GOT TO GET BACK TO THE GARDEN
Greetings. Genesis 2:9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. People seem to get immense pleasure in calling somebody else evil. In any great conflict the winning side delights in calling the loser: an evil empire. People also delight in calling someone they like a good person after all: ''if your buy everybody a Christmas present you are a good person.'' Luke 18:18And a certain ruler asked him, saying,Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?19 And Jesus said unto him,why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.Man feels he knows what is good to God, thus making a judge of good and evil. The: tree of life was in the midst of the garden is also a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It how we spiritually eat of the tree which makes is good or bad. Genesis 2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Eve came out of Adam from a rib. The Bible is a law book, if we use it lawfully if not we become transgressor of God's Law. The Supreme Court image is that of a woman. God gives us His Law The Bible, to see what we will do with her. Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. The carnal vile mind, imagines the above verse is talking about a physical woman. It’s talking about God’s word: a virgin word not touched by vile men thoughts. The correct natural of women [ Church] would to be taught by Her husband [Christ]. Men lust after evil things: which is the knowledge from other men about the Bible. This is a spiritual lust not physical. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind. The word: effeminate, is found only one time in the Bible. Effeminate: having feminine qualities untypical of a man. If we are off into physically lying, stealing, sexual promiscuity, we would not have time to seek the hidden wisdom of God. There is no way we are ever receive the true hidden Spiritual riches of God. The natural man takes the Bible and puts his vile thoughts on it; now he’s no longer using the law or the woman lawful.1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. The lawful use of the Bible would be to let the Holy Spirit teach us. We cannot receive Spiritual things with a carnal mind, because we are born with a fallen nature. Our fallen nature is against the natural use of the Bible. 2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. When we start to let God correct the carnal mind, we can began to take on God's divine nature. Jesus came to reveal or manifest the mind of God which are His works. Eve, thought she knew what was good. Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. The devices in the above verse are our own carnal thoughts. Now there was nothing wrong with the tree in the garden; the problem is how we partake of the tree. Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. There was only one tree in the garden and the garden represents your mind. Eve sees the law or Bible with earthly wisdom but it’s the wisdom of man and partakes of it. What does vile man do to the good garden once he sees the fruit thereof?Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. Man, forms in his vile mind about what’s good to God and what he considers: vulgar language, women must wear certain clothing, I do not work on Sundays. Vulgar or vile language to God is when man puts his vile mouth on his Holy word. The Prophet Job, after he took the correction of his thoughts from God had the following to say: Job_40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. We should do the same, when we try to speak for God without his Spirit leading us.Psalm 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Not shouting a four letter word when you accidentally bang your hand with a hammer does not make you holy; or a women wearing the longest dress money can buy does not either. She should be in consideration to whom are she going to attract by her attire: a rapist or a spouse. They rejected God tree of life in the garden for their tree of the knowledge of good and evil. These are the fruits of their thoughts or self-righteousness. Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit of their ways they were clothed in God’s glory. Genesis 2:25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Once they ate of their own ways they would judge what man considers to be good and evil. Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Man tries to hide his nakedness with figs or his own self- righteousness. 1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. Nakedness, spiritually means no knowledge of God, now they were ashamed. Romans 6:21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. Spiritually, Adam and Eve died that day in the garden and so do we when we partake of God’s wisdom with a carnal mind. God gives us all time to bear the precious fruits of his word and not our evil thoughts. Matthew 21:19And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it,let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. Jeremiah 6:19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. Now how does the serpent come into the garden? We are not reading the Bible by ourselves alone, spiritually we have members or wicked thoughts. The wisdom of the woman or the law and our own thoughts the serpent. The Garden represents your mind. When it is our own wisdom about the law we have made it into another law. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.Romans 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. My members? Did not we say members and they are in the mind or the garden. Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The serpent represents man wisdom which is earthly wisdom. Isaiah_29:4And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. Man’s earthly wisdom is familiar to him it comes out of what he was formed of, dust. James 3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. Every time we pick up the Bible you have spiritual company. Adam who represents you before you allowed yourself to be deceived by the women or the law. He was suppose teach Eve, because he had God's breath. Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.Had Eve which represents the carnal mind, listened to husband she could taught by him. This next verse has nothing to do with any physical women; nothing in the Bible is physical: God uses physical thing to try and teach us the Spiritual. 1 Timothy 2:11 Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. Let your mind learn to be silence and in subjection then learn then the last Adam, Christ. 1 Titus_2:14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Bible which represents a woman, and the serpent which is our carnal wisdom. James 4:7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. When you resist the temptation not to put evil, your thoughts, on God’s word, we have just resisted the devil. When you take the law by force: God's virgin word untouched by the carnal mind. She is no longer a virgin but the whore you carry under your arm on any given Sunday. Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.Was not Eve taken from a rib or bone from Adam? None of this has anything to do with a physical man or women, but our own thinking. Still convinced you can carnally eat of God's word and not die? You cannot go back to the garden and resist the devil, because at this point: you are the devil. Michael Rudolph Hodges
3/25/2018/ amended 4/15/2021/ amended 8/9/2022