We are in this world, but not of this world – this is so amazing. How can this be? So it is said not to love this world, because if we love it, we will be of this world. If we give our love into this world, we will die, because he who lives by the flesh shall die, but he who believes in the Son abides forever, because he is not of this world. I am not of this world, therefore I shall not die, but shall live forever.
Love to this world is a vast topic. One can love the world even as you go to church, and live by the worldly purposes and preferences, by the worldly ideas – being called a Christian, but of this world. Jesus said, “You are from beneath, we are from above”. Today can we say so that we are from above? Not because it is written in the Bible and we are taught to say so, but because we have a testimony inside… Do you have this testimony that you are not of this world?
Many Christians are unhappy because they have not enough conditions, which could make them happy – money, education, social position etc. They come to church because they are poor and see the same kind of people: “O, they are like me – lonely, not rich, no property – I will stay with them”. But this doesn’t make us not of this world, this doesn’t make us heavenly people. This makes us laymen. But laymen do not get saved. Chosen ones do, whom the Lord has chosen.
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The church of God on earth is a miracle. It is God’s miracle.
Adam was the highest creation of God. He was like Him. I can imagine how the Lord was thrilled when Adam manifested God-nature, divine abilities. God took all the fauna and flora before him watching him to give names to all out of his spirit. Then He saw there was no helper that would match Adam – Adam needed a helper, not just a friend, because he was not simply to tend for the garden, but he had a journey to go and stay happy and not forget God.
So He put Adam in a deep sleep, like anesthesia, and took his rib – which was quite a thing to do – and made Eve of this rib for him. It wasn’t Adam making Eve, being filled with the Holy Spirit – the way we usually do the church – but the Lord made Eve. Adam was in sleep – we know it is a prototype of the Calvary cross. The Lord was hanging on the cross, nailed, bleeding, His blood was being shed to the ground for our sins, for each of us by name. And the Lord was watching from the cross. You know how well things are seen from the cross. And He is hanging on the cross looking at people for whom He died: some are yelling, raging demonized, mocking, others are weeping, others are curious peering from behind someone’s shoulder… And all this multi-colored crowd by the cross is our planet, human society. And Christ was dying for us on the cross of Calvary. He didn’t come on earth for Himself. And this is the highest purpose of man, when you live a shared life, not for yourself only. Many people in this world teach one should live for himself – you set your goals and live for yourself. But the Lord has given Himself, completely, not kept a bit. We aren’t yet able, but at least must share ourselves with some other. Once at the supper the Lord took the bread and said, “Eat, this is Me, eat all of it to the end”. And He took the cup and said, “this is My blood, drink it”.
So the church is birthed supernaturally, this is a miracle. And that Adam was taken his rib out, it means he gave something – “this is my part”; this isn’t something that happened somewhere aside. The Lord made Adam of the matter of the earth – He could’ve made Eve the same way, He had plenty of material. But He wanted to make Eve of Adam, from they “ready” flesh, in which there already the spirit dwelt. So He took Adam’s rib and made Eve of the rib, and put her before Adam. Eve appeared and stood before Adam – what a picture! Adam was already experienced in giving names, and he says, Eve! No other creature he called Life. Did you ever think why he called her Life? Because he was in death.
The church today is Life! And Christ said, Live! And He gave us eternal life. The church of God today is Eve, Life, this is us! Eternal breath of God – Life. “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:4-5) – This means they are one. “The two became one”. “Here’s the bone – said Adam – of my bone and flesh of my flesh”, and he named her Life. Paul says, “This is a great mystery; this I speak concerning Christ and the church”. This means that Christ feels much better in heaven with His church!
So Adam saw Eve and said, this is my bone, thought she wasn’t at all like him, differently shaped, long hair, but she looks at him and knows him through. She is his opposite, and he says, “this is what I lacked”. And she became the mother of all the living on earth. She turned into mother right there.
So this Eve must be released here today; this dimension of Eve must be released, who is the bone of Christ’s bone, and He birthed her on Calvary in this sleep. The deep sleep God took Adam in is the prototype of death, but with resurrection following. I think Adam practically died in that sleep. I think this is what God spoke to Job of saying “you reached its borders – in Adam – and you know this all, in Adam; only you’ve somewhat lost your memory”, because memory fades away with generations.
So Eve is supernatural, Adam would never make Eve on his own; no miracle with medicine, surgery, doctors, technical discoveries can give the spirit. No man can ever make Ruah, because Ruah is the breath of God. We know not where it comes from and where it goes to, and we will never know, and praise God for that, otherwise we would arrest that place and would go there by war. Man always goes by war at all things he wants. All he wants, but which is not given, he takes by force, because sin has entered deep in his heart.
And making the church in our land, in out society, in the given historical period, is like hands of the supernatural invisible God from heaven, they create and make Eve. Therefore it is essential for all the co-workers of God to understand this. And I speak to co-workers now, those who are interested in God, not themselves. Those who eventually give themselves for God, which is called “love God”, you don’t just believe, but you love Him. When you love you take pleasure in giving. But when you don’t love you don’t give, but ask.
So Adam joined with Eve, and they became one body. It is also important to become one soul – they didn’t make it, because she sinned and betrayed both Adam and God, and herself.
So they were together now and walked together all around now. How wonderful this is – Adam and Eve are together, walking, talking, laughing, Adam is not alone anymore. And all the living creatures became couples, even plants are pollinated. Can you imagine? Beauty!
And here is this miraculous wonder, which the Lord has redeemed. This is Eve. She sinned. You know that the serpent was more cunning than all the beasts of the field. The serpent did not crawl on his belly. He came to Eve and said, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?.. He knows that when you eat, you will know… know what? – That God in reality is not perfect, that God had His own selfish goals, that He is not righteous. If he were talking some other stuff Eve wouldn’t have bought it. But he started his speech with God possibly lying, that He is not the Holy One. This is the key to the fall of the church.
So she thought, stretched her hand, took it and ate it. Her eyes opened and she saw, and first thing she did after that was find Adam and make him fall. She ran to him to drag him in, she didn’t run to God to cry and repent, but to tempt Adam, she persuaded him, and he ate. Their eyes opened and they saw they were naked, and they hid; they ran together, their stature and pace changed, they rushed and hid from God. God called, “Adam, Adam, where are you?” – “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid” – “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” – “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the process of retribution began.
God gave His word into the lives of each one. To Eve He told she would now be dependent on her husband, depend on someone else’s strength, her desire would be her weakness; she would give birth to her children in pain and sorrow. This was determination for ages – all the daughters of Eve have been giving birth to children in pain – for the sin of their foremother.
To Adam He said he was now deprived of Eden, “you will have to eat your bread in the sweat of your face, you will now have to work hard to live and survive, you will survive on earth.
And the serpent He cursed and said, he would go on his belly and eat dust all the days of his life. “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”
So said God by this wondrous mighty global Word, which has been in effect for thousands years by now, and none of us is able to change this. No superman, no science, nothing in the world can cancel what God determined. This is who God is. This is how righteous and accurate He is, this is how true and steadfast He is.
Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden and they wandered, they worked, grew plants, did hunting. So they lived, gave birth to children, and sin and evil grew in man. The sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them mighty men giants, anomaly type of people with pathologies. And wickedness was so great that God’s Spirit was opposed and blasphemed more and more.
Once they gathered together in the land of Shinar and decided to make bricks and build them a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, to make them a name.
There was one strongest above them – mighty hunter named Nimrod. This Nimrod was their leader in the matter. They started raising this tower to heaven. What artist paint is a slight hint – I think the matter was much more global: all of human genius went into the pride. Ancient people weren’t stupid, they lived longer, they knew many secret things, which even today can’t be unsealed by scientists. People have always been potentially divine. If you were to meet Adam or Moses today, they would be surprised at how week and shallow you are. Their intellect and intuition would be much higher than that of contemporary man. Sense of beauty, fear of God, physical strength would be much better then.
The Lord stopped that. He came down and gave them different languages. Commotion began. People did not understand each other, they felt constant conflict. They could not stay together. It was a kind of conflict that surpassed their abilities of living together. I think they tried, but nothing worked. So they had to go all over the planet, to survive. So they went and took new territories. And with them Angelic forces were allocated. Thus began different races, language groups, cultures – because God scattered man on earth.
God had an incredible global plan – to make in some wondrous way out of all those one people, who would differ in their appearance, but would be one in the major. Out of all the nations, tribes and knees to gather one nation. And after the Calvary cross He sent the wind on the Pentecost day that fell upon a group of people, around 120, who were praying to the Lord, and started speaking different languages, declaring the wonderful works of God. Babylon cracked then, Babylon fell. God’s people were gathered one.
Today in our cities all paved with asphalt, the land loses its strength, it can’t breathe under the rivers of tar and stone, in those cities where people live in cell type buildings and sin a thousand times harder than Eve did – the earth is groaning, the earth already reels to and fro like a drunkard.
And here is the church in these asphalt cities, seas that daily receive tons of human dirt, flesh, feces, synthetic waste – tons of garbage flow as the breath of cities, rotten, corrupted – this is man, the most horrible being, which he turned into when he left Eden.
And people who receive our Lord should receive Him with their whole hearts, even if they are little, stupid and weak, if they aren’t able even to see the beauty of Christ, let alone reflecting it – all they can do is be sincere and love. It is by this love that the Lord will recognize His own. Because we have gone very far away from Abraham, very far away from the first church, both in the strength, the glory, the beauty and knowledge. They had no Bible, but they had God. We have the Bible, but we have not God. Each of us has the Bible in his gadget, but this doesn’t help us.
And there came a Virgin, this amazing girl in some small remote town, was praying once. How was she praying? What was she praying for? What was in her heart? She was engaged according to the tradition to an ordinary man, their families knew each other, knew they would make a good couple, so they had them engaged.
And Virgin once heard a voice and saw an Angel, who said, “Hail, you that are highly favored… behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS… for He shall save His people from their sins… And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word.”
She conceived. This is a miracle, which our head can’t even get to peer in. All the woman’s processes began, the Baby growing in her womb. With her husband Joseph they traveled to Bethlehem, according to the demand of the Roman Empire, which colonized Judea at that time. No place was found for them in the hotels…
This is it – the King of the world in a Virgin’s womb, but He couldn’t find a place to stay. People rejected Him even when He hadn’t appeared in the world yet. He had to be born in a stable, and guests came – shepherds were supernaturally drawn to this miracle. Wiseman came, from different nations they came with gifts , and it was a sign that this was the Savior. This is the reason we are here today.
This Virgin redeemed Eve. She is greater than Eve. This is how the following generations can redeem their ancestors’ sins, and she became greater. Christ was not first on earth, but Christ is greater than Adam. And like Christ is greater than Adam, of whom all men came by flesh, so is Mary greater than Eve.
O, how many mysteries we have to comprehend yet. The problem of Christians today is that they think they already know something, though they do not know. This depth of the beauty and admirable height, indescribable height we haven’t yet seen. We are still in the beginners of beginnings to comprehend all the fullness of the depth, beauty and wisdom of Christ. Paul, coming to silence, exclaimed: “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!” Here is the true worship – get still in His presence.
“Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us” (2Peter 1:1) – there, receive with the apostles like the precious faith, if you want to be in the host of the saints. “…by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.” Where is righteousness of God? The righteousness of God is that Adam had lost, and the righteousness of God was revealed in Jesus coming to mend what Adam wasn’t able to do – to show faithfulness, and make all things right. And the righteousness of God was that Jesus came to earth, fulfilled the law, became the curse for us all, took the curse on Himself and gave us the way by faith today. This is the righteousness of God.
“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord”. Peter speaks such words… Grace is here today, by which I speak about God, I have open Scriptures here before me, and I am not struck by thunder right now that I am not worthy to stand here. I am able to speak God’s words today – this is grace, and peace, with which I am speaking to you on this Pesah, and which is to multiply by the blessing of Apostle Peter. This wasn’t merely a tradition – he does multiply it through his declaring it. Grace and peace are multiplied namely in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
“as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness” – all things in our life – car, living place, clothes, family, health, joy in life – when you accept and love your life (not all love their lives, but suffer) – this all aren’t our own efforts, but this is grace. This comes from the divine power – this is what we should hope on! From divine power receive all things that pertain to life! Not through the craftiness of the world – the world teaches us to be crafty and cunning – but from divine power receive all things that pertain to life! This is what differs God’s people from the people of this world! Sometimes we are like non-believers and need to be taught basics, how things are arranged in this word of Eve.
We are now studying Eve, the church of Christ, what she breathes, how her lungs work, the way her muscles are made – how she can be a strong and healthy woman who can give birth to children – Eve, Life. And through this Mary, the dimension of obeying of the one give grace, who gave birth to Christ, we transit under the mantle of Mary, to give birth to Christ in our lives, our cities and nations. This is a supernatural work of God.
“through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue” – the Lord called us not by a preacher, but by glory and virtue! Some weird man or woman mumbled some words to you, through which the move of Ruah worked. You heard something through that weak sound and breathed in that drop of the elixir of the eternal life – and we were reborn from glory and virtue!
When I heard this Voice, I knew this was it. And looking back I see things that were ordained even when I wasn’t a believer yet. From this I know that I was ordained from my mother’s womb.
Today is Pesah, and this service belongs to Christ. We are speaking about Eve, and any husband is pleased when his wife is praised.
“by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises – find your great promises! – that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature” – here Adam and Eve become one, of one divine nature, one flesh, one bone.
“having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”.
Abundant entrance into the Kingdom – think about this. Here’s a man in a coffin, so you will be once, no matter what or how you do, you will lie down there… And rise by the spirit before the Throne. There we will see how you enter. Many people think that there it will be whatever He decides. This is wrong. It has to be what you do here, in order to have abundant entrance. Because the Scripture says that if you do so you will have a free access. It comes out that this ladder, the side bars, the doors, you have to make here. You prepare this abundant way, so that you fit and don’t get stuck. You have to prepare it here. After you believed show through this stairs love. One can believe, but not love. You need to get to love. You believe in God, but you don’t love Him yet, but you need to love Him – so you will enter the Kingdom, because in His Kingdom God will have only those who love Him. There’s no place for strangers there. God never does violence to Eve to have her as a wife. God waits for love first, and then takes to Himself.
So, the birth of the church of Christ is a supernatural work of God’s hands. You have to find it with Him, so that He gives favor to give life to her. You solve it with God how to birth the church. When we realize this, it won’t take long with the gifts, miracles will follow us. We have to realize things are done in heaven first, and then it’s all projected on earth. When we know this, we will know what it means to bind things here and unbind in heaven, so that it happens on earth.
The church is supernatural Eve.