WE HAVE JUST CELEBRATED EASTER, SOME OF US CALL IT RESURRECTION SUNDAY.
THIS IS THE TIME CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST'S DEATH AND RESURRECTION. JESUS DIED SUCH A HORRIBLE DEATH TO REDEEM MAN FROM ETERNAL DAMNATION.. IN ORDER FOR US TO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE THE UNSELFISH LOVE AND COMPASSION OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, AND HOW MUCH LOVE GOD HAS FOR US, WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE BOOK OF GENESIS WHERE ALL CREATION STARTED, AND GENESIS ALSO TELLS US WHAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP WE HAD WITH THE FATHER GOD JEHOVAH, THE ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD OF THE UNIVERSE GOD OF THE WHOLE WORLD, GOD OF ALL MANKIND. WE FIND IN GENESIS THAT ADAM AND EVE LIVED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, WHERE THEY FELLOW SHIPPED WITH GOD. EDEN WAS THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT. WE HAD IT MADE. GOD ONLY HAD ONE REQUIREMENT. WE HAD THE FREEDOM TO LIVE AND ENJOY THE GARDEN TO THE FULLEST, BUT THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING GOD ASKED ADAM AND EVE TO DO, AND THAT WAS NOT EAT FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, IN THE DAY THAT WE DO THIS WE WOULD SURELY DIE., BUT THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE GOD, THEY LISTEN TO THE DEVIL, WHO IS SA TEN. REMEMBER THAT IN THAT SAME GARDEN THERE WERE TWO TREES THAT GOD MENTION TO ADAM AND EVE. HE ALSO MENTIONED THE TREE OF LIFE WHICH WAS FINE TO EAT FROM, BUT THEY ALLOWED THE ENEMY TO TEMPT THEM WITH WORDS,.
THE SERPENT SPOKE TO THE WOMAN, (EVE ) ASKING HER ABOUT THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, TELLING THEM THAT THEY WILL NOT SURLY DIE, BUT THAT THEIR EYES WOULD BE OPENED AND THEY WOULD BE LIKE GOD, KNOWING GOOD FROM EVIL. THEY WERE ALREADY LIKE GOD. WE WERE MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD, SO SA DEN LIED TO THEM, BUT EVE LISTENED TO him. ADAM WAS RIGHT THERE , HE COULD HAVE REMINDED EVE WHAT GOD HAD SAID. I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY NOBODY MENTIONED THE TREE OF LIFE, IT WAS ALSO GOOD FOR FOOD, AND SO WERE THE OTHER TREES. BUT ADAM AND EVE CHOSE TO DISOBEY GOD. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW IT DISOBEDIENCE IS A GREAT SIN. IN FACT THAT WAS THE FIRST SIN. THERE ARE NO OTHER SIN LARGER THAN THE SIN OF DISOBEDIENCE, WE SEE IT EVERY WHERE. GOD HAS GIVEN US A FREE WILL, AND FREE THINKING. GOD GIVES US CHOICES, ITS UP TO EACH OF US TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICES. THE THE BOOK OF GENESIS CONTAIN A LOT OF ' FIRS T'S, THE FIRST SIN, THE FIRST SURGERY, THE FIRST DEATH, THAT OF AN ANIMAL, THAT GOD KILLED TO MAKE CLOTHES FOR ADAM AND EVE. I ALSO BELIEVE THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION WENT INTO ACTION. GOD MADE MAN AND WOMAN IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS, HE DIDN'T WANT TO DESTROY HIS PRIZED POSSESSION US. SO THE FATHER , SON AND HOLY GHOST CAME UP WITH THIS PLAN. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL USED THE BLOOD OF ANIMALS TO COVER THEIR SINS, THAT WAS ONLY GOOD FOR AWHILE. MANKIND BECAME SO DISOBEDIENCE AND HARD ED AND STIFNECCED. THAT JESUS WAS THE ONLY WAY FOR US TO BE BROUGHT BACK INTO FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. THANK GOD FOR THE SACRIFICE JESUS MADE AND LOVE THE DIVINE GOD HEAD HAD FOR US. I THANK GOD THAT JESUS BRIDGED THAT GAP, HE BROUGHT US BACK INTO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FATHER. I THANK GOD THAT JESUS WAS WILLING TO TAKE ON MY SINS SO THAT I COULD BE MADE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS DESTROYS THE POWER OF SIN, THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD THAT'S STRONGER THAN THE BLOOD OF JESUS. GOD STILL DOESN'T FORCE US TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM IT HAS TO DO WITH FREEWILL AND MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES OUT OF OUR LOVE FOR GOD AND APPRECIATION FOR THE PRICE JESUS PAID ON THE CROSS OF CALVE RY. JESUS PAID THE PRICE FOR US. NOBODY HAS EVER DONE OR WILL GO THROUGH WHAT JESUS DID FOR US ON THAT CROSS. THE BOOK OF ISAIAH SAYS THAT IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM. JESUS WAS BEATEN SO BADLY THAT HE WAS UNRECONGNIZED..JESUS WAS BEATEN WITH WITH A WHIP THAT HAD SHARP MEATEL AND BROKEN GLASS IN IT, EVERY TIME THE ROMAN SOLDIERS HIT HIS BODY GREAT CHUNKS OF FLESH CAME OU, AND THE SOLDIERS DID THIS 39 TIMES WITH HIM CARRYING THAT CROSS UP THE HILL TO CALVERY, WHEN HE GOT THERE THEY TOOK LONG SHARP SPIKES THAT THEY USE TODAY ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS AND NAILED HIM TO THE CROSS WHERE HE DIED FOR YOUR SIN AND MY SIN
JESUS SUFFERED ON THAT CROSS FOR HOURS, WHERE HE WAS HANGING BETWEEN TWO THIEVES. ONE CURSED HIM, WHILE THE OTHER ASKED FORGIVENESS. ONE WENT TO HEAVEN THE OTHER WENT TO HELL . THEY BOTH COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED, BUT ONE CHOSE NOT TO MAKE JESUS HIS LORD AND SAVIOR. THAT IS STILL OUR CHOICE TODAY. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE JESUS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR TODAY. REPENT LIKE ONE OF THE THIEVES DID , ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOUR SIN AND ACCEPT THE PRICE JESUS PAID FOR THOSE SINS. TELL HIM YOU KNOW HE DIED FOR YOU AND YOU WANT HIM TO LIVE INSIDE OF YOU. THANK HIM FOR THE CROSS, AND THAT HE PAID IT ALL FOR YOU AND ME. BE BLESSED
LOVE YOU ALL MINISTER SISTER GL. MORRISON
