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GENESIS STUDY #3
Jan. 15, 2009
I am going to list a few
scriptures that will be repeated in these studies,
because you MUST remember them and think on them
EVERY DAY!! It is important that these verses
MUST BECOME A PART OF YOU!! You will see them in almost
every part of this study that I send you. DO NOT JUST
MEMORIZE THEM!! Allow them to become YOUR TRUTH,
because they ARE GOD'S TRUTH. And in these
truths, you will come to see yourself differently, other
than the way you have always thought of yourself. The
way that we have been taught, in the past has and always
will lead us to seeing death! HIS TRUTH IS THE ONLY WAY
TO TRUELY HAVE LIFE. So I will probably put these
scriptures at the beginning of each part of our study of
Genesis. (we'll see)
1) Gen.
1:27 WE ARE created in God's Image.
2)John
1:16 WE HAVE ALREADY received God's Fullness (ALL that
He is).
3)
1John 4:17 AS HE IS, IN THIS WORLD, SO ARE WE
.
4)
Colossians 2:9-10 YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM
5)
Romans 12:2 Be TRANSFORMED BY RENEWING YOUR MIND
****Proverbs
23:7 As a man THINKETH SO IS HE.
Make these scriptures a part of
your life and of your belief. (for as you think, so are
you).
Ok, let's begin with Genesis
1:27 "So God created man in His
own image, in the image of God created He him:
male and female created He them"
Ok, let's notice a couple of
things in this scripture. First of all, it says that God
created man. Notice this looks like God created just a
man. Then at the end of this same scripture, it says,
God created He THEM. Now, look at verse 28,
"And God blessed THEM..."
If you remember , I told you
that this PRESENT TRUTH, that God is showing us, is very
different from the things we were taught in the past. I
gave you scriptures showing that God has had truths
HIDDEN SINCE BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, we
are NOW learning them. Also, keep in mind that when
Jesus began preaching and teaching, what He taught was
so different from what the children of God had been
taught before Jesus preached His truths. For this
reason, they killed Him. So don't be so surprised that
what we are being taught now, by God, is much different
from what the world of men preaching and teaching us has
shown us. Jesus IS our Pattern, until we come
into the maturity that He came into.
ok. I want to take this
scripture apart and really seek out what it is saying
and get the truth of it, into us. Remember, AS WE RENEW
OR CHANGE OUR MIND, WE ARE TRANSFORMED, into God's
VISIBLE image, on earth.
So first of all let's look at ,
"God created....."
and "God's image."
The old testament was written in the Hebrew and
Chaladen language. Now I use the King James Bible to do
my studying with. Because by using the King James Bible,
I have a concordance that every word in the King James
Bible, can be studied out to see what each word means,
in the language it was originally written in.
Number one: the language
that the people of Moses' and Jesus' day, was not like
the words used in the King James bible. Jesus and Moses
DID NOT use words like "thee or thou". These words are
in what is called "the King's language", like they use
to speak in England . Back in that day,the day of Moses
and Jesus, just as it is with us today, the people used
symbolic words to express what they were talking about.
In Moses' and Jesus' day, they spoke in "symbolic"
words, that all the people of that land understood. Let
me give you an example of what I am saying. Today, in my
country we use symbolic or slang words to explain
things. The legal system, here in the USA are correctly
named "police men and police women", but since my
parents' day, we changed to another way of talking about
the police.....now the police are called, "cops".
Everyone here, knows what "cops" mean. BUT a hundred
years from now, each generation will change "cops" into
another way of saying it. Well, it is the same with the
words, symbolic words, that were used in Jesus' day.
Also in that time, they spoke of "angels". When WE hear
the word "angel" we immediately think of creatures with
wings, etc. But, if you study out the word "angel", you
will find that "angel" means "a messenger; a teacher; a
protector, a helper, ones with a message, etc. Ministers
are angels. If you read in the Book of Revelation ,
chapter 1:20, it says,
".....the seven stars are the ANGELS of the seven
churches....". NOW, we know that WE ARE THE
CHURCH. The buildings that we meet in, is NOT THE
CHURCH, they are the "meeting places, that we go to.
Think of this; stars is a symbolic word, meaning LIGHT.
So what it is really giving understandig to us, is that
when the "church" speaks (teachers, preachers, pastors
etc.) they are to speak in LIGHT (understanding given by
the Holy Spirit). We have gotten TRUTH mixed up with
"religion". God does not want us to be religious, He
wants us to speak HIS TRUTH. Religion IS NOT OF GOD!
Think of all the different denominations there are
today. Thousands of them and each with a different
"teaching or doctrines. Do we honestly believe that God
has different doctrines, each one contradicting the
other doctrine? No. He has ONE TRUTH, and that MUST come
from the Spirit, and this is what He wants of us. You
are not a religious person, you are a Truth giver.
Another difference is, in Moses'
day, is a word that all of us have changed, and that
word is "temple". When we get ready to go to church, we
don't say, "I am going to the temple", we now say, "I am
going to the church". So we have to study to find out
how they talked in Jesus' day, and understand how we
would say it today. We don't go to CHURCH, we ARE His
Chruch, and when we go to a meeting, we ARE TAKING THE
CHURCH TO THE MEETING. A temple, to us today, is WHERE
GOD LIVES and we are that Temple, not made with hands.
# two: when the Holy
Spirit gives you understanding to something, it is
usually hard to put into language that other's would
understand. An example of this is , remember when Paul
said,"I went into the third
heaven , but I couldn't utter the things I was told".
And in the book of Daniel, Daniel said that he
had heard things by the Spirit but he could not
understand what the things were. And Daniel was told to
write it down, and that it was not time for the things
to be understood, but in the end days, they would be
made understood. Well this is why we must do much
praying (or calling forth) and studying the words of the
bible. One reason is because as the original words of
the bible were translated into different languages, the
translators changed some words, so we are not receiving
what was written in the original writting of the bible.
The translators even NUMBERED chapters and verses. In
the original writting of the bible, it was not written
in book form, it was written like we would write a
letter to someone, no verse numbers, no chapters, but
instead it was written like a letter to someone. I say
this because I want to show you why we must study to
find the truth as it was originallly written. Think on
this: WE are written epistles. People READ us daily.
So here in Genesis 1:27, let us
study out the words.
"So God
created;" I want us to look at this word "God".
First of all, the word "GOD" is a word that man
named our God. MAN has given MANY names to
describe "God". Man gave Him the name "El Shadiah" which
means "the great breasted One". That simply meant, "the
One who nourishes". Man gave Him the name "El Elyon"
which means "Most High God". These are just two names
that MAN has given God.
Now here in Genesis one, the
word for God is "Eloheim" . Looking up this word, we
find that the word "Eloheim" means "PLURAL GOD".
Notice, it IS NOT PLURAL GODS . It does not mean
more Gods, it mean plural of God, God created plural of
Himself. So in verse 26 and verse 26 of chapter one, it
means, "So Plural God created man..." If we were brought
forth, out of God, IN HIS IMAGE, and IN HIS
LIKENESS, and as we are told in John 1:16, of His
fullness have we all received, then we are EVERYTHING
that He is , I don't mean that each of us is
a separate "God", no. I mean that we are ONE IN HIM
(not One WITH Him, but One IN HIM), "with" would
mean more than one, there is not more than One of Him,
there is just Him. We are His Reflections. When we look
at each other, we are looking at God/Eloheim. We don't
REMEMBER ever being as He is, but we will remember. And
we will get into this more deeply as we go along with
this study.
"God created". This word
"created" means that God BEGOT. He begot man. He begot
man out from within Himself. Man was in God
before man ever became a flesh person. ALL OF US, all of
everyone that has ever lived had our beginning IN GOD.
And then God begot or brought forth out of Himself, man.
This word "man" means "all of mankind". Right now, I
want us to look at what we are told in the bible about
what God is. As we find this out, I want you to keep in
mind, that mankind WAS IN GOD, man was what God was,
because man was not brought forth out of God UNTIL God
brought him out. That means that anything that God was,
man was the same thing. Man was the likeness and image
of God. Man was created or begotten out of the very
SUBSTANCE of God. And we were brought forth out of Him,
AS HIS IMAGE, no one else's image. Not Jesus' image, not
our earthly Mom and Dads image, but we were brought
forth in GOD'S/ELOHEIM'S IMAGE. WE are even named
Eloheim. Why? Weare His plural We will see this
later, too.l
Before we look at all that God
was, I want to show you how much a part of God man was
and IS.
Exodus
3:13-15 Now keep in mind that this is GOD
SPEAKING:
"And
Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the
children of Israel, and I shall say unto them, The God
of your fathers hath sent me unto you:and they shall say
to me, What is His name? What shall I say unto them?
AND GOD SAID UNTO Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and
He said , this is what you shall say unto the
children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto
you. AND GOD SAID moreover unto Moses, this is
what you say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God
of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; THIS IS
MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS MY MEMORIAL UNTO ALL
GERERATIONS."
Here God tells ALL OF US what
His name is. He even tells us that that will ALWAYS
be His name. Generation after generation. Now some
say that we can call Him whatever the Spirit leads us to
call Him. But, I will declare NOW, IF GOD SAID HIS NAME
IS , I AM, WHO ARE WE TO CHANGE IT? And the Spirit will
NOT lead us to contradict what God says. I will leave
this up to you, what you call Him, as for me, I want to
call Him what He calls Himself. Now you say, "well how
does that show me how much a part of God, I am"? Well
think DEEPLY on this; when you want to say that you are
happy, or that you are good, or you are righteous or
that you are anything? Think of it, you say, we all say
"I AM happy; I AM good; I AM
righteous!! His name is our name!! Our name is
His name. Does the bible tell us this? Well let's
look and see;
Ephesians 3:14-15, "For this cause I bow my knees unto
the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom THE
WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS NAMED."
This does not say, "we are Christians", it does not tell
us we are named Jesus, no it says that we have HIS NAME,
I AM.
Did you know that YOUR name is I
AM? Now think about this, YOU were IN GOD before He
brought you forth out of Himself. His name is I AM, and
now you know what the bible tells you that EVERYONE in
heaven and in earth is named I AM. Don't look at
yourself and think of yourself the way YOU see
yourself, THINK OF YOURSELF THE WAY GOD SAYS YOU
ARE!! THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TO SPIRITUAL MATURITY.
We have to stop seeing ourselves as WE say how we are
and we MUST begin to see ourselves THE WAY GOD SAYS
WE ARE. Our natural eyes' seeing and our natural
mind's thinking will tell us a lie. A lie that is
completely the opposite of what God says. SEEING AND
THINKING AS GOD SAYS IS HOW TO RENEW OUR MIND AND BE
TRANSFORMED INTO WHAT HE SAYS WE ARE. We MUST
remember, "as He is in this
present world, so are we". Isn't that what the
bible tells us.? It DOES NOT say, "when you die
and go to heaven , you will be as He is", no, it
says "as He is IN THIS
PRESENT WORLD, SO ARE WE'. " Your natural
mind AND YOUR PREACHER will say, "how can this be"? "I
do wrong things, I say wrong things, how can this be
true?" Well, we will see the answer to this question as
we continue this study.
So let's continue.
"So God
(the Plural God) created;" Let's see what we are
told about God:
1) God is a Spirit. John
4:24
2) God is love.
3) God is light.
4) God is life.
5) God is all knowing.
There are so many other things
that the bible tells us, what God is. But, you can look
them up. And KNOW THIS: ANYTHING THAT GOD IS, SO IS
THE MAN THAT GOD BROUGHT FOR OUT OF HIMSELF. We are
told that we are created in His image and likeness; we
are like Him looking into a mirror , when He looks at
us, and what HE SEES is HIMSELF. I know that this might
be all new to you, but as we go through this study you
will begin to see the Truth of it. Be patient, please.
And KNOW THIS: you cannot look at the things that
you do or say that might seem "ungodly" to you, HE IS
NOT INTERESTED IN THE MISTAKES THAT YOU MAKE!! All He is
interested is your heart and its intension. (1 Samuel
16:7) Every mistake we make, is for a learning , we are
to learn from our mistakes and live what we learn. And
KNOW THIS; when you are looking at things in yourself
that is "in your thinking, wrong", remember, WHAT YOU
GIVE YOUR ATTENTION TO, JUST BECOMES BIGGER. YOU GIVE
THAT THING POWER TO BE!! Each thing we learn about
ourselves, we learn MORE about God and the image of Him,
that we ARE. You will learn more about this, in
the next part of this study. We will be looking and
FINDING OUT all about the man that God brought forth out
of Himself. And I will tell you now, the "church WILL
NOT TEACH YOU THIS" and it will warn you to get away
from it. But, ask them, "why does the bible say it
then"? They will tell you, it is for when you get to
heaven. That is an utter LIE and against all that GOD
TELLS US ABOUT OURSELVES. WHO will you believe?
Much love. And I call forth
understanding to rise from within us to see clearly,
God's Plan.
love Linda
It is
understandable for a child to be afraid of the dark;
but, why would an adult be afraid of the LIGHT?
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