Brian Peters

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God told Adam, "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen 2:17). Adam ate. And he went on living until he was 930. So was God wrong, or does sin kill in a way most people never notice?

Millions think like this. Do more good than bad and hope the scale tips your way. But Scripture shows what happens when a man is put on God's scale: "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting." Adam tried to fix his sin himself with fig leaves. God replaced them with skins from an animal that had to die. Good deeds can't cover sin. Only a sacrifice can, and Jesus is that sacrifice. Turn from your sin and trust Him, not the scale.

It’s not the death most people think. It's not your body going back to dust. It's your old sinful self dying while you're still alive: "our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." Let the old you die to sin now, and you'll live with God forever. "Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord."

He never stopped. God "hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son," and the Bible is that word written down. God didn't go quiet. Sin made us stop listening. He's still speaking today: "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him." Open the Bible, and open the door.

Not a do-over. The flood was a preview. The Ark is a big massive wooden sermon. Come inside, or drown (echoes of Genesis 1:2). One door then, one door now. Jesus is the Ark.

Adam did die that day, just not all at once. Die means to die: first the rift from God, then the grave, then, if unredeemed, the second death in Revelation. Adam and Eve were hiding from God before sundown.

Perhaps this is the sign/warning. Turn back before it’s too late.

The Ark represents Jesus. Please stop looking for a big boat.

And what dies is the idol. He lacks a heart that will lose his god to have God. A thousand modern lives would like Jesus as a consultant and not as a King.

Someone may have taught your nervous system that you are the dirt. That is a lie.

One turns you to God and produces a change you will not regret. The other is worldly: it is embarrassment, self-pity, fear of consequences, the wish that you had been smoother.

The life in us is borrowed, received, and given by a light from beyond us.

Physics has already shown that most of what exists is invisible to us: fields, dark matter, dark energy. So a spiritual realm we can't detect doesn't contradict anything physics knows.

You don’t fight darkness. You bring in light and it’s gone.

This is the fruit of what happens when “believers” take the Holy Bible as a book of historical record. You will create atheists because if taken literally the Bible has some contradictions and absurdities like below. If things are to be taken literally then if the sun, moon and stars were not created until the literal fourth day, what happened when God said “Let there be light” on the first day? Does anyone think God would be so careless with His Word to contradict Himself? My Christian brothers and sisters we need to be better stewards of the Word.

Before sin, nakedness was not a crisis. There was no split between who they were and who they were before God.

It is the soul's nerve ending. Numb the nerve and you will rot in peace.

Satan will load a sensitive man with shame until he cannot lift his head, and he will strip a hard man of guilt until he cannot bow it.

Your heart is the problem, not the compass.

If you can be good enough, the cross is theater. Every 'I'm a good person' is a small attempt to make the death of Jesus unnecessary.