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  • spirit

    spirit

    Genesis 6:3a And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man…

    Flesh is that which we can see. Bones is that which we can almost touch – bones which will decay once more into the dust of time.

    Spirit is quite something else: inexplicable, incomprehensible, immeasurable, untouched, unheard, misunderstood and mysterious to the simpleness of our complex minds.

    Shall we complicate or clarify by equating to our spirit the very soul of our being – a human being, that is?

    Genesis 2:7c … and man became a living soul.

    “Hi, Roger,” a fellow man greets me. He is not talking to only the flesh of ears or the sore sight of his eyes. He speaks to my soul – my heart – my being in the image of the Living God.

     God IS and we are created in His Image. In the image of His Spirit, our spirit is created.

    Dear Father God, for this and for your Son and Holy Spirit I give you thanks.

    Yet a Holy God cannot always strive with mankind, sinful in the flesh and decaying by the unholiness of our worldly soul.

     

    Increasing Corruption on Earth

    3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years…”

    5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

    6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart…

    Do you grieve your LORD God, o man?

    Do you grieve Jesus Christ whose Name you claim, o christian?

    Christ Jesus also speaks of ‘spirit.’ Hear the Word of God in your heart and soul.

    John 3:3 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 4 Marvel not that I said to you, “You must be born again.”

    IN Christ Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, you must be born again. The LORD God will not forever contend with your soul, dearly beloved lost one.

    Repent of your sin! Do NOT contend with Christ our LORD.

     

     

  • ‘adam

    ‘adam

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

     

    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:

    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.

  • The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 2

    The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 2

    Matthew 5

    King James Version (KJV)

    • Blessed are the poor in spirit.

    NOT the poor in money – not the poor in anything other than a downcast spirit and soul of hopelessness. God has not looked on you with blessing. You live the life of curse and lack of blessing. God’s wrath must have looked on your life as worthy of nothing better than the dust of the earth.

    • For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

    How can this be? Cursed. Living as souls paying the price of every sin. How can one so downcast in heart be blessed with the Kingdom of Heaven?

    • Blessed are they that mourn.

    We all mourn. We mourn the loss of a father, a mother, a husband, a wife, a child, a dear friend, a relative. We mourn their loss by death, by war, by famine, by disease, by abduction, by slavery, by imprisonment, by addictions, by drugs, by alcohol, by divorce, by hatred, by broken relationship, by loss of all hope of making all that is death and evil into desperation of grief. We all wail in the mourning of our hearts, broken again and again until the final grieving as death. I need freed from this!

    • For they shall be comforted.

    What comfort short of death has any man? What peace may a suffering servant know?

    • Blessed are the meek.

    The self-made, driven man is the one blessed by his own hand. Do we not aggressively pursue the best God has for our life now? God helps those who help themselves, right? Those who want to expand their kingdom of blessings on earth cannot be gentle, submissive, mild and gentle.  The world will take from me every blessing, if I am meek.

    • For they will inherit the earth.

    How can I end up with nothing, yet inherit the earth?

    • Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.

    No, not blessed are the hungry – not blessed are thirsty. Am I not hungry every day? Do some hunger for food in their extreme poverty and even thirst for unpolluted water to drink? Yes, these do suffer more than me and more than you. But here in this place Jesus asks the filled and the hungry both to hunger and thirst after righteousness. Hunger to do the right thing before God at all times and in all ways. Desire to feed your flesh with the food and water of God.

    • For they shall be filled.

    How can I be filled with the bread and wine of righteousness? How can the Word of Jesus fill the hunger of my soul?

    • Blessed are the merciful.

    Who would show me mercy? Do the rich and the powerful not enslave us without mercy? Will the conquering nation show mercy on the slaves of their might? Will the poor criminal not pay every penny owed to the rich man, while the influential will bribe the judge?

    • For they shall obtain mercy.

    Will God please show me some mercy, and the unrighteous justice?

    • Blessed are the pure in heart.

    I stand before God with a hypocritical heart and a soiled soul.

    • For they shall see God.

    How will I be cleansed of my impure spirit of the flesh?

    • Blessed are the peacemakers.

    We live in a place where our conquerors have forced peace. Shall I make peace with the unrighteous? We have peace only when we give in to the rule of our leaders.

    • For they shall be called the children of God.

    Does God not call on His children to fight for what is right? Can we be instruments of peace in a place of war? Is it the place of children to fight for the Father?

    • Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake.

    Have the righteous and unrighteous both not been persecuted? Why would I do what is right knowing that I will be persecuted?

    • For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

    And if I do not do what is right? Will heaven have my soul?

    • Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

    Is the man also a Prophet? Why does he say that others will speak evil of me for his sake?

    • Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

    I don’t want to be persecuted for my own sake, let alone for the sake of this Jesus. The Prophets of God were opposed by evil men of their captors and of their own religion.

    (Just some possible thoughts of some in the multitude, hearing Jesus teach the Beatitudes.)

    To be continued…