THE Garden Today

What went on IN: “The Garden of Eden” still goes on today, but IT IS More increased IN The Modern Way.. Elevated in subtlety, masking and underlying sense of ~Goodness~, of, for, and by the people, led by the fleshly spirit.. There IS A heart of flesh, and then there IS A heart of spirituality… There IS A heart that only sees life here in the present, what IS now… BUT there IS A heart, and an eye that sees, works toward, and prepares for eternal life… Which ~spirit of heart~ IS leading you?
(Psalm 73:26).. My flesh and my heart faileth, BUT God IS The strength of my ~heart~ , AND my potion ~Forever~…
(I Corinthians 15:14).. *IF*, Christ be ~NOT~ risen, then is our ~~Preaching~~ in vain, and our faith IS Vain also?… (15).. AND, we are found false witnesses OF God; because we have testified that HE, raised up Christ:.. (22) FOR as IN Adam all die, even so IN *Christ* shall ~ALL~ be made Alive…
Do we who testify of these very things in the Houses set aside for The Preaching of God’s Word, really believe this? IT doesn’t seem so by the conduct of these services! BECAUSE!
We take much time out of the spiritual worship of The LORD, TO: take names for a prayer list, to offer up to the Father, in Jesus Name for the healing of fleshly bodies, safety of fleshly bodies in travel, and such… We promote big fund- drives, faithfully seeking cures for the very sicknesses that, God has inflected upon mankind, for HIS Reasons, and Purposes… Ever thought about that?
Ever considered as IT IS Written that we are warned to be busy about preparing for our eternal life, rather than seeking the comforts of this one? Maybe this very attitude IS Why we cannot find peace and comfort in this life, because we don’t focus our vision toward the eternal…
(II Corinthians 5:1)… For *IF*, our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, ~Eternal~ IN The Heavens..
(I Corinthians 6:15).. Know ye not that ~your bodies~ are ~The members OF Christ~?
(Ecclesiastes 12:7).. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: AND the spirit shall ~return~ unto God Who *Gave IT*.
(Ezekiel 18:20).. The ~soul~ (person, creature with life blood) that sinneth shall die!
SO, that we are going to: ~die~ IS a fact OF: anything you may want to classify IT under… Science, man’s sight, or God’s Divine Purpose… IT’S Gonna happen! There is not a soul that has breathed breath, that has not lost that breath of life in to death…
(I Corinthians 15: 49-50).. As we have borne the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.. Flesh and blood ~CANNOT~ inherit the Kingdom OF God, & (53b) .. This mortal ~Must~ put on immortality… (54b).. SO Then when this mortal shall have put on immortality, ~~THEN~~ shall be brought to pass the saying that IS Written: “Death IS Swallowed up in ~Victory~… We preach IT but do we really believe IT? Does our life styles, our mannerisms, our desires, our walk of ~Love~ even, show that we truly believe IT?
BUT, just as IT Was with Adam and Eve in the Garden, SO IT IS Today… Satan the devil, Lucifer, the old serpent, now grown into a huge ~Dragon~, is leading folks to think that they can add years to the human life span by science, medicines, diets, lifestyles, by experimenting with animal life, cloning, ect. BUT the fact still remains we ~are~ going TO drop these fleshly bodies at some point, and in some way, IT IS ALL According TO: God’s Purposed Plan!
The ~Plan~ set forth IN The Garden when Eve gulped up the ~Same Lie~ of Satan that so many folks today swallow…
(Genesis 3:4) and the serpent said unto the woman, “ye shall surely not die.” .. (5).. “for God knoweth that in the day you eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing ~good & evil~… Well, actually this IS truth… Mankind knows good and evil, but can’t seem to separate them… Because folks tend to make ~Excuses~ for the evil to try and make IT Good, and Turn away from what IS good, and abuse IT… Put IT Away because the simple fact IS AS according to the serpents challenge, good just ain’t no fun. Because, (Gen. 3:6)… Eve (under the influence of the serpent) .. saw that the ~tree~ was *good* for food, (to take in).. A pleasure to the ~eye~ (of the flesh), a tree to be ~Desired~ to make one *wise*…. See where this IS going?
Bring this one verse into the ~present~ world…. What does mankind seek? Obedience TO God’s Command? How many do you see or hear striving to ~Obey~? (Isaiah 5:20) OR IS Mankind, even those that claim devout Christianity, seeking the goodness of this life, the food that the world has to offer in ~ALL~ things and ways, the pleasures of the fleshly eye, a desire to BE: Wise, beautiful according to the outer appearance of the flesh, following fad diet after fad diet, work-out spas, liposuctions, implants everywhere, so that lips and lungs are sagging from too much collagen or synthetic tissue…hari coloring and face painting.. and then walking about naked in the world to show it all off.. We claim freedom in Christ, but waste IT in the vanity of the world…
(Colossians 2: 20-23)… Wherefore *IF* ye be dead ~With~ Christ ~From the rudiments of the world~ WHY, as though living IN the world are you subject to ordinances? Touch NOT; taste NOT; Handle NOT; which ~ALL~ are to Perish with the using: (Does not this resonate of The Garden, when God Said, leave IT Alone? HE Gave a Command of Obedience, then that stands even now, but most folks ignore IT and follow after men’s sayings of law, “OH, that IS Alright, God understands”, or as the serpent said, “God doth know that ~your eyes shall be opened~ and ye shall ~~KNOW~~.” we are intelligent modern people and we have the good sense to say what is right and wrong. Example, ain’t nothing wrong with drinking alcoholic beverages, but it is against the law to be drunk.. Ain’t nothing wrong with advertising your body, by displaying it in public, but it is wrong when someone touches what they can clearly see. ?? Ain‘t nothing wrong with displaying our wee little girls, parading them before the perverts of the world, dressed as little hookers, dancing to sultry motions, but IT IS really bad when this display is acted upon by a pervert. The sad thing IS what ~~WE~~ have done to our child, the child that God blessed us with, to care for and raise in HIS Will & Way.. We, ourselves, no one else, have set them up as bait to the dogs of the world for slaughter…just the same as a fisherman baits his hook to catch a fish we have used our wonderful precious child, as bait before the eyes of a predator… BUT we stand and blame everyone but ourselves… The law did not protect them from these beastly criminals… Was IT THE Duty of the law OR, did our duty as parents fail?? IS This The LOVE That God Gives US? Sex IS Sold through ~Beauty Pageants~..) After the commandments, and doctrines of men?… (3:2) Set your affection on things above, ~NOT~ on the things of the earth.. AND Jesus Said:
(Matthew 15:9).. “But in ~Vain~ they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” …
Man has grown SO arrogant that the old joke gets even more funny, yet more desperately sad, to those who understand the impact of It’s meaning..
{Man had grown so intelligent that he could do anything he wanted to, so he decided to create his own man out of clay.. He was so arrogantly puffed up in himself that he even told God this. SO God said: “Show ME!”, At which point the man gladly accepting the challenge in a desire to show off his ~OWN~ ability, reached down to take the soil of the earth with which to make his own man.. BUT! Again God Spoke, Saying; “Hold on, that IS MY soil, you go and get your own!”…} There are several good morals to this story, but the best one I know IS: Man must realize that without God we are nothing, and we can do nothing, God holds all things in the palm of HIS Hand.. Good & Bad, Life & Death, (OF Which HE Gives us a choice of accepting or rejecting, not that we have a personal choice of being born, neither of dying a fleshly death, BUT The choice that God Gives US IS, one of obeying HIS Commandments to eternal life, or disobeying to everlasting death..(Deut. 30:15) (Psalm 37:27)) using ALL Things, AS IS TO HIS Purpose..
(Romans 13:1b).. FOR There IS NO Power but of God: The powers that be ARE Ordained of God..
Just as God sent the sickness and pestilence upon the Pharaoh, as HE sent famine, and drought, rained fire down upon Sodom & Gomorrah, sent HIS children into foreign lands to be under kings, for their disobedience… GOD Still Reigns Today AS our LORD, and Jesus Christ HIS Proven Obedient Son, Sits AT HIS Right Hand To Make Intercession for we the people, who humbly seek to repent and serve IN God’s Will and Way…
Yes, we can live better lives here in the flesh, through, obedience to God. This IS A ~Two Plus~ gain…
First, IF we are humbly obedient unto God, then HIS punishment IS not inflicted upon us.. That we fall into bad times, get sick, IS a truthful fact. AS Jesus Said:
(Matthew 5:45).. The Father in heaven maketh HIS sun to rise on the evil and the good, and HE sendeth rain upon the just and the unjust… (v.48) tells us what we MUST DO to be children of THE Father…read IT!… But God carries us through these times…
Second, IF we are humbly obedient UNTO God, then we reside under HIS Protected Wing, *IF* we are willing to obediently stay put there, and we are not apt to fall to the trickery of Satan the devil… But *IF* we desire to wander out into the world then the protection of the wing is lifted….
Under that wing means that we stay out of the ways of the world…. We can’t straddle the fence, and tell the world that we are under God’s Protection, or expect to be sheltered there, while we are walking hand in hand with Satan’s world.… We must stand outside, as a witness of God’s Kingdom, NOT AS A Promoter of the world of mankind’s traditional views…
That we are walking through this world IS Also A Fact, AND God has commanded That We Render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar, BUT To God what IS God’s (Matthew 22:21) AND AS Paul Wrote:
(Romans 13:14).. Put ye on The Lord Jesus Christ, and ~Make NOT~ provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lust thereof….
There IS A whole heap more instruction Written on making this life ready for the eternal, than there IS For glorifying in the flesh of life…. Where are we standing? IN The field of flesh promoting ~life-saving causes~ of the flesh, OR walking IN The Narrow path of eternal life, preaching and teaching the WORD, of the Gospel and God’s Kingdom where life IS Eternal without mans handy work…..