Mortals Are Entitled To Grace

I. EXORDIUM:

Who is your Keeper?

JESUS. The GOD of Peace. 1 Thessalonians 5:23

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (Amplified Bible)

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD loves mankind or us so much because He wanted us first to avail of His Grace and then His eternal life, all kept in JESUS for the sake of JESUS and in JESUS's Name.

IV. TEXT:

Genesis 3:24 (Amplified Bible)

So [God] drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS, the GOD of Peace, who has sanctified us through and through, made us pure, wholly consecrated to GOD, who preserves my spirit and soul and body, kept blameless until Your coming.

VI. TITLE:

Mortals are entitled to grace

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Date written: 1450 - 1410 B.C.

C. Purpose: Book of Origins

D. To whom written: People of Israel

E. Main theme: Man's sin and initial steps for his redemption initiated by GOD.

F. Keyword: Beginning

G. Key verse: First Messianic Promise -

Genesis 3:15 (Amplified Bible)

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Genesis 3:24 (Amplified Bible)

So [God] drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life.

A. GOD drove man out of paradise

"So [God] drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way,"

How did GOD accomplished this?

1. Personally GOD drove man out of paradise: Eden

2. Cherubims were placed to guard Eden

The ALEPH-TAV is located and placed on strategic location of this verse:

a. after the word "OUT" signifying that the LORD JESUS Himself was the One rejected not anyone else, not Adam, not Eve, they're not rejected, they are loved.

After this the trend of being "driven away" from the Presence of the LORD started. They thought all along that GOD drove them away but GOD drove JESUS away from His Presence on our behalf:

People driven away from GOD's Presence but was in fact the LORD JESUS was driven away for our sake and on our behalf:

(1) Cain

Genesis 4:14 (Amplified Bible)

Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land, and from Your face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.

(2) Jephthah

Judges 11:2 (Amplified Bible)

And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when his wife’s sons grew up, they thrust Jephthah out and said to him, You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.

(3) Abiathar

1 Kings 2:27 (Amplified Bible)

So Solomon expelled Abiathar [descendant of Eli] from being priest to the Lord, fulfilling the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

The insults, rejections of people that are meant for us fell on the LORD JESUS, He's the Scape Goat.

Romans 15:3 (Amplified Bible)

For Christ did not please Himself [gave no thought to His own interests]; but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached and abused you fell on Me.

Psalms 69:9 (Amplified Bible)

For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me.

Actually all insults and rejection you do to people fall on GOD but JESUS CHRIST our LORD, the Second Person in the Trinity took up all these insults and even curses and it fell on Him.

Galatians 3:13 (Amplified Bible)

Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified);

Deuteronomy 21:23 (Amplified Bible)

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God. Thus you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.