We have many questions about everything in us and around us. No one book answers in detail every question, but the Bible, as the inspirited word of God, provides detailed answers on subjects related to our salvation, and general information about everything else.
THAT IS WHY OUR THEME FOR 2023 IS: RETURN TO GOD, RETURN TO THE BIBLE. JOIN US ON WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30PM FOR MORE DETAILED STUDY OF THE BIBLE AND HOW TO STUDY AND UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE.
Genesis means beginning, and this book tells how everything begun: Heaven and earth, the human race, sin, families, languages, nations etc.
As we begin 2023, we invite you and encourage you to begin it with God the way he wants you to. Acts 2:38 answers the greatest question of all: what must we do to be saved?
“And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Today I will share three principles from Genesis that God, our maker gives us to rule over every area of our lives.
We will not highlight all areas of life today, but we will highlight the four main controlling areas of life that God points out in Genesis.
If we will return to God, we must listen to how God created us to live out these four areas of life within His will, through these three absolute laws. This is the only way for individuals and country to return to God and godliness.
THESE THREE ABSOLUTE LAWS ARE:
- Gen. 2:7: the law of mortality and immortality: everything created has a beginning and an end: James 2:26, Eccl. 12:7
- Gen. 2:15-17: the law of free-will and choice: because you have an immortal spirit, you have free will to affect the immortal destiny of your spirit (2 Cor. 5:10—must all appear before… to receive the things done in the body, whether good or evil…).
- Gen. 3: the law of choice and consequences. Choices have consequences. There is no freedom without blessings and consequences, whether spiritual or physical. Free speech, freedom to assemble, salvation, etc.
GOD PROVIDES GUIDELINES FOR US TO LIVE OUT THE THREE ABSOLUTE LAWS IN EVERY AREA OF LIFE, AS WE EXERCISE OUR FREE WILL, MAKE CHOICES, AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES AS MORTALS AND IMMORTALS.
- Dominion: Gen. 1:26: every human is created to have dominion [rule, subjugate, dominate] over all living things, except over other human beings, who are also created in the image of God. Dominion affects every member of the human race.
- Gender: Gen. 1:27: You are created and born a male or female, even if you are chemically imbalanced or you are born a true hermaphrodite, which rarely happens. Your gender is not a choice that God left for you to decide. Because your gender is not just about you, it is about the entire human race that you are a single member of the human race.
- Marriage: Gen. 2:24: You are created to marry someone of the created opposite gender. That is both logical, obvious, and biologically obvious. You are free to marry someone of the opposite created gender, of any race or color, or language. But you are not free to reassign a gender, or call a male a female, then marry him. Even if your “Christian government” makes it legal, such perversion of God’s genesis design has global consequences, it has spiritual consequences now, and eternal consequences, even if you are now happy and proud of your choices.
- Pleasure, Pride and Wisdom: Gen. 3:6: Life is filled with many things that are good for food, pleasing to the eyes and things that will make you wise. God created you to eat what is healthy for your body and spirit and leave the rest for the vultures and animals. You can enjoy the beautiful and pleasurable things of this life, within God’s laws, because outside of God’s laws, they will bring you spiritual misery, even if they bring you physical pleasure. You can learn about everything in this life, but if you exercise your knowledge outside of God’s laws, then you are just a fool, all be it, an intelligent fool.
You whole life in summary is: beginning—choices—physical end—immortal life or immortal condemnation.
Today, as we begin a brand new year, I encourage you to think about God’s Genesis laws, think about your life choices.
Begin to think and live under God’s will, by applying yourself to His absolute laws, in all areas of your life. Because we and this country, can only return to God, by returning to the Bible, the Words and wisdom of God.
Begin your year with God, make choices with God, and live mortally with God, so that you can live immortally with God.
Copyright by Richard Nepaul December 2022
RICHARD NEPAUL 