Great secrets and revelation of the cross
The glorious cross of Christ is Gods gift to a world lost and separated by the Adamic sin-nature, Eph. 2:3,
"Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others."
The commandment came to Adam, do not eat from this tree, Romans 7:8-12
"But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."
Paul was never alive without the law, and speaks retrospectively of Adams disobedience and ultimate death by his newly received sin-nature, death-life.
Adam failed, just as Lucifer had failed to obey God.
Adam being created a living soul, in the image and likeness of God, could not give God what He wanted.
Lucifer, son (placed as a son) of the morning, could not give God what he wanted. Angels could not give him what he wanted.
We see no created being could not give him what he wanted. The simple fact is God would like to be loved, the way He loves.
Reciprocating love, the type of love He and His Son shared, the kind of love that would cause a Son to say "send me I'll go."
I had the question the other day asked "why was God so harsh in his judgements in the Old Testament."
I know God dealt with humanity based on their nature, he could not deal with them as a new creation because there were none.
He has always been a Father with Fatherly attributes, he could not express them in the Old Testament because there were none to express them to.
In all of man's success's and failure He knew He had a plan, a plan to birth His Own children with his nature in them.
Take a part of Himself (Christ) and place it in a believing sinner, Eph. 1:4. That is Grace, and the cross at the deepest level of God's plan. The thing that was hidden in God was, He was a Father, the cross will show how deep that relationship runs.
The glorious cross of Christ is Gods gift to a world lost and separated by the Adamic sin-nature, Eph. 2:3,
"Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others."
The commandment came to Adam, do not eat from this tree, Romans 7:8-12
"But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."
Paul was never alive without the law, and speaks retrospectively of Adams disobedience and ultimate death by his newly received sin-nature, death-life.
Adam failed, just as Lucifer had failed to obey God.
Adam being created a living soul, in the image and likeness of God, could not give God what He wanted.
Lucifer, son (placed as a son) of the morning, could not give God what he wanted. Angels could not give him what he wanted.
We see no created being could not give him what he wanted. The simple fact is God would like to be loved, the way He loves.
Reciprocating love, the type of love He and His Son shared, the kind of love that would cause a Son to say "send me I'll go."
I had the question the other day asked "why was God so harsh in his judgements in the Old Testament."
I know God dealt with humanity based on their nature, he could not deal with them as a new creation because there were none.
He has always been a Father with Fatherly attributes, he could not express them in the Old Testament because there were none to express them to.
In all of man's success's and failure He knew He had a plan, a plan to birth His Own children with his nature in them.
Take a part of Himself (Christ) and place it in a believing sinner, Eph. 1:4. That is Grace, and the cross at the deepest level of God's plan. The thing that was hidden in God was, He was a Father, the cross will show how deep that relationship runs.
