Ephesians Lesson 23 of 39 part 1

We are looking at why God is so mindful of man.

Psalm 8:3-6 "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man, that You are mindful of him? And the son of man (the seed of Adam), that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:" (Genesis 1:28, 9:1)

Psalms 4:2-5 "O sons of men, how long will you turn My glory into shame? How long will you love vanity, and seek after leasing (to lie, be deceitful)? Selah (consider this). But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for Himself: the LORD will hear when I call Him. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD."

Looking at these verses, it comes back to me where, God in the garden, after Adam listened to the voice of his flesh, his wife, and ate the fruit that caused him to die spiritually to God and become one with Satan spiritually, God placed the SEED within woman (Adam's flesh and bone). God cannot look upon sin, so for us to call out to Him would be impossible. He provided us the way within our own flesh and that is the SEED or LORD. It is to Him we call upon and He hears us, breaks open the shell of that SEED and His Light and Life shines forth within us. 

 
So how do we know the deep things of God?

I Corinthians 2:11b

"...even so the (deep) things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God."

The Holy Spirit is the One that has to enlighten us, train and teach us, and direct us through the scriptures. It also helps in this kind of Bible study to have a good reference and cross index Bible, however most only do a word search style of linking. So we need the Holy Spirit as He will direct us to other areas that the average Bible index does not go. So we need to get a good Bible and hopefully one with some footnotes to clarify some words and meanings and other things that may be a little hard to understand, along with a good concordance other than the one in the back of most Bibles. Then ask the Holy Spirit for His help and it helps to request the Truth while we are at it. Then just learn to do Bible study, comparing scripture with scripture keeping in mind the Jesus said that the Spirit of Truth will assist us in our learning of Him. 

1Corinthians 2:12

"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world*, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God."

*we’re not looking at this from a secular point of few. We’re not looking at this from what we have learned from education and experience in the material world. In Other words we are not taking in all things spiritual by our literal senses but rather by Faith's trusting.

This is what we have to recognize. We can’t go into this and say, "Well I’m going to learn what this Bible says no matter what." It just won’t work that way, because we have to depend on the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth. An inspiration just came to me, tell the Lord that your willing to take His yoke upon yourself to learn of Him and that your willing to be receptive in child like trust and then thank Him for directing the Holy Spirits doing just that. As our being human, we like words of encouragement, and over and over people have said that they have prayed that God would open the scripture to them. And then the next day they found our blogspot on the net or have seen our posts on Face book, and we have had messages telling us that they have recognized what is going on, and say, "THANK YOU LORD THIS IS WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR" But we in and of ourselves can not do it alone, because it has to be the Spirit that opens our understanding.Other wise all we gain is the letter or the Law which only KILLs.