The gospel (part 16)
Back to the covenant promise from the curse, God is saying that someone is coming that will deliver Adam and Eve from the curse which was not necessarily a curse---Gen 3:15.
From this verse, I want you to ask yourself a question: If God was talking about Jesus in this verse, when will you realize that God intentionally brought you into this world so that you can serve his purpose.
Before Jesus came, God ordained people through which Jesus will come.
If God can do this for Jesus, who is his son, how much more you who are also his son. Let's please follow Jesus in his way of serving the father's will.
Do you also know that God sending you here to earth is more specific than you think.
Look at that Genesis 3 again. First of all there's a covenant promise. The promise comes in form of a curse, this curse of a serpent.
"I will put enmity between your seed and her seed. The serpent is going to bruise the seed's heel and the seed is going to bruise the serpent's head. "
Paradoxically, the seed is winning. The moral lesson from this curse is to learn to talk like God so that in all things, everything will work out for your good.
Why is God making this promise? God makes this promise, saying that there's one coming who will undo this curse.
No one had any idea of how the seed is going to undo this curse but a hint was giving to us in verse 21 of chapter 3.
Those coats of skins came out from the body of an animal, which means the animal was killed and guess what... A murder and the very first murder of man took place in the next chapter which is chapter 4.
What all these is signifying is that, the cost of sin is always death and it will also take death to save us.
So what happened in chapter 4 was that the seed of the serpent, Cain, killed the seed of the woman, Abel.
Why do I say that Cain is the seed of the serpent? Because John says so in first John 3:12.
But now we got a problem because the promised seed of the woman has been murdered but it's still alright.
After the incident, we were introduced to Seth and then in chapter 5, they were ten generations between Adam and Noah, through the Godly line of Seth. Do you see that?
The promise seed has been preserved. You can also confirm it in verse 25 of chapter 4 where Eve said: God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel.
Now, Noah has three sons but only one can be the promised seed and eventually we find out it is shem that is the promised seed and eventually we come to Abraham who is the promised seed and then Abraham has two sons which is not supposed to be so.
The promised seed is Isaac which Abraham was supposed to wait for but He listened to his wife and slept with her maid and birthed Ishmael.
Are we to blame Abraham? No, we are not because the curse is working and we all know that whatever God has proposed must surely come to pass.
Interestingly enough, Sarah was beyond the seed bearing years but miraculously, He still gets the promise seed and this also signifies that it doesn't matter how long you have to wait but God will do it because He has said it.
To be continued...
Back to the covenant promise from the curse, God is saying that someone is coming that will deliver Adam and Eve from the curse which was not necessarily a curse---Gen 3:15.
From this verse, I want you to ask yourself a question: If God was talking about Jesus in this verse, when will you realize that God intentionally brought you into this world so that you can serve his purpose.
Before Jesus came, God ordained people through which Jesus will come.
If God can do this for Jesus, who is his son, how much more you who are also his son. Let's please follow Jesus in his way of serving the father's will.
Do you also know that God sending you here to earth is more specific than you think.
Look at that Genesis 3 again. First of all there's a covenant promise. The promise comes in form of a curse, this curse of a serpent.
"I will put enmity between your seed and her seed. The serpent is going to bruise the seed's heel and the seed is going to bruise the serpent's head. "
Paradoxically, the seed is winning. The moral lesson from this curse is to learn to talk like God so that in all things, everything will work out for your good.
Why is God making this promise? God makes this promise, saying that there's one coming who will undo this curse.
No one had any idea of how the seed is going to undo this curse but a hint was giving to us in verse 21 of chapter 3.
Those coats of skins came out from the body of an animal, which means the animal was killed and guess what... A murder and the very first murder of man took place in the next chapter which is chapter 4.
What all these is signifying is that, the cost of sin is always death and it will also take death to save us.
So what happened in chapter 4 was that the seed of the serpent, Cain, killed the seed of the woman, Abel.
Why do I say that Cain is the seed of the serpent? Because John says so in first John 3:12.
But now we got a problem because the promised seed of the woman has been murdered but it's still alright.
After the incident, we were introduced to Seth and then in chapter 5, they were ten generations between Adam and Noah, through the Godly line of Seth. Do you see that?
The promise seed has been preserved. You can also confirm it in verse 25 of chapter 4 where Eve said: God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel.
Now, Noah has three sons but only one can be the promised seed and eventually we find out it is shem that is the promised seed and eventually we come to Abraham who is the promised seed and then Abraham has two sons which is not supposed to be so.
The promised seed is Isaac which Abraham was supposed to wait for but He listened to his wife and slept with her maid and birthed Ishmael.
Are we to blame Abraham? No, we are not because the curse is working and we all know that whatever God has proposed must surely come to pass.
Interestingly enough, Sarah was beyond the seed bearing years but miraculously, He still gets the promise seed and this also signifies that it doesn't matter how long you have to wait but God will do it because He has said it.
To be continued...
The gospel (part 16)
Back to the covenant promise from the curse, God is saying that someone is coming that will deliver Adam and Eve from the curse which was not necessarily a curse---Gen 3:15.
From this verse, I want you to ask yourself a question: If God was talking about Jesus in this verse, when will you realize that God intentionally brought you into this world so that you can serve his purpose.
Before Jesus came, God ordained people through which Jesus will come.
If God can do this for Jesus, who is his son, how much more you who are also his son. Let's please follow Jesus in his way of serving the father's will.
Do you also know that God sending you here to earth is more specific than you think.
Look at that Genesis 3 again. First of all there's a covenant promise. The promise comes in form of a curse, this curse of a serpent.
"I will put enmity between your seed and her seed. The serpent is going to bruise the seed's heel and the seed is going to bruise the serpent's head. "
Paradoxically, the seed is winning. The moral lesson from this curse is to learn to talk like God so that in all things, everything will work out for your good.
Why is God making this promise? God makes this promise, saying that there's one coming who will undo this curse.
No one had any idea of how the seed is going to undo this curse but a hint was giving to us in verse 21 of chapter 3.
Those coats of skins came out from the body of an animal, which means the animal was killed and guess what... A murder and the very first murder of man took place in the next chapter which is chapter 4.
What all these is signifying is that, the cost of sin is always death and it will also take death to save us.
So what happened in chapter 4 was that the seed of the serpent, Cain, killed the seed of the woman, Abel.
Why do I say that Cain is the seed of the serpent? Because John says so in first John 3:12.
But now we got a problem because the promised seed of the woman has been murdered but it's still alright.
After the incident, we were introduced to Seth and then in chapter 5, they were ten generations between Adam and Noah, through the Godly line of Seth. Do you see that?
The promise seed has been preserved. You can also confirm it in verse 25 of chapter 4 where Eve said: God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel.
Now, Noah has three sons but only one can be the promised seed and eventually we find out it is shem that is the promised seed and eventually we come to Abraham who is the promised seed and then Abraham has two sons which is not supposed to be so.
The promised seed is Isaac which Abraham was supposed to wait for but He listened to his wife and slept with her maid and birthed Ishmael.
Are we to blame Abraham? No, we are not because the curse is working and we all know that whatever God has proposed must surely come to pass.
Interestingly enough, Sarah was beyond the seed bearing years but miraculously, He still gets the promise seed and this also signifies that it doesn't matter how long you have to wait but God will do it because He has said it.
To be continued...
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