THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 1
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the
earth.
You’ve read the story a hundred times before with
your good intentions of starting at the beginning and reading the WHOLE
Bible. However ... Let’s look at the story with a lil discernment.
Let's read between the lines.
The earth
had no shape or form at all. Then, the
SPIRIT OF GOD
moved upon the face of the waters.
This tells us that the Holy Spirit has been with us since the beginning.
Day 1:
God said to the Holy Spirit, Let there be light: and there was.
Day 2:
God created the firmament. What is the firmament? God called it
Heaven.
Day 3:
God created dry land which separated the water into Seas. Then He made
grass, plant life and trees.
Day 4:
God created the sun, moon, and stars.
Day 5:
God created all sea life and all things that fly.
Day 6:
God created all the rest of the living creatures that move on the earth.
And then ... God created man.
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Genesis 1:26-27
And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our
likeness … So God created man is
His
own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created He them.
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Oh now that is
sooooooo cool. WE are made in the image of God.
But, how are we
made in the image of God? We know that there are different genders, races,
sizes shapes etc. of humans so He must be referring to a spiritual likeness
of some sort.
Let us
investigate this further shall we? Let's look at the statement again ...
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Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let
us
make man in our
image, after our
likeness …
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Who is God
talking to?
The answer is
... He is talking to himself ...
Sort of.
Now I know this
sounds a lil strange to us mortals, but it's true ...
It's gonna get a lil stranger but in the end you will say ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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1 John 5:7
There are THREE
that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost and
these THREE are
ONE.
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See, there are
three entities that are really one. Let's take a
closer look at who these three are ... The Bible said they were:
The Father ...
Which is obviously God
The Word ... Which is Jesus (John
1:1-5)
The Holy Ghost ... Which is the Holy Spirit
Many call this
the TRINITY.
So according to
the Bible ... God has three parts of Himself which all make ONE. We were created
in like manner in that we also have three parts. The Soul, the
flesh and the spirit also known as the spirit, the water and the blood.
WE WERE CREATED
IN GOD'S IMAGE ...
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1
John 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water,
and the blood: and these three agree in one.
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Let's talk
about our three parts and see if we can prove it ... Let's look at
the spirit the water and the blood ...
Our bodies are
made up of mostly what? WATER. Therefore the water is the Flesh.
Our blood or DNA as scientists like to call it distinguishes us, one from
the other so this is our SOUL. That is why the Bible says that Abel's BLOOD
cried out to God (Genesis
4:10).
The SPIRIT is given to us by God and departs from us when we die and is why
you will find it says that people gave up the ghost or spirit when they
died, in the Bible.
Taking this a
lil further ... That means that our flesh (body) and our spirit is subject
to our soul (mind). God said "Let there be" and God's Spirit said gotcha and
brought it to pass. Jesus, being the Body or Flesh of God, performed God's
will. So what our Soul desires and believes, our spirit will bring forth.
It's so true. Let's say you hear that a loved one passed away, your spirit
reacts to YOU and is all of the sudden sad and your body reacts to YOUR
thoughts and changes. Sometimes fear and even Love causes butterflies in the
stomach which is the flesh. Same with all other thoughts that cause emotion.
Did ya know that the senses are what we use to obtain thoughts? There
are actually 6 senses ... What we see, hear, smell, feel, taste and THINK.
That's right, we get thoughts. Sometimes they are from the depths of our
minds. Sometimes they are from God and sometimes ... They are not. The devil
likes to use our senses to gain entry to our spirit. If he can make
you THINK something, then he knows your spirit will react and God judges the
spirit. Pretty clever huh? The devil likes to use our thoughts and control
our actions and feelings like some kind of puppet. Well it sounds like we
need to control our thoughts and as we ALL know ... THAT is the hard part.
You aren't alone.
Even Paul said I do that which I would not do. So what do we do?
Pray for God to help you control your thoughts as for you to perform HIS
will.
AWESOME STUFF
... Make sure you
ponder on this my friend.
As we were created to do ... In HIS image.
This
shows that the Holy Spirit IS God. Think of it this way.
If your name was Junior, you might say to yourself, “Okay, Junior, today
we’re going to start a new Bible study program.” You are talking
to your spirit, which IS you.
