Monday, 24 December 2018
Two-Way Friendship – Part 2
Dr RJ Sing
“I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.]”
God wanted the human persons whom He has created to have total happiness, divine purpose and abundant living. But their friendship had to be two-way. God would need to be sure that Adam and Eve wanted Him, like He wanted them. What actually transpired shows us what sin really is.
Satan, God’s enemy, heard of God’s dream and conceived a scheme to induce Adam and Eve to betray God’s trust. Satan came into the garden and spoke with Eve, urging her to eat of the forbidden tree. He contradicted God, asserting himself as an authority and said: “But the serpent said to the woman, you shall not surely die” – Genesis 3:4 AMP.
The woman was convinced. “And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate” – Genesis 3:6 AMP.
From the December 2018 issue, themed I have the Zoe Life of God.
