Maybe one of the most interesting things concerning God and his power and might is his word, because without his word nothing is created and there is no first born of his creation. All things created by God are first born of his word. Yet his mind, or ability to think perhaps not fully has we do comes to not without word bring forth life from itself. Christ became the first born through the virgin Mary, the only begotten Son of God according to John 3:16. Yet the term first born is not really seen until you get way over to the letter to the Colossians, though the idea of the word being the first born of all creation is noted in John 1. Yet the term first born is never used.

In Jewish society firstborn male a special sacrifice was made at the tabernacle/Temple by tradition. Jesus the offering of two turtle doves or two young pigeons were given as sacrifice by law. The normal tradition of religious law and ordinance followed by Mary and Joseph. Yet God the Father would allow his Son to be sacrificed for sin, not the sin of opening the womb(Luke 2:23), but according to the law of man. If we can fully grasp Man sinned in God's garden and then God's Son broke the law of man in Jerusalem the city of God but not the city of God in spirit, because of sin and disobedience to God the Father. It like being at home, but it was not home, because another present reign on the throne in Jerusalem, the law of peace and safety not of God but of man, because the High Priest even prophecied one man would have to die for a nation.(John 11:50-51). Die because he was God's only Son, but he did the will of His Father, by cleansing the temple.

First born to die for not only the nation but the whole world for the length of time the world has to live before final destruction. Jesus would die for the world, teaching us what man would sacrifice God long before they sacrificed their comfort, happiness and pursuit there of. Yet with Christ death came the first to live after his resurrection, though the resurrection of the dead came forth in Matthew 27, He would be first born of the new covenant that came with God's grace to man that followed and took up the torch of who He is and his Son is. The first born of the dead of the New covenant, because there were other resurrections before and during the time of Christ and even after. What made Christ unique is who he was as Son of God and the promise of the Father to redeem his people from their sins. Not just Jews but Gentiles too. To redeem all people unto himself through his Son. To bring peace to the world because of the separation in the garden of Eden so long ago. It seems crazy when heard, and perhaps that what makes God's people unique in believing the whole ball of wax/story of faith, because in truth it takes faith. Man idea of separation making us no long a child of God or God not being able to hear us, is the issue. Man thinks because of the separation in the garden God no longer wants commune with man. Yet it is in the separation that God just did not want the sin of man within his walls of his garden. He sent us out in the world to have that freedom of choice, but also giving us a choice to chose him even in the garden with the sacrificial law of the lamb. Cain still failed when he sacrifice Adam and Eve's first born, not realizing the separation from God would be eternal. That the separation allowed his mark to be upon him, but did not allow him in the presence of God.

Christ our intercessor, our bridgeway to God, are we not still outside the presence of God the Father? While we live the Holy Spirit intercedes between God the Father and Christ for us, The first intercessor that speaks to every man's heart at some point in their life. Cain rejected the intercession of the Holy Spirit. Yet if we listen to God and his Spirit, the intercessor/God's word still exist upon believing in Jesus, upon receiving the word of conviction upon heart by which we repent and ask Jesus into our hearts to lead and guide us.

If we backslide and not heed God's voice are we lost to eternity the way Cain was? The answer is no for when we received Christ as Lord, he covers us with his blood for eternity. The blood covering that protects our sinfulness of man that yields not always to the Spirit. Yet we can not live in continual unyielding to His Spirit. Meaning at some point we got to hear and obey his voice, some point there got to be change within us to submit to his will as his children. The submitting of his Word that became flesh and dwelt among us and paid the price for our sin. That word is Jesus.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood when it comes to spiritual matters and obedience to God but the Spirit of God as Jacob wrestle God. God would leave Jacob with the knowledge he was still stronger and mightier then Jacob. Our humanity will deceive us but our desire to walk after God's Spirit and our ability comes from the Lord. Christ's power to redeem us came from the Lord, not by his humanity, but the power and spirit of God to perform the will of God. When we confess our sin to God and receive Christ as Lord, the word comes into our hearts so we will not sin against God. Jonah wrestle with God's word and even ran from it, but when he got on board with the will of God, he was spewed out on shore and he was able to go to Nineveh to preach. Paul preached that he rather not do something that he did in Romans 7, yet in 8 he preached he rather walk by the Spirit. If our desire is to obey God we will not fail, because God through Christ and His Spirit is our enabler to do the will of God. If we stumble we are not forsaken, we have to just realize we in the repenting position and do so, and get up and continue walking with the Spirit of God. Remember Christ died for your sins, and you are covered by his blood as protection and payment for sin pass, present and furture. Yet the sin that separates us from God can and will not abide in a believers heart and that is the sin of unbelief in God.

Dear Heavenly Father, let us not forget your Son is your first born whether in word or flesh and all creation has a part of your first born within the first born of it into existence. Let us know as a child of God born of your Spirit we have a part of you inside us to help us in our journey of faith with you and it call the word of God. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Ephesians 4:17-32 KJV
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.