The Finished Work of Jesus Part 1a

The Old Testament and The New Testament combined make all together The Holy Bible. The Holy Bible is the unadulterated word of God from Genesis to Revelation some people believe that only the New Testament is relevant others only the Old Testament, what I'm going to try to do explain the purpose of both the New & Old Testament then reveal to you what Jesus has done for us and the reason why.

The Old Testament records early earth or the beginning it speaks of how God created the earth and walked with man daily, how God and man communed in the cool of the evening face to face. God with all his GLORY and man made in His image talking spending time together the way God originally intended it to be, before the original sin. The original sin or the first sin known also as the fall of man was initiated first by the lust of the eyes. The Bible states in Genesis 3:6 the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit and did eat… She desired what she coveted with her eyes, hence the original or first sin lust, in this case lust of the eyes.

Jesus states in the book of Matthew:

Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

The principle can be applied here who knows how long Eve was in the garden and did not even think about that tree, it was not until after she saw, was tempted and recognized the tree was pleasant to the eyes and one to be desired that she made moves toward getting what she yearned for. This is the sin factor that broke our connection with God the day we died and God took man out of the garden and the curse was instituted. In Genesis 2:17 God tells Adam "thou shall not eat of it (the tree of knowledge of good and evil): for in the day that thou eatest therefore thou shalt surely die." Most people usually miss what God actual meant when he spoke of death here, even Adam & Eve didn't get it.

Gen 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Gen 3:2  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

Gen 3:3  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Eve didn’t even get the right message from God she states that they cannot touch or eat of the tree lest they die. When God clearly stated:

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

satan is the author of confusion and if he can get you to second guess yourself he can get you to doubt and if he can get you to doubt, he can get you to operate outside of Faith.

And “without faith it is impossible to please him,” Heb 11:6. No Faith or lack thereof is a lack of Spirit strength, and when our Spirit strengthen is low our God awareness is off point or nonexistent which leaves room for our soul to function which is the mind, will and emotion and that is where satan operates from our natural reasoning. Because Eve didn’t completely understand God’s command satan was able to infiltrate his plan and Eve was deceived. The death God spoke of was not of the flesh, meaning your body would die even though the curse also brought death through mortality. God spoke of a spiritual death, God communicates to us through His Spirit to our Spirit when man died that day the spirit man died. I will explain, when we were created the whole man had a Body (made from dirt), Soul (composed of mind will and emotions) and the spirit that came into man by God blowing His breathe into Adam, which combined with man’s body and man became a living soul.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground [Body], and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [Spirit]; and man became a living soul.

When the forbidden fruit was eaten the spirit man which God personally blew life into Adam’s body his direct connection to God died, in other words the connection was lost and man was now functioning on just the Body (his flesh) and free will (mind will and emotions), because his Spirit man was now dead(hence the reason for us to be born again).

 Most people think that God kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden as a punishment but not so remember God is love:

1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

So in every situation you are faced with in life remember God is love and whatever happens to us remember God is Love and it always has love tied anything God does. In John 17 when Jesus said His final prayer among the disciples before Judas betrayed Him, He began to close His prayer by saying:

 Joh 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Jesus says here that God The Father loves us with the same Love that He loves Jesus isn’t that powerful, we have the same love towards us as Jesus had so we should know that God is always finding ways to empower and elevate us but we must be open to Him as be a part of His family. With that said not everything that transpires God is responsible for because sometimes He does not prevent certain things from happen, that are our responsibility to change, fix, prevent, or reduce as Stewarts of the world He has entrusted us with. But KNOW this His actions(things that He is responsible for) towards His Family are always motivated by Love. Adam and Eve where removed from the garden because God wanted to protect them from eating from the tree of life that would allow man to live forever in his sinful state, never to be redeemed.