THE ACTS November 2013 English | Page 24

MATTHEW 4: 4 says, But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. It says that Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. The world lives on bread alone but Jesus tells us that we can live on His word. How can this be possible? Christ did not come to give us a life which is dependant on the bread but an Abundant Life. Adam was forbidden from eating the fruit of a specific tree. He could eat the fruit of every other tree and live happily without ever working. But he ate the forbidden fruit and was answerable to God. Later, God decreed that Adam should labour hard for his food. In order to save man from all this trouble, Jesus came to the earth to give us an Abundant Life! Hallelujah! GENESIS 1 : 11 - 12 says, And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. stead he cursed the ground and all the good from it became bad. As man started eating all this bad food, he became vulnerable to diseases and died. For this reason, Christ came to the earth and said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This precious Word is found in the Church! And for this reason man should be grafted to the church where he will know the way to receive the Holy Spirit. The world will acknowledge and follow the men who recieve tha power of the Holy Spirit and Christ is glorified. Hence, when we cleave to and meditate on the Word of God as our food, we will live a healthy and an abundant life. The Word of God will take away the weakness and sickness from the food that we eat and keep us healthy. This word is health and life for all mankind. But the people who do not know this secret are eating the cursed food and are not meditating on the life giving Word. For this reason, they are not able to receive the Holy Spirit. And the difference between Christians and the worldly Here it is said that every seed, herb, fruit trees that were created were good in the sight of God. GENESIS 1 : 21 says, And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. All the creatures created were also good in the sight of God. It has been mentioned twice that God saw them as good. So, let us examine how and why they became bad. GENESIS 1: 30 - 31 says, And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, where in there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. It is written here that all the food which is created by God is also good. Yet after eating such good food, man is falling sick and is recepient to many incurable diseases. Let us find out the reason. GENESIS 3 : 17 says, And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake;... God did not curse Adam but cursed the ground. Though Adam sinned, the earth received the punishment. As God created Adam in His own image, he could not curse himself. In22 The Acts November 2013 people is lost. Such great things are only being revealed and taught to us by the Holy Spirit. EXOD T