The Garden

What happened in “The Garden”? The very first couple, a male and a female created in the image of God, ~Made~ The First *Choice* and that choice was TO: *Disobey* The Word of God, the first commanded, statute of “thou shalt not”, which became the: first sin… AND *IN*, (Because OF) This Choice TO *sin* they came to ~~Know~~ *Good & Evil*… Giving the disposition of *Choice* To mankind throughout the ages, through today, and so *IT* Will BE, until ~ALL~ things are Accomplished, *AS God Proclaimed,* & *AS IT IS Written*..
(Genesis 2:16-17)… Obviously the decision to ~Disobey~ was made before they ate of the Fruit of the: Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil…Because this knowledge made them realize that they were wrong…. AND they were cast out of the garden before they could have the opportunity to eat of the tree of life…. Because they proved untrustworthy in making the choice to disobey…propituation
On this choice the whole of the Biblical Instruction IS based…. Since Adam & Eve made that first conscious decision to *Ignore* God and HIS Word, and do what they thought was good, based on what they wanted, *The Sin of Disobedience* has and does run prevalent among men of ~~ALL~~ walks in this life, whether: Atheist, Agnostic, or Christian.
Mankind has tried throughout the ages to sugar coat, change, cover, explain away with falsities the: Commands that God Put before HIS creation TO Obey.. Especially since Christ came to be born on this earth, walked among men exampling ~Obedience~ TO His Father and ours in the heavens….
Men jumped on this as a ~Free ticket~ to sin, to disobey the Father’s Word, because Jesus gave His life’s blood to: be the propitiation of through ~faith~ in his blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of ~Sins~ that ARE Past, through The forbearance of God… (Romans 3:25) & SO, (31)… Do we than make void the law through faith? God Forbid! Yea, we establish The Law…….
(I John 2:1-2) … John Wrote: these things ~That ye sin Not~.. AND *IF* ~Any~ man sin, we have an Advocate with The Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous…& He *IS* The ~Propitiation~ for our sins: AND NOT for our sin’s only, BUT also for the ~Sins~ OF The Whole World….
Not that He IS Automatically ~Saving ~ us or the whole world, BUT That the Stage Has been set, The Price has been paid, The Way *HAS* Been Made, that *IF*… (Still giving us a choice, the same choice that Adam and Eve was given, “To Be OR Not TO BE”…. we must willfully prove ~Obedient~ to God’s Commands….
(I John 2: 3-6)…. AND Hereby we do ~Know~ that we ~Know~ Him, *IF* we keep His Commandments… (For, Because, IF, OF Choice)…. He that saith, “I KNOW Him”, AND keepeth ~NOT~ His Commandments, *IS* A liar and the truth IS NOT In him…. (Who IS the father of the lie? The same is the father of a person that claims to ~Know~ Christ and yet Still walks in the world IN *Disobedience*)
(v.5) .. BUT! Whoso ~Keepeth~ His word, IN Him IS the Love of God *perfected*: hereby we know that we are *IN* HIM… &&& He that *Saith* HE abideth IN him, ~Ought~ himself ~ALSO~ TO walk, even as He walked…..
We are ~Still~ living in the days OF decision, OF choice, the choice to obey our Father and walk through this life in the Way, according TO: the example that HIS Son set out for us to walk in… We are not magically lifted up on pedestal to look down our noses at the world, and yet do the things that the world does, AND because IT IS us that does them IT IS Good and Righteous, because Jesus died for our sins…. NOOOOO! Rather, *IF* we claim the Blessed Name of God’s Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and we walk in this world calling ourselves: Christian, then our walk should and must reflect Christ, as surely as a reflection IS Seen, in the ~Living Water~…. AND our walk WILL prove to be ~Separate~ From the ways of the world…
(Genesis 3: 9-11)… The LORD God, called unto Adam and said; “Where art thou?” .. Adam said: “I was ~afraid~ Because I was *Naked*; & I hid myself” … God replied, “Who told thee that thou wast ~naked~ hast thou eaten of the ~tree~ whereof I ~Commanded~ that thou shouldest *NOT* eat?”
I find it very interesting that in the choice of disobedience that Adam & Eve made, they realized that their nakedness was unsightly and feared…. Yet today, people ~LOOK~ for excuses to display their nakedness… They parade around the Church yards, and in the Sanctuaries, barely covered by garments… Did Jesus shed His life’s blood that people could be so brash? Baring ones body IS: A dishonor of God’s creation….
(Exodus 32:25)….Moses ~Saw~ that the people were *Naked*, .. ~UNTO their *shame* among their enemies~….
(Revelation 16:15)…. BEHOLD: I come as a thief, Blesses *IS* he that watcheth, AND Keepeth his garments, lest he walk ~Naked~ AND they see his shame….
(one that calls themselves: A Christian, not only should, but absolutely MUST, maintain a walk that reflects The righteousness of our LORD, whether in their works, spirit, or bodily clothing…) AS James Wrote:
(James 2:18)… “Show me thy faith ~Without~ works, and I will show thee my faith ~~*BY*~~ my ~Works!” & (2:26) … “AS the body without the spirit *IS* dead, SOOOooo Faith ~without~ Works *IS* dead Also” ….
(Matthew 7:16)… “Ye shall ~Know~ them by their fruits”…. (Do you expect to find a gathering of the world in the place that IS Called God’s House of Prayer? OR Do you look for a place that reflects the: Holy Spirit, The Righteousness of Christ, The Sanctity of God to assemble yourselves together in Thanksgiving and Prayer to God the Father in the Name of and through HIS Son Jesus Christ?)
Action, Appearance, Accountability, the AAA’S OF Christianity… IS A MUST *IF* we are even going to attempt to or lay claim to an attempt to *OBEY* THE Command that Jesus Christ gave to ALL who would follow Him, before He returned to His Father, and ours in the Heavens….
(Matthew 28:18-20)… “Go ye therefore AND *Teach* ~~ALL~~ Nations, baptizing them IN The Name OF: The Father, AND OF The Son, AND OF The Holy Ghost:” (Teaching them what? To run around in and before the world naked, showing their bodies to their shame, tattooing their flesh, running amuck in the movie, make believe, horoscope reading wizardry, vampire chasing witchery of Satan the dragon? OR!) .. “~Teaching~ them TO: *Observe* ~~ALL~~ things, whatsoever I Have *Commanded* you: AND lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world.”
Did Jesus mean that whatever we do He IS With us, OR did He mean *IF* we follow His Way and Do His Commandments? What DID Jesus say?
(Luke 9:62)… “*NO* man, having put his hand to the plough, AND ~Looking~ back, ~*IS*~
Fit for ~The Kingdom of God!”
SOOOoooo…., we have a choice from the git go, a conscious ~action~ to do or not to do, we have a conscious appearance to make, setting and example of Christ in us, coming out of and putting away the world, and we have to be accountable for the actions that we choose… SO as we stand IN the shoes of teaching, preaching, leading, the lost to Christ, the little children, the innocents, we MUST wear a ~peculiar~ pair of shoes… the kind that makes the type of tracks that Jesus laid down in His walk about this earth… We can’t flip-flop along with the rest of the world, and teach the world tooooo follow Christ in the Kingdom of God also…