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ANB 82, Return to Eden 2 (6-1-06)

So we are talking about the Return to God's perfect plan for humanity. We're talking
about going back to the Garden, yet realizing that the Garden is now in us. Glory to
God. We have to believe that living in the Garden was God's perfect will for man, for
when God, in His perfection, created the earth, this is where He put man. Sin was not in
control yet, so God acted with Adam according to how Adam was, perfect. God put him
in the Garden and told him to "be fruitful and multiply."

So if we are believing that God's perfect plan for man is life in the Garden, we have to
see what this life was like. There are two primary characteristics of man's life in the
Garden. First of all, God walked the Garden and He and Adam fellowshipped more
clearly and perfectly then any two humans do today. They could speak to each other
sure, but they also would have known each other's unspoken heart. 1 Corinthians 6 tells
us that "he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." The second aspect of life in
the Garden was the type of life itself. Adam had "zoe" or the God kind of eternal,
everlasting life. This we will look to next week.

So let's look at fellowship with God in the Garden, and see how this aspect of that life,
which was God's perfect plan for man, now exists in the heart of every Christian.

Now in Genesis 3:8, after Adam and Eve sinned, they "heard the voice of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the Lord." This verse, even in its tragedy, tells us so much about the
fellowship with God that Adam (and Eve) had. They didn't know God as some formless
omnipresent being looking down on them and seeing them at all times. They knew Him
as one that could be approached and hid from. They could choose whether to be in His
presence. They had never hid themselves from God before, they had been able to stand
perfectly in His presence. They could freely approach and talk to God.

When Adam fell this fellowship was ripped from him. According to 1 Corinthians 6 we
know that Adam and God would have been joined together in one spirit. According to 2
Corinthians 6 we know that righteousness can have no fellowship with unrighteousness.
When Adam sinned he became unrighteous, and this fellowship that existed in the garden
between God and man was lost. But praise God, Jesus came to give us this back.

"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man
thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (John 8:37, 38.) What was He
talking about? First let us notice that in Genesis 2:10 it says that "a river went out of
Eden to water the garden." (I believe that refers to a river emanating from the midst of
Eden to water the Garden of Eden.) Now let us look at Ezekiel 47. Ezekiel was a
prophet who had visions of the New Temple that God would build. Both 1 Corinthians 3
and 6 tell us that we are this New Testament Temple. "Know you not that you are the
temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?" (1 Corin 3:16). Let's read what
Ezekiel said about it.
(An Angel led Ezekiel in these visions.) "Afterward he brought me again unto the door
of the house of the Lord; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the
house eastward, and the waters came down from under the right side of the house, at the
south side of the altar . . . Then said he unto me, these waters issue out toward the east
country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into
the sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth,
which moveth, wheresoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very
great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed;
and every thing shall live whither the river cometh."

Praise God, these are the living waters. They come out from the threshold of the
Temple. We are the Temple. The Spirit of man is located in the belly. Jesus said out of
the belly the waters will flow. Proverbs 20:27 says, The spirit of man is the candle of the
Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly." So Jesus is telling us that this water
will come out from our spirits.

This water is the Spirit of God. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God . . . Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man
be born of water, even the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Your Bible may
read differently here, but the Amplified Bible's note on the Greek here leads me to believe
Jesus was clearly referring to water as the Spirit, rather than water being in addition to the
Spirit. But we have another witness, praise God. "This is he that came by water and
blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit
that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." (1 John 5:6). Why water and blood?
Because Jesus Christ had both God's Spirit and flesh.

Praise the Lord. The waters of God's Spirit are now in us. We are the Temple of God and
the Spirit of God dwells in us. So God's presence is now right here. He is never far, He
never leaves us or forsakes us. We can have a greater fellowship with God than we ever
thought possible, for He lives within us. Just like God's presence was in Eden, His
presence is in me. Just like Adam and Eve could fellowship and speak freely with God,
so can all Christians. God is not some being above us looking down with unconcerned
eyes. God lives in me, He lives in me!!!!! He wants to be a part of all we do. Our sins,
past, present and future, are all covered by Jesus' blood. We are sealed by the blood. The
Holy Spirit isn't going anywhere, even if we miss it. Praise the Lord.

So this aspect of the Garden, God's perfect fellowship with man, has returned to us. It
lives in us, for He lives in us. Believe how close God is, and begin to treat Him
accordingly. Don't hide from His presence, He wants to show His mercy, goodness and
love to us all. Praise the Lord.

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