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The Tree Of the Knowledge ? or the Tree of Life ?
The Tree Of the Knowledge ? or the Tree of Life ?
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And so in this Nurture Group we are continuing the theme of the Psalms and as we
look to Psalm 15 & 16 we continue to look at Worship.
We have seen how we can let things get in the way between us and God and how
things can desolate our lifes ...how sin can lead to death and shipwreck
How we can be in a desert experience, where the golden
calf can become an idol or we can look back at Egypt and long for the old times.
In our old life When it seemed we had all we needed and even though we were slaves to
Egypt ( the world )we felt we were looked after and now here we are in this wilderness
and we hunger and we thirst and we cam moan and groan and we walk on with God before us
and yet we still look back and moan and groan and long for days gone.
We can seek to serve two masters and yet we have neither one nor the other.
We can watch the Moses ahead of us and we can see the way he worships
and the sacrifice He makes and how he lays down His life to serve
us and yet we complain.
For we let that abomination that causes desolation effect not just our past life but
our new life now and that desolation effects our worship of God who leads us on.
We watch Moses go up that Holy Hill and we stay at the bottom " unclean " and we
worship the god in our life
And as it says in Psalm 15
" WHO may enter your prescence on your Holy Hill ?
"
Lets come to Him now and lay down that god before His feet and see ( dagon 1 Samuel 5 )
tumble over and smash before the one and true God ,
Lord God In Jesus powerful name we lay down anything that may get between us and you,
if we have a god, Lord we lay it down before your feet.
We lay down our very lifes and
let us know joy when you know joy and sadness when you know sadness and pain when you
know pain and anger when you know anger and hurt when you know hurt.
Laughter when
you laugh and fellowship as you see fellowship and friendship as you see friendship and
let us see through your eyes and know as you know and perceive as you perceive and think
as you think and begin to love as you love.
Let us know your heart Lord...
Let us be a representation of you, as Jesus was and is an exact representation of you.
Let us represent you Lord and show others what you are like
Not some made up, make believe story but a story of a true and living God who works in
and through His people that people might say " HE IS ALIVE "
Not some religious out working of man or some outpouring of a heart that seeks it own
ends but that of a heart layed down ...that lets go of self in order to gain.
Let us not hide behind good works and charity, as though these things would cover us
over and hide our sin and hide our false charade, but let us hide in you Lord and
let others see the result of what you do through us
Let that work be a work that
does not fall down over time and become a house built on sand but let it be an enduring
work from you and of you .
Not of flesh but of Spirit and let that storm come and let that
house stand and let not the thief steal away from that house but let Yourself come and
steal us away and let us be in complete abandonment to you
We do not seek to gain and loose our souls, but we seek to loose in order to gain and
our gain is you Lord for in you is all and all is in you.
We lay down these things to gain life .......... everlasting life not of ourselves but
of you , an eternal spirit world of our own is nothing withotu you Lord...
YOU ahve eternity and YOU are eternity.... what is eternity without you ?
We lay down our lifes to gain Your life, that we might have life and have life in
abundance in Jesus name amen
And so lets begin with the first mention of the Cross figuratively speaking,
and we come to the Tree in Genesis and we turn to Genesis 2:16 - 17
You see ?
we could say that through our disobedience that we fell !!
Did you have parents who never seemed to be satisfied with anything you did ?
Are you a parent who wants your children to be what you could never be ?
Have you found that you had too prove yourself to others ?
did you in your need to be accepted do things you regret because you wanted to be in
a certain group ?
Have you known peer pressure ?
None of us will ever be good enough, all of us have missed the mark...
All have sinned and fall short, all of us are or were guilty and sentenced.
But God in His love ...in His unconditional love...sends a valentine gift..
Not just for one day but for eternity and He says He loves you and me..
Whatever we have done and whatever we have been and however far we have fallen and
however much we have missed the mark and however guilty the enemy may make us feel.
God in His Son says " YOU ARE FREE.,...I LOVE YOU....YOU ARE NOT GUILTY "
In this relationship He gives us a love that outpours and saturates and overflows.
His blood can make the foulest clean and He loves you no matter what...
All of us whether we are Christians or not fall, but have we anyone to pick us up ?
We cannot always rely on man ,....can we ?
When was the last time someone let you down ?
GOD NEVER LETS US DOWN,.......it may seem that He might...BUT HE NEVER LETS
US DOWN.
His promises are true and what HE says... He does, He is a God of action .
And so we come to the Tree in Genesis ...what do you think or Whom do you think the
tree might signify ?
Look at this another way maybe ?
Lets look at this story from a different angle and see ourselves taking from this tree !!
Philippians 1:21-23
"For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain...having the desire to depart and be
with Christ, for that is very much better"
Said Paul in one of his letters...
Paul had learnt the secret of loosing His life to gain,he had learnt the secret of
" The Sabbath Rest "
You see when in disobedience we take from the Tree.....God knew we would !!!
Jesus knew we would ?
you see we eat from the Tree of life and we have eternal life
with God , nothing can separate us can it ?
But then we eat from the Tree of ?
good and evil !!!
We find separation don't we ?
even as Christians we might feel like theres something
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