Genesis 16-18        

One beautiful thing about God is that He will never leave his own in a situation of confusion. Discouragement is a horrible thing. It wearies the soul. But God is always there for the righteous in the darkest night.

Proverbs 10:3 “The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.”

Abram got to a point in life that he got so wearied of God’s promises. Another promise at this point was that God said He was Abram’s shield and exceeding great reward. If God was going to be his reward, whom would he leave his gain with? All born in his house were his servants. He became so fearful that he thought his end might be messed up and he would lose all he had to the servant. It had been promises upon promises. He did see the Lord’s goodness in his life going by his possessions but no one of his seed that would inherit them. This led him into asking God for a token that His promise is was coming to pass considering his old age. Though he believed God, which was counted to him as righteousness, yet he wanted some thing to hold on to. The reason being that, the land he was standing seemed unconquerable and for his old age, seemed unrealistic in his time.

Genesis 15:8 “And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?”

This question led into God entering a covenant with Abram. Covenant is an upgrade of promise. For God, both His promise and covenant are just the same for as long as one remains in the condition binding it.

2 Corinthians 1:20 “For all the promises of God in him are yes, and in him Amen, ­to the glory of God by us.”

the manner of asking the question from God was a polite one; it (i.e. the question) was not doubting, but out of curiosity. The process of entering the covenant in response was strenuous. Blood was involved. This makes the difference between a promise and a covenant. Know one thing when it comes to covenant; the status before striking the deal is not the same as that after. The terms of the greater power overwhelm the agreement. This is always the case when submission is required. In Abram’s case, Abram’s submission was needed, and he had to be taken through a dreadful situation; an unnatural encounter.

Genesis 15:12 “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.”

Genesis 15:17 “And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.”

These two verses look same but not. The first has to do with Abram, while the second has to do with God; with God in all. The first was Abram’s experience to humble him. His flesh trembled. The darkness was an unnatural one because the sun was still visible; a land beyond the dreams. An unexplainable location. His attention was arrested, and God spoke with him that the promise was not for that moment as the occupants of the land would have to be evicted because of their iniquities. Meanwhile, Abram’s descendants would be preserved as strangers in a foreign land under affliction.

The real covenant is in the second verse, Genesis 15:17. This took place when it was night. Two symbols were used, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp.

The smoking furnace is a symbol of refining. And the burning lamp is to lighten his understanding

Psalms 18:28 “For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.”

Ephesians 1:18 “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,”

A genuine call goes through this dreadful experience; an indelible experience. To be boastful or confident of what you could do for God is an expression of lack of understanding of what a calling is. To have a gift is not the same as having a vision.

You may start a church with a gift. It is not the same with starting a church with a vision. One is for a while and the other endures. One is materialistic, while the other is absolutely spiritual. One seeks for affiliation, while the other is a movement, not comparable and not competitive, but according to the revealed pattern. A church of vision is unique, not after the pattern of others. It does not imitate and never bordered about criticism. Such has no time for condemning others. Its pattern will always be different and could be regarded as strange. Apostolic signs follow a church of vision. Such church does not hustle for membership, it is always gathered divinely for them to maintain. Such church does not run after Christians to be members but win souls for Christ and train them as armies in the kingdom. Many churches are winning membership from other churches and think they are winning Satan. Hear what Paul says.

Romans 15:20 “Yes, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:”

The life of Abram was not the same after the covenant. His body was renewed to prepare him for the plan. At his age, he became sexually active because he had been refined in the vision. He started with Hagar in chapter 16 of which Ishmael was born. Sarai’s body was out of date. She needed to be updated and refined also.

The relationship between Abram and Hagar was without any token from Abram’s side. Ishmael was born without Abram giving his token of the covenant to God. The covenant was only completed and sealed with the circumcision of the foreskin and his name and that of his wife were changed to reflect the promise.

Genesis 17:10-11 “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.”

The circumcision also extended the covenant to the generations unborn.

Hagar was still having her menstrual period and, therefore, could make babies. Unlike Sarah whose body had cease to be after the manner of women.

A church without this visional experience is Ishmael’s church. Though propagate the gospel, mostly perversely. But not covenanted to endure until Christ’s second coming. Just as Ishmael is predicted to be wild, so such churches are wild. They accept any manner of wildness just to maintain the congregation; dressing, conducts, messages, flamboyance, etc. No pattern. Very materialistic. Pretend to be soul winning conscious, but more of what to accumulate.

For the body of Sarah, the visitation of the three men in chapter 18 quickened her body. When she heard of what God wanted to do, she laughed. The virtue of the spoken word quickened her and made her to laugh.

Genesis 18:12-14 “Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? 14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

For every vision, God prepares the vision carrier, body, soul and spirit. Unusual grace entered both of them and the body that was termed dead came alive. Isaac was a product of completed covenant. Natural rules for conception were violated. Therefore, he was a covenant child.

Jesus’ birth never followed natural rules of conception also. His blood became the new covenant for us.

The God who worked in Abraham and Sarah for His name to be glorified shall touch your need in Jesus name.

Keep the fire burning

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware, USA.

Genesis 13-15          

In the closing of Chapter 12, something happened which is a reflection fear; a horrible spirit. After God had told Abram that where he stood was His promise to him, he then moved away from that place after building an altar there because of famine. The description of the compass of his journey was spiritually negative, “… Abram went DOWN to Egypt …”

Genesis 12:10 “And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.”

The great lesson we could learn from his trip is that, once a man leaves his apportioned place on earth, he will be faced with satanic threats and result includes lies, cheats, dishonesty, and the rest. Satan’s greatest weapon is fear. He instills fear in his victim. Peter was a victim and he denied Christ thrice. Fear made Jonah change his itinerary for Tarshish instead of Nineveh. Elijah ran into the cage of fear at the threat of Jezebel.

Fear has made many to change divine course of destiny. Abram, the prophet of the Most High God, lied for fear of the Egyptians. He pushed his wife to danger for fear. Danger in the sense that it was easier for the Egyptians to rape her as his sister, than as wife; though death lingered if he claimed her as wife. Note that he was not a liar because the Bible the not even accused him of one. The Bible only reported what he did. A liar is one that habitually does that. One act in the case of Abram never constituted him a liar. Because of the integrity of his heart, God intervened. Do you know that Pharaoh lavished Abram with wealth and kindness because of his wife, Sarai, assuming she was his Sister?

Genesis 12:16 “And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.”

All he had in Haran were goods and servants, not livestock. He went into Egypt without wealth, but by the time he was coming out of Egypt, he had become rich; wealth transfer. May the Lord make this year the year you have been waiting for, in prosperity and greatness, in the name of Jesus.

Proverbs 13:22 “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.”

His step into Egypt could be regarded as what God ordered. Whatever happened there was under God’s watch. Abram wasn’t a wealth monger; he loved the Lord. if he loved wealth more than God, he had the opportunity to be richer in chapter 14 in the rescue of Lot from captivity with others and their goods, but he didn’t tamper with another person’s money.

Genesis 14:21-23 “And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:”

He trusted in God for his wealth. The fight he involves himself in was political, but he never enriched himself. The politicians of today are no like that.

Abram became famous because of the Battle he fought for the weak and the poor. Kings gave him immeasurable accolade and respect. The Priest of the land, Melchizedek received tithes from him of all the loot he had recovered, and the Priest blessed.

Genesis 14:17-20 “And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.”

Because he loved the Lord, he blessed the Lord’s servant. To tithe then was not a tradition or an obligation. But he did it out of a good heart to God. He was a giver; not selfish. No one should be persuaded to tithe if such has the love of God. It’s like a farmer taking everything from the ground with giving back to the ground. He will soon run dry and poor. Tithing is respect for God.

But the truth is that, not until Lot was separated from him, there was not any peace in his house, and he was not famous. And not until he changed the compass of his trip to positive, “Abram went UP out of Egypt …” Lot was not separated. God had told Abram to be separated from his father’s house, kindred and village. Lot was the last of his father’s house to be separated.

Abram was a man of vision, while Lot, though regarded as a righteous man, was a man of the flesh who walked by sight only. A man can be righteous, but blind. Such is conservative; very traditional and unchanged. Such don’t walk in the spirit.

Genesis 13:10 “And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.”

He initially moved close to the border, not in the city. But, one way or the other, he was in the city with the wicked people of Sodom, he even became an elder sitting at the Gate of the city (decision makers joint).

Genesis 13:12-13 “Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom (not in the city but at the border). But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”

Whilst with Abram, he behaved as Abram behaved but not as Abram worshipped. There is no record he even built an altar. He only acted according to the order of the house. When he got closer to the city of Sodom, he flowed with their behavior also to drink and social. Lot was an unstable man who could change at any time.

Many are just like that. They have no spiritual culture. Such are betrayals. They speak good of you in your presence, but on stepping out of your presence, they go by what entails outside. Lot never even took time to check on his uncle who raised him up. Many are as ungrateful to God and to their mentors. They separate themselves from their mentor on bad ground because they think the land is green and well nourished. Beloved, vision is not the same as eyesight or gift. Avoid strife by all means if you must go independent; God is not an author of confusion.

The moment Lot was separated, the Vision of Abram became clearer and well detailed.

Genesis 13:14-18 “And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.”

The person you associate with could be a detrimental to the health of your vision. Vision is of the Lord, you can’t play games with him. He wants total commitment to His course. He wants it to run in your veins as blood. He wants your total attention. The people of vision must be your friend, not the people of division. Vision is not about “man know man” but a divine assignment that needs your heart. Jesus did not regard his own family as family (brother and mother), but those given to vision, listening to the word and ready to go for the vision. Choose your friends rightly.

When Abram was left alone in his journey, God then entered the real covenant with him. All along, He had been making promises, but in chapter 15, He made a covenant with him after gaining his attention. Lessons there are;

1. God calls singly and not in multitude
2. You may love a person, but before God, such could be a problem to the genuine relationship between you and the plan.
3. Things of God should be on God’s terms and not on “man know man” relationship.
4. The instruction of God cannot be handled partially.
5. Your privilege to a man of vision should highly cherished; don’t lose that opportunity on the platform of self-achievement. The gift might be there for you, but vision speaks louder. Remember, grace has levels and it is only God that grade it.
6. A promise is not the same as covenant
   1. Promise: parties are still separate and could be altered or changed.
   1. Covenant: parties become inseparable and will require another covenant stronger to escape the repercussion of breaking it.

Inconclusion, beloved, an intimate friend might decide to leave your life. After viewing the scenario or circumstances surrounding the separation and you realize it is not your fault and you have tried all you could to keep it, don’t remain there. You have only found a good ground for better and clearer vision. A place has just been vacant for God to occupy.

May God meet you this year in the name of Jesus.

Keep the fire burning

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware, USA

Genesis 10-12

We read that Noah and his family walked on dry land. But where were the dead bodies? We know it is possible for trees and herbs generally to survive the flood, but not any living thing that has the breath of life. God did not spare them.

Genesis 6:17 “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.”

Spirits don’t die. As the flood subsided, the dead bodies were swept of into the deep with their spirits. The deep is the pit, the Abyss, a place of darkness, i.e. the absence of God.

To those in deliverance ministry, these are the entities troubling mankind today; spirits from the waters. The inhabitants of the earth in the first place were destroyed because of the mingling of humans with angels and bore strange children. The only way these spirits multiply is through sex.

Women are special creatures. God created them for the purpose of procreation. Everything about them is to bring about multiplication; intellect, body organs, strength and other abilities. If you gave them little love, they give you a bunch of splendor with their heart. You are doomed if you showed hatred, they will give you hell.

God still needed human beings to carry out His plan of salvation. He needs a channel for realizing His agenda. He won’t violate His ordination even though He could change the course of realizing it. He won’t change or abandon His project, He will only change the person not yielding.

Do you know that after Eve, there was not any other woman whose name was mentioned in the scripture until Sarah, the barren?

Genesis 11:29 “And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; …. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.”

The process of salvation started here with the choice of Abram’s family. God’s declaration against the serpent was about to take effect on earth. The unseen blood was with God, but a body was needful for the blood on earth.

Genesis chapter 12 reveals the probable reason for Sarai’s barrenness.

Genesis 12:1 “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:”

It is written that God HAD said; which means, God had been talking Abram into covenant with Him before this stage but he was probably not yielding. Since Sarai was his wife, she was the only fit for the seed of promise; the womb of Sarai had been prepared as a channel for realizing His plan. Each time God speaks, His word is spirit and needs a body for the fulfillment. Abram yielded after God gave His promises of nationhood and blessing; a bargain was reached. Based on this, Abram departed according to God’s suggestion.

Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”

Genesis 12:4 “So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; …: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.”

Not until there is agreement, God will not force His will on you. He may show signs of His plan. Sarai’s barrenness was not a duress on Abram to yield but to help Abram towards understanding purpose of his calling.

You will notice that, gradually, his association with his father’s house was reducing. Haran died leaving behind Lot, his son. Terah (Abram’s father) left Nahor (Abram’s brother) behind in Ur of Chaldees. Terah died on the way to Canaan in Haran, leaving Abram and Lot, with Sarai behind. Abram had nothing to hold unto but to move forward to obey the only comfort he had, God’s voice, since his father was dead.

On getting to Canaan, God appeared again to tell him that he has reached the place where he must settle. And there, Abram build the second altar ever recorded in the Bible. Now, the spirit of the call has started manifesting. His heart was being directed from loving his father’s house to loving the Lord.

Genesis 12:7 “And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.”

Altar is a symbol of worship. It is a platform for putting your sacrifice, a point of meeting with the Lord; heart to heart with God. A symbol of agreement. A platform for spiritual interaction.

It was on on the altar that Noah gave his sacrifice and God was pleased with the smell. Your heart matters before the Lord, beloved. Whatever you give the Lord, the motive is in your heart. If the motive is wrong, God cannot accept it. If it is to compete with another, it cannot be accepted. The altar Abram raised was not because of any sin or for a problem to be removed, but to appreciate God’s faithfulness. How many of you give thanksgiving offering in appreciation of God’s kindness without being told to do that? There are many offerings, beloved, but the only one that touches God’s heart is thanksgiving offering. Noah’s was a sweet savour in God’s nostril. Sacrifice is not giving what you don’t need, but giving what you need, but for a higher responsibility. This was the reason it was not hard for Abram to set his mind to sacrifice Isaac which he looked forward to for years. He was rewarded.

David is one of the greatest sinners recorded in the Bible, but he heard a good heart towards the Lord; he loved the Lord greatly and was always appreciating Him in songs and hymns. People go to church, not to praise God, but pray away their problems. That’s the reason they are not bordered whether they came late or not. Many come after praise and worship. And the moment the prayers are answered, the heart of appreciation is not in them. God must be appreciated. Being in the choir does not mean you are appreciating Him or worshiping him in the spirit; you are just a vessel being used to minister. God weighs the heart.

Our next reading is Gensis chapters 13-15

May the good Lord circumcise our hearts for the kingdom life, in the name of Jesus.

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware, USA

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Genesis 7-9   ANGER OF THE WATERS

For God to clean up the dirt and mess caused by the mingling of the sons of God and the daughters of men and the outcome of this unholy and ungodly union, He needed a man to be a channel; a man for the assignment. By grace, Noah was chosen.

Genesis 7:1 “And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”

Noah was an obedient man who would not violate the commands of God. Now, this is hard to do in midst of a crooked generation. Evil had taken over, yet Noah could still maintain his status quo in the Lord.

Genesis 7:5-6 “And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.”

Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather. He lived the longest without any good thing as testimony for the Lord. He was still leaving when Noah was building the Ark. Noah was born when Methuselah was 369 years old. The flood was when Noah was 600 years old,Genesis 7:6. And the Methuselah died at 969. Then, it can be concluded that Methuselah might have died in the flood. His son, Lamech, Noah’s father, died 5 years prior to the flood at age 777. At his death, Methuselah was 964 years. Unfortunately, there is no record he was among those saved from the flood.

The Flood

The flood was a mystery. Two fountains were opened to pour out the fury of God;

1. The great Deep, and
2. The windows of heaven

Genesis 7:11-12 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”

The waters God separated at creation (Genesis 1:7) came into agreement that day. When God commanded the dry land to appear and the waters under heaven to gather as Seas (plural) they had their fountains. All are still under direct authority of their creator. Every element listens to God’s command; none of them rebels.

Psalms 148:8 “Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: … 9-12”

All creations were made by the word and, therefore, must fulfill His word after being created. There is no place in this world that was not by His word, especially the earth. All the mappings and allotments were of the word.

Proverbs 8:27-30 “When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: 28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: 30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him (NKJV says “a master craftsmen”): and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;”

The summary of the destruction was that, as many as had the breath of life in the land of the living were destroyed by the flood together with their possessions.

We need to know that, in this scenario, the earth was not destroyed, neither was the heaven destroyed. Only the inhabitants of the earth was destroyed because of the evil increasing among them. The more they forget God, the more evil increased.

The flood lasted for 5 months before subsiding. The storm obeyed the instruction of God to push the water away from the earth back to where it came from.

Genesis 8:3 “And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.”

The words used in Gen 7:24 (prevailed), Gen 8:1 (asswage) and Gen 8:3 (abate) are words used to describe the activities of storms.

After the settlement of the water and Noah could walk on dry land, he sacrificed to the Lord. Noah became the first person in the Bible to build and altar and made a sacrifice of burnt offering unto the Lord.

Genesis 8:20 “And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”

God smelt it and made a covenant with Noah. The earth was empty, but God blessed Noah to replenish it. To replenish means to make plenty (fill up) again as it was. His sacrifice was accepted. He entered into covenant with Noah with a token of abstinence for eating blood. The sacrifice was not because of his sin or the sins of his children, but to appreciate the mightiness of God. I am not sure if it was God who requested for this sacrifice or his own thought. But, it is very likely that he did that after the covenant in chapter 9. Then, his first killing for meat was sacrificed to God which God accepted and was provoked to bless Noah.

Unfortunately, Noah repeated the sin of those that perished in the flood; drinking to the point that his nakedness was not covered before his grand child, Canaan.

Genesis 9:21 “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.”

Canaan became the first to be cursed after the flood.

Your sacrifice to God is very important. It must be clean and of pure heart with good motive. Many give with the motive of receiving back. The truth is that God cannot be bribed. It is not the gift that matters but the intent for the giving, the motive behind the giving. That was the difference between the offering of Cain and Abel. Cheerfulness of heart gives your offering more weight. Giving grudgingly makes our offering to lose weight and makes unhealthy and unclean. In case of Noah, God said all the animals are given to him as meat, but the Bible says he picked the clean ones to offer unto the Lord; that is a gift from a clean heart.

Genesis 9:3 “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”

Genesis 8:20-21 “And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; …”

May the Lord accept our good offering in the name of Jesus

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware, USA

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Bible-in OneYear- Day 2 (January 2)

Genesis 4-6

In Genesis 3, we saw how man fell through sin against God. We talked about how Satan negotiated for the serpent’s earth body to deceive man. Eve assumed the serpent to be just one of the animals she was taking care of, not knowing that Satan had negotiated for the body. We need to be very careful of wrong assumptions this year.

1 John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

Believing foul spirit caused man to fall for sin. Beloved, that evil spirit is still talking today. It is your duty to learn to recognize the source of the voice you are hear. The scripture says there are many voices and all of them have specifics to identify the source.

1 Corinthians 14:10 “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.”

The personality that spoke to deceive Eve, was the same personality that spoke to Jesus through the serpent and Peter in the New Testament.

Matthew 16:23 “But he turned, and said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offense to me: for thou savorest not the things that are of God, but those that are of men.”

It appeared to Eve as a serpent but used the mouth of Peter to Jesus. As at the time it interacted with Eve, the enemy had no access to human being then.  But through its success in Gen 3, access was gained into human beings. It may not necessarily lie but could have a great influence. Eve could not resist the suggestion of Satan in the serpent, but it was recognized and resisted when it appeared to Jesus in Luke 4. The motive of its seeming truth must always be weighed and viewed in line with the Word of God.

The transaction in Chapter 3 locked up evil in man as power of sin. This power of sin is the root of all other sins. The power of sin worked in Cain against Abel in chapter 4.

1. Anger
2. Envy
3. Hate
4. Murder
5. Lie
6. Indifference

All these sponsored by the Power of sin.

Genesis 4:7 “… and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. …”.

Before chapter 3, men never needed to call upon the Lord because God was always visiting anyway. But the moment the spirit of man became dead to God and he was driven out of the Garden of Eden, he felt his emptiness and started seeking the supernatural. There is a place within us that is to touch the supernatural. That part is our spirit. If the spirit is not revived, the soul touches the dark world. This is how a person is possessed; the soul interacting with the dark world. Your spirit does not do that; it only touches God if alive. That is the part we use to relate with Him. Men began to try to contact God in the time of Seth, the junior brother of Abel.

Genesis 4:7 “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”

The gruesome sin that displeased God was when men began to conceive for spirits (sons of God). Spiritual immorality increased, and more demonic beings increased.

Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

Evil spread over the earth. Wickedness became the order of the day; witch craft at high level and God concluded to destroy the inhabitants of the earth.

Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

As we discussed in the previous reading, God still need somebody of earth body to carry out His agenda. In Chapter 6, one with good grade of righteousness was chosen, the person of Noah.

Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

May you find grace in the eyes of the Lord in Jesus name. Amen.

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware. USA