Death and Life Rest In. . . (Part 3)

Wow!  You still need more evidence that there be a system that hinges on what you say, be it saying something good or be it saying something bad.  You still need more evidence that there be a system that you have been given the power to control and the authority to command.  You still need more evidence that there be a system that has been ordered not to do anything until something is said, an announcement is made, or some type of command is given.  You still need more evidence that everything in this life hinges on the words that you speak, be they positive or be they negative.

Well, we know that God spoke everything into existence.  He said, Let there be and it was so.  All of creation was done or created in like fashion.  It appears that the word of God has power.  God speaks and things happen.  God verifies this in the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah.  He compares his word to that of the rain and snow that come down from heaven.  Just as the rain and snow stay upon the ground to water the earth, so it is with God’s word.  It stays in the earth realm so that it can accomplish all that he wants it too and so that it can prosper everywhere he sends it.

Death and Life Rest In. . . (Part 2)

That right!  Words are so very important, more so than some people realized.  Words really do control the things that happen to us.  Truly, many people have died because they have said the wrong things.  God has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing and has told us to choose life, but few know how to make this choice.  We make the choice through the words that we speak, for death and life rest in the power of the tongue.  Yes, the words that we speak control a system that has been created to only respond when something is spoken.  And the beauty of all of this is that we have been given the power to control and the authority to command this very system.  Like the seeds of the farmer who sows them in the ground and reaps a harvest; we sow the words that we speak and reap ourselves a harvest, which brings about blessings or curses.  For what we sow, is what we will reap and when we reap, we reap in its full measure.

There are just a few more things we want to share with everyone; a few more things for us to bring everyone in remembrance of; and a few more things for us to tell everyone about.  Remember in the twelfth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew, we found that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh (Matthew 12:34).  With that being said, we have a few questions we would like to pose for you to consider.  What will we find in your heart?  Will we find it full of the things of the world?  Or will we find it full of the things of God, like his word?  What will come out of your heart when you are in distress?  What will your mouth speak in your time of need?

Death And Life Rest In. . .

Can you image the most powerful system in the world?  What did you imagine it to be?  Was your first thought a governmental type system?  Or, was that first thought a military type system?  Perhaps your first thought was some type of financial system.  Regardless of the system that first came to mind, there is one system more powerful than all of them combined.

Now imagine that you have been given the power to control just such a system.  Yes, that’s right!  Imagine that you have been given the authority to command this system.  What would you do with such a system?  How would you use such a system?  Do you think you could be trusted with such power, with such authority?  Would you want to be in control of such a system?  Well, there is a system in existence that has been ordered not to do anything until something is said.  This same system has been order not to do anything until some type of announcement is made.  And here is the beauty of it all; you have been given the power to control and the authority to command this very system.

Sin vs Sin, This Is Not A Play On Words Part-7

The Conclusion

Many believers use some type of dictionary to aide them in their studies.  In an attempt to gain a better understanding of certain words, we have used Strong’s Concordance, Smith’s Bible Dictionary, Easton’s Bible Dictionary, and Vine’s Expository Dictionary.  Normally, what the dictionary defines a word to be is what we tend to accept and believe that word to be.  But have you ever wondered how a word gets into the dictionary?  We discovered that the dictionary is not designed to tell us what a word means.  The dictionary is designed to give us the correct word spelling, to tell us the history of a word, to tell us how that word has been used throughout the years, and to tell us when it first appeared in the language.

Sin vs Sin, This Is Not A Play On Words Part-6

So, God has taken the sinless Christ and poured into him the sins of the world.  And in exchange, God poured his goodness into us.  Therefore, it is with Christ, the same as it was with Adam.  The independent actions of each of these men affected the entire human race.  First, there was the principle of imputation that reduced all men to the same ultimate condition, making all men sinners, because of the offense of one man.  Then, there was the principle of imputation that provided for all men the same ultimate answer, giving all men the opportunity to become the righteousness of God, because of the obedience of another man.

Sin vs Sin, This Is Not A Play On Words Part-5

Death came into the world because of what man (Adam) did, and it is because of what this other man (Jesus) has done that now there is the resurrection from the dead.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Romans 5:12).

We have already found that because of what one man, Adam did, sin entered the world and death spread throughout the world.  We know that everything began to grow old and die.  But now we want to look at the contrast between the one who started all of this and the one who end all of this.

Sin vs Sin, This Is Not A Play On Words Part-4

Yes, it dawned on us that there could be another definition or meaning for the word sin.  We now believed the phrase; All have sinned referred to a point in time when everyone sinned.  The only time that this could be referring to had to be back in the beginning, in the beginning of God’s creation.  The phrase actually points to the very moment when all were in one man, Adam.  You see, when Adam fell, the entire human race was constituted or formally established as sinners.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous (Romans 5:19).