Choices, Choices, What will it be?

On the Sixth Day of Creation, GOD said:

• “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So GOD created man in his own image, in the image of GOD created he him; male and female created he them and GOD blessed them, and GOD said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it…….“ (Genesis 1:26-28 KJV)
  

GOD created male and female and blessed them saying, “Be fruitful, multiply, replenishing the earth in order to subdue it.” In being fruitful meant that both the male and female kept busy during the day learning what GOD had blessed them with and enjoying every aspect of their life as part of the creation of GOD. The second part that GOD blessed the man named Adam with was a woman, a woman who would not only be his companion but also his help mate, she was only the second human ever to be created by GOD as a blessing unto Adam GOD gave unto Adam someone to help him with his duties of naming every creature of GOD’s creation but GOD named the woman so Adam would not have to and He called her Eve. As the morning brings forth fruitful work for Adam and the evening brings a close to the fruitful day allowing the man to rest, GOD looked upon His blessing to the man and named the blessing Eve, the root meaning of which means, “To Rest”. So, GOD blessed Adam with the restful help of Eve and saw that it was good. The morning and evening were the sixth day, so GOD decide to rest on the seventh day.

Adam and Eve being fruitful throughout their days naming all of GOD’s creation and tending after the garden in which the lived suddenly realized what the meaning of choice really meant. GOD created them in His likeness and being in GOD’s likeness He also gave them the one down fall of mankind, choice. Even though GOD had told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and allowed them to tend after the garden called Eden, He only gave them one restriction:

• “The LORD GOD took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it and the LORD GOD commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surelydie.’ “       (Genesis 2:15-17 KJV)
  

The one and only restriction was that they could not eat of “The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. The one thing that we do not see where it says they had a choice, the scripture only says that GOD commanded the man not to do something, although we do see where GOD also told the man what the penalty was in the event that he disobeyed the LORD GOD. Once they had chosen to disobey GOD’s commandment he concluded them unto death, even though they were surely going to die in their understanding of what GOD had told them, “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” the day was in GOD’s time not man’s.

Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden and cast out into a harsh a dying world. Now that GOD provided Adam with a mate that would help him to continue to be fruitful even though they were no longer in the good grace of GOD, GOD still provided. These were His first two human children, the first two children of GOD and GOD continued to blessed them when they had chosen to do what they want and not necessary what GOD wanted. GOD blessed Adam and Eve with two sons, Cain and Abel, along with daughters that were not named in the scriptures. These were the first children that came from Adam and Eve as they multiplied in order to subdue the earth. These children were special and GOD made it a point to actually speak with them on a daily basis exhorting their accomplishment and teaching them how to stay safe in the wilderness. Even when Cain killed his brother Abel in a murderous rage of jealousy, GOD showed His concern and His just punishment for something that had never happened in the history of the human race, blood shed. This blood shed of his own brother by the GOD’s gift of choice, caused by the hands of Cain, GOD hated the negative results of choice, He hated it then and still hates it today.

Just over seven thousand years has passed according to the Bible, since GOD witnessed what the human race of capable of, GOD decided that He needed to intervene, He needed to come and walk among His creation as one of them to try to understand how humans felt justified in what they were doing. So GOD found someone who was fearful of Him and followed His ways of innocence. He chose Mary to be the vessel in which He could come into a world that was made by Him but did not know Him:

• “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.” (Matthew 1:18 KJV)
• “But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost‘.”                    (Matthew 1:20 KJV)
• “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” (Matthew 2:11 KJV)
• “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with GOD, and the Word was GOD.” (John 1:1 KJV)
  
• “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:3 KJV)
  
• “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.” (John 1:10 KJV)
  
• “He came unto His own, and His own received him not.” (John 1:11 KJV)
  
• “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us……” (John 1:14 KJV)

GOD came into the world as a human child, being born of a virgin that was spoken unto by the Holy Ghost. Spoken into existence as the rest of His creation from the very beginning, GOD spoke the WORD and He became a child, He became flesh. As you can see here, this story is not about creation or any thing to do with the death, burial, and resurrection of the Word of GOD, it is about children. The story is not about the trials by which man has to endure but GOD’s love for the least of these, children. GOD chose to come as a little child, a baby, the most vulnerable of GOD’s creation. As Adam and Eve had children, their children had children, and so on and so on until GOD came into the world as a child. GOD created Himself a vessel that He called son, Jesus Christ.

We live in this world, ever one of us started this life as a child, no matter who you are or what type of lifestyle that you live we all came into this world as a result of two people, you mother and father. The difference between us and Jesus is that we were all conceived in the same manner as Adam and Eve being the parents of their children, but GOD, being the creator, simply spoke over Mary, a virgin before Jesus was conceived and even after she gave birth, because GOD spoke Jesus into existence, a tabernacle made of flesh, in which GOD dwelt. As with natural-born humans take care of their children, GOD being spirit and Mary being human, cared for Jesus just like your parent cared for you with love. This is the reason that Jesus spoke of the little children as the least of the these, they are to be loved and taken care of, taught what is wrong and what is right, to be taught morals that GOD would approve of:

• “But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.” (2 Samuel 12:3 NKJV)

In this passage we are taught the importance of loving children, the poor man loved his children so much that he was also able to share that same love as he did towards his own children with a ewe lamb also part of GOD’s creation. Jesus loved the little children to the point in which he the scripture says:

• “And said, ‘Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven’.” (Matthew 18:3 KJV)
• “Then were there brought unto him little children, that He should put His hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.” (Matthew 19:13 KJV)
• “But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:14 NKJV)
• “But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.” (Luke 18:16 NKJV)

Jesus was and is very passionate about little children. Not every reference to children is about children, some references are about adults becoming like unto little children when approaching GOD. As a child looks at GOD in the simplest of terms and notices the love of GOD, thus causing the little children to want to be with GOD and not what the world offers. You never here a child say that things are important when they are showed love and that is exactly how GOD wants adults to respond to Him also.

We live in an evil world. a world that wants to destroy all that GOD loves and cares for. This world is so evil that it wants to destroy all that seek after GOD and what GOD freely offers, that is love. Jesus spoke of that evil, that wants to destroy the love that GOD has of little children and suggested something of what the penalty for those that are evil and want harm that little children would be:

• “He took them up in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them.”              (Mark 10:16 NKJV)
  
• “And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.”   (Mark 9:42 KJV)
  

As I said, we in 2013 live in a very evil world. The evil of this world wants to destroy everything that is good, everything that GOD loves. There is proof of that throughout the United States and throughout the world. In the United States, those filled evil provide abortions that has killed millions of precious children before the have had a chance to hear the words, I Love You. But there are also children that are abused throughout the world and a very evil example is within the Islamic religion. Muslims believe that GOD want them to kill their children for not memorizing there so-called words of faith, this false god they call Allah, demands that children are to be abused that are not able to remember so-called scriptures. Below is a portion of atrocities that Muslim children have to endure within this evil religion called Islam:

• Pakistan: Couple Kills Daughter For Talking To A Boy
• Saudi Arabia: Islamic Scholar Tortures His 5-Year-Old Daughter To Death
• Fatah: Palestinian Kids Are ‘Fertilizer’ Created To Saturate The Land With Blood
• UK: Mother Beats 7-Year-Old Son To Death For Failing To Memorize Qur’an Passages
• Canada: Toronto Islamic School Caught Teaching Anti-Semitic Material To Children
• Sweden: Muslim Mother Smothers 5-Month-Old With Qur’an, ‘I Wanted to Save Him’
• Pakistan: 15-Year-Old’s Legs Broken For ‘Making Mistakes’ While Reciting The Qur’an
• Palestinian Children Taught To Anticipate The End Of Israel On PA TV
• Palestinian ‘Role Model’ Encourages Dozens Of Children To Sacrifice Their Lives
• Somalia: Chained Children Discovered in Qur’an Education Center
• Bangladesh: Teacher Burns Children’s Legs With Hot Iron For Not Praying During Vacation
• Palestinian Child: ‘I Want To Blow Myself Up On Zionists And Kill Them’

This is the difference, evil is all about destroying those things that are precious to GOD. In the above links is evil in Islam and it is forced upon not only Muslim adults but also on Muslim children that is completely justified in the evil book they call the Qur’an. Muslim have no choice, they are told how to believe and if they believe another way they are killed for their belief. It is taught in the Qur’an that if a Muslim converts to another religion such as Christianity, not only are they to be beheaded but also their entire family is to be killed also. Evil flourishes when it is allowed, but good flourishes when it is offered. GOD know that these things would happen and that men would follow after the darkness rather than the light.

In our modern-day, Christianity is being taught as Jesus intended. To show the world how to turn from its evil ways and how to love one another. There is not a single story of Christianity destroying that which is good and the words of Jesus Christ resound ever more loudly when Christians walk in their faith loving the individuals of the world but hating the sin. Christians are taught by Jesus, by the Holy Ghost to love their enemies and to pray for those that hate them. The world wants to follow after a religion of evil, but true Christians follow not after the religion of Christianity but after the teachings of Jesus Christ that is all about love and forgiveness. Jesus Christ offered Himself as the only worthy sacrifice in which all men could be forgiven for the evil sins that will send the to their paradise that GOD calls hell. Those that believe upon the name of Jesus shall be forgiven and given an eternal salvation that has nothing to do with 72 virgins but eternal peace and love from GOD Himself.

Choices, Choices, What will it be? GOD is willing to move heaven and earth for prove to you that His love for you is real. What will it be?:

• Heaven so well or Eternity in Hell
• Will you choose to follow my Good Master or
• Will you continue to serve your Evil Master
• Jesus Christ is standing at the door knocking
• Will you let Him in to show you what love is really about or
• Will you ignore the knocking as you sink into the bottomless pit of eternal damnation?

Choices, Choices, What will it be?

If you are interested in finding out who Jesus Christ really is and you believe you are ready to know what GOD’s love is all about, please do not hesitate to ask a Christian near you. Call out to GOD and He will answer, call out to Jesus and He will come.

• Bishop J.D. Sparks
• Touching Heaven Ministries