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sayirig. Of every lrce of tbe garden
thou
maynt frN/y Mt:
bur ...." - excluding
the tn:e of
the knowkdge of g6od and
tri/.
In other words, God offered hun
PRE!1.Y
His holy spirit!
' 'But," continutd God, "of tbe tree of
tbt knowltdge of good and evil tbou
shalt not eat of it: for
in
tbe day that
thou eatcstthereof thou sbalt surely die"
(verses
16-17).
Here, in briefest condcnsation, we
fi.nd the teaching of the GOSPEL - that
"the wages of SIN is death; but the GIFT
ofGod is eternallife" (Rom. 6:23).
The Bible says
al/
have sinned - and
Adam sinntd first of aU (Rom. 3:23;
S: 12).
God cou.ld not bave aUowed
Adam to sin witbout first having taught
Adam
what
sin
U.
The Bible definition
of sin is: ' 'Sin is tbe uansgression of tbt
law~
(1
John 3:4). And
again,
sin is the
conscious,
knowing
lransgression, for
~10
him
rhat knoweth
to do good, and doeth
it not. to him it is sin" (James
4: 17).
Adam
knew
about God's law - for
Adam SINNEO! Therefore. detinitely,
God instructtd Adam and Eve about
His great basic spiritual Jaw, God's
WA Y OF LIFE!
Aod tbat instruction
was given
imm~diately
-
of necessity
bt·
.fort thty-slnned!
On tbe physical plane, God instructed
1hem in regard to food (Gen.
1:29; 2:9).
And He also instructtd them in re–
gard 10 sEX.
Original
Sex
Educalioo
So here, once again, we
begin
at the
beginning:
"In the beginning God aealtd lhe
heaven and tbe earth. .•. And God said,
l..et us make man in our image, aner our
Jikencss ... So God aeated mao lll bis
own image, in the image ofGod creattd
he him;
mak
and
fe~nale
created he
them. And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fru itful, and mul–
tiply, and replenish tbe earth ... And
God saw everytbing tbat he had made,
and, behold, it was VERY GOOO!"
(Gen. 1: l. 26, 27-28, 31.)
God made manlc.ind
malt, andftmalt.
God created
SEX
in bumaos. Aod Goo
said it
was
VER Y GOOD
-
not
evil,
shameful, degrading. or sinful
of llself.
Only
wrong
use
beco
mes
sinf
ul.
God ereattd sex for
u~
Had He not
•ntended
sex
10 be
ustd,
He would oot
have dcsigntd iL Jo tbe aogel .family
God did oot in1end sex to be used - so
He did no1 desigo angels to be maJe and
female. Angels have no sex apparatus,
perform no sex function, aod do not re–
produce.
lf the Crea10r designed human scx
anatomy and set in motion human sex
stimuli and capacity for fuoctioning, He
did it for detioi1e PU'RPOSES. And God
most assuredly did not neglect His re–
sponsibility of
rt~~ealing
10 tbat first roan
and woman the rigbt PURPOSES
tbiS
fuoctioning
witbin
tbeir bodics and
miods
was
to serve. The Gencsis ac–
couot,
1
repeat, is the briefcst SUNNARY.
Yet tbe basic nature of the CreaiOr's
original insuuctioo is plain. And tite full
details are brougbt out for man)(llld
througb otber portions ofthe Bible.
Cteation StiU
Goiae
On
Remember, before proceeding, God's
overall PUJ\POSE for bumani1y. God
12
said: "Let us make man in
ouR J.MAOE.'.
Man. as previously sta1td. was created
physical, out of
MATTER,
in tbe likeness
of God. But, as of oow, man
IS
merely
the raw
cu.
Y, out of wbich tbe Master
Poner is - with man's yielding - form–
ing and shaping tbe final IMAGE - the
spiritual CHAilACTEll of God.
CREA
TION IS STIU. GOING ONI The
sp1ritua/
creation of righteous CIV.RAC·
TeR. The New Testament rcveals lhat,
once
ma~
has
su"endered,
repented of
his rebellious past and 1hrough Christ
been reconciled into contact with Goo,
he BECOMES A NEW CREATION
( 11
Cor.
S:
17).
This creation of rigbt spintual CIV.R·
ACTER in us demanded free moral
agency - tbat man roust intclligently
CHOOSE tbe rigbt as opposed 10 lbe
wrong- 1hat he exereise fn:e cl\oice. de–
velop self-disciptine.
God desigotd and crea1ed SEX for
right, wholesome, aod holy funclions .
But. in che process of CHARACTEP. devel–
opment, God
allows
man.
if
roan rebels
and so wills, lo poUute, besroircb, befoul
and pervert that which God intended 10
bring rich BLESSINGS. But
wrong
uses im–
pose CURSES!
God made His TRI/TH available. God
instructed the tlrst man and woroan. He
commanded
that they travel the RIGHT
!lOAD. But they, and tbeir children uni–
versally ever aner tbem. rebelled and
chose 10 lravel the WRONG road - the
WAY tbat somebow
seems
bener 10
a
man, but which leads
him
ioto
pain,
suf–
fering, sorrow and DEATH (Prov.
14:12:
16:25).
So God
did
inslrUct the firs1 man and
woman in tbe intendtd right. whole–
some, happiness-produciog, uplining
PURPOSES OfSEX!
In the passage quottd above, God
commanded
sex
to be ustd FOR R.EPRO·
ouCTION! He said, "Be frui1ful, and
mulliply, and replenish the earth"
(Gen. 1:28).
SPECIAL Meanin¡:
of
H UMAN Reproduclion
So one of the purposes of sex
In
humans
is
rtproductiofL
But tbat is far, far, from tbe
only
pur–
pose. as weshall
see
later!
Now reproduction. merely
as
such, t$,
of eourse, eommon to animals and
plants, as weU
as
humans.
8UT,
IN HUMANS. REPRODUCTION HAS
A SAC>l.ED AN'O 000-PLANE MEANII<G
NOT APPLICABLE TO ANY OTHER JC.lNO OF
LIPE!
We shaU see, later, that the birth of a
human baby dilfers in strilc.ing manner
from that of aoimals. Animals are no1
boro 10 become the very
HEIRS
ofGod!
In humans, tbere is TREMENOOUS,
AWE·INSPIRING MEANING and sigoift–
canee
10 begeual aod bi.rlh that is en–
tirely nonexistent
with
animal$ or
plants. And God inteoded - had man
been willing to betd God's ins1ruction
that che very
KNOWLEDGE
of tbcse deep
and wonderful Jo<EANINGS sbould b=g
man dynamicJOY!
So far
as
1he purely
ph¡sic<tl
funcuons
of 1hc process are conoemtd, reproduc–
Lion is the same in mammals as in
humans. Thal
is
a mere PHYStCAL pro.
cess. But tbere
is
deep, spiritually tra.n-
scendent MEANING in human begettal.
gcstauon, aod birtb tba1 raiscs it lo an
altogetber and incoroparably higher
plane than mere
animal
reproductioo.
Human cbildren
are
begouen tbrougb
sex. And tbat very begettal, period of
gestatioo, aod bi.rlb of a human baby
gives us tbe very PtCTUllE of tbe spiritual
SALVATION and gin of eterna! life made
possible through Jesus Christ!
This is
anorher
reason Satao seelc.s 10
deceive his world regarding the pur–
poses and right auitude toward sex!
By this very BLINDING of the world to
Goo's
purposes
of SEX, Satan has ll)D·
DEN from his world 1he 1rue KNOWL·
EDGE about
GOD-
tbat God is actuaUy
8
FAMILY - a divine KINGDOM ioiO
which we may be bom! He has HIDDEN
from che world tbe real
TII.UlH
of
SAl.
VA·
TION - wbat it
is,
wbere it
leads,
how we
reoeiYe n!
This FALSE MORALITY - botb tbe
50-
ealled old and tbe so-caUtd new - has
been
a
far more poteot wo;apoo for tbe
dcstruction of humanity than has been
realiud!
Ji()w
Reproduction Piciiii'<S
Spiritual Salvalion
Now see and UNDERSTANO how
human reproductioo pictures spiritual
SALVATION!
All human life comes from
a
tiny egg,
called an ovum, produotd inside the
human motber. This ovum is about tbe
siu of a pin poin1. lnside it, when higbly
magnifted, ca11 be seco a small nuc.leus.
But this ovum has a very limited tife,
of
ltstlf!
Sorne doctors aod scientisu
be–
lieve it has
a
life of sorne
24
hours. un–
less feniliud by a sperm from a male.
But human life may be imparted
to
11
by a sperm oell produotd in the body of
the human fatber. The sperm cell is tbe
smallest cell in tbe human body - about
one fifiieth tbe
siu
of the ovum. The
sperm - 1echnically namtd a spermato·
won (plural, spermatozoa) - on enter–
ing an ovum. finds its way to and joins
with 1he
nudeus.
This imparts
lift
-
physical
human
life- to the ovum.
But it is not yet a bom human being.
Human
Ji
fe
has
merely bcen
btgolltn.
For the first four mooths
it
IS
calltd an
tmbryo.
After tbu, until birtb it is caUed
a
fttus.
This human life starts very small
the
sae
of a tiny pio point - and the
sperm tbat generales it
is
tbe
smallesr
celltn
a
human body!
Once begonen, it must
bt
ftd
and
nourishtd by physical food from tbe
ground, through the molher. From this
physical nourishment it muse grow, and
grow
and GROW - until pbysically largo
enough to be born - .aner nine months.
As it grows. the
physical
organs and
characteristics graduaUy are formed.
Soon a spinal column forms. Then,
gradually,
a
body, a bead, legs, arms. A
hean forms and begins to beat. 01her
tntemal orgaos form. Finally hair begins
10 grow on tbe bead, fingemails
a.~d
toe–
nalis develop - facial fea
tu
res graduaUy
shape up. By nine mooths tbe average
normal fetus
has
grown 10 a weight of
approximately six to nine pounds and is
ready to be bom.
TbeTYPeof
S plrltual
Salvatioo
Now notice carefuUy the as1ounding
comparisoo!
First, u.nderstand briefly what spin–
tual salva1ion is. Few profcssing Olris–
uans understand tbis.
God said, in tbe "forbtdden frui1"
chapters of Genesis, tbat mao is
WHOU.Y composed of pbysical mauer
from the ground (Geoesis 2:7 aod
3: 19).
Job said tbere is a spirit JN man
(Job
32:8).
lt is explained in
1
Corinthians
2
tbat no roan could have
HVMAN comprehension, k:nowltdge and
inteUect, but by
~the
spirit ofman which
is tN him" (verse
11).
This spirit essence is NOT tbe man, but
something
IN
the
wholly physical man.
Jt
impans the power of intellect 10 tbe
physical brain.
lt
marks tbe vast, vast
difference betweeo animal braio and
human MINO.
This
spirit canoot
see.
bear, or tbink. The physical braio
sees.
througb tbe eye, hears through !he phys–
ieal
qr;
thinks with tbe pbysical brain
YetthlS spirit acts as a computer, addtng
10 the brain the psychic and in1eUectual
power. Also it adds 10
MAN
a spiritual
and moral faculty oo1
posscs:scd
by
animals.
The human's
UPE.
however. is not
supplied by this spirit. Human life is
merely a temporary PllYSICAL and
chemical existence, caused by the
breathing of a ir, the circulatioo of b lood
by che heanbeals, and being fueltd
by
food and water. Man's LIFE is mere tem·
porary physical chemical existenct -
like lhe
Ji
fe of a o automobile eogine, or
all vertebrates.
To
Be
Bom
Aeaín?
Remember, God IOid Adam and Eve
tllat for disobedieoce aod steahng tbe
forbidden fruit tbey would SUllELY O
U!.
But God had olfertd 1hem
frcely
tbe
gifi
of
eterna/
life. by choosing 1he "lree of
life."
When they chose tbe rorbidden fruit,
God drove them out of tbe garden,
"test
he pul forth his hand. aod
take also of
the tree of liJe,
and eat,
and
live
forever"
(Gen. 3:22).
But, througb Chris1, a repentant bu·
manity may
yet
receive God's gifi of
etemal life. To Njcodemus, Jesus ex–
plaintd: "Except a mao be boro again.
he eannot see
lb
e lc.ingdom of
God.~
Of course Nicodemus couldn't quite
grasp that. He knew tbat be had been
born by beiog delivered from h•s
mother's womb. He knew tbe dilfereoce
between being BOIIN and beiog merely
BEGOTTEN - sometbing few theologians
seem 10 know today.
Jesus explained: "That which is boro
of the fl csh 1S FLESH: and tbat which
is
bom of the Spirit
/S
SPIRIT" (John
3:3-
8).
Manis MORTAL. Man carne from TH6
GROUND. He
ÍS
FLESH - material flesh.
Jesus was not talk.ing about another
physical
birtlt - but He
wat
tallcing
about a
splritual
birtb- wheo man shall
BE
SPIIIJT -
be
wboUy
compostd
o(
SPrRJT. He shaU tben have beco BOilN of
Goo! God
is
spirit (John 4:24); man is
physical llesh.
A
human has 10 be aEGOTI"DI by bis
human fatber. To be bom
again
of tbe
spirit - of Goo - ooe must fitst be
be–
gonen by tbe SPllliTUAL FATHEil - Al·
mi(lhi)',Ood.
Tbe
Amazing Comparisoo
Now see how HUMAN begettal, period
of gesta!ion, aod birth, is
lb
e astounding
WEEK ENDINO AUGUST 2,
19?5
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