Genesis: Begin with God

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:

  1. Gen. 2:7: the law of mortality and immortality: everything created has a beginning and an end: James 2:26, Eccl. 12:7
  2. 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…).
  3. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

Will Jesus say Well Done?

2 Timothy 4:6-8

“For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.” (NIV) 

Are you ready to depart this mortal life? The thought of leaving the known may send shivers up your spine, or it may send jolts of excitement through your soul. We all have regrets, because we all make decisions we would have made differently, if we could go back. 

Since we cannot go back, we learn, to learn from the past, to have a better today and an even better tomorrow. For the child of God, we learn to trust God to help us through the difficult days. As you read the passage, asked yourself these questions:

  • Am I fighting the good fight, or am I engaged in pointless battles over things that do not matter to my salvation and the salvation of others? 
  • How am I keeping the faith? Can I say I am keeping the faith, if I am not sharing the faith? 
  • If today was my last day on earth, would I receive a crown of righteousness? 

And as you pray through this passage today:

  • Give thanks for God’s sacrificial love, 
  • Ask for wisdom to fight good fights of faith, 
  • Ask for strength to continue to fight, 
  • And look forward in faith, to the day when Jesus will say, “well done.”

“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ (Matthew 25:23 NIV).

Watering your Love

Philippians 1:9: “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight” NIV

“Lord Jesus, thank You for your love, thank You for inspiring the Apostle Paul to reveal your wonderful knowledge to me. 

As Paul, through you, prayed for me, Lord, I pray through My Loving Savior today. Please help my love to grow. Help my love to mature in knowledge, because I want to know how you want me to love others the way only you want me to love them. Fill me with Your wisdom to love with the right words. Help me to love with the right nonverbals and gestures. 

Help me even to know your ways of silently loving the people in my life, when that is the right way to love them.  

Give me the strength to love, so that I can experience the fullness of loving like you, so that others will be drawn to your love through me, just as I am drawn to your love through the Apostle Paul.

I love you Father. In Jesus’ loving name I pray. Amen.” 

Ephesians 3: 18-19:  “18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” ESV