Bible Facts

[Redeemed]

God created everything:

In the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1


Look around you... where did everything come from? Sure, light came from the sun... trees grew from seeds... people were born to their mothers, but where did all these things originate ultimately? How did the sun take its place in the sky? Where did the very first seed producing tree come from? How did your great, great, great Grandmother start the line of people that produced you?


The answer is found in Genesis 1: God made everything.

 

[Redeemed]

God simply spoke things into existence.

Then God said, "Let there be light", and there was light. Genesis 1:3

Talented people make useful and beautiful things that enhance our lives, The houses we live in, the foods we eat,. the art we enjoy But every artisan must begin with some kind of raw material... would, stone, grain, pigments. Not so with God.

When God wanted to create, are inconceivable universe he simply said the word... and it happened. light sky, dry land, plants and animals...All rules at the command of the one true God. that's just one example of His amazing power.

 

[Redeemed]

In the beginning, the world was perfect

Then God saw everything he had made and indeed it was very good. Genesis 1:31

The Garden of Eden was an astonishingly beautiful Paradise, but Eden was just part of the big picture. All of creation on the entire planet was "Very good." All of the plants and animals were flawless.

Our planet today is far from perfect. We live in a fallen world. Disease and death, thorns and thistles have overtaken paradise. And yet, pause for a moment, and you will still see so much beauty shining through that it will take your breath away.

 

[Redeemed]

The devil caused doubt and dissatisfaction.

5.For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity.

6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate. Genesis 3:5-6

Adam and Eve were living in Eden. They didn't have a problem or a care. They should have been perfectly content, and they were... that is, until the devil lied and" explained" that God had deceived them in order to withhold the best from them. If they ate the forbidden fruit, the serpent insisted, they would be wise like God.

The only way to believe the devil was to disobey God... and that's what Adam and Eve people have been falling for that same trick ever since.

 

[Redeemed]

Sin is destructive.

For the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23

Adam and Eve's Innocence was shattered the instant they disobeyed God. the sweet taste of the forbidden fruit was still on their tongue when its poison began its deadly work, quicker than a serpent venom. Their minds were darkened, And they began seeing everything from a skewed, selfish perspective.

First of all, they died spiritually that day and began to die physically as well. The wages that there's been paid them was death.

Thankfully, God had already planned the antidote to the devil's poison.

 

[Redeemed]

Sin separates humanity from God.

Your iniquities have separated you from your God;
and your sins have hidden his face from you. Isaiah 59:2

Disobeying God came with a huge price:
Humanities relationship with the divine was surrendered. To this very day, mankind's iniquities separates us from God. We can no longer see his face. "We grope for the wall like the blind" Isaiah 59:10

When we have no relationship with the Lord, when the power lines are down, when doubt, denial, and disobedience leave us in darkness, how can we communicate with God? We can't.

Thankfully God has already planned a way to turn the lights back on. He sent us His Son Jesus, he is the light.

 

[Redeemed]

Man at his best is insufficient.

Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales. Isaiah 40:15

We pride ourselves that we've come a long way. And we have. As magnificent as Mankind's civilizations of the past were, Think of the astonishing Technologies modern world.

But none of our accomplishments can begin to compare to the eternal, Omnificent God who created the vast universe, started every swirling galaxy turning, And said to every distant giant star, "Be!"

The Bible pegs us accurately: Our greatest nations are dust specs, and we're like microbes living on them.

 

[Redeemed]

We are very important to God.

What is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you visit him?
Psalm 8:4

Since God is the infinite creator, Who are we that He should care about us? why would God even give humans a second thought... particularly since we rebuild against Him?

It is precisely because God is infinite that He can watch a distant asteroid, and yet still notice when a hair from our head falls to the ground on earth. It is precisely because God is our creator... that He loves us. even in our fallen state.

And He has a wonderful plan for us.

 

[Redeemed]

The blood of sacrifices covered sin.

"The life of the flesh is in the blood, And I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls."
Leviticus 17:11


The punishment for sin is death, So when someone sinned, legally, their blood had to be Spilled. God allowed a substitute, however. He ordained that his people sacrifice an animal to atone for their sin. The Hebrew word for atonement is "Kaphar" to cover. The same word used for the pitch that God instructed Noah to cover the inside and the outside of the Ark with.

This atonement was good for one year and then it had to be repeated. In a real spiritual sense the blood of the Lamb or goat covered over a person's sin.

 

[Redeemed]

No one fully obeyed the law of Moses.

Whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10

To help people stay in loving relationships with him and others, God gave them the law of Moses. This law contained according to the rabbis 613 Commandments. And people had to obey them all. It wasn't enough, to keep the command "You shall not commit adultery," But disobey, "You shall not gossip."

But people are only human, And the best of us mess up. Just try giving generously and cheerfully to someone whom you know won't repay you. As a result, no one kept the law perfectly.

 

[Redeemed]

God had a solution to sin.

God sent forth His Son...To redeem those who are under the law. Galatians 4:4-5

God was aware that even good-hearted, since your people couldn't obey the law without fail and that those who tried hardest to be righteous were often, self-righteous legalist. God was as displeased with merciless, unloving "Righteousness" as He was with thoughtless unloving sin.

For their part, the common people that the religious called "sinners" we're aware of their failings, yet weary of trying to live up to impossible to keep standards.

The time was right, so God sent Jesus into the world with mercy and truth.

 

[Begotten]

If you have been born again, if you are saved, if you are in Christ Jesus, then you are free from the penalty of sin! This is so significant because the Bible makes it clear that sin is a destructive and deadly force. Sin will wreak havoc in your life.

Even though as mature believers experience consistent victory over sin, we still struggle daily against the flesh and occasionally lose the battle. So we must understand how to deal with guilt and how to overcome temptation. When we do sin as Christians, the enemy comes in to stir up doubts about our salvation: “How do you know that your sins are all forgiven? True Christians don’t do what you just did! You’re hopeless! You might as well admit your hypocrisy in claiming to be a Christian and quit trying to be holy.” Remember that Satan is a liar, he is called the father of lies.

We are to do this:
THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us
Hebrews 12:1


On top of that, Paul directs us to these opening verses in Romans 8:

THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. [John 3:18.]
2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice], [Lev. 7:37.]
4 So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit].
Romans 8:1–4.

God has graciously set free from sin’s penalty and power all who are in Christ Jesus.

 

[Lily]

The more thought and study I devote to the Word, the more I will get out of it.

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