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‘adam

Genesis 2:7a And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground…

Genesis 2

English Standard Version (ESV)

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them…

The Creation of Man and Woman

4 These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens….

— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Yĕhovah ‘elohiym formed ‘adam of the dust of the ground [‘adamah]…

We need to understand something here from the original Hebrew:

Yĕhovah ‘elohiym [THE LORD GOD] IS plural (as we discussed yesterday).

Note also the similarity of the word for ‘man (or mankind) to the word for the ground: ‘adamah. “You are dust and to dust you will return.” (Sound familiar? Yet we speak only of the bones and flesh and not the breathed-in soul.)

Adam = man = mankind and is a masculine noun (like ‘elohiym); yet the great mystery of the complexity of man, made in the image of the One Triune God, is also a great mystery.

Genesis 2:15a Yĕhovah ‘elohiym took ‘adam into the garden of ‘Eden…

The LORD GOD took mankind into Eden – Man, the male and Woman, which the LORD GOD created out of man, the female. HE made them. (More of that in the remainder of Genesis 2.)

Jesus Christ, the Word of God, ONE with the God the Father and God the Holy Spirit spoke to the great mystery of man and woman and marriage referring to Genesis 2:18, which in the KJV translates:

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Jesus said (of these scriptures and specifically from Genesis 2:

Mark 10

English Standard Version (ESV)

Teaching About Divorce

6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

As ‘from dust to dust’ rings in your souls the familiar truth of the burial of the body, so too ought these words of Christ Jesus burn in the hearts and souls of a man and a woman joined in marriage by our Christian vows before God.

A man and a woman, joined to each other as one and joined as one one with God: a great and wonderful mystery!

What is your witness for Christ Jesus in this, o ‘adam of dust and man of spirit?

Dearly beloved Christian husband; dearly beloved Christian wife:

What is the witness of the triune oneness of your Christian Marriage?

{a personal prayer}

Dearly beloved, my Blessing of the Lord our Savior:

May the overflowing sacrificial love of Christ Jesus renew your vows of witness to the eternal love and joyous hope we found in His blessings of the joining of our lives with Him now and forever more. amen.

January 3, 2014
Moving on…

Luke 4:14-30 English Standard Version (ESV)

Jesus Begins His Ministry

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country.

Nazareth (inland); Tyre, Syria (top) to the N.; Capernaum (Sea of Galilee) to E.; Jerusalem to S.

23 And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.”

24 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

Elijah worked miracles for the widow of Zarephath, who welcomed the Prophet and gave him a room.

27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”

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Jesus will heal a leper and raise a widow’s son from the dead: both in Galilee.

Luke 6: 20-26

22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

26 “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

A Tree and Its Fruit

43 “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

45 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

Matthew 10:

And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction…

5 These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, 6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

9 Acquire no gold or silver or copper for your belts, 10 no bag for your journey, or two tunics or sandals or a staff, for the laborer deserves his food.

11 And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart. 12 As you enter the house, greet it. 13 And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

IF anyone will not listen.. Shake off the dust of your feet when you leave that house.. It will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah. + “Jesus – Matthew 10:14-15

14 And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. 15 Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

Not Peace, but a Sword

34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

35 For I have come to set a man against his…

… a man against his nearest and most beloved family members. Rejection! Rejection by loved ones for taking up your cross… when your loved ones will not.

36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Rewards

40 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.

41 The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

Do you receive the prophet’s reward?

Or does he shake off his sandals and move on?

To be continued…

October 31, 2013