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****ADVERTISEMENT****** It’s a DIGITAL CHRISTMAS 25 DAYS OF FREE GIFTS KCMBLESSINGS.COM DOWNLOAD A NEW FREE GIFT EACH DAY! DEC 1-25 ******************************** ***article concludes below***** God wasn’t just communicating in those verses. He (God the Father) was actually creating with His words; and He wasn’t the only One involved in the process. Jesus was too. “What?” someone might say. “I never heard that before!” Then you need to read your Bible more closely, because John 1, identifies Jesus as “the Word…made flesh” (verse 14), and says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (verses 1-3). This is the way all matter came into existence! God gave words to His Son, a future man, who spoke those words and they became this universe. The same thing happened when God created man. He did it through His Son. As Genesis 2:7 says, “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Because the English translation of that verse says God “breathed” into man’s nostrils, it’s easy for us as English-speaking Christians to get the wrong picture of what happened there. We tend to imagine God blowing into Adam’s nose inflating him like a balloon. But that’s not at all how it reads in Hebrew. In Hebrew the word translated breathe also means spirit, so a better translation would be: “The Lord spirited into man’s body the spirit of life.” Since Jesus said, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63), this is what we really see happening in Genesis 2:7: God and Jesus are standing in the Garden of Eden, holding Adam’s lifeless body by the shoulders. It’s just hanging there, limp and colorless. Jesus is looking at that body eye to eye because in form, the body is the same shape and size Jesus is. It’s been made to look exactly like Him in every way because it’s been designed for beings who will be kings, under God, on the earth. Suddenly, God gives the word and Jesus says, “Man be in our image, and have dominion!” Then the Holy Spirit who’s been there hovering over Adam’s inanimate body goes into action, brings that word to pass and, as the Hebrew Bible puts it, “man became a living, speaking spirit just like God.” Talk about a glorious beginning! This is our heritage. This is what you and I were created by God to be. We were made to be like Him, look like Him, fellowship with Him, and co-create with Him by following His example and using the same process He used to create us—hearing, believing and speaking the words of God! As If We’d Never Sinned Of course, the devil and religion won’t tell you this. They’ll tell you the opposite. They’ll try to degrade you and mock you because you’re only human. They’ll say, “You’re nothing but an unworthy worm.” But you’re not a worm and neither am I. We’re in the God class! We’re just as truly God’s sons and daughters as Jesus Himself. As 1 John 3:1 says, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” And "The Amplified Bible" affirms it: “And so we are!” “But what about sin, Brother Copeland? What about the Fall of Man and the curse?” Jesus took care of it for us. He paid the price so that God’s grace could abound toward us and He could treat us as if we’d never sinned. That’s why the Apostle Paul could write these thrilling words in the New Testament: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18, 21). Can you see this? The same thing happened to you when you were born again that happened to Adam when God said, “Man be in our image and have dominion!” Only this time you got to be involved in the process. You received Jesus by hearing, believing and speaking God’s words. In response, the Holy Spirit—who was hovering over your body just like He once hovered over Adam’s—went into action and a new man was born on the inside of you. Old things passed away, all things became new, and you were re-created in the very image of Jesus. His Spirit came alive in you and you received the capacity to hear and live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. That’s what happened to Kenneth Begishe! He got born again and heard what God had to say about creating a WORD-believing church full of Navajo Indians. When he heard that word, faith sprang up in his heart and he painted a sign and planted it in the ground. He said, in essence, “White Post Church, be!” Sure enough, the Holy Spirit moved to bring the word to pass, and before long there was a church on that once-vacant patch of desert. Where there’d been nothing but sand rats, God’s WORD was being preached, people were getting born again and prospering. That’s the kind of thing that happens when believers start living from the inside out. V *****ADVERTISEMENT**** New Year's Eve Service with Kenneth, Dec. 31 Eagle Mountain International Church On the grounds of KCM Headquarters 14355 Morris-Dido Road Newark, TX 76071 (not a mailing address) 1-817-852-6000 emic.org *********************************** BVOV : 7

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