It was before the Passover festival. Jesus knew that His hour had come, and he must leave this world. and go to the Father. He had always loved his own who were in the world, and now He was to show the full extent of his love. The devil had already put into the mind of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. During supper, Jesus well aware that the Father had entrusted everything to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from the table, laid aside His garments, and taking a towel, tied it around him. Then He poured water into a basin, and began to wash His disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel.
When it was Simon Peter's turn, Peter said to him, 'You Lord, washing my feet?' "You don't understand now what I am doing, one one day you will.' Peter said, 'I will never let you wash my feet.' 'If I do not wash you,'Jesus replied, 'you ' you are not in fellowship with me.' 'Then, Lord,' said Simon Peter, ' not my feet only; wash my head and hands as well!
Jesus said, ' A man who has bathed needs no further washing; he is altogether clean; and you are clean, though not every one of you.' He added the words'not every one of you' because He knew who was going to betray him. After washing their feet and taking his garments again, he sat down.' Do you understand ,' he asked, ' what I have done for you? You call me "Master" and " Lord, and rightly so, for that is what is what I am. A "Servant is not greater than a Master."
Before a plant of the field was in earth, before a grain of the field sprouted-Yahweh had not spilled rain on the earth, nor was there a man to work the land- yet from the day Yahweh made earth and sky, a mist within would arise to moisten the surface. Yahweh shaped an earthling from clay of this earth, blew into his nostrils the wind of life. Now look: man becomes a creature of flesh.
Now Yahweh planted a garden in Eden, eastward, settled there the man he formed, From the land Yahweh grew all trees lovely to look upon, good to eat from; the tree of life was there in the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Then Yahweh sends out of Eden a river; it waters the the garden, then outside branches into four: one, Pishon, winds through the whole of Havila, land of fine, gold- where the bdellium is, the lapis lazuli. The second, called Gihon moves through the area of Cush; Tigris, the third, travels east of Asshur; and Euphrates is the fourth. So God puts man in the garden to care for it. He says to Eve, you may eat from of all the trees in the garden, He warns. But one you can not eat from, or even touch, the tree of Knowledge; Of Good and Evil. If you eat it, "Death" arrives. Now Yahweh says;It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper, for his needs. So the Lord God took from the soil and formed every kind of animal and bird and brought them to the man, to see what He would call them. He caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep, because their was not a proper helpmate for him. he took one of his ribs, removed it, closed up the place where he removed it and made the rib into a women and brought her to Adam. Adam says she is part of my own bone,and flesh! The two became one flesh which explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife.
Now the 'serpent', better known as "Satan," craftiest of the creatures the Lord God had made. that old slicker then bubble gum on a doorknob confronts Eve, when he heard God say: you may eat any fruit in the Garden, except from the tree in the "Center."
God says we must not eat or even touch it, or we will die. "That's a lie! hisses the serpent. You'll
not die" Death will not come near you said the serpent to the women. God knows as soon as you eat it, your eyes will be open, and you will be like God, being able to distinguish good from evil! The women was convinced how lovely and fresh looking it was, She thought it would make her so wise! She reached for the fruit, ate, and here's the kicker: "Gave it to Adam her husband, and both their eyes open, Suddenly thy became aware that they were naked and where embarrassed. The fruit from the tree of knowledge, gave them the word"" for naked as their condition, that they were naked.
So they wound together fig leaves, to make covering for themselves. That evening they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden, Adam and Eve hid themselves among the trees when they heard Yahweh called to the man."Where are you hiding?" I heard you coming and I didn't want you to see me naked, so I hid. Who told you you were naked Yahweh asked. have you eaten fruit from the forbidden tree I warned you about. The women you gave to me-she gave me the fruit of the tree, I ate."
What is this you have done said Yahweh to the women.
"The smooth-tongued snake tricked me ,I ate."
"Since you did this," said Yahweh to the snake, " You are to be singled out from all the domestic animals of the whole earth- to be cursed. You shall grovel in the dirt as long as you live, crawling along on your belly." From now on you and the women will be enemies, as will all of your offspring and hers. An I will put the fear of you into the women, and between your off spring and hers.
Then God said to the women, "You shall bear children in intense pain and suffering; even so, you shall welcome your husbands affections, and he shall rule over thee.(KJV). Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit when I told you not to, have placed a curse on the soil. all our life you will struggle to extract a living from it. All your live you will sweat to master it, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came; for from dust you are, to dust you shall return.
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