Meeting Date:        May 21, 2007

 

God’s Order – Part II

 

Clarifying the man’s role as the believing husband, father, or leader.

 

We reviewed our passages from the last meeting.  (See the notes from May 14, 2007)  We discussed God’s order in Genesis and how He calls us to be the spiritual leader and head of the house.  We also discussed in detail Adam and the woman and how God held Adam accountable for allowing the woman to be deceived.  We had a discussion on the serpent and how the serpent had been deceived and was used by Lucifer.  We can reasonably assume that they were able to communicate with the animals because we see God cursing the serpent in verse 3:14.  I do not believe God would arbitrarily curse the serpent if it could not be held accountable for it’s part in this.  We also studied Ezekiel 28: 11-19 to prove that Lucifer was in the garden when everything was perfect (including himself) and he was not yet cast out of heaven.  Lucifer was held accountable for the authority that God had given to him and Adam was held accountable for what authority had been given to him.  God has an order and it is His order, not ours.

 

Verses covered:

 

Genesis 2:22-25  Cleaving and leaving!

 

·        A deeper discussion took place regarding the absence of red blood from Adam and Eve before the fall of man.  The discussion included the notion that I believe that our present blood carries our life, but also carries the diseases and bacteria that makes us sick and diseased.  My belief is that the eternal lifeblood of our LORD Jesus that was breathed into them by God (Genesis 2:7) is flowing through them.  In Genesis 1:26, God said “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.”  Take note that God uses the plural US and Our.  Why, because Jesus was there at the foundation of the world along with God and His holy spirit.  God had given Adam the dominion and rule over the earth and everything in it (Genesis 1:26-28).  Everything was good except that Adam was alone.  God then creates the woman from Adam.  In verse 2:24, we find the command that “man shall leave his father and mother and be joined (cleave) to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”  The first God-created social order was marriage, not government, or social programs.  Two become one is more than a passing thought!  When we get married, we are to leave everything that we have and begin a new order where we become one with our spouse in everything.  We leave our parents order and must now rely on God’s order to guide and direct us.  We need to go to God through His word and learn that order.  Then, we need to be washing our wives with the word of God so that they will be in order with us.  Washing in the word is not just reading Scriptures, it is everything that we do as the husband, father and leader of our house because we are to be doing everything “heartily, as to the Lord and not to men.”  Colossians 3:23

 

Genesis 4:1-26  The perfect sacrifice?

 

 

Cain and Abel are two of the most perfect brothers that ever existed.  They have grown up and are working the land and their flocks.  We discussed how Satan and his minions had access to this fallen world (because they had been cast down into it by God) plus Cain and Abel.  We see Cain’s offering of the fruit of the ground (which was the works of his hands) is not found acceptable to God.  Abel’s offering of the first fruit of his flock is acceptable to God.  What was God’s order?  I believe that Jesus had shown Adam and Eve what the acceptable sacrifice was in the garden by the pouring out of blood of an appropriate animal as determined by Him.  Abel has no problem with this.  He is walking according to God’s order and his offering pleases God.  There is no guesswork here.  Cain offered the fruit of his work.  This is the basis of all of the worlds’ religions; man’s works or God’s work.  Only one of them is correct.  Cain is out of God’s order.  We know that Adam taught them both how to present an acceptable offering.  Where in the process did Cain lose what he had been taught?  The similarity between him being proud of his work, as Lucifer was proud of his beauty is incredible.  (Ezekiel28:17)  Cain and Abel had many other brothers and sisters, but this example of their lives is given to us so that we can see God’s order as taught to us as it was to them.

 

We covered the genealogy of Adam found in chapter 5 and discussed the timeline of Adam and his family up to the flood.  We discussed how Enoch “Walked with God and was not” as a rapture event.  This genealogy is a type similar to our present times.  Adam preached the message, his sons did not all receive it willingly, Enoch does and we see him raptured and his relatives seem to continue in their ways up to Noah and his family.  All of the people mentioned in the genealogy have been alive and had direct access to Adam for 930 years.  It appears that the message of God’s order is lost on mankind as Noah is the only one left that is found walking with God.  (Genesis 6:9)  Noah has taught his family God’s order that he learned from his father Lamech who learned it from Adam and according to God, they believed Him!  Do we hear God’s word and teach it to our wives and children?  Would we be found walking with God right now?

 

 

2 Timothy  3:1-7  Like the days of Noah.