"And the Lord God planted a garden on the east side of Eden; and there he put the man he had formed." Genesis 2: 8
What a wonderful word came to my heart regarding the grace of God, which is manifested to all men, this we see when in the beginning God carried out the greatest project he had created, which was Creation, everything was done with such precision that the world scientist is poring over so many theories to try to explain the complexity of God's works, what God has done and continues to do is tremendous.
THE BEST PLACE
He created the best place for home to be, an entire world and separated the most beautiful place on earth planted by God Himself. What makes the place holy, because the glorious presence of God was there, Eden, means: "Delight", when Adam created by God wakes up, he sees the wonderful creation of the almighty, but when God makes him sleep again, when he sees the best of all creations, he sees Eva and is dazzled. From there, they begin a story together and experience the Grace of God abundant in that Garden, they live a life of communion with God so natural that at the turn of the day there is always God with them.
THE FALL
And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and pleasing to the eye, and a desirable tree to give understanding; she took her fruit, and ate, and gave it to her husband, and he ate with her.
Then their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves and made aprons for themselves.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God, who was walking in the garden at the turn of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him, Where are you? Genesis 3: 6-9
Faced with all the joy of the home and the woman, the serpent, Satan, worked out a way to spoil God's project and so he tried the woman with an apparently advantageous proposal and the woman fell into this trap taking the man along, both fell of God's grace, when she thought it would be like God, she ate the fruit and gave it to her husband, both became like the serpent, enemies of God, sinned against the loving God who had given them so much joy, to the point that when God scheduled time not meeting them they are not there, then sin is brought to light and they experience the death of the spirit and turn away from God, but did God not know the risks of giving the world to men? Of course he knew, that's why he revealed his redemption project right there, he revealed his grace.
THE GRACE OF GOD
And the Lord God made Adam and his wife robes of skins, and clothed them.
Then said the Lord God: Behold, man is like one of us, knowing good and evil; pray, lest he reach out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat and live forever,
The Lord God therefore cast him out of the garden of Eden to plow the land from which he was taken.
And having thrown the man away, he placed cherubs on the east side of the garden of Eden, and a fiery sword that walked around, to guard the way of the tree of life. Genesis 3: 22-24
God started showing his grace when he dressed him in the skins of an animal, which we believe to be a lamb, God covers the shame of the two and with an act that apparently seemed bad, God keeps them both away from his presence, but as this could it be an act of grace? Yes, because if they stayed in the presence of God, his holy presence would kill them. God's heart is sad and like a father, he cries because Adam is gone, but there in Eden, the Eternal releases his Word and begins a relentless search, the search for Adam, through the years and millennia until he finds him.
THE REVELATION OF GOD'S GRACE IN JESUS.
That is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their sins to them; and put the word of reconciliation in us. 2 Corinthians 5:19
However, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had no sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of the one who was to come. Romans 5.14
Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw his glory, like the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, John 1.14
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
Who would imagine that God would do this, a child is born in Bethlehem of Judah, the world did not know that it was God Himself making himself flesh and dwelling among us, with a great project of redemption for every human being, Jesus was there for his the new Adam and to be the head of a new creation from his death and resurrection. the fact is that Jesus was there with a mission to take Adam back to God and as Adam represented every human being in sin, Jesus would suffer the price of Adam's sin in our place, meaning he would pay the price for the sin of Adam, thus representing all humanity taking us all together with him on the cross and as he rose, we rose together with him and today because of Jesus we have the life of God, we who were enemies of God, today we can approach as beloved children.
Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the express image of his person, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having done the cleansing of our sins by himself, sat at the right hand of majesty on high; Hebrews 1.3
What a wonderful day when Jesus ascended to heaven and sat at the right hand of God the Father, fulfilling God's purpose of bringing the human being (Adam) back into his presence, what a tremendous knowledge of the joy of God's heart, because Adam returned to home. And we have the great promise that one day we will all be with the Lord Jesus in Heaven forever and ever, for soon He will return.
CONCLUSION
Adam is us, you and I, who were represented on that cross by Jesus, so that he died our death, so that we could live his life, Jesus is wonderful, he is the expression of God's great love for us. Wonderful grace.
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