RETURN TO EDEN It all started in Eden. God made man a king and placed him in a garden of fulfilment - the Garden of Eden. Eden was a garden of mysteries. It was a place of dominion, authority, strength, health and all the blessings of God. It was a garden of encounter, where man had the privilege of communing with God physically, in the cool of everyday. It was a garden of excellence, and of triumph. Eden was an earthly picture of heaven. No animal had power to hurt, all the animals that are wild today were well tamed then. It was a place of security. Man in Eden, was everything God created him to be. In his mental excellence, he singularly named all of the animals, and whatever name Adam called them, is the name by which they are called till today. Man was divinely provided for in Eden, he lacked nothing. He was in charge. Then SIN came, and man lost everything! He was chased out of Eden into a life of wilderness and deserts. The forces of sin went into force, generating the greatest conflicts in man’s life. Sin is deceptive and destructive! Sin is the only recognised barrier to man’s return to Eden. THE WAY BACK Unrighteousness chased man out of Eden, only righteousness can bring him back. Those who follow after righteousness are the ones who will be restored back to Eden. God wills to bring us back to Eden if we will let Him cleanse us from all iniquities. Every sin that is not dealt with has power to deal with the sinner. Because Balaam refused to stop covetousness, covetousness stopped him (Numbers 22:32-33). Because of greed, Gehazi ran after Naaman and got for his inheritance, the leprosy of Naaman (II Kings 5:26-27). If Samson had stopped a day before his calamity, it would not have befallen him. There are things you must stop today or you will never have the opportunity to stop them, and eternal regrets will follow. Stop that sin before it stops you! There is no sin that cannot be stopped, but a decision is the pre-requisite. God can’t commune with you and I except we let evil go, on a deliberate, violent level. The price to be paid is not comparable to the weight of glory that is lost to shame and reproach. Jesus lived in Eden because He lived without sin. He was tempted at all points yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15). It is a conscious and deliberate act that results in the Edenic order of life. You cannot wish your way to Eden, you have to plant one. Jesus planted an Eden, so He lived in it. Eden is a garden of communion between man and God, Jesus kept that communion and thus exercised dominion to the end. God, the Father was always backing Him: “And He that sent me is with me” (John 8:29). So He had unchallengeable dominion over the affairs of life. He lived a translated life throughout, because He walked with God - He walked on the water, He devastated death. He made a deliberate choice to create His Eden, it was not by luck. Eden is your inheritance in Christ, righteousness is your access. Genuine encounter is always on the premise of righteousness. Be willing to cross over from bondage to liberty, from death to life, from degradation to beautification, from pains to ease. Your decision against sin is your master decision in life, and there has to be a decision before deliverance. The only authentic flight back to Eden is righteousness. Let us therefore go over to our camp, so we can begin to experience the provisions of Eden in our lives. Let us go over from adversity to liberty, from self to God, from lack to plenty, from lust to love, from scarcity to surplus, from fear to faith, from failure to success. By destiny, we belong to the side of dominion, of authority, of power, of holiness, of love. Let us go over! God has made adequate provisions for our going over. He has designed prophetically, to bring Zion back to Eden. “For the Lord shall comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.” Isaiah 51:3 HOW WILL HE DO IT? As for thee also, BY THE BLOOD of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein there is no water. Zech. 9:11 Every bondage terminates at the blood! As we see in Exodus, every miracle was performed, every effort was made by God through Moses, to free Israel from Egyptian bondage, but until the blood was introduced (Exodus 12), there was no deliverance for them. The blood is God’s last resort, God’s last card for man’s deliverance. After the blood, Moses never again said, “Let my people go!” Rather it was Pharaoh who now frantically wanted them gone. When you are saved, you enter into the blood covenant - it is your stronghold. It is the passover blood that speaks “passover”, to every evil. The blood covenant is God’s last card for man’s deliverance. It is the last straw that must break every camel’s back. No force in hell can resist it! You will never get out of your Egypt, without the application of the blood. Only the blood has the atoning power over sin (I Corinthians 5:7). The blood holds the key to freedom from every yoke of bondage.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:52:26 +0000
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