Surefootedness

In order for the realities of God's Word to be worked out in each of our lives, we must have sure footing. The very fullness of the freedom that is available to us as taught in Romans 6, 7 and 8 is something we must grasp in order to be built up as we stand on the Rock of our salvation.

There can be no meaningful results from the many valuable exhortations that we hear from Spirit-led teachers and ministers in the church, no revival or a difference in our own individual lives, no reality of the life of Christ lived out in us unless we stop trying to produce good activity from our own evil flesh; that flesh that has been dealt with at the cross.

How we need to believe and learn to take a stand on what our loving and faithful God has done and will do for us in freeing us from ourselves and the sin which so easily entangles us.

This essential truth lies in simplicity; that only He is enough. This is the source of our steady footing as we stand on the Rock and allow Him to complete the work in us that He started.

Early Chemistry: Adam & Eve Ate Something

Adam and Eve ate something and it changed them and the entire course of history. It changed their behavior and way of thinking.

"Since by man came death..."

Unheard of, nowadays?

A married man abruptly changes, becoming generally aggressive. His family becomes broken as he strays away from them. Everyone he knows is left to pick up the pieces. Later, it is discovered that he was taking a certain medication that became known to provoke just the behavior that plagued him.

Obviously, there was a chemical in the fruit that affected Adam and Eve. There was a chemical in the medication that affected, or should I say amplified, a certain behavior of the man. However, in both cases, the chemical brought out the fact that there was already a bad character issue.

Adam and Eve concluded that they were guilty and in need of a Saviour. The man mentioned above, a believer, woke up to the fact that he had done wrong and needed to confess and turn from his destructive behavior. Although already a believer, he was freed from his behavior by understanding and believing in the power of the ALL-sufficient work of Christ on the cross.

There are those who teach that we, as believers, don't have a sin nature. "It was crucified with Christ, literally, and no longer exists," they say. Satan was defeated at the cross too, wasn't he? Well, he didn't go away and our sin nature doesn't either. Both are left right here with us.  Thank the Lord! Both drive us to dependency on Christ rather than self dependency.  In this way, God has a tremendous power tool to use sin against itself.

Adam and Eve ate something.  However, "by Man came also the resurrection of the dead."

For as in Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

(Note:  Since the tasty little morsel in the photo contains all raw organic ingredients, the worst chemical would probably be the only non-raw ingredient - espresso).