As I share this morning I would like to state that when my Lord Jesus Christ starting moving over me and pulling me into a deeper walk - I fought from my soul many issues shown.

Much of what I am about to share is 180 degrees away from what I was ever taught.

Most church life is built around same safe issues over and over again. The standard pastor is trying to balance new teaching that will not cause waves.

Truth is that a bunch of sinners need to hear the truth about sin and life style but the truth will put most pastors on the road looking for a new church

The standard pastor is looking for 100 families that at least 1/2 of those giving will give 10% to the Lords work and his or her salary.

I know that sounds hard but at the end of the day it is very close to the truth.

I am going to tell you this truth on me - I never asked the Lord my Lord Jesus Christ to show up the way He did. I did get close to the end of my life and I did pray out of a moment of life and death for help.

That was around 2012

Over the years 2013 to 2015 things in my life started slowly changing and then all of a sudden Jesus showed up. No words and no dreams just His spirit of truth. The spirit would just fall on me and rest on me until bad habits that turn into sin showed up.

I started plainly seeing that disobedience in my life had a very bad result in this new spirit walk. I had many core sins with lying being a major issue. Not telling the truth to gain a outcome I desired. bad one and others

One day that I woke in the spirit and the spirit was on me early that morning. I was walking in the spirit with my Lord. During that day through a chain of events I caught myself in pure disobedience about a item my Lord had been dealing with me about. I was alone in my house and my dog Lilly was with me. It was if a wave of darkness hit me and then a small boom sound and my entire house shook. My dog got up and ran outside.

Then I heard foot-steps walking away from me. I know that is hard to believe - it was not hard to believe if you experienced it as I did.

That was a turning point in this walk - my Lord expressed to me the consequence of daily habits and sin against Him.

Disobedience

Now on to the 2 trees study

Genesis 1:26-27 - New English Translation (2005)
26. Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth." 27. God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

There is a core truth about the 2 trees that I am sure some of you are already seeing

The tree of life found in the garden

The - Let us make humankind in our image

John 3:11 - New English Translation (2005)
11. I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

us / we / our

John 14:6-11 - New English Translation (2005)
6. Jesus replied, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7. If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him." 8. Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content." 9. Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds. 11. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

John 10:27-30 - New English Translation (2005)
27. My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. 29. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand. 30. The Father and I are one."


John 6:45-46 - New English Translation (2005)
45. It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me. 46. (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God he has seen the Father.)

John 1:6-18 - New English Translation (2005)
6. A man came, sent from God, whose name was John. 7. He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him. 8. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light. 9. The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10. He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him. 11. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him. 12. But to all who have received him those who believe in his name he has given the right to become God's children 13. children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God. 14. Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. 15. John testified about him and shouted out, "This one was the one about whom I said, 'He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'" 16. For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another. 17. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ. 18. No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

Matthew 11:25-27 - New English Translation (2005)
25. At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. 26. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 27. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.


much given - back later

Blessings