“God Shows Us What’s Right—And What’s Wrong”

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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When we as mankind chose to eat of the wrong tree in the Garden of Eden, we lost our opportunity to be what God created us to be. We “sinned and [fell] short of the glory of God.” We could no longer be a vessel of the life of God.

So what now?

Is the noble dream of man being a vessel God could flow through lost forever? Is all possibility of man intimately knowing his Creator gone for eternity? Is man hopelessly lost?

Well, yes—and no!

Let me explain. Looking at man’s situation from the human perspective, he is hopelessly lost. He is filled with the selfish attitude of, “I want what I want when I want it.” No one could pay man’s debt of one perfect life which was owed to God; no one would be able to break the cycle and come up with a perfect life. Thus, from man’s viewpoint, there was no hope…

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“Why God Made Man – Part 3”

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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In the Garden of Eden God placed two trees which He named. What we as man did with those two trees would determine all the rest of history.

1_Why God Made Man-Part 3 Besides the Tree of Life, there was another Tree in that Paradise: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This tree represented the opposite way of life. This way of living would be motivated by what happened outside of man. Instead of being inspired by the moving of the Life of God deep within him, if he chose to eat of this tree man would be rejecting God’s offer to come inside him and be his life. He would be choosing a way in which he would make his own decisions, instead of allowing the flowing will of God to come through him.

Consider the name of this tree. It was The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Hebrew word for knowledge comes from a root word which, in essence, means to know by experience. If Adam ate of this tree he would be saying to God: “God, I want to experience the good and experience the evil in a particular situation, and then make my own decision as to which I think is best for me.” He would be saying Continue reading →

“Why God Made Man – Part 2”

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Think of the potential: Adam had the possibility of being a dwelling place for his Creator! God—the Almighty—wanted to take up residence inside Adam. He wanted to fill man’s mind with His mind. He wanted to fill man’s will with His will. God wanted to fill our emotions with His feelings. Man had the opportunity to be the channel through which God could flow to the world. But God has never been into making robots. He wanted man to choose Him to be his life. He wanted a relationship with man in which man made the choice to allow God to come inside him and express His life through him.

1_Why God Made Man-Part 2 This was the reason for the two trees. As the Scripture declares,

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

(Genesis 2:9)

God placed two trees in the Garden for the purpose of allowing man a choice as to whether he would receive the life of God as that which would indwell him—be his energy, his life. He would not force his way into our hearts, raping and wounding us so as to prevent our being able to return His love. He would woo us by showing us Himself. He came to walk with Adam daily in the garden so mankind could Continue reading →