THE ADAMIC NATURE - PART 2

THE ADAMIC NATURE - PART 2

THE SIN OF DISOBEDIENCE

Earlier this week, we started out on understanding the ADAMIC nature. We were made to understand that everything according to God's creation was good even mankind but along the line, man lost his inheritance in the Father through sin (Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God"). The original intent for dominion and authority reserved for man was lost in the garden of Eden hence, man was thrown into confusion and he became subject to the ills of this world. One of the sins of man that encompasses many sins altogether is the Sin of Disobedience. 

If we take a look at Genesis 2-3,  we see that one sin man committed that now led to his suffering and peril was that he disobeyed God. _You shall not eat out of this fruit of knowledge of good and evil_ - this was the commandment, this was the law but man fell short of it and lost every other inheritance he had possessed before time. The same way it is in our world today, whether a person steals or a person lies, at the root of it all is the spirit of disobedience.  Yes, there is a spirit behind sin. We will come to understand this. Galatians 5 verse 22-23 talks about the fruits of the Spirit. But according to Ephesians 2:2, we see that there is another spirit that worketh disobedience in man ("wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience "). Every other works declared in Galatians 5 from verse 19 _adultery, fornication,  uncleanness,  lasciviousness, wrath, strife_ all of these are workings of this other spirit. The same way the same Spirit (i.e. one) worketh out all the fruits of righteousness in us according to 1Corinthians 12 :12-13, is the same way this other spirit worketh unrighteousness. How can we explain Pharaoh despite the plagues and destruction that befell his land,  the sea turning to blood, pestilence, drought, even up to the death of the first born,  cattle and human beings;  he still would not let the children of Israel go which led to his destruction and that of his men in the red Sea.  There is a spirit behind our disobedience unto God. God gave a commandment unto the children of Israel, it was just expedient that they followed the commandments but as we see from scriptures they were the "disobedient" type. Exodus 20 "Thou shall not make any graven image; thou shall not bow before any graven image, commit adultery, steal", but we see them doing everything that God told them not to do, even after warning them. 

Today, we find it easy to disobey than to just obey; the same thing that caused Adam and Eve their inheritance. And when this happens, instead of the blessings that follow obedience (Deuteronomy 28:1-13) to the commandment,  we inherit curses upon our lives as it was the case of Achan (1 Chronicles 2) and also Gehazi in the Bible (2Kings 5). I have also come to understand when the spirit of disobedience is at work in our lives; it is because we have not come under His covering. Christ does not cover from sickness and diseases alone, He covers from sins. That is why the Bible says in Isaiah 53:4-5 "surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrow...wounded for our transgressions".  

So if you are committed to doing the works of disobedience, check yourself;  you are not truly a born again child of God. And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free;  not partially free but wholly free. Who amongst the persons that Jesus Christ healed returned back to him with the same infirmity. If you still do this work of the flesh, you reside in the flesh. According to God's word in Galatians 5:24 "and they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and the lust". This is now our identity, this is our sign to show the world. Once we were this; but now through redemption we have been translated. *1Peter 2:9 "that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.  Which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy but have now obtained mercy"

We have now being adopted to the kingdom of the dear son as joint heirs with Christ;  hence the things of the world that doth appeal to us should not anymore. For if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. If you are more of the Spirit than the natural man,  it becomes difficult for you to walk in the ways of the natural man because you have access to the things of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23  _"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law"_) We see here "against which there is no law". This is to tell us that we have also the fruit of Obedience. When you disobey,  you go against the law; but when you have the fruits of righteousness in you, you are no longer its subject. But we cannot do this in the manner of the flesh. 1Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned". 

It takes our Spiritual discernment to understand the Spiritual things. How do you explain Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 13-14); they also saw the giants in the land, huge and mighty, as the rest of the twelve spies; but via the Spirit of Obedience in them. God had said this land will I give unto you; they trusted in the God who had declared with his mouth after all he made the whole firmaments with that same mouth. Thus, they didn't see their weakness, they saw their strength in Obedience. Hence, they were able to possess the land. And according to Num 14:24 "But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereunto he went; and his seed shall possess it". Because he had another spirit, he earned posterity. The benefits of Obedience will always outweigh the costs of disobedience.

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