04-05-2007, 09:44 PM
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Not riding the train
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by mfblume
Thanks, sister.
You know, I noticed one day that Eve's observation that the fruit of the forbidden tree being pleasant to the sight and good for food, and able to make one wise, was a three-part list. And all the other fruit had two thirds of this one... pleasant to sight and good for food.
The KILLER element was the THIRD one that was absent from the rest of the fruit. A tree desired to make one wise. It was SELF EXALTATION which, once again, shows the contrast to the work fo the cross. The cross demands self denial!
Thank God for the tree of Life, the CROSS. It sounds like death, but that is in regards to SELF. However, once self is denied and falls into the ground and dies, we receive life AGAIN MORE ABUNDANTLY.
I love the work of the cross and its application through Acts 2:38! |
Amen! I never noticed that before. Very awesome.
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