By Reverend Alex Titus
Pastor, Fedha Church KAG
How man became naked.
Genesis 3:8-11
[8]And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
[9]Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
[10]So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
[11]And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
NAKEDNESS IS NOT LACK OF CLOTHES.
IT IS BEING WITHOUT GLORY.
SO MAN LOST THE 4 ITEMS GOD GAVE HIM.
- IMAGE OF GOD
- LIKENESS OF GOD gen 1:26
- LIFE OF GOD (ETERNAL LIFE) Gen 2:16&17
- ALL TIME PRESENCE (EDEN) Gen 3:22-24
John 14:1-6
[1]“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
[2]In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
[3]And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
[4]And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
[5]Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
[6]Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
GETHSEMANE
MATHEW 26:36
-He went there to pray. Jesus is stressful and worried in his heart.
-He had a lot of sorrow in his heart.
He was praying because of what was before him
-He was groaning in his heart because he knew it was not easy to create the way back to Eden.
Genesis 3:24
[24]So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
JESUS SAYS I AM THE WAY, BUT THE WAY TO EDEN IS CLOSED.
THATS WHY HE IS PRAYING IN GETHSAMENE.
ONE PRAYER HE MAKES.
That God if it be your will, let this cup be taken away from me.
WHY IS JESUS SO STRESSFUL??
He knew there is no way he can get back.
For him to get back there was a great price to be paid.
Jesus is weeping with the father that perhaps the cup will be taken away.
In Luke 9:28-31
TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS
As he was praying, the groaning was too much.
The stress was too much.
Until his sweat became blood.
He is trying to create a way back to Eden.
Two brothers are send from Zion.
Moses and Elijah came.
To encourage Jesus. Because God knew if I leave this man alone, he will not be in a place to pay the price.
After encouragement, Jesus is taken to the cross,Golgotha, Calvary.
- Who is this Jesus? He had said I am the way, but saying is not just enough, he had to proof what he had just said.
He was crucified between two thieves.
He was stripped naked.
He was put on a crown of thorns.
But did Jesus had to go through all this trouble?
He was not a sinner.
Why did he have to go through the trouble?
Why did he have to go through the cross.
He had carried humanity in his heart.
He carried humanity to make a way for them back to the glory.
But the way back to glory, was the way of the cross.
Jesus was stripped naked, he was spat on... he was pierced with javellin... but the Bible records that he had no sin.
About the sixth hour, the groaning was too much.
He cried one cry, ELA ELI LAMA SABACHTHAN
MY FATHER ! MY FATHER! WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME??
Jesus had carried the sinful man, he had carried me and you.
Romans 3:23
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
God looked at Jesus, the way he was carrying the sin of the world, and it was not his sin.
The father left him... Jesus is still crying, why are you leaving me???
God knew the wages of sin is death... So Jesus had to die. Because whoever sins, he must die.
So Jesus took the sins of the world with him... so whoever he died, we have died with him... we will not be counted to die again.
In the 9th hour, he gave his life to the father... Nobody could kill Jesus, Nobody can kill God.
He himself gave his life to the father.
When he gave his life to the father, the veil of the temple was torn into two.
This was the veil that was limiting man's access to God because of sin. Because when man sinned, God placed a big curtain. So that no man would come to him. This is because God does not look at sin, whenever he looks at sin, his wrath arises.
For him not kill the entire world, he placed a big curtain so that man will never come back.
When Jesus paid the price of sin, the veil was torn into two.
All of us got an access to God.
After Jesus died on the cross.
That is why we see people who had died long ago. Are seen walking in the streets.
There was a great earth quake and graves opened.
Because the price of sin has been paid.
The way was made...
Before Jesus ascended, he first descended.
Ephesians 4:10
Why did he have to descend??
There was another assignment.
Jesus was not finished with the devil.
He did not stay in grave forever, on the third day he rose. That is why he is the Lord of glory.
On the third day Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb where they had buried him.
They found the grave open, and the angel of the Lord was there.
He looked at Mary and her friends and asked..
Why are you looking for him who is alive among the dead??
They had placed a stone on the grave where they buried him.
The angel came from heaven and rolled the stone, and sat on it.
The angel told Mary, Go and tell the other disciples that he has risen up.
Go and tell the world that he has risen up...
Jesus has paid the price.
Mary ran to the disciples, they were gathered together and locked themselves in a room.
Suddenly Jesus appeared to them when Mary was narrating what had happened.
Surprisingly Jesus entered without a door, they were surprised who is this man, who doesn't need a door to enter.
And when they were being surprised, Jesus told them,
Please be still. I am the one who was dead, but now am alive..
He told them something
Mathew 28:18
All power, I. Heaven, on earth, under the earth... has been given to me.
Jesus, where have you gotten this power from??
Paul is narrating to us in
Hebrews 2:14..
[14] Jesus took of flesh and blood, that through his death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
Jesus although he was God.. he took flesh and blood...The wisdom of man finishes because when they thought they had killed Jesus, the plan of God was that he will hold the one who had power of death..
Colossians 2:14 (NKJV)
Having wiped away, every handwriting that was written against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
There are things which are written against us..
Some of us are written not to prosper.
I came to preach to somebody who is saying there is something written against me.
Sickness written against your family.
Poverty written against your life.
Drunkenness against your family.
We come with the power. Of the one who broke hell, to declare that handwriting is broken.
There are people that are about to progress...
There are people that are about to break fourth.
Colossians 2:15 (NKJV)
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
After wiping that, he disarmed the devil.
He disarmed the principalities.
The devil has no power..Jesus disarmed him..
That's why he is saying, all power, has been given to me..
He told his disciples;
You shall trend upon serpents, you shall trend upon scorpions and nothing by no means shall harm you.Because I have given you power and authority.
Revelation 1:8 (NKJV)
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, I am the Beginning and the End," "I am who was, I am who is and who will be.
THIS IS THE WORD OF JESUS AFTER HE HAD RISEN UP.
DEATH COULD NOT HOLD HIM DOWN.
DEVIL COULD NOT HOLD HIM DOWN.
When he rose he says... I am the alpha, I am the Omega..
Revelation 1:18 (NKJV)
I am He who lives now, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. And I have the keys of life and of Death.
When John was hearing Jesus declare these words,
John saw a vision..
Revelation 21:3-4 (NKJV)
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."
Revelation 21:1-2, 4 (RKJNT) And I saw a new jerusalem and a new earth: for the old ones had passed away.
The glory that had been lost was restored back...
Jesus had paid the price and taken us back to himself.
Jesus had purchased the glory back.
There is a place in glory... where new things happen.
The old things goes away...
Jesus became the way..
1 Corinthians 15:45, 47 (NKJV)
"The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
While he was approaching the gates, they asked him, who are you?
Psalms 24:8
Psalms 24:7-10 (NKJV)
Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah
So what can we do to come to this lost glory??
Remember Jesus told his disciples, I will first take you to myself.
2 Corinthians 3:18
As we look unto Jesus, as we look ourselves in the mirror, we are transformed and become like him.
We move from glory to glory.
If you want to come to glory, you must look at Jesus.
Psamist sang and said... Look and live.
Colossians 1:26-27 (NKJV)
This is the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
People did not know it..
Adam did not know it...
Noah did not know it...
Elijah did not know it..
Moses did not know it ..
This is the secret which has been revealed to us.. that was hidden from ages and dispensations. That Christ in you.. the hope of glory.
How can you be restored, how can you go back??
Jesus is the way to the lost glory..
Christ in me, the hope of glory.
I have been crucified... I do not live.. it is Christ living in me.. because he became the way, we can go back to the glory that we lost.
We are no longer operating in the lost glory..
Jesus told Thomas, He is the way, the truth and the resurrection.
1 John 4:4, 17 (NKJV)
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
17. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
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