All things in this life point to Jesus Christ.
"For God so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son, so that whosoever
believes in him shall have everlasting life!"
I am a "Prisoner in Christ",
this means that I am eternally bound in
him and he in me.
Before I go any further, read in order;The
Enemy,The Creation,The Problem,The
Solution.
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1. The Enemy
There is an enemy in the world and his
name(one of many) is Satan. His sole
purpose is to destroy all that God has done
on this world and in this world, from
creating humans to redeeming humans to
himself through his only son Jesus Christ
the one true LORD!
You see Satan was once called Lucifer and
he was the most beautiful angel God created
and he was Gods' minister of music and
praise, yes his job was to lead and
orchestrate the very worshiping of God by
the whole hosts of Gods angels (who's
numbers are uncountable). Lucifer was even
most loved by God, that's right, of all the
angelic host he was Gods' favorite.
Lucifer decided that since he was so
beautiful and supreme that he would lift his
place above Gods and he would be God, at
this time Lucifer and one third of the whole
angelic host,the ones who even considered
Lucifer's thoughts and plans were all thrown
out of heaven as a lightning bolt to a void
and formless earth.
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2. The Creation
"In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. Now the earth was formless
and empty, darkness was over the surface of
the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering
over the waters".(NIV-Gen1:1)
This is the time of "our" beginning(humans).
Before our beginning we have no idea of all
that was in God, however we do know that
in our beginning God created all we know
and then he created humans to enjoy it and
to serve him. Our sole reason for being was
to praise and worship God and enjoy the
wonderful embrace of his Love!
The enemy did not like this, after all "he"
was Gods favorite and "he" was loved more
than all the angels. Who is man that
they(he/she) should have a close personal
loving relationship with God? God talked to
man, laughed with man, watched man learn
of the world and granted "all" his requests,
just like a loving father would do.
We had a close personal loving relationship
with the one and only true Father!
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3. The Problem
The biggest problem is Satan hates us and
Gods plan for us(after all "he" was most
loved) who is man that he should be shown
all Gods love, this is how Satan thinks, he
knew that God could have no relationship
with sin and evil, so he devised a way to
trick man into breaking his perfect
relationship with God which gave man all
that God had to offer him in every area of
his life. Satan tricked the woman God gave
man(from his own rib) to disobey God and
she did eat the fruit of the tree they were
instructed not to eat from and she gave some
to her husband who was with her.
When man took of the forbidden fruit all
rights to a perfect relationship with God and
all rights of dominion over the earth and his
own life were broken. Man was kicked out
of the garden and out of Gods grace and
personal presence.
God never stopped loving man even after
this, but in this act of disobedience man
unknowingly gave all power and rights of
this world over to Satan the enemy. This is
why all the terrible things that happen in
our world and lives and bodies happens. But
God has a solution!
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4. The Solution
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son so that whosoever
believes in him shall have ever lasting life!"
This the good news of the gospel(the story
of Jesus on earth). This is our only hope to
a better life here and in the everlasting
eternity of being with God or being without
God(spending it in heaven or hell). You can
have riches with or without God in your life,
but you will never be whole, as stated earlier
we were created to serve and worship God
so if he is not a part of your life your inner
soul and spirit is lost and can never be
fulfilled. Only a relationship with God will
truly do this, God as well as the enemy
knows this.
God wanted to destroy the enemies plan and
give us back the dominion and power and
personal relationship with him, so God
became a man(human) born of a virgin by
the Holy Spirit. He walked this earth as one
of his own creations in his image to go
through all we suffer and to lead us in his
ways, to redeem us through his person of
Jesus Christ!
He suffered on the cross for our sins and
died but rose again to set next to the Father
in heaven(his work completely complete),
and through your acceptance and belief in
this and him you have back the total
dominion and personal relationship with
God and power over all, through the power
of Jesus in your body and mind via the Holy
Spirit who Jesus sent back to the earth to
help us here in this life!
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