Life Learning Series

Some gifts come with choices: to use them, or, not. The life that the LORD gifted to the kingdom of man was not of that sort. Once that gift was delivered, it took control of the first place of activity in the kingdom of man. Though; God did not give this gift absolute control of the kingdom of man–for, life, too, has to operate in a span. Life’s span is complete when it releases control to another of the gifts of God: death. Wait; before we answer that question you just raised, here is our introduction to death.

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

(Genesis 2:15-17)

Okay; now, back to that question. You ask why I say that, death is a gift. I say so because; in an extension of its charter, death was enlisted to deliver us into this fulfillment.

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To move in the flow of, life as a gift, as in an extended fashion; we needed an image of how we can navigate this mental terrain. To give us that example, the LORD inserted a reasoning process in Noah. The reasoning process took Noah to the place at which he understood that certain things are wise to do. Among the things that are wise to do is this one: to be faithful in our communion with the LORD.

It is because of Noah’s inaugural faithfulness–as extends to us, in his example–that, he assists us in molding our life in religion. As a part of the lesson of Noah, we acknowledge both, religious outreach, and, cherishing life, as being a tightly coupled gift from God. A certain servant of God revealed the beauty of the gift, as in these words.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

(Ephesians 2:4-9)

In the living example, Noah; the gift is as we see its coupling, here.

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Why bring us out of the void? Why bother with us, at all? God has His Heaven, and the beings there are superior to us. I make that statement as by the strength of this message that is of the LORD.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

(Psalm 8:3-9)

But, wait; I see an interesting word: honour. This feels like it has a link to the realm of God, as being available to the kingdom of man. It seems that, God had a portion of His Heaven that overflowed. I wonder if there are any other things that are overflowing. Actually, I am sure that, there are other things that overflow. A certain conversation of one of us seems to indicate that; Heavenly overflow happens. It occurs as is reported, here.

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Back in time, when we started our adventure in extension from the void, we had to produce certain examples for the coming population of mankind. These examples could be either destructive or constructive. Fortunately for us, the destructive example was not given an enduring span; because, the LORD has no ordinance for repetitively destroying his Creation.

The LORD does have ordinances for repetitively–some may say, cyclically–constructing the layers of the kingdom of man. And, it seems just perfect that; the LORD uses human examples, to accomplish the construction, and, too, to remove us from the need of concentration only on ours. To pull us from that void, God set this human, Noah, as an ever enduring example in the history of the kingdom of man.

In Noah, as by the LORD, the kingdom of man was introduced to certain beneficial attributes of the constructive example type of entity. These attributes are the kind that we can emulate. One of those attributes is seen in the following Scripture.

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

(Genesis 6:7-10)

Also–as encased in a marvelous mix of, integrity, and, emphasis on world consideration–the LORD gave Noah a family mind. This is not the same as, biological capability to produce sons; which, we saw, above. The family mind is superlative to biological capability; as, it is the means of preservation of the biology of the family. In Noah, we see that in action, here.

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Generally, we think about life as being a progression of events. Unfortunately, this places us in a two-dimensional, limited mindset. You need to add a third dimension to your pattern of thinking. To help you do that, we will walk through a three-dimensional exploration of the kingdom of man. The three dimensions that I want you to consider are these: span, duration, and persistence. Span is like unto a true line–the kind that has no actual depth to it. For instance, a line is seen in a phrase such as this . . .

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

(Genesis 1:3)

The words of the phrase, kingdom of man, form a line of reasoning–more needs to be added to it, before it will have an ascertainable shape as for the mind of man. The duration of the kingdom of man adds the depth of progression; as, in its events. Please hold these thoughts, for later. We need to return to the easier, more compact, visualization that is in light.

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