Our discussion moves on to the intriguing narrative of Adam and Eve, their divine instructions, and their pure fellowship with God prior to the advent of sin. The repercussions of their disobedience, the birth of curiosity, and its impact on humanity is profoundly dissected. However, it's not all doom and gloom; we highlight the tireless efforts of the enemy to exploit our weaknesses while revealing God's redemptive plan for us all.
We then focus on the importance of maintaining an intimate relationship with God and the grim consequences of a life devoid of His presence. Exploring further into Genesis 3:15, we delve into the first glimmer of hope for mankind and God's premeditated plan for our redemption. Shedding light on Jesus' role as the Messiah, we analyze Old Testament prophecies promising His arrival and the crucial mission to deliver us from sin. So, come along, engage your curiosity, and deepen your understanding of our spiritual beginnings and God's eternal plan for humanity.
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Our discussion moves on to the intriguing narrative of Adam and Eve, their divine instructions, and their pure fellowship with God prior to the advent of sin. The repercussions of their disobedience, the birth of curiosity, and its impact on humanity is profoundly dissected. However, it's not all doom and gloom; we highlight the tireless efforts of the enemy to exploit our weaknesses while revealing God's redemptive plan for us all.
We then focus on the importance of maintaining an intimate relationship with God and the grim consequences of a life devoid of His presence. Exploring further into Genesis 3:15, we delve into the first glimmer of hope for mankind and God's premeditated plan for our redemption. Shedding light on Jesus' role as the Messiah, we analyze Old Testament prophecies promising His arrival and the crucial mission to deliver us from sin. So, come along, engage your curiosity, and deepen your understanding of our spiritual beginnings and God's eternal plan for humanity.
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God said if you see my face, you will die. Why? Because we are mind, body and spirit. The spirit goes back to God. If Moses was to look at God, that spirit would want to go back, so bad that it would leave Moses's body and go back to God. That's what we have to understand. The spirit inside of us, it longs for a relationship with God, and the more we suppress it, the more hungry it gets, because it knows its purpose. Our spirit knows why we are here.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Call by God podcast with Adne Godin and myself, nixon Sylvain. This show is about dialogues of biblical characters and testimonies of Christians who submitted to the will of God. Each week we bring on one guest so that they can share their story of how they were called by God. I hope this show inspires you. Enjoy. Hello and welcome world to the Call by God podcast. I'm yours truly, brother, nick, and I'm here with sister Adne Go Dan, sister go Dan, how you doing on this blessed day?
Speaker 1:Oh, I am doing wonderful. My dear brother Just grateful and thankful for the opportunity to come and speak on one of our favorite characters, our Lord and our savior. How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 2:I'm blessed. I'm blessed, you got right into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I showed you, I'm you today. I'm you today.
Speaker 2:Listen, I don't blame you when, look, look, I feel I feel honored, I feel I'm humbled, I'm thankful to even to open my mouth to talk about Jesus. We're talking about God here, right? The Creator, the Creator of created. He created all things that he created. He created us. So just to have an opportunity to brag and boast about him and to talk about his goodness and even his purpose of why he came here on earth, I mean it's just a blessing to me. So I'm just like you, I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm lost for words. Even with the intro I was lost for words. But but God is, god is good.
Speaker 2:You know, addy, we, you know, whenever we're on this virtual, virtual fellowship right Right now, we are are stepping on holy grounds. You remember when Moses was in the presence of the Lord? Moses didn't even feel worthy. You know what I mean. He was in that presence. He had to take off his, what he has, to take off his sandals In the presence, yeah, of the Lord. Yeah, and that's how I feel right now Like I'm just taking off my, my sandals, cause I'm, I'm, I'm like a filthy rag before him. But he looked at me and he said my servant, you, you have been made whole. You know, my sister, my daughter, you have been made whole. So I'm just, I'm just thankful.
Speaker 2:Also, adney, I want to thank also our listeners. Thank you all for or joining us on this journey of talking about people's call, biblical characters. And, as we do every year, this, this is going to be, this is our tradition, adney. As we do every year we talk about, we dedicate a whole month. We dedicate a whole month to our Lord and our Savior, jesus Christ. So I mean, adney, I know, I know I asked you how you do it, but I had to let all that out, amen.
Speaker 1:Show my excitement, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, again, we're going to dive right into it, but before we do, again, like I said, I want to thank all the listeners, but we ask you guys to continue to subscribe and share. Look, we're not doing this for any pat on the back. We simply want people to be saved. At the end of the day, nobody knows that they are the hour when the Son of man will return, but we must be faithful on to death. We may continue, we have to continue. We have to continue doing the work that is required of us. So we ask that you continue to share share, share, share, share.
Speaker 2:And even if you feel the need to support the podcast, you could do that as well. So we're going to go get that right into it, because this is a four-part series that we're about to do. So the first part we're going to be discussing Jesus and prophecy. So, episode one, jesus and prophecy, and this is real good. You know, whenever, adney, I always tell folks whenever they want to know the beginning of something, right, because we, as humans, we don't know it all.
Speaker 2:But I thank God that he left the manuscript. He left it, he left us the text, he left us evidence, not only through text, but even the you know how we could see the glory of God. He left us the evidence so we could go back to know more about Him, and that's what I like about what God did. So we're going to talk about the genesis, because I think, before we even talk about God, who God is I think we have to first talk about number one the origin of things and what happened and will ultimately led God to come here on earth. I think that's a good starting point. So, adney, so we're going to touch on Genesis 11. I think that. I think that's a good starting point right there, Genesis 11. And I know you, adney, what version Bible are you reading today? I got the message. You got the message. Oh, the little version Bible, you got the message.
Speaker 1:I got the message, all right.
Speaker 2:So Genesis 11. Okay, so I got the King James Virgin, so read it in yours. Let me hear what your version has to say, it says heaven and earth First.
Speaker 1:This God created the heavens and earth. All you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Speaker 2:So my Bible says and this is pretty much the same interpretation. I'm just going to read 1-1. It says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. So in other words, it took God six days to create. According to the Bible, god created the sun, god created the moon, the stars, the fish and the sea, the birds and the air, the animals on the land, and finally he created man. And we know on the seventh day he rested Right.
Speaker 2:So when God created man, god gave man, and I'm not going to go to the whole creation of man, how he created man from the dust, I just want to talk about man for a minute. So when I mean man, I'm talking about both. First God created Adam, man, then he created woman, eve. So God gave man dominion over all His creation and we could find that in Genesis 1-26 and through 1-28. Addy, when I say these verses, can you read them, because I think it's very important that our listeners take heed to the passages that we're sharing. I mean, I could put them as reference in the show notes, but I would rather you read them. You always got the fancy Bibles.
Speaker 1:And it reads God spoke let us make human beings in our image, Make them reflecting our nature, so they can be responsible for the fish in the sea and the birds in the air, the cattle and, yes, earth itself and every animal that moves on the face of the earth. God created human beings, he created them God-like, reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them, prosper, reproduce, feel the earth, take charge, be responsible for the fish in the sea and the birds in the air and every living thing that moves on the face of the earth.
Speaker 2:So God gave man instructions. He told them to be fruitful, to multiply, replenish the whole earth, and also God gave them dominion. You know what I like about God, that he is the creator and he gave man like responsibility. He didn't just, he didn't create a, you know, number one, he gave man. When I mean man, I'm talking about both man and woman. He gave man responsibilities and adding, he gave man purpose. That's what I like, god, because God could have said God could have come down, and then he could have been this king and he could have been controlled and he could say you do this. He didn't want us to be like robots, he didn't do that. So, and on top of that, he gave man responsibility and purpose and he gave humanity free will. And we see that in Genesis, chapter 2, verses 16 and 17,. Because I had.
Speaker 2:Folks will always say that if God is this, if God is that, why did he do this? They always have these wide questions. Well, god, he didn't want to force anything on us. He gave us that free will because true love, true love does not force. Imagine if you had a spouse and you tell your spouse, your spouse say like I don't really like you like that. And then the other spouse says, no, you better love me Like, you better love me. You don't have no choice, you better love me. That's not true love. True love does not force Right, because God is a God of patience, long suffering. He's a God of love, and I'm talking about agape love. I'm not talking about filet-o-love. I'm talking about that unconditional love, right, that love that never ends. But anyways, adi, before I go on a rant, I want to talk about the free will. So the free will, we can find that in Genesis 2, verses 16 through 17.
Speaker 1:And it reads God commanded the man you can eat from any tree in the garden, except from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Don't eat from it. The moment you eat from that tree, you're dead.
Speaker 2:Yes. So God commanded the man to eat out of any tree, but he said the day that he ate of that particular tree, you're going to die. And I know folks are listening to say why Adi and Nick are talking about man. Well, we have to talk about man because, in order for us to understand God, we have to go back to the beginning. Why humans, why we are, we as humans, are the way we are today it's because they go way, way, way, way back to Adam and Eve. Okay, so, number one, so you can say it with me. Number one God gave man responsibility and purpose, god gave man free will, and also God gave man dominion, dominion, right so now. So, adi, I want to hear your thoughts on, based on what you just read, because I know I'm reading and we haven't really talked about the fall yet. So, based on what you just read about God giving man dominion, god giving man responsibilities and purpose and free will, what are your thoughts before we dive into the fall?
Speaker 1:It's so amazing how we have a father who has a plan. Atheists say he doesn't exist. But when you look at life itself, when you look at nature, when you look at how, say, for example, a person gets a dog, if they don't train the dog well, the dog can end up attacking them, right. But if you train that dog well, you have dominion over that dog, because that dog only only follows your commands and your guidance. And I've even watched on YouTube where people are rolling on the ground with lions and tigers, and you know, these tigers are being very gentle with them. The dominion piece is what is popping in my head. Right, because what happens when we don't operate in the full power that God has given us? We walk in a state of fear, so we fear these animals that we're supposed to be, we're supposed to have dominion over. And then, number two, when you think about our purpose and our responsibility. We're supposed to take care of this earth. We're supposed to be fruitful and multiply. Sometimes people just focus on the aspect of having children. But to be fruitful and multiply is to take care of the dirt, is to plant seeds, is to you know, is to bring vegetation forth. Right, like God made a lot of us like very with green thumbs. You know, there are people that could plant something and it grows and it's oh my goodness, it's beautiful. And there's some of us that he did not give us that gift, that you know, we get a plant and it don't live Because that's not what's in us. But we have other gifts. And then the most beautiful part is the free will. Like I always say, god is a gentleman. I think if men understood that part of their nature, of what a gentleman is, it's not forceful, it is just like he. He's there but he's not putting his hands in the mist and say you're doing it wrong, let me go ahead and do it. No, he lets you do what you're going to do and then when he has to step in because you've done messed it up, then he steps in because it's like you know, I wanted you to see that. You know you have this. You have this free will. I'm not gonna force myself, I'm not gonna make you love me.
Speaker 1:There's a song I love so much by I can't remember her name. It'll come to me. It says I can't make you love me if you don't. You can't make your heart feel something. It won't right.
Speaker 1:And and that's the beauty of God You're free and because you're free, your love has to come freely. To me it's like a husband and a wife. Like you said, a wife can do whatever she wants for her husband, but if he doesn't love her, he will never appreciate what she has done. And it's the vice versa A husband can do everything for his wife, but if she doesn't love, if she doesn't love him, it will, it will. It will be like well, that's what you're supposed to do Versus like baby. Thank you. Thank you so much for seeing that I was tired and washed the dishes. Thank you for cooking dinner tonight. It's like those, those avenues that I've been through, those avenues, and it's the same with God, like when we truly love God, we will praise him and no matter the situation that we are in and that's the beauty of free will he ain't going to force you to do it.
Speaker 2:He will not force you. And love, love is an action word, so patient, love is kind. Let's not envy. Love does not boast. So it's, you know, a lot of people throw that word out loosely. You know, I love you.
Speaker 2:I love you, you know, and I knew you and I talked about this before. You know, we talked about before our salvation. You know folks you said, you know we should tell people the ones that we dated I love you, but it wasn't really love, it was more so lust. I think I said some of my cheat. You were like Nick, was it really cheated before Christ? You're like, was it really cheated?
Speaker 2:And you know, because the world has their own definition of way of doing things and I think when it's, when it's God's way, God, god, has a certain standard. So when we talk about love, we got like, yeah, we got. We talk, we talk about God's love, the unconditional love, right, so we're going to dive into what happened with humanity. So we said all that to say this Humanity, adam and Eve, and in the midst of what we just, we just told you guys a mouthful that God gave man dominion, god gave man responsibility and purpose and God gave man free will. And God did all of that for humanity Adam and Eve and he told him to multiply, replenish, and God and God was having fellowship with them as well, because there is no sin in the world. So God is having fellowship with man, right, you could imagine the presence of God continuously, because man is trusting in God and God is talking to man. So this is what happened. So, as a result, god told them what they needed to do and what they can't do. Right?
Speaker 2:But just like any kid, adam, you tell a kid not to touch the hot stove. I don't know why folks always use that example. They always use that same example. You tell the kid don't touch the hot stove. I think we're old school, right, that's the old school, folks. Because now we got what electrical stoves? Now, right, when you talk about them, you know the back of the. You know what I'm talking about. See, we old school, but we always say that we always tell the kids don't touch the hot stove. But the kid's like man, why mom or dad tell them not to touch the hot stove? And they touch it anyway and they get burned. Now you got to take them to the hospital, right? So, like God, so we as humans, we're curious. We're curious so resulting.
Speaker 2:So Adam and Eve disobeyed God. In Genesis, chapter three. They disobeyed God's command. And when they disobeyed God and Adam you could find that scripture it's in Genesis, chapter three. When they disobeyed God, it brought forth sin into this world and the consequences that followed here it is was spiritual death, physical death, pain, suffering and a broken relationship with God. All of that based on their disobedience. So, because of their disobedience, jesus had to come.
Speaker 2:As a result of the fall of humanity, because of our disobedience, god already had a plan. We fail, he foreknew. He already had a plan to redeem and restore humanity. But I want people to understand that what Adam and Eve did scarred humanity. But there's good news that wasn't the end. Can you imagine if we had a creator that didn't have a plan for humanity? Can you imagine if God would have let man See? That's how you know that God is a loving parent. We know, addy, look you and I, we're. I'm a father to you, you're a mom to too. So we'll go all out for our kids. It don't matter how much wrong they do, although you're disciplining them for the wrong they do but you'll make sure, as a parent that you'll go all out for your child or your children, and that's the way God is. We messed up and now he got to fix it. He got to fix what man has broken. So that's why I said that what our Adam and Eve did scarred humanity.
Speaker 2:The part that gets me right, it's not the physical death. That gets me, because we're made of three components Mine, body, flesh no flesh soul, spirit. Those are the three components that man has made of flesh, soul, spirit. Right, it's not the physical death, the pain, the suffering that we have to endure while we're here on earth. It's the spiritual death, it's the broken relationship with God, outside of God. So there's only two different beings.
Speaker 2:Right, there's a created being in Satan, satan, satan. He don't want to cause them to fall, he don't want to test them or tried them to fall right or provoked them to fall. So you got God to create it and you got Satan, satan. When there's no presence of God, there's another presence. There is another presence. There is another presence. In that presence, we know, is Satan the devil he comes to kill, still in the short. So what God is? He's the opposite. So God, love us so much that God says okay, I need to come and redeem what they did, because if I completely pull away from them, satan is going to cause havoc with humanity. Just imagine I can't even imagine a world with no God, no love, no peace, no joy. No long supper. But, adam, before I get into that, what are your thoughts? Because I know I told you pull up a scripture about the fall. If you want to go ahead and read it and expound more on it, you can do that as well.
Speaker 1:Okay. So, adam, I'm going to read where it says God told the serpent because you've done this, you're cursed beyond all cattle and wildlife, cursed to slink on your belly and eat dirt all your life. I'm declaring war between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head and you'll wound his head. But if we go back, we look at the beginning and Adne is going to put a little bit of Adneism here.
Speaker 1:The Satan is not omnipotent, he's not omniscient, he's not omnipresent. Right Adneism is? He saw Eve looking at that tree and that's how he went for her, because it was the curiosity, right? Why keep? Why should keep looking at that tree? Hmm, she must want to take a bite. So let me go ahead and concoct this plan to get her to take a bite out of that tree, because they didn't know her thoughts. He was watching her, he was, he was seeing Certain things, and that's for us today.
Speaker 1:A lot of times, we, we have to check ourselves ourselves. The only way the enemy can wreck havoc in your life is if he's watching the destructive thing that you're doing and he Magnifies it. Right, and in magnifying it, you're like, oh, this is okay, this is cool, I could do that. Not realizing you're bringing yourself at a guilty distance from God. So I definitely wanted to bring that forward again. That's ad nihism Say in is not omnipotent, he's not all knowing and he's not um Omni present.
Speaker 1:The only thing he is, he's an investigator and he investigates our lives. He sees what our weaknesses are and he'll send that our way in the quickness. He sees the things that we are doing to ourselves and he'll intensify it and and we just continue to fall to it until, like you said, we get into a relationship with God. If we take a look at the world now, the world is a place of I'ma do me. I'ma do what pleases me, what pleases my flesh right versus doing what pleases God.
Speaker 1:When we understand a Relationship with God, there will be no new age Christianity. New age Christianity say, oh no, god didn't say I couldn't be with a, with a woman. God didn't say I, you know, a man couldn't be with a man. I could still serve him and live this Abominable life. That's not what Christianity is. Christianity, being a follower of Christ, is dying to self myself under God's Subjection. So when we understand and look at the fall, what, what? What happened was we put self above God versus putting self under God's objection.
Speaker 1:When the when the certain serpent came to have that conversation with her this is Adne, you should have been like bruh, I don't know who you are and what you think you're doing, but we can't talk like this is not a conversation, we're gonna have my daddy said I'm not supposed to touch this, I'm not gonna touch it. But again, that curiosity when, when the serpent said, did God really say? She was like, oh, hmm, let me go ahead and touch. I've been looking at it anyway, right. So that's the thing that we really have to take into consideration when we are walking this life. There are times that Havoc is being wrecked in your life. You have to take an inward look. What am I allowing Satan to see that he can attack me this way? Number one. Number two what do I need to learn in this situation? Because sometimes it may not be Satan, sometimes it may be God saying I need to strengthen you in this area, so I need to shake things up in your life.
Speaker 2:I think what you just said is a profound and I like how you pointed out you know you had God above. You got man, but man is like non God. We, we want to take your place, right? We, we don't. We no longer want your wisdom anymore. We want to be in a position to make decisions, and that's what get us in trouble, because God is Again.
Speaker 2:I got to go back as a parent. As a parent, we done made some mistakes. So along the way, we got a little bit of wisdom right. We had made, we made some wisdom, we made some decisions that we regret. So what we try to do, we try to pass it over to our children. Right, we tell our children don't do this, that, that, that, that. So we give a Our children of listen things that they should not do. But our children like man, mom, that you don't know what you talk about. It's 2023. You, oh, you don't know what you talk about. That's what they tell us, but it's not until they make that same mistake you made and they come back. You ever, like man, I Should have listened to my mom and dad. They were trying to pour wisdom to me, but I rejected wisdom, and that's how we do God. God is pointing us in the right direction. God is telling us do this, don't do this, do this, don't do this. But but now, because of the fall, we say, god, I don't really want to take heed to your wisdom. I got my own, let me, let me do my own thing, and when I mess up, then I could come to you. That's how we do God. We do God the same exact way, and but God don't want us to treat him like that.
Speaker 2:God desires a relationship with humanity. We talked about the beginning, how God created. Oh, I mean, we didn't talk. God spoke everything in into existence in the beginning and he came down and he created man from the Dusty, the earth. So that tells red that God is an intimate God. He wants, he desires, a relationship with his creation, with man, humanity, and I think that's some some of the things that, as us, as we, as humans, we overlook. We desire to have relationship with everybody else, but God. Most people we have real. We have relationships with our jobs. We're at relationship with our dogs. I mean no pun intended, I don't have anything against dogs or animals, but I'm just saying People desire to have relationship with everything else, but when it comes to God, they only want to run to God when in trouble. That's how most, most people are.
Speaker 1:That is so profound we treat God. It's like you know, when a person is having a mental break and they can't take it anymore, then they run to the therapist. But there were signs before the break took place for them to start taking a handle on things. But when the chaos started taking place in their mind, then they're like okay, I need to see a psychiatrist, but there is always a preventative measure. Right, god wants us to be in in a, in a state of always Looking for the next way to improve Spiritually. Right, like the scriptures tell us, you know, to die to ourselves daily. What does that mean? That's a self-evaluation thing. God reveals something inside of me right now that is against your nature, that you're not pleased with. So that way, I can place that upon the altar and and sacrifice that thing, so I can now be who you need me to be. I Wanted to share this because you said something so powerful. Like with the world, the way the world is. There was a Thurman I was listening to North Boulevard Church of Christ in Tennessee, the minister, david Young.
Speaker 1:There was actually a, a city created in Wyoming, yoming, called liberal Wyoming, and it was created by an atheist. The streets were called. There was a street called Darwin Street and this and this, and that no Christians were allowed. It was what 300 people and a Journalist went to that city To do some research, and he was a Christian. Of course, you had kids cussing out their parents. You had all of this craziness going on. People were miserable. That is what happens when you try to live without God. You need God as a, as the foundation of your life, but when you cut God completely out and you want to do you and you sit in here oh, how could God know? God ain't do that baby. That was you that made the decision to cut God out and do you. And when you did you, you became miserable.
Speaker 1:There was a actor, I don't know, or writer, mark Twain persuaded his wife and this is all from the sermon to Persuaded his wife to leave her Christian faith, and his wife became so miserable because who she was at the core was a child of God. When you take that from her, she doesn't even know her identity. And the same man that created that city, his wife, committed suicide and At the end of his life, he, he, came into the wisdom and knowledge that we needed God. We should not wait for our lives to be in chaos To realize and recognize we need God. To live a life without God is to live a life most miserable, most unfulfilled, most empty.
Speaker 1:I hear people say you know I'm chasing this thing, but I feel like something is missing. Of course something is missing. It's that relationship with God, it's that relationship with Jesus. You sit in here, you get married, but, mmm, she's not doing it for me. You got the dog, mmm, that's not doing it for me. You got the, the house with the picket fence, mmm, that's not doing it for me. Because, because the thing that you need the most, you're looking at the, the Material stuff, but you're not looking at the fact that you are a three-part being mind, body and Spirit. That spirit part of you is looking for the connection to God. And I must say this, and then I'm a shut up.
Speaker 1:Brother Willie said something so Profound in a sermon when Moses asked God to see his glory. God said if you see my face, you will die. Why? Because we are mind, body and spirit. The spirit goes back to God. If Moses was to look at God, that spirit would wanna go back so bad that it would leave Moses' body and go back to God. That's what we have to understand. The spirit inside of us. It longs for a relationship with God, and the more we suppress it, the more hungry it gets, because it knows its purpose. Our spirit knows why we are here. We may not know, but our spirit knows. That's why we have to feed it the word of God, and the more we feed it the word of God, the more our true selves manifest. I can't stand when people have attitudes and say well, that's who I am. Well then, you haven't tapped into the spirit of God that's inside of you, because that's not who you are. You're operating in your flesh and not your spirit.
Speaker 1:And that's what I wanted to bring forth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good point. But this is what I like about God, right, so we knew because of the fall would happen, because I already covered all of that, the consequences of the fall. But what I like about God and we see that in Genesis 315, we call that the proto-Evangelium that is the good news. So when you talk about so, if somebody always say, hey, have you heard about the good news, well, we know this is the series about Jesus Christ, so we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about the good news, the good news, the good news, what people know. But the first good news actually came in Genesis 3, verses 15, as I alluded to the proto-Evangelium. That's when we hear about the first good news which comes. It's talking about what's to come in the future. In other words, god is pretty much prophesying what's about to happen to him. So in Genesis 3, verse 15, adi, reading your version, let me hear what your version says.
Speaker 1:It says I'm declaring war between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head and you'll wound his heel. Amen amen.
Speaker 2:So that tells me that there's a war between Satan and God. Jesus is gonna come y'all. So Jesus is gonna defeat Satan. You see how powerful God is. Humanity fell in Genesis, chapter 3, and God already had a plan. But God had a plan before Genesis, chapter 3. But God is trying to show us, us humans. He said like look, I love you so much that I'm your dad. You gonna make some mistakes. I'm your parent, you gonna make some mistakes Again.
Speaker 2:I gotta go back to that analogy. As parents right, adi? We have children. We go all out for our children, no matter how much wrong they do. Yes, they got to suffer their consequences, they got to get disciplined. But if they're wrong they did that to us we're not gonna be able to do that. We're not gonna be able to do that again. Whatever wrong that they do, that's still your child. You love them and that's God. Right there, god is giving us the good news right there. So we said all that to say this Now we gonna put Jesus Christ on a pedestal, because now y'all gonna really appreciate Jesus.
Speaker 2:We said all that because there's so many gods out here, there's a lot of small G gods that I don't wanna just interpreting what kind of God we're talking about here. We're talking about Yahweh. We talking about Jesus Christ, we talking about the Messiah, we talking about the I. Am we talking about the God who created the heavens and the earth? We talking about the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That's what we talking about. So who is Jesus? Jesus is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. Jesus is the master, the savior, the teacher, counselor. He's the creator.
Speaker 2:Now I know many are saying like hold on, hold on. Jesus is the creator. Well, we're talking about the Triune God we're talking about. Well, the Trinity is not really mentioned in the Bible, but we're talking about the Godhead. Right, we talking about in one God, in three persons God the Father, god the Son and God the Holy Spirit. But in this series we'll be talking about God the Son.
Speaker 2:We'll be doing a series about Jesus, because no one can go to the Father. No one can go to the Father unless you go through the Son. But in John 1,1, we read about in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. And here it is, and the word was God. That's the God that we're talking about. Jesus is God, and you said that earlier. He is omnipresent, he's everywhere, he's omniscient, all-knowing, and he's omnipotent, he is all-powerful. Somebody said that in the comments, that he is all-knowing. So yeah, whoever put that in the comments, you were right. I'm saying on social media and we know that Jesus is one with God eternal, and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1:I have to share this because it's in Isaiah, chapter number nine, and as soon as you were talking, that's where the Holy Spirit led me, and Isaiah nine six. Yeah, and I'm like, okay. It says let me start make sure I read it correctly. And sometimes you know you look at these translations and they don't give it justice.
Speaker 2:I know, I know. So Isaiah nine six. I'm going there right now. Isaiah nine six. That's the prophecy, right, prophecy yeah.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Go ahead, read in your verse.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I don't like the way the message reads it, so I'm gonna go to my NLT right now.
Speaker 2:Before you find Isaiah, let me say this so when we talk about our ultimate reality as Christians, we talk about that God is all powerful and all sovereign. He's a sovereign God. God could do whatever he wants to do. He is the potter and we are the clay period. There's no doubt about it, right? We shouldn't even doubt, we shouldn't even question him, for we know that God is a personal and he's a relational God. So that's our ultimate reality and this is the part that we was trying to convey to folks since the adding that we try and say that God desires relationship and he's personal.
Speaker 2:All the other guys that folks are talking about, all these other small G gods out there, they're not relational. God is relational. He desires to have a relationship with humanity and that's what I like about him. But we're gonna go ahead and talk about and, adne, this is a good segue. I'm glad that you brought up Isaiah 9-6, because now that we said all that about who Jesus Christ is, we do need to talk about his prophecy. I know the verse that you wanted to read was Isaiah 9-6. So, yeah, we could go ahead and talk about his prophecy.
Speaker 1:All right, it says, for a child is born to us, a son is given to us, the government will rest on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace. His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven's armies will make this happen. Like to know that again. God knew. God knew that we crazy people was gonna do crazy stuff and he was gonna have to sin, a level-headed person to come down here to become a sacrifice for his crazy children. Yes, we are his crazy children, or crazy creation.
Speaker 1:One thing I'm learning, because a lot of times people say, oh, I'm God's child. Sometimes we have to be bold and courageous enough to say, no, baby, you are God's creation. Until you get into that relationship with him where you understand that you come from a fantastic creator, one who saw you as dust, made that dust molded, shaped it, breathed into the nostril of that dust and made it a living human being. And then you get into this place of surrenderance and obeying the gospel and getting baptized, then you become one of his children. We have to sometimes realize and understand that what God desires more than anything is for man to be reconciled to him, because we became God's enemies.
Speaker 1:And if you don't understand what that means, take a look at a world right now where you have two nations warring against each other. They are enemies. That is what we were to. We were God's enemies, y'all Like for real, for real. And when we get into that relationship and we start understanding that Jesus, the Christ, jesus, the Messiah, the Messiah right, jesus, the Lord of Lords, jesus, the King of Kings, Jesus Jesus said yes, daddy, I see how much you love them and I love them just as much and I will be what you need me to be for them, so they can be reconciled to you. And I think that's one of the things we have to understand and realize. When it comes to having a relationship with our Father, it first starts with a relationship with our Savior and number one. We need to get to that point where he becomes the Lord of our lives and not just our Savior.
Speaker 2:Amen, I like it. So just for people that doubt about Jesus Christ coming, and again we're going back in the Bible. We know Jesus Christ already came, already right, but I'm going past him. Jesus Christ came and he left. He's waiting on the glory and there will be. He will come again. No man knows the deity out when he's going to come back, but this is what I want to say. So we're going back in the Old Testament. We're giving you guys prophecy of his coming. Okay, so just in case people say, oh, I don't believe in the New Testament, jesus Christ became left back in glory. So, but these scriptures are for people that want to learn and people that are doubting. So in Deuteronomy 1818, it's that I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I have commanded him. So in other words, there's going to be a new prophet, like Moses. So Moses, we know Moses, the story of what most of us know, the story of Moses.
Speaker 2:Look, most people know the story of Moses because I remember when I was a kid I used to watch a movie called the Ten Commandments. That movie was long. They used to play that on Good Friday. If you was raised up, like I was, you had to watch that movie on a Good Friday. That movie must have been like seven hours long. It was a long movie, right.
Speaker 2:And then Moses. Moses purpose was supposed to confront Well, anyways, god gave Moses a purpose to confront Pharaoh. You know, pharaoh, the children of Israel was in bondage to Pharaoh, to Egyptians, and Moses and his brother, aaron, had to go to tell Pharaoh hey, god told me to tell you, let his people go, let his people go. They didn't go over there, you don't have to go worship him and you need to let them go. So Moses purpose was to facilitate and help God to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt. So that was the first deal, because, you know, the people was enslaved for 400 years, right, and they were in bondage, there was an agony, there was getting mistreated, right. So God brought all these plagues against the Egyptians and apparently, moses, moses and Aaron and the whole clan, they all got delivered, right, god parted the Red Sea.
Speaker 2:If you, yeah, go back and watch that movie. Y'all just wait until, well, good Friday, y'all can watch that movie. But I watched the movie and I read it in my Bible. But this is what I was saying. So God said there's going to be a new mode, there's going to be a new man, new prophet, that's going to be just like Moses, but he's not going to deliver us from Egypt, but he's going to deliver us from the bondage of sin. That was his whole purpose is to conquer what the enemy brought into the world. So I want you guys to understand that.
Speaker 2:So we're going to go to Isaiah. I'm going to pass these scriptures at Isaiah 7 of 14. So Isaiah 7, 14 says. It says therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel. And we're going to talk about that in the upcoming episodes. We're going to talk about how this actually came to pass.
Speaker 2:So Adne, just read Isaiah 9, 6 and Isaiah 53 really does it. It is Isaiah 53. I'm going to come back to Isaiah 53. I'm going to have you read Isaiah 53 because I think we're going to close it out with Isaiah 53, because Isaiah 53, verses one through 14, says it all when you talk about our Messiah, our King of kings. That came and now he left and he's going to glory, but it's prophesying what's to come. So, but before you read Isaiah 53, let me read this in Hebrews 1, 1, 8. And you don't have to go there, adne, I'm just going to read this for the sake of our listeners.
Speaker 2:So Hebrews 1 8 and verse 8 through 10. It says but unto the sun, he says. Thy throne, o God, is forever and ever A sceptre of righteousness, is a sceptre of the kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore, god, even thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, and thy Lord, in the beginning, has laid the foundation, and the heavens are the works of his hands. So again, god created all things, he laid the foundation for us. He's telling us that, hey, he's sovereign, he's the creator, he does all things. But I'm not going to get delve into this passage right here. But what I really want to add, need to read, is Isaiah 53, verses 1 through 4.
Speaker 1:I have always learned something before I read Isaiah 53. And I learned this with my mentor this actually starts in the end of Isaiah 52. So I'm going to start there and then read Isaiah 53. Is that okay, okay, okay. And this says Just watch my servant blossom, exalted, tall, head and shoulders above the crowd. But he didn't begin that way. At first everyone was appalled. He didn't even look human A ruined face, disfigured, past recognition. Nations all over the world will be in awe, taking aback, for what was unheard of. They'll see with their own eyes what was unthinkable they'll have right before them. Who believes what we've heard and seen? Who would have thought God's saving power would look like this?
Speaker 1:The servant grew up before God a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over. A man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away.
Speaker 1:We looked down on him, thought he was scum, but the fact is it was our pain. He carried our disfigurement, all the things wrong with us. We thought he was brought in. Sorry, we thought it was. We thought he brought it on himself and God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him. They ripped and tore and crushed him Our sins. He took the punishment and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. We're all like sheep who wandered off and gotten lost and God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong, on him, on him.
Speaker 1:He was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn't say a word, like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared. He took it all in silence, justice miscarried and he was led off. And did anyone really know what was happening? He died without a thought for his own welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people. They buried him with the wicked. They threw him in a grave with a rich man, even though he'd never hurt a soul or said one word.
Speaker 1:That wasn't true. Still, it's what God had in mind all along to crush him with pain. The plan, the plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin so that he'd see life come from it, life, life and more life. And God's plan will deeply prosper through me. Out of the terrible travail of soul, he'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it, though what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant, will make many righteous ones, as he himself carries the burden of our sins. Therefore, I'll reward him extravagantly the best of everything, the highest honor, because he looked death in the face and didn't flinch, because he embraced the company of the lowest. He took on his own shoulders the sins of many, he took up the cause of all the black sheep.
Speaker 2:I'm speechless, wow, I'm getting chills. You know, the Bible says in Romans 6, 23,. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So what, jesus Christ? And we're going to get to that? Because even when you read that it's like I get kind of like emotional, like wow, father.
Speaker 2:You see, I think sometimes we have to just make it personal that when you think about an innocent man, 100% God and 100% man, and this is why I say people have to make it personal, like he did that for you, he did that for me, he did that for the whole world, and we read that in John 3.16, one of people's favorite passages. But what Jesus Christ did for humanity, I think the last episode that we do that might be a tough one for me. That might be a really, really tough one for me. I know we're pretty much just. This is just episode number one and we're just highlighting the prophecy of what's to come. And it's tough.
Speaker 2:I'm just speechless, I'm just lost for words because I'm saved and I'm redeemed and I was on a verge of death but God is like no, no, you're not going to die, I'm going to do this for you and you was on a verge of death and God said no, you're not going to die, I'm going to do it for you. In other words, when he was on the cross and I know we get to this episode, yeah, but I know what you just read, I'm just having a moment right now when Jesus Christ was on the cross, he thought about you, he thought about me, he thought about whoever's watching me on social media, he thought about the world. He had us in mind. I don't know if you have any closer remarks, but that chapter did it for me. He stared death in the face.
Speaker 1:He stared death in the face and he did not flinch. There's a scripture that says oh death, where is your street steam? Oh grave, where is your victory? I Think if we really want to get intimate with Jesus, meditating on Isaiah 53 is where we should begin, because to understand how I grew up, I grew up in a family that practiced voodooism and I've seen goats, you know, get sacrificed or whatever it is that they did.
Speaker 1:And, brother Nick, something that people don't know and realize about animals they know when they're going to die. Those goats cried. They cried, I mean, tears came down their eyes and that broke me right. So when I read this, what? When it says he was led to the slaughter and like a sheep being, she is like Animals know when they're about to be killed and To understand our savior knew he was about to die for us. This this world did us, people who are Ungrateful, who are wicked in every single way, and he says I love them that much. They spat on him, they looked at him like he was nothing. That was for me, wow. That was for ad me, that was for Nick, that was for all of us who have declared Jesus to be the son of God even those who reject and sometimes Even those who reject him, and sometimes we reject him to even as Christians.
Speaker 1:And what I have to say in this episode, before we close it out, is it's really time to reflect and see what Jesus has done and Understand that he loves us. And Because he loves us, it is our duty, it is our right, to fall in love with him and love him just as much, to give him that true, pure, unadulterated Relationship that he wants to have with us. Because, whether you believe it or not, that spirit inside of you was craving that relationship with Jesus and you starving. It is not right. You starving it is not right. You're doing all of these things. You know it's wrong. Your spirit is crying out for Jesus surrender, surrender, because he surrendered to the cross for you and that. That's all I have.
Speaker 2:Amen. That's well said. So I think that's this is the conclusion of this first episode. So I'm looking forward to the next episode, jesus Christ Zero through 12 years old. So we'll be discussing about Jesus Christ when he was young. But remember, world, that Jesus Christ, he is the king of kings, he's the Lord of lords. Until then, bless. God is good all the time and all the time. God Is good. That's it for now, but before we go, please continue to listen. Subscribe Is your podcast. Also, if you want to support our show, please scroll down to the bottom of the show notes and click on the link that says buy me a coffee. We were greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening and remember God is good all the time and all the time. God is good and also Jesus Christ loves you. Thank you.