You are dust and to dust you will return

[Lamb]

Pastor’s Message


February 2020
…then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:7
Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.
February 26 is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the season of Lent. We will gather on that evening to begin the forty day journey to Good Friday and Easter. As we worship we will gather around the altar and receive the imposition of ashes. As the sign of the cross is marked on your forehead these words are spoken, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
Those words come from Genesis chapter 3. They are spoken by God to Adam as part of the punishment for disobeying God’s command to not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “the Fall.” These words remind us of our mortality, that is that we will die in this world. Since life in this world will always be touched and tainted by sin, one can consider that dying is a gift from God to take us out of this misery.
This is true for us who have already died to this world. Ash Wednesday points us toward the sacrificial death and glorious resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. By faith we are joined to his death, which redeems us from sin and the power of the devil, and his resurrection, which assures us of our eternal life. That eternal life will be a restoration for us to the life untouched by sin which was lost in “the Fall.”
We are dust and to dust we shall return. That statement is also an affirmation of the power of God. The one who first formed us from dust can certainly reform us in a new and more perfect form for a life that has no end. That is the glory of Easter beyond the darkness of Lent. We are dust, but God takes us, molds us and remolds us, and continues to breathe life into us through the Spirit.
Pastor Bret

 

[TopSilver]

I can't say enough how you are right about the fact that we are absolutely nothing compared to God. I have spoken with God on many occasions. When he speaks to me in a deep voice it gets me very excited. I've always wondered if a human being had the capability to see on a much grander scale. To visualize the lord for the power he really has and perceive exactly what that power is capable of, what better off and gifted of the spirit we would be.

I don't know if you've ever heard of gifts of the spirit. But for people who have had faith for a very long time, and not just for a couple years - depending on how much you pray this can be something huge. I believe one of the gifts you can even heal.

I once read something in Luke about the Sowers Hands or something like that. That verse interest me though I can't exactly remember the location or everything it said. But I remember one thing about it and that's the fact that the works of your own hands can sometimes fall into gods plan even though he never did it himself. To me I think of builders building houses and things like that. When I look close I can see that the works of man really are apart of Gods power. To build and to create.

But the gifts of the spirit are something that really interest me because I'm a veteran in faith. I have been tormented by the Devil for the past going on 15 years. And I have completely over-powered him. The fact that it may be a gift of the spirit that allowed me to do it always interest me a great deal. The bible says though I can't quote any scripture - I'm still positive that it says that no human can fight demons or the devil but with the right gift of the spirit it may be possible. I've had such a strain on my body for 15 years straight. Voices that sound like real people. Loud as fire crackers - not to exaggerate but I need to explain it's audible. Real personalities that take on the form of real life people you know or may have met before. And an inner strain with something just completely attacking you and trying to force you to go against your will.

It's been a ruff time but I agree with this and I wanted to say, the devil is nothing to God. It first takes understanding the fact that Gods time is eternal. His time is not on the same level as time on earth. Hell is also eternal and I believe it's real. To be honest the fact that the Devil is even a real being is simply because no one has the capability of understanding what eternity is. We can't comprehend it. Simply put, I see 2 forces of light and dark. Man and woman. When you put it all together the number 2 should really make a difference. Half and half.

God basically used a paradox to form the universe. He took 2, man and woman and created a paradox that was very simple but as it got more complicated where it can't be understood, and was rebuilt and then narrowed down to something simple again.

To me I imagine a spiral paradox that winds into a big circle but narrows down into something that is very complete, whole, and simple.

As for aliens. To be honest I know exactly why we can't ever get in contact with them. It's because they are dimensional beings. They only travel here when the 4th dimension is opened up. We are in the 3rd dimension, but the dimensional plane above ours, the 4th dimension is their only way to get in.

Anyways you are correct that we are absolutely nothing. We are minute and small, almost like petty insects compared to God. But he took us under his wing and gave us life. He made us his people. The only planet that belong to God as his people. And he intends to lead us into much greater things after the days of the rapture.

 

[NewCreation435]

One day also God is going to take the dust of the ground which was once a person who perhaps lived a thousand years ago and resurrect that person and give them a glorified body.