Untapped-1-The Life Of God

This is a new month and Pastor Brad is starting a new series he calls Untapped. This morning pastor teaches us a sermon called The Life Of God.

Pastor's Notes:

TEXT
Genesis 2:1-7 NKJV

 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.4 This is the [a]history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
INTRODUCTION
Good morning, everybody!
I wanted to say “Thank You” so much for your support of our missionaries. I really enjoyed Tim Land last week. He really challenged us about passing our faith to the next generation.
Today, however, I want to start a brand new series for the month of March untitled “Untapped”.
ILLUSTRATION
I recently heard someone speaking about the current oilfield crisis we are experiencing locally. No one is oblivious to the fact that people are being laid off and work for those in the oil industry has become scarce.
I heard someone say “The problem isn’t a lack of oil. The issue is the price people aren’t willing to pay to access untapped resources.”

I stepped back and said “Wow!”
That’s the truth if I’ve ever heard it. To the spiritual, oil in the Bible is a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
In this series, I want to teach you that there’s untapped levels of the Holy Spirit that God wants us to walk in, but many have been unwilling to pay the price to tap into what’s already there. Personally, I believe this is an awareness issue, as most Christians don’t really realize what we have on the inside of us.
Today, I want to begin this series with a message I’ve called “The Life Of God”.
BACKGROUND
Genesis 2 is a stunning passage of Scripture. It shows us God’s grand design in creating man. In the first chapter, we see God’s handiwork and partnership with the Trinity as He speaks the world into existence.
On the sixth day of creation, chapter one tells us that man was created in the image of God. Let me ask you a question: What is God? Does He have a fleshly body? John 4:24 NKJV says that “God is a spirit...”. Our spirit is what is most like God. Yet, we see in the act of creation that God addressed the full capacity of man.
How? In Genesis 2, Moses recaps or revisits the creation of man. This time, he adds more detail: God formed the flesh of man, and He breathed into His nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul”.
The literal Hebrew language in the phrase “man became a living soul” literally means man became a breathing, talking creation”.
Question: Was the body animated before or God breathed into it? It wasn’t until after God breathed into Adam that He came alive. We see this in death. The body stops when the Spirit is released.

NUGGET OF TRUTH: God designed the body to be a tool to respond to the spirit, and not the other way around!
God then gave Adam a wife, and told him to be fruitful, multiply, and to subdue the Earth.
APPLICATION
1. God’s Design
- What we see plainly in the Scripture is that God had a strategic plan for man in creation:
*In His Image
*In Perfect Unity
*Fruitful
*Full Of Life
- Adam and Eve were the perfect prototype for humanity.
2. Adam’s Failure
- Because Adam didn’t guard and protect Eve, the fallen angel Lucifer, in the form of a serpent, seduced her into disobeying God, which caused Adam to fall as well.
- This disobedience brought:
*Awareness Of Sin
*Shame
*Disconnection From God
*Physical And Spiritual Death
*Hard Life Via The Curse

- This one singular decision caused everything else in the human genetic line to mess up. If the first of anything is messed up, all that it produces carries the trait. That is called DNA.
3. Heaven’s Plan
- Although Adam fell, God never changed His mind about His plan. Because of the sin that happened, one would have to come and make it right. He would have to be qualified to do so.
- Because DNA is passed down through the bloodline of a male, God choose to send Jesus a nontraditional way: Through the womb of a virgin named Mary. Because He had no earthly father, the sin nature was not passed to Jesus. He technically could have sinned by choice, but the nature of sin wasn’t there. He was tempted, passed every test, and had to die the death of a sinner.
- So on the cross, 2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV says that God made Jesus to “become sin for us”. Matthew 8:17 NKJV says He “bore our infirmities and sicknesses”. Because He was perfect, He didn’t sin or become ill as we know it, but He bore ours.
- His sacrificial death became the payment for our sin.
4. Our Answer
- 2 Corinthians 5:20 NKJV “be reconciled to God....” To be reconciled to God means
- Romans 10:13 NKJV “ All who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Saved in Greek is Sozo, which is saved, healed, delivered, and protected.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:16-17 NKJV “Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.”

 

 

 

CONCLUSION
You see, knowing Jesus isn’t just about you “going to Heaven” on day: It’s about the life of God getting inside of you right now.
1 Corinthians 15:45 NKJV “And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
If the life of God was on the inside of you, would it not change you?