When I left off yesterday, it wasn't a pretty picture. The reference compares us to a leper: both unclean, and it compares our righteousness to the rags used by a woman during menstruation.
I want to go back to Adam and Eve. When they disobeyed God they suddenly realized they were naked. Their answer to their problem was covering themselves with fig leaves. When God came to the garden and asked them, "where are you?" They replied, "We are over here behind this bush, because we are naked." The Lord said "Who told you that you are naked?" They had no answer for Him. He then asked: "Did you eat of the tree of good, and evil?" Their reply was "Yes." So God killed a animal, and made them a covering. From that time forward all have sinned, and fallen short of the Glory of God, no exceptions! I believe that was the time that sacrifices were started, something had to shed blood to cover sin. How important is blood?
I want to move ahead in time to Cain and Abel. They were brothers sons, of Adam and Eve. They knew the sacrificial requirements. Abel took the best lamb of his flock, and cut its throat, placed it upon a altar. Cain took the best of his grains and fruits, and placed them on his altar. God sent fire from heaven, and consumed Abel's sacrifice, but no fire for Cain's. Cain became so angry, that he killed his brother! The first murder was committed because of righteousness, or works.
The works that we do of ourselves, not dependent upon God, are not pleasing to God. Our works should be the result of us believing that what Christ did for us on His Cross (not the beam, but His sacrifice of blood), and we becoming a new creation in Him: works of His love flowing through us. This is that born again experience that Jesus was telling Nicodemus about in John chapter 3.
This was the command that The Lord gave to Adam: "But the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat of it for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die." Genesis 2:17 (KJV). I want to go back to Cain, and Abel. They both were preparing to worship God, one the right way, the other the wrong way, they were both doing a good thing. Is it possible to do a good thing, and sin?
(to be continued)
I want to go back to Adam and Eve. When they disobeyed God they suddenly realized they were naked. Their answer to their problem was covering themselves with fig leaves. When God came to the garden and asked them, "where are you?" They replied, "We are over here behind this bush, because we are naked." The Lord said "Who told you that you are naked?" They had no answer for Him. He then asked: "Did you eat of the tree of good, and evil?" Their reply was "Yes." So God killed a animal, and made them a covering. From that time forward all have sinned, and fallen short of the Glory of God, no exceptions! I believe that was the time that sacrifices were started, something had to shed blood to cover sin. How important is blood?
I want to move ahead in time to Cain and Abel. They were brothers sons, of Adam and Eve. They knew the sacrificial requirements. Abel took the best lamb of his flock, and cut its throat, placed it upon a altar. Cain took the best of his grains and fruits, and placed them on his altar. God sent fire from heaven, and consumed Abel's sacrifice, but no fire for Cain's. Cain became so angry, that he killed his brother! The first murder was committed because of righteousness, or works.
The works that we do of ourselves, not dependent upon God, are not pleasing to God. Our works should be the result of us believing that what Christ did for us on His Cross (not the beam, but His sacrifice of blood), and we becoming a new creation in Him: works of His love flowing through us. This is that born again experience that Jesus was telling Nicodemus about in John chapter 3.
This was the command that The Lord gave to Adam: "But the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat of it for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die." Genesis 2:17 (KJV). I want to go back to Cain, and Abel. They both were preparing to worship God, one the right way, the other the wrong way, they were both doing a good thing. Is it possible to do a good thing, and sin?
(to be continued)
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