to dwell.  We His people that believe in Him are a part of that family.

How do we know that we are a part of God’s family?

Family in Webster’s dictionary is defined as a household; parents and their children; relatives; all those descended from a common ancestor; lineage; a group of similar or related things.

Ephesians 2:19: Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; vs 20: And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; vs 21: In whom all the building fitly framed together growth unto a holy temple in the Lord:  vs 22: In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

·         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 was in the beginning with God.

This word “same”, is the root word “hou’tos”, meaning the he (she or it), ie these, this man, she, they, this (same, woman).  We were there with the Father in the beginning along with our Big Brother Jesus the Christ and the Holy Ghost.

·         Vs 11: He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

·         Vs 12: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

·         Vs 13: Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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

Jesus was manifested in flesh form in the fullness of the time (Galatians 4:4), so were we manifested in flesh form at the set time the Father produced and brought us forth.  But we were all manifested in flesh at different times.  The time Jesus was manifested He came as Savior of the world, though He has always been.  [That’s another teaching].  Now in Christ, we too have become “saviors” to other people:

·         Obadiah 21: And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

We the sons of God (male & female) are those “saviors” that are come and are standing with Him on the mount Sion (the Church triumphant) right now in Christ Jesus, according to Revelation 14:1: “And I looked and lo, a Lamb (Jesus Christ) stood on the mount Sion (the church triumphant) and with him an hundred forty and four thousand (lambs or sons of God multiplied by the thousands), having his Father’s name written in their  (our) foreheads”.

What is the “Father’s name” we have written in our foreheads?  It is “the Word of God”!

·         Revelation 2 (the message to the church at Pergamos): vs 17: To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone and in the stone a new name written [the Word of God], which no man knows saving he that receives it.

This “stone” is the root word pse’phos, which is a pebble (as worn smooth by handling; by water or polished (to rub), ie (implication of use as a counter or ballot), a verdict (of acquittal). 

The verdict of acquittal for God’s people is “not guilty”!  Romans 8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  The definition of a ticket (of admission) is in relation to admission into the Kingdom of God!  Luke 12:32: Fear not little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom:  Luke 17:21: The kingdom of God is within you.

·         Revelation 19:13: And he was clothed (arrayed, dressed) with a vesture dipped in blood.

We, the church, His Body, is the garment or raiment Jesus was arrayed or clothed with that had to be “dipped in His blood” to be forgiven of our sins so that He through His death, burial, and resurrection could move us from darkness to light, from sickness to health, from torment to peace, from death to life, etc.

·         Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

·         Hebrews 9:11-12: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

·         Vs 22: Without shedding of blood, is no remission.

 

OUR FATHER HAS PROVIDED A HOME FOR HIS FAMILY

This is because we had to have somewhere to dwell and it’s not beyond the blue.  The earth is the scene of activity for humankind. 

·         Psalm 24:1: The earth is the LORD’S and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

·         Isaiah 45:18: For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited (dwelt or lived in):  I am the LORD; and there is none else.

Fathers always make provision for their family, their children, especially those that came out from them.  Acts 17:28: For in him we live, and move, and have our being:  as certain also of your own poets have said, “For we are also his offspring”.

 Luke 8:11:  The seed is the Word of God.

SEED is the root word spor’os, meaning a scattering (of seed), ie seed (as sown).  It goes to another root word spei’ro, meaning to scatter, sow, sower, receive seed, or spa’o, meaning to draw: draw out.

Our English word is “SPORE” from Webster meaning a small reproductive body produced by algae, ferns, etc. and capable of giving rise to a new individual.

Take a brief look at how God designed the human body:  (1) DNA – the cell’s control center containing the genetic code:  (2) RNA and protein provide the means by which this code can be expressed within the cell of the body: (a) precursor messenger RNA – which is altered within the nucleus to form mRNA:  (b) messenger RNA – contains the code for the synthesis of specific proteins:  (c) transfer RNA – which is needed for decoding the genetic message contained in mRNA:  (d) ribosomal RNA – forms part of the structure of ribosomes (the site of protein synthesis).  Proteins are the building blocks of the physical body.  This information is from Concepts of Human Anatomy and Physiology by Kent M. Van De Graaff and Stuart Ira Fox.

The DNA (God Himself):  the RNA (Jesus Christ):  transfer RNA (the Holy Ghost):  ribosome (the Church).  God is Eternal and He will forever replicate Himself in and through man – the INVISIBLE GOD MADE VISIBLE!

The “nucleus” is surrounded by a nuclear envelope composed of an inner and an outer membrane; these two membranes fuse together to form thin sacs with openings called nuclear pores. Look at how awesome our Creator God (Elohiym) is: These pores allow RNA to exit the nucleus (where it is formed) and enter the cytoplasm but prevent DNA from leaving the nucleus.      

·         Malachi 3:6: For I am the LORD, I change not.

·         Hebrews 13:5: I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

A cell can be divided into three principal parts: (1) Cell (plasma) membrane: [the outer, differentially permeable cell membrane gives form to the cell and separates the cell’s internal structures from the extracellular environment]:  (2) Cytoplasm and organelles: [the cytoplasm is the content of a cell between the nucleus and the cell membrane].  Organelles are minute structures within the cytoplasm of a cell that are concerned with specific functions:  (3) Nucleus: [the nucleus is a large, generally spheroid body within a cell that contains the DNA, or genetic material, of a cell].

In the “cell cycle”, unlike the life of an organism (any living thing), which can be pictured as a linear progression from birth to death, the life of a cell follows a cyclical pattern.  This cyclical pattern being a “circle”, or a period of time, within which a round of regularly recurring events are completed, or there’s one complete period of the reversal of an alternation current from positive to negative and back again.

Each cell is produced as a part of its “parent cell”; when the daughter cell divides, it in turn becomes two new cells.  In a sense, then, each cell is potentially immortal as long as its progeny (children; offspring) can continue to divide.  OMG!!!  This is how God who is Spirit and invisible, visibly continues on, in His people!

In Genesis, God said "Let there be” and it was!  His Word reproduced and brought forth whatever God saw in His mind.

Adam was created and made God’s “son” or “converted” into God’s son, but Jesus was born His Son.

Matthew 1 (genealogy of Jesus on His father’s side):

·         Vs 16: And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

Luke 3 (genealogy of Jesus on His mother’s side back to Adam):

·         Vs 38: Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.  [You can see even here the manifestation of the “Father” in Genesis].

CREATED is from the Hebrew word bara’, meaning absolutely to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes); choose, make, cut down, dispatch [to send promptly on an errand], done, make fat [give increase].

Make is from asah, meaning to wrought; execute; keep; prepare; perform; dress; accomplish; advance; appoint; apt (appropriate; fitting).

Adam was the “man” (male & female) that was qualified to be the (wood) tree that God chose or selected out of the many peoples or nations of people that were already on the earth, that He (God) would “cut down” and put him/her through a process of development that made him/her into His image, after His own likeness”, and appointed them and advanced them into a position to be in charge of the creation or to rule and reign over the creation!

·         Genesis 1:26: Let us make man (Adam) 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 (Adam) in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Being their “Father” (nourisher, protector, up-holder), He blessed them real good:

·         Genesis 1:28: 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”.

“ADAM” was the son the Father chose to be the “tree” (wood) He would use at that time to cut down and then raised him back up through a formative or developmental process of pressure being applied to him (male & female), so that he could overcome in every area of his being (mind, heart, soul, body) and be productive in the earth spiritually and physically for the glory of the Father.

Vs 29: And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat”. 

With the Adam race of people being “fruitful and multiplying, and replenishing the earth” wasn’t applied to them having babies and physically bringing forth children only, but it was them being in the position to reproduce and bring forth other sons of God to glorify the Heavenly Father in the earth!

As a matter of fact between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there were world’s here before the one we’re in now.  Hebrews 11: 3: Through faith we understand that the worlds (age; perpetuity (also past) were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.  And in those worlds were “sons of God”, people, males and females, nations, kindred, tongues, and governments in existence.  Ecclesiastes 1:3: “There is no new thing under the sun”.

·         Job 38:4: Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?  Declare, if thou hast understanding.

LAID is the root word siym, meaning to put; make; set; lay; appoint; give; set up; consider; turn; brought; ordain; place; show; regard; mark; dispose; care; call (a name); determined; disguise; commit; preserve; purpose; reward; hold.

FOUNDATIONS is the root word yacad’, meaning to set; to found; to sit down together, ie settle, consult: ordain; counsel; established; appointed; instructed; set; sure.  Then it goes to another root word, yecud’, meaning a foundation (beginning); began.

These “foundations of the earth” that God “laid” were not constructed of “cinder blocks” or “bricks”, but these “foundations” were people that God had appointed, ordained, marked, called a name [sons of God], disguised [made in His image after His likeness], preserved, purposed, rewarded with His wisdom, knowledge, dominion, power, and authority that He “sat down together with” in the beginning.  That’s why in Genesis 1:24, He said, “Let us make man”, because we were there with Him in the beginning as well!  God is replenishing what had existed before.

·         Job 38:6: Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?  Or who laid the corner stone thereof?  [There’s Christ our “chief cornerstone”]!  (He’s has been all the time)!

FOUNDATIONS in this verse is the root word eden (eh’den), defined as a basis (of a building, a column, etc): socket (s).  It goes to another root word adown (aw-done’) meaning in the sense of strength; to rule: sovereign, controller (human or divine):  Lord, lord, master(s), owner.

The invisible God needed someone visible to connect Himself into or plug Himself into to perform in the earth realm what He wanted done and they were called “morning stars” and “sons of God”!  They were sovereign, meaning above all others, chief, supreme in power and rank because they were God’s ambassadors, representatives in the earth!

·         Vs 7: [God asked Job] – Where were you when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

In Isaiah 14:12, Lucifer was a morning star, but he fell because of pride.  Lucifer was not some decorated angel with wings but he was “a man” that got the “big head” and God brought him down to the pit.

·         Isaiah 14:12: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 

·         Vs 16: They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, “Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms”.

 I believe that he fit right between Genesis 1:1 & Genesis 1:2.  In Revelation 12:3-4, mention is made of a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads, and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.  Lucifer became part of the religious system from the beginning that caused others to miss the mark and fall from the place of power God had placed them through pride, lies, deception, vain deceit, traditions of men as is happening to God’s people today. 

The “dragon” you see in Revelation 12 is the same “serpent” in Genesis 3:1 that lied to the woman (the church of that day).  When you see him in Revelation he has progressed to a “dragon”, but operating under the same guise of lies and deceit today through the religious system of philosophy, vain deceit, tradition of men, rudiments of the world, and not after CHRIST (Colossians 2:8), that Paul warned us about.

Back to Abraham being a “father” of many nations:

And out of Abraham came “the family” of God or “son of God” called Israel.  Exodus 4:22-23: And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, “Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:  and I say unto thee. Let my son go, that he may serve me:  and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn”.

Genesis 17 [God’s covenant of circumcision with Abram, He told him]: vs 4: As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations.  Vs 5: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.  Vs 6: And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.  Vs 7:  And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

We are included in this covenant promise because the “seed” God mentioned was “CHRIST”: 

·         Galatians 3:16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made.  He said not, “And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is CHRIST”!   Vs 27-29: As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek (Gentile), there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:  for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  And if you be Christ’s, then are you Abrahams’s seed, and heirs according to the promise HALLELUJAH!!!

John 4:24: God is Spirit!  [Christ’s Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth]!

God without “man” is Spirit without form or Spirit without a body!  We His people give Him His form.  We are the invisible God made visible.

1 John 1:5: “God is Light”, and everything in creation came out of the “Light”, and anything that opposes Him becomes “darkness”.

We are the product of our Father!  He is Spirit so we are spirit first because we were with Him in the beginning, but we are also flesh.  But our flesh must be brought under subjection to the Spirit of our Father, so that we can totally overcome as Jesus did!

·         John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God:  vs 2: The “same” (that’s US, His people, His sons) was in the beginning with God.

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

We know that that Word that was made flesh was God who was born Jesus, but called Christ!  Jesus was the Son of God and we are also sons of God!  Yes, in the natural we were born of a woman as Jesus also was, but because of the “new birth” we know that we are “born of God”!

·         Romans 8:16: The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children (tek’non) [as produced; to beget] (sons) of God: 

·         vs 17: And if children (sons), then heirs (kleronom’os) [a sharer; possessor]; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

·         1 John 3:1: Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:  therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

·         Vs 2: Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:  but we know that when he shall appear (this appearance is IN US), we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

When I look at other members of the Body of Christ, or even when I look in the mirror, I am seeing Him as He is in flesh form right here and right now in each of us!!!  Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones!!!

But the fall of man in Genesis 3, brought about a separation between God and His creation. 

·         Genesis 3:6-7: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.

The “Father” instinct of God didn’t let what man (His sons /male & female) had done totally annihilate (completely destroy) them from Him but it alienated (separated) them from the Father.  Though He 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 (nacham’) [to sigh, breathe strongly; to be sorry, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself):  comfort; ease].

It repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him: (atsab –aw-tsab’) [pain or anger: displeased; hurt].

It grieved him at his heart:  

Vs 7: And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them.

But God  the Father had a plan to restore the fallen creation back unto Himself through His Son Jesus the Christ!

He started with Noah building the Ark (Genesis 6).  This is the “Father aspect of God” at work making preparation to take care of His children, His family.

Then He made promise to Abraham how He would bless him and would make him a father of many nations.  And under the covenant of circumcision God made covenant between Himself, Abraham, and his seed for an everlasting covenant (Genesis 17).  But the “seed” God was talking about was not Abraham’s “seeds as many” but it was in relation to the “one seed” and that “seed” was Christ (Galatians 3:16). 

Then He used Joseph (Jacob’s son) whom Pharaoh made ruler under him in Egypt (Genesis 41) to “save the seed” and preserve them in a time of famine. 

Then God the Father used Moses to deliver His children (son) out of Egyptian bondage from Pharaoh (Exodus 12). 

And in Joshua 1, He used Joshua who is now leader of the children of Israel to carry them into the promise land.

Even though the Father had gotten angry with His children, yet He said He wouldn’t hold that anger forever:

·         Psalm 103:8-9: The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.  He will not always chide:  neither will he keep his anger forever.

So to resolve the anger issue within Himself the Father sent His Son Jesus Christ to demonstrate His true nature to the world, which was and is “love”!

·         John 3:14-16: And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:  that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal (quality) life.  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting (unending) life.

Pastor Gracie Perry