<i>♪ MUSIC ♪</i> >> WELCOME TO <i>GOSPEL TRUTH</i> WITH ANDREW WOMMACK, A TEACHING MINISTRY
THAT FOCUSES ON GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE >> AND GRACE. >> ANDREW, I JUST... I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE VISION THAT GOD SHOWED YOU AND BEING SO FAITHFUL >> WITH IT. >> YOU...YOU HONOR GOD’S WORD; >> YOU HONOR HIS SPIRIT. >> THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO GOD BECAUSE SO MANY >> LIVES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. >> AND NOW, HERE'S ANDREW. WELCOME TO OUR FRIDAY'S BROADCAST OF <i>THE GOSPEL TRUTH.</i> TODAY IS THE END OF MY SECOND WEEK TEACHING ON THE SUBJECT OF <i>THE TRUE NATURE OF GOD.</i> THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS THAT I'VE WRITTEN THIS. IT'S SOMETHING THAT GOD USED TO JUST REVOLUTIONIZE MY LIFE PROBABLY 30, 40 YEARS AGO, AND IT HAS MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. I CALL THIS CHRISTIANITY 101. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TRUE NATURE OF GOD IS. GOD HAS BEEN MISREPRESENTED, SAD TO SAY, BY HIS OWN PEOPLE, BY THE CHURCH, BECAUSE THEY
HAVEN'T UNDERSTOOD THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NEW COVENANT GRACE AND THE OLD TESTAMENT LAW, THEY JUST MIX THE TWO TOGETHER, AND THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE. I'VE ALREADY MADE A LOT OF VERY, VERY RADICAL STATEMENTS, AND YET I'VE BACKED EVERY SINGLE STATEMENT UP BY SCRIPTURE. WE WENT THROUGH AND USED 1 CORINTHIANS 15:56, THAT THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:7, THE LAW MINISTERED DEATH. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:9, THE LAW MINISTERS
CONDEMNATION. ROMANS, CHAPTER 3, VERSE 19, SAYS THAT THE LAW
SHUT OUR MOUTH AND MADE US GUILTY BEFORE GOD. IN VERSE 20, HE SAYS THAT IT MAGNIFIED SIN AND GAVE US THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. AND THEN ROMANS, CHAPTER 7, I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE: BUT WHEN THE
COMMANDMENT CAME, SIN REVIVED, AND I DIED. AND THE LAW, WHICH WAS ORDAINED UNTO LIFE, I FOUND TO BE UNTO DEATH. FOR SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT WROUGHT IN ME ALL MANNER OF CONCUPISCENCE AND ON AND ON. I'VE SAID ALL OF THESE RADICAL STATEMENTS. THESE ARE ALL QUOTATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE. RADICAL STUFF. AND YESTERDAY ON OUR PROGRAM, I WAS MAKING THE POINT THAT IN ROMANS, CHAPTER 5, AND VERSE 12, WHEREFORE, AS BY ONE MAN THIS IS ADAM, HIS SIN, BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED. THEN IN VERSE 13, FOR UNTIL THE LAW, SIN WAS IN THE WORLD: BUT SIN IS NOT IMPUTED WHEN THERE IS NO LAW. AND I WAS USING THE EXAMPLE OF IMPUTATION BEING LIKE A CREDIT CARD. WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD, YOU DON'T PAY FOR SOMETHING, YOU JUST GIVE THEM THE INFORMATION SO THAT THEY CAN BILL YOUR CREDIT CARD COMPANY AND THEN YOU HAVE TO PAY THAT BILL. IN A SIMILAR WAY, GOD DID NOT RECORD MEN'S SINS. HE DIDN'T HOLD THEIR SINS AGAINST THEM UNTIL THE TIME THAT THE LAW CAME. AND AS I CLOSED YESTERDAY'S PROGRAM, I WAS MAKING THIS POINT. IT SAYS IN THE VERY NEXT VERSE, A LOGICAL PRO..
.THOUGHT PROCESS, IF GOD WASN'T HOLDING THEIR SINS AGAINST THEM, IF HE WASN'T IMPUTING MEN'S SINS UNTIL THE TIME THAT THE LAW CAME, WELL THEN WHY DID PEOPLE DIE? BECAUSE IT SAYS IN ROMANS 6:23, THAT THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. THERE IS A PAYMENT THAT COMES WITH SIN AND THAT'S DEATH. IF GOD WASN'T HOLDING THEIR SINS AGAINST THEM, IF HE WASN'T IMPUTING IT UNTO THEM, WHY DID THEY DIE? HERE'S THE ANSWER TO THAT. IT SAYS, NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THEM THAT HAD NOT SINNED AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION, WHO IS THE FIGURE OF HIM THAT WAS TO COME. THE REASON PEOPLE STILL DIED BEFORE THE TIME THAT GOD GAVE THE LAW AND ENFORCED HIS PUNISHMENT AND WRATH ON SIN, IS BECAUSE SIN WAS NOT ONLY A TRANSGRESSION AGAINST GOD, WHAT I CALL A VERTICAL EFFECT TO SIN, BUT THERE WAS A HORIZONTAL EFFECT TO SIN. IT SAYS IN ROMANS, CHAPTER 6, VERSE 16, KNOW YOU NOT, THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YOU ARE TO WHOM YOU OBEY; WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS? SO EVEN IF GOD WASN'T IMPUTING MEN'S SINS, THIS VERTICAL EFFECT WAS NOT BEING ENFORCED, SIN WAS STILL AN INROAD OF SATAN INTO PEOPLE'S LIVES. AND SATAN COMES ONLY TO STEAL, TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY. JOHN 10:10, WE HAVE AN ADVERSARY, THE DEVIL, 1 PETER, CHAPTER 5, WHO GOES ABOUT
AS A ROARING LION SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. SO IF YOU YIELD TO SIN, EVEN IF GOD ISN'T PUNISHING THAT SIN, SATAN TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THAT SIN. AND SO, EVEN BEFORE THE LAW WAS GIVEN, AND MEN'S SINS WERE IMPUTED UNTO THEM, SIN WAS STILL HAVING DEADLY EFFECTS, BECAUSE IT WAS ALLOWING SATAN TO CONTROL PEOPLE. WHEN YOU YIELD TO SIN, YOU YIELD TO THE AUTHOR OF THAT SIN WHICH IS SATAN. AND HE COMES TO STEAL, KILL, AND DESTROY. SO MEN WERE YIELDING TO SIN BECAUSE FOR ONE THING, THERE WASN'T THIS PERFECT STANDARD. GOD HADN'T GIVEN ALL OF THE LAW ABOUT EXACTLY
WHAT HE DEMANDED. AND HE WAITED 2,000 YEARS TO GIVE THE LAW BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT US TO EXPERIENCE THE DEATH, THE CONDEMNATION, THE STRENGTH OF SIN, THE GUILT, AND ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT CAME FROM THE LAW. HE DIDN'T WANT US TO KNOW THESE THINGS. DID YOU KNOW, HE COULD'VE TOLD ADAM AND EVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? HE COULD'VE GIVEN THEM ALL OF THE LAW. HE WAS TALKING TO THEM FACE TO FACE. IT WASN'T UNUSUAL IN THEIR DAY. THEY WERE HEARING THE AUDIBLE VOICE OF GOD. IN MOSES' DAY, WHEN GOD
COMMUNICATED THE LAW, MOSES WAS AN EXCEPTION THAT GOD SPOKE TO HIM OPENLY LIKE THAT. BUT IN THE DAY OF ADAM AND EVE, HE COULD'VE
COMMUNICATED TO THEM ALL OF THE LAW. AND THE SCRIPTURE DOESN'T SAY WHY HE DIDN'T DO IT. I BELIEVE IT WAS BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE. AND GOD WASN'T WANTING ADAM AND EVE TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW SINFUL AND HOW TERRIBLE WHAT THEY DID WAS. YOU KNOW, I OFTEN SAY THIS WHEN I'M IN A MEETING AND I...I'LL JUST TAKE, LIKE SAY THE FIRST TEN PEOPLE ON A ROW, AND I'LL SAY, IF GOD WAS JUST TO SHOW THE PAIN, THE SUFFERING, THE HEARTBREAK, THE SICKNESS, THE POVERTY THAT HAS COME IN THESE TEN PEOPLE'S LIVES, IF HE HAD SHOWN ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WERE GOING TO HAPPEN IN JUST THESE TEN PEOPLE TO ADAM AND EVE, I DON'T BELIEVE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LIVE WITH THEMSELF. IF HE HAD SHOWN THEM WHAT HITLER HAD DONE, AND ON AND ON, GENGHIS KHAN AND YOU GO THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND THE TERRIBLE THINGS AND RAPE AND THE MURDER AND THE HATRED AND THE EVIL, IF HE HAD SHOWN ADAM AND EVE THE FULL IMPACT OF WHAT THEIR SIN WAS GOING TO DO TO THE HUMAN RACE, ALL OF THE MASS MURDER, STALIN THAT KILLED, SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE, WELL, OVER 30 TO 60 MILLION PEOPLE, AND HITLER AND THE... AND THE HOLOCAUST AND ALL OF THE JEWS. IF HE HAD SHOWN ADAM AND EVE WHAT
WAS HAPPENING THROUGH THEIR SIN, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THEY COULD'VE SURVIVED IT. HE DIDN'T REVEAL THOSE THINGS TO THEM BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR THEM. AND EVEN THOUGH
THEY HAD SINNED, HE STILL LOVED THEM. HE STILL WALKED WITH THEM, FELLOWSHIPPED WITH THEM. YOU FIND IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS, THAT IT SAYS CAIN LEFT THE PRESENCE OF GOD. GOD DIDN'T TAKE HIS PRESENCE AWAY FROM MANKIND. YOU KNOW, LET ME JUST TURN OVER AND SHARE SOME OF THIS BECAUSE, AGAIN, MOST PEOPLE HAVE
MISUNDERSTOOD, THEY'VE MISREAD THE BIBLE. WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED, GOD CAME, AND HE PRONOUNCED JUDGMENT UPON THE SERPENT. HE PRONOUNCED A JUDGMENT UPON EVE THAT SHE WOULD HAVE MULTIPLE CONCEPTION AND SORROW IN HER CONCEPTION, AND HE CON... PRONOUNCED A...A... A JUDGMENT UPON ADAM THAT HE WOULD TILL THE GROUND IN THE SWEAT OF HIS BROW. AND IT WOULDN'T YIELD ITS STRENGTH TO HIM ANYMORE. AND...BUT THEN HE MADE COATS OF SKIN, HE KILLED AN ANIMAL, WHICH WAS SYMBOLIC OF THE DEATH AND BLOOD HAVING TO BE SHED. AGAIN, ROMANS 6:23, SAYS, THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH AND THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD, AND SO RATHER THAN GOD KILLING ADAM AND EVE, HE SUBSTITUTED AN ANIMAL, KILLED THE ANIMAL, AND MADE COATS OUT OF THOSE SKINS AND COVERED THEIR SS...SHAME. MAN, THEY... THEY JUST DID A POOR JOB TRYING TO COVER
THEIR NAKEDNESS WITH FIG LEAVES SEWN TOGETHER. HE MADE THEM, I'M SURE, SOME FINE CLOTHES OUT OF THOSE SKINS, AND HE COVERED THIS. AND THEN IT SAYS DOWN HERE, AND THIS IS IN GENESIS, CHAPTER 3, AND IN VERSE 22, IT SAYS, THE LORD GOD SAID, BEHOLD, THE MAN IS BECOME AS ONE OF US, TO KNOW GOOD AND EVIL: AND NOW, LEST HE PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TAKE ALSO OF THE TREE OF LIFE, AND EAT, AND LIVE FOR EVER: THEREFORE, THE
LORD GOD SENT HIM FORTH FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN, TO TILL THE GROUND FROM WHENCE HE WAS TAKEN. SO HE DROVE OUT THE MAN; AND HE PLACED AT THE EAST OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN CHERUBIMS AND A FLAMING SWORD, WHICH TURNED EVERY WAY, TO KEEP THE WAY OF THE TREE OF LIFE. MOST PEOPLE SEE THIS, AND THEY JUST INTERPRET IT THAT HERE'S HOLY GOD. NOW MAN HAD BECOME UNHOLY, AND HOLY GOD COULD NOT FELLOWSHIP WITH UNHOLY MAN. AND SO HE DROVE MAN FROM HIS PRESENCE BECAUSE HE JUST COULDN'T TOLERATE THEIR SINFUL NATURE ANYMORE. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT'S SO, BECAUSE IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, YOU FIND GOD STILL WALKING AND TALKING WITH ADAM AND EVE, AND NOT ONLY ADAM AND EVE, BUT THEIR DESCENDANTS, CAIN AND ABEL. GOD WAS TALKING TO THEM IN AN AUDIBLE VOICE. AND THEN IN GENESIS, CHAPTER 4, IN VERSE 16, IT SAYS THAT CAIN LEFT THE PRESENCE OF GOD. YOU CAN'T LEAVE SOMETHING THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE. THIS MEANS THAT GOD WAS STILL WALKING AND TALKING WITH ADAM AND EVE. I DON'T BELIEVE GOD IS THE ONE THAT TURNED OFF HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH MEN. MEN, BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE CONDEMNING THEM, THIS KNOWLEDGE
OF GOOD AND EVIL, MEN BEGAN TO RUN FROM GOD AND GET AWAY FROM GOD BECAUSE OF THEIR SHAME AND THEIR GUILT. IT WOULD'VE BEEN AMPLIFIED BILLIONS OF TIMES OVER IF GOD WOULD'VE TOLD ADAM AND EVE ALL OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT WERE GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT HE DIDN'T. YOU KNOW THE ONLY THING HE CONVICTED HIM OVER WAS THAT THEY WERE NAKED. AND OUT OF ALL OF THE THINGS THAT THEIR SIN DID, THAT WAS MINOR COMPARED TO THE GENOCIDE AND THE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED. THE LORD COULD HAVE GIVEN THEM THIS LAW. HE COULD HAVE GIVEN... HE COULD HAVE
RELEASED HIS WRATH AND YET HE WAS STILL WALKING AND TALKING WITH THEM, FELLOWSHIPPING WITH THEM. THE REASON HE DROVE THEM OUT OF THE GARDEN WASN'T BECAUSE HE WAS HOLY AND THEY WERE UNHOLY, IT WAS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT THEM EATING OF THE TREE OF LIFE AND LIVING FOREVER IN A FALLEN STATE. AND SOME PEOPLE THINK WELL THAT'S PUNITIVE. NO, I BELIEVE THAT WAS ACTUALLY AN ACT OF MERCY. THINK ABOUT THIS. THINK ABOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE IN A, YOU KNOW, A VEGETATIVE STATE, THEY'RE ALIVE BUT THERE'S NO... THERE'S NO COMMUNICATION. THEIR BRAIN WAVES AREN'T WORKING. I'VE GOT A FRIEND RIGHT NOW THAT'S IN THAT SITUATION FOR A YEAR AND A HALF. AND I TELL YOU, THAT'S JUST A TERRIBLE SITUATION TO BE IN. THINK ABOUT A PERSON THAT HAS DEFORMITIES, THAT HAS SICKNESSES
AND DISEASES THAT MAKES THEIR LIFE JUST TERRIBLE, RIDDLED WITH PAIN. THINK ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE HITLER OR SOME OF THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE THAT HAVE JUST GIVEN THEMSELF OVER TO SATAN, AND WHAT IF THEY COULDN'T DIE? WHAT IF THOSE PEOPLE WERE STILL ALIVE? WHAT IF GENGHIS KHAN, AND MUSSOLINI, AND HITLER, AND STALIN, AND...AND POL POT, AND ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WERE STILL ALIVE, AND THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER AND FORMED AN AXIS OF EVIL. DID YOU KNOW THAT EVEN THOUGH DEATH WAS NOT PART OF GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN FOR MEN, ONCE MEN FELL, DEATH IS BETTER THAN LIVING FOREVER? FOR ONE WAY... FOR ONE THING IT'S A...AN END. THERE IS A END TIME TO THE EVIL. PEOPLE CAN ONLY LIVE SO LONG AND SO THAT DEMONIC POWER LOSES THAT HOST THAT IT FLOWS THROUGH. SO THAT'S GOOD. AND ANOTHER THING IS THAT YOU KNOW FOR THOSE WHO ACCEPT JESUS AS THEIR LORD, WE HAVE A PROMISE THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET A RESURRECTED BODY THAT WON'T BE SUBJECT TO SICKNESS AND DISEASE AND DEFORMITIES AND THINGS LIKE THIS. WE'LL GET A COMPLETELY RE...A... A RENEWED MIND THAT WILL BE ABLE TO KNOW ALL THINGS EVEN AS ALSO HE IS KNOWN. AND THE FORMER THINGS PASSED AWAY. THEY WON'T EVEN COME TO MIND. THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT WORLD AREN'T EVEN WORTHY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US. ALL OF THESE PROMISES. HEAVEN IS GOING TO BE AWESOME. AND SO, IF GOD HAD LEFT ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN AND THEY HAD TAKEN OF THIS TREE OF LIFE AND EATEN IT, AND IF THEY HAD LIVED FOREVER IN A SINFUL STATE, IN A FALLEN NATURE, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN TERRIBLE. DID YOU KNOW, FOR THOSE WHO ACCEPT WHAT JESUS HAS DONE, WE'VE GOT SOMETHING BETTER? SO MUCH SO THAT THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID IN PHILIPPIANS, CHAPTER 1, THAT FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN, IT'S EVEN BETTER. HE SAYS, I'M HAVING A HARD TIME DECIDING WHETHER I WANT TO STAY HERE OR WHETHER I WANT TO GO AND BE WITH THE LORD. FOR THE BELIEVER, DEATH HAS LOST ITS STING, THE GRAVE HAS LOST ITS VICTORY. AND DID YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN REJOICE. AND SO, I BELIEVE THAT WHEN GOD RAN ADAM AND EVE OUT OF THE GARDEN AND PUT A CHERUBIM THERE WITH A FLAMING SWORD TO KEEP THEM FROM EVER GOING BACK AND EATING OF THE TREE OF LIFE, HE DID THAT OUT OF MERCY, OUT OF LOVE FOR US. DEATH IS ACTUALLY BETTER THAN LIVING FOREVER IN A SINFUL BODY AND IN A CORRUPTED SOUL. MAN, THIS IS AWESOME. NOW SEE AGAIN, IF YOU BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND
SOME OF THE THINGS I'M TALKING ABOUT, THIS COULD CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE ATTITUDE ABOUT THE TRUE NATURE OF GOD. MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT GOD WAS JUST A LITTLE TICKED OFF AND COULDN'T TOLERATE MAN, AND HE DROVE MAN OUT OF THE GARDEN, AND HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM. THIS GIVES A COMPLETELY BRAND NEW SPIN ON IT. THE REASON GOD DROVE THEM OUT WAS BECAUSE HE LOVED THEM. HE DIDN'T WANT THEM LIVING FOREVER. HE DIDN'T WANT
THEIR DESCENDANTS LIVING FOREVER ON A SINFUL EARTH WHERE PEOPLE COULD NOT DIE, AND THAT THE EVIL COULD NEVER BE PURGED, AND THAT SICKNESS AND PAIN AND SUFFERING WOULD JUST PERPETUATE FOREVER. HE HAD A BETTER PLAN. IT WAS ACTUALLY AN ACT OF LOVE THAT DROVE ADAM AND EVE OUT OF THE GARDEN. AND IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, HE WAS STILL WALKING AND TALKING WITH THEM. DID YOU KNOW IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, IT SAYS THAT CAIN AND ABEL CAME TO OFFER A SACRIFICE, AND CAIN BROUGHT THE FIRST FRUIT OFFERING, AND ABEL BROUGHT ONE OF HIS SHEEP FROM THE FLOCKS THAT HE WAS HERDING. AND I'VE HEARD MANY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THAT THE REASON CAIN'S SACRIFICE WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO GOD WAS BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAVE BLOOD IN IT, AND IT'S ONLY THE BLOOD THAT MAKES AN ATONEMENT FOR OUR SINS. BUT DID YOU KNOW, LATER IN THE LAW WE WERE ALSO
COMMANDED TO AU... BRING A FIRST FRUIT OFFERING. AND SO CAIN WAS A TILLER OF THE GROUND, AND THIS IS WHAT HE HAD TO OFFER. AND OVER IN HEBREWS, CHAPTER 11, IT SAYS, BY FAITH ABEL OFFERED UNTO GOD A MORE EXCELLENT SACRIFICE IT DOESN'T SAY THAT IT WAS BY SUBSTANCE, IT WAS BY FAITH. IT'S POSSIBLE THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS...IT... IT COULD'VE BEEN THE FACT THAT IT WAS A BLOOD SACRIFICE THAT ABEL OFFERED, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT'S COMPLETELY OUT OF THE QUESTION, BUT I BELIEVE IT WAS MORE THAN THAT. IT WAS THE FACT THAT HE DIDN'T DO IT WITH THE RIGHT HEART, BUT HERE'S THE POINT. WHERE DID THEY LEARN ABOUT SACRIFICE? I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THAT THEY SAW IT WHEN GOD KILLED AN ANIMAL AND MADE COATS OF SKIN AND SO THERE WAS A... MAYBE A PRECEDENT FOR IT, BUT IT'S NOT EXPLAINED, GOD DIDN'T TELL THEM, NOT HERE IN THE 3RD CHAPTER. IT APPEARS THAT GOD WAS STILL WALKING AND TALKING WITH ADAM AND EVE IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, THAT'S WHERE THEY GAINED THIS KNOWLEDGE. AND THIS FIRST FRUIT OFFERING, THAT WASN'T REVEALED UNTIL THE DAYS OF MOSES IN THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS, TO WHERE THEY WERE COMMANDED TO BRING THE FIRST FRUIT OFFERING UNTO HIM. WHERE DID THEY GET THIS KNOWLEDGE? THEY GOT IT FROM GOD. MY POINT IS GOD WAS STILL WALKING AND TALKING WITH ADAM AND EVE AND CAIN AND ABEL. AND THEY LEFT HIS PRESENCE. GOD DIDN'T DRIVE THEM OUT OF HIS PRESENCE. HE DROVE THEM
OUT OF THE GARDEN BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT THEM LIVING FOREVER IN A SINFUL BODY, BUT HE DID NOT LEAVE THEM. HE WAS NOT IMPUTING MEN'S SINS UNTO THEM JUST EXACTLY LIKE ROMANS, CHAPTER 5, VERSE 13, SAYS. PRIOR TO THE TIME THAT THE LAW WAS GIVEN, GOD DID NOT IMPUTE MEN'S SINS UNTO THEM, HE WAS LOVE, AND HE WAS TRYING TO WALK IN LOVE TOWARDS THESE PEOPLE AND NOT LET THEM KNOW EXACTLY HOW SINFUL THEY WERE AND HOW DEFILED THEY WERE, AND HE DID IT BECAUSE HE LOVED THEM, AND HE DIDN'T WANT THEM TO LIVE UNDER THIS GUILT AND CONDEMNATION. AND I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED THESE THINGS BUT LET ME JUST SAY AGAIN THAT AFTER CAIN KILLED ABEL, AND GOD FOUND THIS OUT AND REPROVED HIM OVER IT, HE DIDN'T APPROVE OF WHAT HE DID. CAIN SAYS, I WON'T BE ABLE TO MAKE IT, EVERY PERSON THAT HEARS ABOUT THIS IS GOING TO WANT TO KILL ME. AND SO GOD PLACED A MARK ON CAIN. HE SAYS, IF ANYBODY TOUCHES CAIN, I'LL AVENGE HIS DEATH SEVENFOLD. SO GOD PROTECTED THE FIRST MURDERER ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. HE DIDN'T APPROVE OF WHAT HE DID, THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES, BUT HE DIDN'T PUNISH HIM, HE DIDN'T EXECUTE THE WRATH. IN THE 18TH CHAPTER, OF THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS AND OTHER PLACES, YOU FIND OUT THAT ONCE THE LAW WAS GIVEN, IF A PERSON COMMITTED MURDER THEY HAD TO BE PUT TO DEATH. IF THE LAW WOULD'VE BEEN IN EFFECT IN GENESIS, CHAPTER 4, GOD WOULD'VE HAD TO HAVE KILLED A...CAIN, BUT INSTEAD HE PROTECTED HIM. WHY? BECAUSE HE LOVED HIM, AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE EXECUTING HIS WRATH. HE WAS WILLING TO OPERATE IN MERCY BECAUSE THAT IS THE TRUE NATURE OF GOD. THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. WHAT'S THE NATURE OF GOD? GOD IS LOVE. AND FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED, HE DIDN'T DRIVE THEM OUT OF THE GARDEN
OUT OF HATRED, AND BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE WITH THEM. HE DROVE THEM OUT OUT OF LOVE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT THEM LIVING FOREVER IN A SINFUL BODY. IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, THE BOOK OF GENESIS, WHEN CAIN KILLED HIS BROTHER, HE DIDN'T APPROVE OF THAT. IT WAS WRONG AND HE REPROVED CAIN FOR IT. BUT WHEN CAIN WAS AFRAID THAT EVERYBODY WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, GOD PUT A MARK ON HIM AND PROTECTED THE FIRST MURDERER. BUT PEOPLE BEGAN TO TAKE GOD'S LACK
OF PUNISHMENT AND HIS LOVE TOWARDS PEOPLE WHO WERE SINNING AS APPROVAL. AND SO YOU FIND RIGHT HERE IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS, YOU FIND THAT
LAMECH COMES ALONG AND IN VERSE 19, LAMECH TOOK UNTO
HIM TWO WIVES: THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS ADAH, AND THE NAME OF THE OTHER ZILLAH. AND ADAH BARE JABAL: HE WAS THE FATHER OF SUCH AS DWELL IN TENTS, AND SUCH AS HAVE CATTLE. AND HIS BROTHER'S NAME WAS JUBAL: HE WAS THE FATHER OF ALL SUCH AS HANDLE THE HARP AND ORGAN. AND ZILLAH, SHE ALSO BARE TUBALCAIN, AN INSTRUCTOR OF
EVERY ARTIFICER IN BRASS AND IRON: AND THE SISTER OF TUBALCAIN WAS NAAMAH. AND LAMECH SAID UNTO HIS WIVES, ADAH AND ZILLAH, HEAR MY VOICE; YOU WIVES OF LAMECH, HEARKEN UNTO MY SPEECH: FOR I HAVE SLAIN A MAN TO MY WOUNDING, AND A YOUNG MAN TO MY HURT. IF CAIN SHALL BE AVENGED SEVENFOLD, TRULY LAMECH SEVENTY AND SEVENFOLD. SEE WHAT HE DID HE COMPARED HIMSELF. CAIN GOT BY WITH MURDER AND GOD ACTUALLY
PROTECTED HIM. AND HE'S SAYING, IF CAIN GOT BY WITH MURDER, I'M GOING TO GET BY WITH MURDER. IF CAIN WAS AVENGED SEVENFOLD, I WILL BE AVENGED SEVENTY AND SEVENFOLD. IN OTHER WORDS, HE WAS MAKING A MISTAKE THINKING WELL, MURDERING SOMEBODY IS NOT THAT BAD. CAIN DID IT, AND HE GOT BY WITH IT, SO I BELIEVE I'LL GET BY WITH IT. AND SO, EVEN THOUGH GOD WASN'T WANTING TO IMPUTE MEN SINS UNTO THEM, AND HE WAS WANTING TO EXTEND MERCY AND TO HAVE THEM LIVE FREE OF ALL OF THIS GUILT AND CONDEMNATION AND DEATH THAT THE LAW PRODUCED, IF HE HADN'T HAVE PLACED A RESTRAINT UPON SIN, SIN WOULD HAVE JUST MULTIPLIED TO WHERE PEOPLE WERE MURDERING EVERYONE. THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS STICK...STAYING TRUE TO ONE MATE. THERE...PEOPLE WOULD'VE BEEN HAVING MULTIPLE WIVES, THEY WOULD'VE HAD MULTIPLE AFFAIRS. AND THE HUMAN RACE WOULD'VE BEEN SO POLLUTED THAT THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A VIRGIN LEFT FOR JESUS TO HAVE BEEN BORN THROUGH. AND SO, GOD HAD TO PLACE A RESTRAINT ON SIN UNTIL JESUS COULD COME AND PAY FOR OUR SIN. AND SO, WHAT GOD DID WAS GIVE THE LAW. 2,000 YEARS AFTER THE SIN OF ADAM AND EVE, GOD CALLED MOSES AND GAVE HIM THE LAW. AND WHEN THE LAW WAS GIVEN, IT ESTABLISHED WHAT GOD'S PERFECT
STANDARD WAS. AND IT REMOVED ANY DECEPTION, ANY IGNORANCE THAT PEOPLE HAD ABOUT WHAT GOD EXPECTED. AND IT ALSO MADE PEOPLE DESPAIR OF EVER BEING ABLE TO FULFILL GOD'S STANDARD BECAUSE IT WAS BEYOND THEIR ABILITY. AND IT MADE THEM JUST THROW THEMSELF ON GOD FOR MERCY AND QUIT TRYING TO EARN THE FAVOR OF GOD. BUT IT ALSO BROUGHT GUILT AND CONDEMNATION. IT'S KIND OF LIKE THESE MEDICINES THAT YOU SEE ADVERTISED ON TELEVISION. THEY'LL SAY TAKE THIS PILL FOR YOUR HEADACHE, NOW IT COULD CAUSE DEATH, IT COULD CAUSE SEIZURES, IT COULD MAKE YOU IMPOTENT, IT COULD...AND THEY TELL YOU THESE TERRIBLE EFFECTS, AND I THINK MAN, GIVE ME BACK MY HEADACHE. THE AFFLIED EFFECTS ARE WORSE THAN THE THING THAT IT'S TRYING TO DEAL WITH. WELL THERE WERE SIDE EFFECTS TO THE LAW. THE LAW DID CAUSE PEOPLE TO, ALL OF A SUDDEN, COME AWARE OF MAN, IF THIS IS WHAT GOD DEMANDS, LORD HAVE MERCY ON ME. AND IT DID PRODUCE SOME GOOD RESULTS, BUT IT ALSO HAD THESE NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS. AND SEE IF YOU WANT... DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU'LL JUST THINK THAT GOD IS THIS ANGRY GOD THAT PUT UP HERE THIS LAW AND IF YOU BREAK THIS LAW, I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO A PILE OF ASHES, I'M GOING TO STRIKE YOU, HERE COMES THE BOTCH, THE MILDEW, AND EVERYTHING ELSE. IT WASN'T LIKE THAT. GOD RESTRAINED HIMSELF FOR 2,000 YEARS BEFORE HE GAVE THE LAW. AND WE'VE BEEN LIVING WITHOUT THE LAW FOR 2,000 YEARS. I'LL EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT THAT NEXT WEEK. I'M OUT OF TIME BUT PLEASE GET THIS BOOK ENTITLED <i>THE TRUE
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