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Now He said to them, "These
are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all
things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and
the
Prophets and the Psalms must be fullfilled." Then
He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ....
An old man takes his grandson on a fishing trip at a local lake early one Spring morning. While sitting in the boat waiting on a fish to bite, the young boy asks ‘Grandpa, why did God allow Adam and Eve to get into trouble?’ This took the old man back. ‘That is quite a big question from such a little man’ replied grandpa. The young boy explained, ‘They talked about Adam and Eve in Sunday school and I don’t get it’. A few seconds passed as grandpa considered his response. Then he asked his grandson to consider the lake as if the fish were men/women and the lake water represented our world. Now, the first thing to consider about this lake is that the water is dark and muddy. Our world is fallen. God did not make it like that in the beginning. Originally, God would have made the water crystal clear like the air we breathe, but man disobeyed God and made the water muddy. The boy looked up with a question in his eye’ ‘How did Adam do that?’ Grandpa explained that death was brought into this world as the result of Adam and Eve's disobedience. All the fish in the lake are subject to the muddy water just like man is subject to our fallen world. ‘Why? Why did God let it break?’ asked the grandson. With a big smile grandpa replied “God has a bigger plan. God has a rescue plan that He is allowing to play out over time. God will use the fall of mankind to re-create man into something far greater than anything anyone could have ever imagined’. ‘What’s that?’ asked the boy with a curious eye. ‘A kingdom.’ Grandpa smiles and says ‘God has prepared an eternal home after this life for anyone who calls upon Jesus.’ With a flicker in his eye grandpa went on to explain that God is in control. God allowed the lake to go dark because He plans to adopt mankind as his children if they accept His Anointed One. As the boy looked down into the water he asked ‘What is an Anointed One?’ then said ‘God let the world break?’. Grandpa just smiled and proceeded to explain that Jesus is the Anointed One. The Anointed One is God’s rescue plan. In the old Hebrew language of the Israelites, the Anointed One is referred to as the Messiah. The Greek version of the Hebrew word Messiah is Christ. Jesus is the Messiah. Jesus is the Christ. And yes, God allowed the world to break because He has a much bigger plan for man, a better plan, a rescue plan. The boy looked up and asked, ‘What about the fish?’ Grandpa just smiled and explained that fish are animals. The lake story is just an example to show the big picture. Man is being rescued because man is made in the image of the Living God. Grandpa asked, ‘You love my old dog, Allie, right?.’ Allie is a good dog. She has a great personality and she is a smart dog, but Allie is just a puppy dog. Animals are not made in God’s image. Angels are not made in God’s image. God still loves animals just like He loves all His creation. When God flooded the earth back in the days of Noah, God put a rainbow in the sky as His Covenant not only with man, but with all the animals. God loves all His creation from man to dogs, to fish to bears to all the stars and planets surrounding earth, but man is very special because man is made in God’s image. ‘In your Sunday school class when you were talking about Adam and Eve, did your teacher mention the serpent?’ asked grandpa. Grandpa was not sure just how in-depth he should take this conversation. His grandson sat up in his seat and with a curious tone in his voice said, ‘Oh yes we talked about the serpent. But grandpa, how can a snake talk?’ With a grin grandpa continued his explanation that there is more to our world than just what we can see. God made angels, but like I said before angels are not made in the image of the Living God. That serpent was a bad angel and he rebelled against God. He wanted to be God. God allowed him to rebel. God allowed that serpent to trick Adam and Eve into disobeying God’s command. Jesus describes our world as under the dominion of the devil in Acts chapter 26:18. In the beginning, God placed Adam and Eve in control of the entire earth. Control shifted from man to the fallen angel when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Then death entered into humanity. The serpent is that fallen angel. God allowed death to enter into our world. God allowed the fall of man to occur because God has a plan. You see, man was originally created below angels, but God will raise man up above the realm of angels and adopt man as His child creating a kingdom of Princes and Princesses. The rescue plan from God the Father was to send God the Son into humanity to defeat death by the power of God the Holy Spirit. Jesus became the first born of mankind to be taken from this dark world into a kingdom prepared for those who choose life with Jesus as their Christ, Messiah, Redeemer, Anointed One. Jesus is leading the greatest rescue mission in all history. God the Son set aside His glory in heaven as God to subject Himself not only to our physical world, but subject Himself unto the curse of physical death. Now, he could see his grandson’s wheels were really turning and it looked like he understood the message. So, grandpa thought this would be a good time to teach a few more life lessons from the lake illustration. So he said to his grandson, ‘The lake has many fish such as bass, striper, crappie, perch, etc. The lake water is used by the fish for breathing and they also use the same water as a big restroom. ‘That’s nasty!’ replied the grandson. With a laugh he said ‘Yes, but that is life in the lake. What if one fish looked down on another fish because they were different in size or color? What if a perch with bright colors looked down on a bass because of his dull color. The perch tells other fish that the bass is just a beast and not a real fish. They are all just fish in the same water just like we are all just men in a fallen world. It is silly for one group of men to look down at another group of men simply because they are different. We are all just flesh and bone. Various races do have physical differences such as color, shape, texture, but we should be celebrating those differences and not allow them to divide us. When one person lifts himself up above another person, that is just misplaced personal pride. What if one fish in the lake put on a special set of clothes to pronounce his holiness above all the other fish. That fish allowed his personal pride and selfishness to make him want to be like God. That is the same thing that happened in the spiritual world when the devil wanted to be like God and fell from grace. This fish positions himself above all other fish and says that you must come to him if you want to see God. He says his religion is the true path. Jesus said He is the way, the truth and the life in John 14:6. Self-righteousness is the root cause of all false religion. With a puzzled look on his face the boy asked his grandfather, ‘Why would a fish do that?’ Grandpa just shook his head and replied, ‘Not really sure, but the fact is; people love religion. In the bible God calls it idol worship. I guess men think they have some sort of control over eternal things. When you submit yourself to Jesus as your Savior that means that you realize that you can do nothing to save yourself in this life. You believe in Jesus as the Christ for your redemption. That belief should trigger changes in your behavior. You should be 100% dependent upon Jesus to be your righteousness and holiness before God the Father. That fish is just a fish and not God. Man is just a man and not God. If you want to see God, Jesus tells mankind to come to Him and to Him alone in John 3:16. The moment the lake went dark (or when sin entered into humanity), God announced His plan that the seed of woman would crush the head of evil in Genesis 3:15. God started telling mankind about His rescue plan back around 1,500 B.C. when God told Moses what to write down in the Torah. Mankind has had over 3,500 years to come to grips with the reality that mankind is just flesh and bone made in the image of the Living God subject to a fallen nature. You are like a fish living in a dirty lake. Mankind struggles to understand God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Man tends to imagine God in terms of our own humanity. Mankind tends to think of God as a man and recreates Him in the image of man. God is Spirit. God is redeeming the spirit of a man after death. Your spirit does not die after death. God is not a man, but God did become a man when God the Son set aside His original glory in heaven with the Father and came into our earth in the physical body of a man by the virgin Mary. Jesus defeated death. Jesus is physically alive right now and sitting at the right hand of God the Father in heaven. When a man accepts Jesus as his Messiah (or Christ or Redeemer or Anointed One), he is not considered a sinner anymore before God the Father. You can do nothing except believe in Jesus and walk with Him in this life until death. If only mankind would stop and listen, they could be saved from judgment after death. God wants to rescue you.
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