6-19-2016 Weekly Message

This week’s meditation: Psalms 148:1-14

Scripture: Psalm 8:1-9

Title: The first Adam and Eve, the last Adam and last Eve

        In the main passage, King David testified in the Holy Ghost of Adam, the first man crowned with glory and honor as the representative of God to subdue the all things created by him before he was cast out of the Garden Eden because of his sin against the word of the LORD God. In the last sentence of his psalm, he prophesied of the Lord Jesus Christ, the last Adam .who shall take the Garden Eden back that was robbed by the Devil, and reign in the all the earth with glory. 

        He testified of the glory of the Lord God in fullness when He created the heavens and the earth  in the beginning. But he also witnessed of the glory of God temporarily obscured because of the sin and death that were brought forth by the rebellious Devil. 

       But he also prophesied of the plan of God to be fulfilled  when the time of God is fulfilled making  the people in weakness such as babes and sucklings preach the gospel. Apostle Paul testified of the time to be done as the LORD God predestinated in the dispensation of the fullness of times to be one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth: even in him (Eph. 1:10) In that time, as David prophesied in his last sentence, the kingdom of the LORD God shall be done in the earth:  “O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!”

              Jesus appeared in the likeness of Adam, and spoke of himself to rejoice of making his will be done through the gospel preached by the mouth of them that believe in him as baby. When seventy disciples returned from evangelism,  he confirmed the word that was prophesied through the mouth of David. The seventy disciples spoke unto Jesus returning from evangelism with joy, “ Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.”  Jesus said unto them, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.  Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.“(Luke 10:17-20)

            In that hour, Jesus rejoiced in spirit of his disciples that are the babes and sucklings prophesied by David, and of his glorious reigning as the LORD of glory in heavens and earth in the future: “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.  All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.“(Luke 10:21-22)

            Apostle Paul testified of Jesus appeared on the earth in the Holy Spirit through the written words:” And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.“(Luke 10:45-47)   

        Apostle Paul testified of Jesus that appeared in the earth in the Holy Ghost through the written words of God: “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.“(1Cor. 15:45-47)

         Apostle Paul testified of Jesus, the only begotten Son of God as the second man as well as the last Adam. The second man is the one that appeared as a man without sin, for he is God. The last Adam he was to end the seeds of the first man, Adam  through making them enter into his body whosoever believe in him to receive the remission of sins. When time is fulfilled, there shall be no one that is the seed of Adam in heavens and earth; there shall be full of the people that belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, the last Adam in heavens and earth.

           But the God of righteousness made Jesus be tempted by the devil three times so that he may overcome the temptation to make him be the last Adam. The first one was, “ If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”  Jesus answered  the devil, “ It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

            The devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on the top of the temple, and said to him, “If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.” Jesus answered him once again, “It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”

            The devil tempted Jesus using the word of God. But he quoted a wrong verse that shall be happening at his second coming. We could be seduced by the devil unless we study the word of the truth rightly divided(2Tim 2:15)

          Again, the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdom of the world, and of the glory of them saying, “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them. All these things  will I give thee, if thou will fall down and worship me, for that is delivered unto me.”

Finally, Jesus spoke unto the devil, “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

The devil went away giving up tempting Jesus anymore, for Jesus overcame all the temptations that were failed by the first man, Adam (Matt. 4:11-11, Luke 4:1-8) 

        The serpent, the devil visited Eve in the Garden of Eden, and said to Eve to tempt her: ” Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”(Gen. 3:1)  Then she was supposed to say the words of God that was heard from Adam to defeat him quoting, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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.”(Gen. 2:16-17):

          But the woman added to the word of God saying, “neither touch it.”shall ye.” and she also changed the word of God ” in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” . But she said, “lest ye die.” She was ended up with giving the serpent the chance so that the devil attacked her with word saying, “Ye shall not surely die.”

Then, she happened to look at the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; it was good for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise. At that moment, she ate it. The Lord Jesus passed through the temptations that were failed  by the first man; and he overcame the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

           Finally, the Lord Jesus had the sin and death and curse that had been spread out transferred unto his body unto death shedding his blood; and he rose again the third day. He made all men that believe in him enter into himself. He made them come out of the first Adam to enter into the last Adam. And he made them be one body in him, and gave them a name as the church of God and the body of Christ himself. And he has chosen his church as the helping spouse for the Lord Jesus Christ to prepare them for the ministry that he fills all in all. Now, he made his church the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ that is the last Eve. But we have to know, the devil that visited Eve in the Garden of Eden is still visiting the children of God that are the members of the church to tempt them.

        Apostle Paul sent a warning message unto the saints of Corinthian church: “1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.“(2Cor. 11:1-4)

           That’s right! As he warned, the devil is still sending his servants to the church of God to tempt the children of God that is the last Eve as well as the bride of Christ. “Another Jesus and another spirit and another gospel” could make us to see illusion as Eve saw the forbidden tree as good for food, and pleasant to the eyes, and desired to make one wise. The devil is still tempting the children of God  using his servants so that the bide of Christ may follow the lust of the flesh and the lust of eyes and the pride of life.

           How Eve was defeated by the devil so easily? It was because of very simple reason. She never remember the word of God. Even nowadays, when the children of God are lazy to hear the words of God, nor to read and even forget, they are to receive another Jesus and another spirit and another gospel preached by the servants of the devil so easily. Those three kinds of another one make them emerged into the lust of the flesh and the lust of eyes and the pride of life. This is the way for them to be enemy of God through loving the world as well as the things wherein to be ended up losing purity as the bride of Christ. Therefore, we should put on the whole armor of God with the words of God not to be in the temptation, and pray always in the Spirit. Amen! Hallelujah!