Insights
🗣️ “God never intended you to live by your conscience. He intended you to live by his voice.”
🗣️ “If god doesn’t speak today, then the greatest disservice we could ever do to people is to tell them that they can have a personal relationship with god.” – Dallas Willard
🌳 Sin’s entrance into the world caused Adam and Eve to hide from the presence of the Lord, highlighting the immediate impact of sin on their relationship with God.
🌌 God’s creation of the stars before Adam and Eve raises intriguing questions about the concept of time and his desire to communicate with his children.
🌿 Our relationship with God is not just personal, but it involves communication and a desire for God to communicate with us.
🍎 The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the choice between God’s voice and Satan’s voice, highlighting the significance of discerning and following God’s guidance.
💔 “If you don’t have your conscience cleansed, you’ll always be serving God out of dead works.”
🗣️ God wants to speak to us through the Holy Spirit, but we need to have a relationship with Him to recognize His voice.
Summary
TLDR: Developing a personal relationship with Jesus is crucial in recognizing God’s voice and receiving His guidance.
- 👉 Recognize God’s voice through relationship, not by living solely by your conscience, as our conscience condemns us when we do wrong, but if we come to Christ, he will cleanse our conscience.
- 🙏 Developing a personal relationship with Jesus is crucial in recognizing God’s voice, as God is a speaking and communicative God who desires to speak to his children.
2.1 Developing a personal relationship with Jesus allows us to recognize God’s voice, contrary to the belief that God stopped speaking to humans after the canonization of the Bible.
2.2 Having a personal relationship with God is our highest priority because God is a speaking and communicative God who wants to speak to his children.
- 👉 Sin caused Adam and Eve to be afraid of God’s voice, even though God had never done anything to make them afraid before.
- 👉 Sin causes us to be afraid of hearing God’s voice, but God wants to talk to us and created the world and universe for that purpose.
- 📚 Having a personal relationship with God means having a communicative and talking God who wants to communicate with you, just like Adam and Eve did in the garden, and it should be our highest priority and pursuit.
- 🌳 Humans were meant to choose between God’s voice and Satan’s voice, not between good and evil, as represented by the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
6.1 There were two trees, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and if you ate from the latter, you died spiritually and were separated from God, which is why God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden and put an angel to guard the tree of life, as eating from it in a fallen state would have meant living forever in that fallen state, but now in a redeemed state, we can eat from the tree of life in heaven.
6.2 God never intended for humans to choose between good and evil, but rather to choose between his voice and Satan’s voice, represented by the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- 🙏 Having a relationship with God and recognizing His voice is crucial, as it guides and protects us from mistakes and cleanses our conscience.
7.1 God’s voice is the best teacher, as it can guide and prevent us from making mistakes without having to experience them firsthand.
7.2 Having a relationship with God and hearing His voice is more important than relying on our conscience, as God can cleanse our conscience from dead works and guide us in serving Him.
- 👉 God’s favor comes through the blood of Jesus Christ, and it is through God speaking to us that we can recognize His voice and receive His guidance.
