A Lesson In Obedience And Praye
A LESSON IN OBEDIENCE AND PRAYERS
Genesis 1
1*. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. …
31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good…
Amplified Version, Heb 1:10-12
10 And [further], You, Lord, did lay the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of Your hands. 11 They will perish, but You remain and continue permanently; they will all grow old and wear out like a garment. 12 Like a mantle [thrown about one’s self] You will roll them up, and they will be changed and replaced by others. But You remain the same and Your years will never end nor come to failure. (original passage is Psalm 102:25-27)
Amplified Version, Heb 13:8
8 Jesus Christ, the Messiah, [is always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes,] and forever — to the ages.
Premises:
1. God did not originate evil.
2. Evil is not to be found in God.
3. Evil cannot be laid at God’s feet, or to His charge. 4. God can be TRUSTED ABSOLUTELY.
True Obedience is founded upon TRUST in GOD Page # Genesis 2
15* And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16*. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
All things that God had made for man, he placed into man’s keeping. God’s good things were entrusted to man, and corruption, decay, death, hell and the grave are attributable to man alone, and not to our Creator who finished all that He had made and considered it to be ‘very good’ (Gen 1:31).
God’s commandment to man was given, and was not dependent on an obedience born of fear, but on an obedience based in trust. Since sin had not entered into the world at this time, fear had no place. Adam and God shared perfect communion, or perfect love, and this allowed perfect and unchallenged TRUST, a complete reliance upon God without doubt or fear.
Genesis 3
- Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6*. And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7* And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
The ancient pattern of Satan’s corrupting attack on God’s creation is set forth in these verses. By subtil deception, Eve is led to believe that God is keeping something from her by means of His commandment. God is characterized as something He is not. God, His character, and His Word are brought into question, creating mistrust. At the end, Eve no longer trusted her estate to God, but set about to establish her own estate in her own power and to establish her own interests apart from God, because she stopped trusting God.
James 3
13. Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Jude 1
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
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Notice here that Eve’s eyes were not opened, and then Adam’s, although Eve ate first of the fruit, as a result of deception, and then Adam ate of the fruit, as a result of Eve’s presentation.
Adam could have, with God’s help, restored Eve to fellowship because neither of them had fallen at the time he took the fruit from her. We have scriptural examples that explain how this could be, that Eve could have tasted and not fallen, had Adam interceded for her.
Genesis 2
23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Ecclesiastes 4
9 Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up.
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?
12* And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
- God is Looking for Intercessors ***
Jesus Christ is referred to in Scripture as the Second Adam. We know that He left His rightful place in heaven to descend to earth as an intercessor. He came to reconcile the entire creation to God at the price of His own cruel death on a tree He had made, and at the hands of a nation He had greatly loved, nurtured, and protected. In fact, in the deepest pains of agony in His death he asked the Father to forgive His accusers and His murderers for they were ignorant of what they were doing.
Were they ignorant of the cruel death to which they subjected Him, or were they ignorant of His Life and Teachings which manifested Him as God in the flesh, Yeshua Ha Messiach, Jesus, the Messiah? NO! They were ignorant of God, of His true character, and of His Word. Just as Eve believed a lie, and presented Adam with the fruit of her deception, so has the world believed a lie and so does the world present mankind with the fruit of its deception. Jesus Christ clothed Himself with flesh and bone to join Himself with our humanity in order to restore us from a state of MISTRUST (which is death), to a state of TRUST (which is life eternal).
Colossians 3
12. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
14 And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Galatians 6
- Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
- The Real Power of Prayer ***
James 1
2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
James 1
13. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 4
- From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
James 5
16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
1 John 5
14. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin [which is] not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.