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Freedom From Fear

Freedom From Fear 2006

Randy Skeete

What All Women Should Know About God

Who Has Your Back?

Why is God Unemployed?

Poor Satan

How to Succeed Without Being a Genius

What does God Want for You?

Just Like Jesus

Fred Bischoff

Beloved, Let us Love

How to Resist Temptation

God, it Makes No Sense

An Essential Ingredient

Good Gifts Come From Above

How to Fire Proof Your Soul

Who is the Holy Spirit?

Some of this and Some of That

Hedrick Edwards

Reconciliation with God

Three Things to Know About God

A King in the Gutter is Still a King

Who is the Devil?

How to get Your Prayers Answered

The Fall of the Twin Towers

Jesus was no Angel

Crossing the Waters

Adding and Subtracting

The Truth Shall Make You Free

God is Able

The Summation

In other words, that's my way of saying I missed you.

Did anyone think of me for 5 seconds today?

So, I'm very delighted that you thought of me.

I really did think of you and I pray that God will bless us tonight as we embark upon another adventure in his words.

You have the assurance that God will bless you for your presence here tonight.

You know he gets the blame for almost everything we do that's wrong.

Many years ago, those of you who are old enough, you perhaps remember the comedy on television called the Flip Wilson show.

In his show, Flip had an expression that became popular all over the country.

Tonight, I will show you that that is not the case.

The devil cannot make you or me do anything that we do not elect and choose to do.

Satan does not have a gun he puts to our heads.

We have to exercise the choice to go with him or a choice to go against him.

But certainly I need to say that not all things we do that are wrong are the result of the devil's temptations.

Loving Father in heaven, we come to you in the name of Jesus.

We have been invited in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 16, let us come boldly to the throne of grace where we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

I ask you from my heart and in the name of Jesus, grant to me what I need, and that is the enlightenment of your Holy Spirit.

And grant to my brothers and sisters what they need, and that is understanding of your divine word.

Do this for us, we pray, And we will give you the glory.

We offer this prayer in Jesus' name and for his sake.

Reading verses 16 and 17 of Genesis chapter 2.

By the way, all those of you who brought Bibles, raise them, let me see.

Contrary to what I see when I travel around the world, the habit of bringing Bibles to church with people is fading away.

And I'm glad to see most of us have our Bibles with us.

The Bible says, And the Lord God commanded the man saying, 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 thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Now the Bible says the wages of sin is death.

That has always been the penalty for sin.

Ezekiel 18 4 says the soul that sinneth it shall die.

So effectively what God was telling Adam in Genesis 2 16 17 in the day that you sin you will die because any action contrary to God's will is sin.

If you do you die And since death is the wages of sin, then what God was telling Adam is, if you sin, you will die.

If you eat of the tree, contrary to my will and my word, then you have sinned and the punishment for that is death.

Now, many people ask the question, what was so horrible about Adam's sin?

And for people who are vegetarians, many of you are, perhaps you don't see the horrible nature of that sin, eating a fruit.

Let us examine how truly catastrophic and insulting and horrible Adam's sin was.

In Genesis 1 31 the Bible says, And God saw everything that he had made and behold it was what?

Very good now that included everything from day 1 to day 6 including Adam and Eve including the wedding which God at which he officiated when he made man and woman husband and wife on that sixth day of creation.

Adam was made with a heart that had no desire to do wrong.

When Adam came from the hand of his Creator there was nothing in him that leaned towards sin.

Adam's mind was so connected with the mind of his Creator that when we read Genesis chapter 2 verse 19, let's go there, That verse gives us a remarkable revelation of how united Adam's mind was with the mind of his Creator.

That verse says, and out of the ground the Lord God made every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them.

God tells Adam name all the creatures and God steps back and he watches Adam and he listens to see what Adam would call these animals and the Bible says and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof meaning every time Adam gave a name God said yes every living creature for every name Adam chose God was in effect saying that was the name I would have chosen That is a human mind connected with the divine mind.

When you and I are that close to God our decisions become God decisions.

Our desires are God's desires because our will, our and God's will, our minds and God's mind are united and the omnipotent power of God's mind flows into ours.

The omnipotence of his will flows into ours and we are charged and energized by the very omnipotence of God.

And so every name that Adam gave, God said, yes.

That's exactly my son must have been reading my mind.

This was how close Adam was to his Creator.

Not everything in him found an echo in God.

There's no amen when a wife leads a husband into sin or vice versa.

Let me tell you something by way of another digression.

When you make decisions to follow Christ, When you make decisions to accept the truth as it is in Jesus, do not be shocked, chagrined, or modified if your greatest opposition comes from members of the family.

Because it is coming from those you love.

If it comes from those outside of family, the pain is not that great.

If there's any pain at all, you can say, I couldn't care less.

You don't say that to your family members.

So Adam, here comes Eve, an agent of the enemy and brings the temptation to Adam.

There is nothing in Adam that naturally responds to the temptation.

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