BIRTH FROM THE PAIN OF DEATH

May 10, 1998 PM
MICHAEL F. BLUME



Today is MOTHER'S DAY

We will look at this text in Genesis' story of Adam and Eve where we read of the first mother in order to understand that special truth of salvation.

The picture of two trees in the Garden of Eden that were stressed above all others is a very important principle we are to keep in mind throughout the entire Bible.

Within fruit are seeds.(Gen 1:11).

If Satan could not rule in Heaven and was cast out, then not on his life would he allow himself to be cast out of the earth to be ruled by man.

The Tree of Life bore a fruit that would implant within mankind a specific form of Life.

When God formed man into His own image there was the reason for this shape, and it is found in the goal that God set for mankind.

Even Satan sought out a fit formed creature to manifest himself through as he sought to tempt the woman.

This same principle of birthing is found in John 15.

When we bear fruit of the Spirit due to being attached to Jesus the vine, we are seen as the junction point between God's Spirit and the world.

Eating the fruit of Life corresponds to the modern-day blessing of receiving the infilling of the Holy Ghost.

This indicates that God did not forget the manner He originally chose to impart His Life to mankind.

God multiplied the woman's pain and her conception after she sinned.

This is the truth behind the phrase God spoke before He cast Adam from the Garden.


It was obviously not a good thing at that point in time for Adam to gain never-ending life.
Adam would never have died before sinning, because death only came by sin (Roma 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin)

A woman comes to the closest point of death in her life when she brings forth a child.

It is noteworthy that Satan went to the WOMAN first because a WOMAN gives birth.

But the Lord God made the devil wonder and stand in amazement.

Imagine Satan hearing all this.

"WHAT GIVES?" said the devil.

Satan knew nothing of the plan of God.

THE PLAN:

It may sound strange at first to hear this, but make sure you realize that the following is only possible by one way, and one way alone.

God allowed man to experience death of the flesh because He preplanned to remove man's sinful flesh from him and render that flesh sin-free.

PRESERVING MAN FOR SALVATION

God would save mankind and restore the opportunity for man to "house" God's LIFE in order to see God manifest into this world, or to see HIs will BIRTHED into the world.

God had to remove man from the Garden in order to preserve mankind for a future salvation from sin.

All of this means that God actually took advantage of the principle of death, which came by sin, to save us from sin.

JESUS AND ADAM

When Jesus Christ was in the Garden of Gethsemane, as Adam was in the Garden of Eden, He drank the cup and took our sins.

Jesus felt the brunt of sin and the forsakenness of the Father while on the cross, when He cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?!"

In order for the great event of redemption to occur in the future, and to thereby save man from his sins, God had to drive Adam from the Garden and therethrough preserve the newly acquired mortality in his flesh.

Adam did not want to leave that paradise. What loss! He once walked in the paradise of God and had to leave it all!