God's Blessings In The Early Church: Lesson 7: Mother's Day 5/08/2022
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisGenesis 3:20 KJV
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 4:1-2;25 KJV
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
1 Corinthians 3:1-7 KJV
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Mother's Day 2022, to be the mother of all living, Eve had the grand title that can not be taken from her. Yet that grand title comes with pain and sorrow because of her own humanity. Her conception and giving birth to the mankind that would be the product of free will. Free will designed by God for man, to know his fallacy and ability to sin, and not to be holy has God is Holy. Eve being the mother of all living, gave birth to her first born son Abel and then gave birth to Cain. Abel being the perfect son, perfect in faith and Cain slew him. Abel taking on the attributes of being godly and Cain taking on the attributes of being evil. The third Son of Eve, God gave her was to replace Abel, because Abel and Seth both worshipped him. Two tribes, Cain and Seth of the carnal flesh being raised up, one for destruction and one chosen by God to worship him, not exactly it was man's choice to follow God or not to follow God. Some taking on the natural humanity of their father and mother, and others taken on the spirituality of their Spiritual Father, who was God. Conception of humanity given by God, spiritual faith given by God also. Hard concept to fully grasp and yet you grab hold of this reality, you look around the world and you see two groups of people running to and fro through the earth. One being more like their spiritual Father, and not their humanity, yet their humanity is a reality of need of human desires both of flesh(carnal) and spiritual(Spirit whether good or evil).
Eve could not give spiritual birth to any of her children. However those children that sowed to the flesh, reaped of the flesh, as Cain did. And those that sowed to their spiritual nature reaped a spiritual reward of spiritual faith as long as it was good. Cain reaped to his evilness of his spiritual nature and got mark by God and cast out of God's sight. Cain had spiritual sons and daughters. These two groups would intermingle as far as at least marriage. Each son and daughter of man making spiritual choice to seek and know God for themselves.
If you call Israel mother, then you understand Israel, as the law keeper of spiritual faith, and yet they have no power to produce faith any more then you and I do in another human being as believers in Christ. To be born again it is spiritual, to take on the burden of spirituality through Christ Jesus is to live our life not after the things of our flesh, but the things of God. Israel was suppose to be spiritual born of law, yet because of the law man seen their sin of imperfection and the need for sacrifice. As Cain did when he slew Abel, because of his sin, and mankind did kill Christ and/the word of God crucifying him because he gave the breath of life through his teachings with miracles and wonders. Religious leaders feed their humanity and their human needs, though living selfrighteously to the flesh, living according to the law, without knowledge of that law really meant to the spiritual soul, beyond the point it only did not feed the carnality of mankind. David and Solomon were kings that feed both their spirituality and their carnality. Paul talks about this Carnality from Romans 7 to 8 along with spirituality. To some extent we must have food for both our carnality and our spiritual being, while on earth. Eve need physical food even in the garden and she was created there. Adam was created else where and need of carnality was apparently there too. The need of both is a reality. Man feeds his soul with evil, it will breed corruption. If a man feeds his soul with the word of life, God will plant the word there if a person will allow it to grow in one's soul because he desires the love of God more then evilness of this world and the world to come to the unbeliever. The word/Christ Jesus produce life eternal with God because it produces spiritually birth by God's Spirit.
Man job is to sow it and to water it with the word of God, but God gives the increase to the heart that is open to his word. God becomes the mother of all living souls, not all living upon the earth in the flesh. One must be born again scripture says to enter the kingdom of heaven. We all will stand before the judgment seat of God, but not all will face the final death or punishment of God, if we allow his word to be planted and to grow into in our hearts. We must be doers of the word and not hearer only. We must grow in the word, and not just hear it and put it on the shelf. We must eat of the word and believe that his Son can redeem us and give us eternal life with Him and his Father and Spirit.
Who is your spiritual mother, the church, believers, those that sow the word but yet God still has to have increase in your life in the sense of giving you spiritual life through faith in Christ Jesus/word. Why is the mystery to great, we are only brothers and sisters of faith, It takes both momma and papa to make a baby. Yet it takes God to give it the breath of life to make it alive physically and it take God's word and Spirit to give a person spiritual life though family of God who are often the sowers and waters the word in a person life, however they are not God.
Born of God's spirit, one must be born again, was it a mystery to Nicodemus(John 3 continual scripture passage), prehaps he never heard it spoken that way, but he knew the truth in his heart that it was true. Nicodemus would leave with no knowledge to us if he recieved it, but it recorder he was a believer.
Dear Heavenly Father, remind us that you are both our mother and our Father spiritually, yet our parents of the flesh may sow seeds of your word, and the world around us growing because of their duty as a believer, we must receive both eternal life and your word of faith in Christ Jesus from you. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: Galatians 6:8 KJV
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
John 3:5-8 KJV
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
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