Thursday 9 March 2017

THE GOSPEL UNVIELED.........Part 1



Note from the Writer:
Dear Silent Reader (or at least I hope there is a reader out there not just individuals who click the links and move on.) I started a write up that I would like to share with you. Its different from my other writings in the past but I would like to bounce it off you to get a feel of what you think. I began to write on my understanding of the gospel and the work of grace in the life of a believer. I have written 5 pages only but I really would like to know what people think and also if it would be something you would like me to publish on this blog. The extract is below...Please get back to me on what you think. Thanks

Many have taken up different aspects of the gospel as an emphasis that God intends for man. While I agree that God intends for man to be prosperous, healthy and enjoy other benefits in life, the emphasis of the gospel does NOT end only in the well-being of man.  Many preach a gospel that lays great emphasis on meeting the needs of men but I would like us to examine the scriptures again to determine what God sort to emphasize.


The fall of Man


According to Economics the basic need of man is Food, clothing and shelter. This clearly were not the basic needs of man until man fell in the Garden of Eden. In the book of Genesis, all the basic needs of man were provided for before Adam was created.


 His food was available before he was even created according to Gen. 1:29-30, man was clothed in the glory of God and never knew shame from being naked (Gen. 2:25), and his shelter was in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:8).


The story became different after the fall. Man now had to sweat in order to produce food to eat (Gen. 3:19), the glory of God that covered him was withdrawn and man realized his nakedness (Rom. 3:23, Gen. 3:10-11) and finally man was thrown out of the Garden, which was his shelter (Gen. 3:23-24). So Food, clothing and shelter became the basic needs of man, after the fall of man and not before.


What then did God create man for, If not to work for his food, clothing and shelter? The answer lies in fellowship with God and the exercise of dominion upon the earth. At this point let me explain briefly that the dominion that God actually intended that Adam express on the earth, is to be able to access the mind and will of God in the heavens and implement it in the earth. God’s intention was not for man to God around like the chieftain of the world without referring or gaining direction from God. Adam was God’s enforcer upon the earth to establish God’s Kingdom upon the earth. Adam was to mirror the government of God in the heavens and execute same upon the earth. In fact the greatest Adam could do was to seek to accurately mirror what he saw in heaven. It is not about commanding your world to align to your every whip and desire, if we are to exercise dominion, our cry should be, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. He was called like Moses to function according to what he saw in Gods Kingdom. Man was called to keep the garden and tend it. To keep implies to protect or safe guard, while tending means to maintain or make continuous improvements. I will stop here on this.


The implication of that which man was commissioned to do in the exercise of dominion means that man must maintain vital communication with God, in order to replicate His will and Kingdom upon the earth. Hence, his strongest asset was his connection to God and ability to communicate with heaven. This was what Satan targeted in his temptation of man, knowing that if man loses his vital communication with God, he can develop according to the will and design of another. Hence, when Adam sinned man was cut off from his life source which is God. That separation from God is what God spoke about in Gen. 2:17, when he said that man will surely die

To be continued....... 


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