Dearly Beloved,
It
may interest you to know that the first owner and the first being to preach
the gospel was God (Rom. 1:1) and his first audience was Adam (Gen.
2:16-17). Unfortunately, the same disobedience that has become a norm today was
what limited Adam from experiencing the divine life/eternal power of God’s
Gospel which was packaged in the tree of life (Gen. 2:9c/Jn. 6:53/Rev. 22:2).
Adam therefore couldn’t not morph into a higher order of spiritual life beyond that of The Living Soul (Gen. 2:71Cor. 15:45b).
Adam
understood the tough demands of the Gospel much more than most
believers/ministers today. He was not just a Believer in stature but
like Angels, was created complete, had Knowledge and wasn’t deceived
like Eve was (1Tim. 2:14a). Adam
understood the demands of God’s love, light and life and knew that he had to
fight the Good Fight of Faith All His Life to lay hold of eternal life,
and like believers still do today, he opted for an Adventure With The World
which was subtly promoted by the tree of knowledge (1 Tim. 2:14/6:12)
(a) Through the disobedience of Adam:
1. We have no testimony of the Faith of Adam in the book of Hebrews chapter 11, because Adam didn’t
appreciate beyond the stature of the Faith
of The Living Soul to the Faith of
God which should have taken place by Obeying God’s Gracious Instruction.
2.
A
kind of faith that would sustain men after the fall was later born, i.e. Faith Towards God, which carnal men could
start and exercise while managing the
natural with the carnal aspect of faith.
3.
A
course was set for the reign of spiritual death and sin from Adam to Moses (Rom.
5:14) and it later took the dismantling and reconstructing of a vessel (i.e.
Moses) and the ministry of his tabernacle/the ark for this reign of death to
suffer loss while it ultimately took the death and resurrection of Jesus to
totally abolish sin and death (2Tim. 1:10)
(b) Through the obedience Abraham:
1.
We
saw an inheritance and testimony of faith called The Faith of Abraham (Rom. 4:16), as he kept faith while journeying
out of an idolatrous/faithless background and attained the measure of the
stature of Faith Towards God, thereby
opening up a lineage in the spirit wherein Christ would come and man could
inherit/partake of God’s Own Faith/Life
(c) Through the obedience Jesus (by the eternal Spirit):
1.
We saw the raw voltage of God’s life,
power, nature and God’s express image in operation for the first time! The
faith/power that ONLY belonged to and was only exercised by the Godhead was finally
accessed by a man, a son of man, i.e.
MAN EXPERIENCED GOD’S LIFE, OPERATED GOD’S FAITH FOR THE FIRST TIME
AND GOD’S GOSPEL BECAME THE GOSPEL OF THE CHRIST AND COULD BECOME THE
POSSESSION OF ANY SAINT THAT WOULD WALK LIKEWISE!
(d) Through the obedience of another man (i.e. Apostle Paul)
and other men (i.e. the apostles etc):
1.
We
saw how the Gospel (i.e. God’s life/power) can become our personal possession
and this gave the likes of Apostle Paul the audacity to say in Romans 2:16 “…. God
shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to MY GOSPEL” (i.e. God’s Gospel had become the Gospel of
Jesus Christ and later Paul’s Gospel, Paul’s Life = Col. 3:4)
2. We also saw how the divine life stored in the Gospel elevated
saints into the fellowship of the beginning that was (i.e. John 1:1) before
the beginning of Genesis 1:1, i.e. the fellowship of the Godhead which glorious
angels and without sin cant partake of = 1Jn.1:1-3
You may
therefore agree with me that what God preached to Adam, Jesus and what he declared
as a promise through many prophets (Rom. 1:2) over centuries was NOT the
earthly provisions that brings and keeps many believers in church i.e. healing,
prosperity, deliverance e.t.c. None of these INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS OF THE GOSPEL was a need to Adam while God instructed
him to settle for His Gospel and even afterwards!
Only
God knows when believers, ministers, you and I plan to settle for the core
Gospel of God, an operation that only starts when the he succeeds in weaning us
(Isa. 28:9) from the preeminent church meals and delivering us from what we
know/call PROMISES/BLESSINGS so we can partake of THE
PROMISE/THE BLESSING (1Jn. 2:25/Ps. 24:5) of the New Testament before
we drop our earth suit/mortal bodies.
With the eye of the Spirit and by the sure mercies of
God, I can see a gradual migration of worthy seekers and loving enquirers from
the Ephemeral Provisions of the introductory aspect of the Gospel
(i.e. Heb. 6:1-2) which was simply designed to ADVERTISE THE GOSPEL to
the Divine Provisions (Eph. 1:3) ordained to make us PARTAKERS
OF GOD’S GOSPEL, i.e. the divine nature (2Pet. 1:4)
Bless You!
Tayo Fasan
