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Bro. Otis Fisher
Roger, do you have John 13 3 open? Would you read it to us, please? His brother David was giving us that wonderful message this morning, and he read that. I saw something for the first time. Something that I knew but I'd never seen it connected with that verse go now to Ephesians 1 and 4.
I don't think David of mind me. Adding a little bit. David read Ephesians 1 4. All right. We know that that was not a choice as we think a choice. We've just always been with him. When David read John 13 3 this morning and Jesus Knew that he had come from the father and was going back to the father.
It's all come to me. So have we. We have come from the father and we're going back to the father just as Jesus did. Then he was talking about the Passover and the eating of the lamb. And another thought come to me David.
They were instructed to eat all of it or if they didn't to burn all that was left. And I asked myself why and this is what myself said. That the next morning after they were gone if there has been any food left.
The lamb left others would have eaten it. And salvation is for his people only and not for anyone else and This is why they had to eat it all or burn it all so there would be nothing left for others to pick up.
That make any sense to you. Salvation is just for his people. Passover is just for his people. None left over for anybody else. Now I left you last week with an assignment. What three things is it that the evolutionists cannot account for?
Who thought of at least one? Who thought of none? The three things that was that come to my mind was that they cannot account for human speech. Neither can they account for human conscience or for human individuality.
The second part of the assignment was a typical day in the life of Adam in the garden. Now, I'm sure all of you answered that one. Who wants to read their essay. Who doesn't want to read their essay. What two words.
Well, you were supposed to look at that too, but also. They just just outline a typical day of Adam. All right, give us the two word dress and keep. If you had had the resources to trace it further back.
You would have discovered that both words dress and keep. Come from a word meaning to worship. So in both the assignments for Adam. His dressing and his keeping of the garden was worship of God. I found that to be rather interesting.
Well. In all of the well, he was placed over all of the creation. But in all of my research, I've never come to a satisfactory answer in my own mind. Of just what he meant by the word keep. Other than worship, but it had something else with it and that I cannot answer.
I was in hopes when I got the answer back from you all today. About the typical day in the life of Adam. I would find out what it meant, but since no one is volunteering. Did anybody spend any time thinking about it?
All right great David oh. That's why you put up your hand. Well, let me add to that then for next week. Did Adam have to sleep now. Let's come to our lesson the 15th verse of the second chapter. 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 may eat 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. Very simple statement made one time. Made to Adam not to Adam and Eve but to Adam it was Not easy to misunderstand what had been said.
So he knew exactly That there was a tree That he could not touch. Well, it doesn't say not touch, but he could not eat the fruit of it. Didn't say he couldn't look at it. He just could not eat it. Now Adam was in a state of innocence.
He was completely free. Freedom demands a choice. So he had to have a choice or he would never have been free. This is the choice the reason for the tree part of it was to give Adam a choice. What is it that God?
Loves more than sacrifice. Obedience. That's what this tree is going to teach is obedience most important lesson. David mentioned it again this morning. Always study what the word does not say along with what it says.
The Lord tells Adam To not eat of this tree. What he does not tell him is but you are going to eat of the tree. God had decreed that the human race would fall and The way it would fall, but he did not tell Adam.
So Adam had no idea That the human race was going to turn out to be sinful. He had no idea of anything of doing anything except what the Lord wanted him to do. So why did Adam eat of the tree? Because he wanted to.
Just that simple that one simple answer Will help you understand all the rest of the Bible. He did it because he wanted to do it. So do we. We do not know what we're going to do in the next five minutes.
We think we know based on the past experience. But we don't know. God has a revealed will and an unrevealed will. Russell. The revealed will is the one for which we are to be in obedience. The unrevealed will we have nothing to do this.
So Commit that one simple little answer To memory. It applies to your entire life. We do that which we want to do without ever knowing that what we're doing is already decreed by God. Pharaoh did what he wanted to not knowing that he was fulfilling the will of God.
Any questions Verse 18. And the Lord said it is not good that the man should be alone. I Will make him a help me one who helps for him and out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field every fowl of the air and Brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them.
And whatsoever Adam called every living creature That was the name of it. I found it strange That the scripture says that It is not good for man to dwell alone. I will make him a helper and Then immediately Fred he brings all of the animals to him to name.
There seems to be no connection. It looks like that just after he said I'll make him a helpmate that he would have gone ahead and made it but he didn't. He brought all of the animals past Adam for him to name them.
So there must have been a reason first of all. How many days do you suppose this took for Adam to name all of the animals? Now we're not talking about every animal inside of every species. We're talking about every animal of every species.
Is he still at it in an instant? How could that be? That's not what he told us happened. He said he brought them and they all passed by. And he named them as they passed by. Well, I understand he can do anything and could do anything he wanted to do.
He didn't have to do anything he did. But there is a logical pattern to what he did now setting. Well since we can't answer that one Russell, how did he know what to call each one? He named them. Now you can't cop out with saying everything is cause God wanted it.
That's true. What language. So he named it by its shape and what else and by what noise it made. So basically he named it by the shape. By the sound that made. Certainly not not by what he remembered.
I heard someone say one day he named the elephant because he said it looks more like an elephant than anything. He actually named it Aniba, I don't know. In fact, I imagine if we took a poll there wouldn't be over three or four things they were there.
Well, my point in all of this is first he said I'm gonna make him a helper and he didn't. He brought all of the animals. How do you suppose the animals come by? By twos. Male and female. Why was that?
To show him one. How did he know they were not. I hate classes have got an answer to everything. But came in twos, all right, but there was no attraction between Adam and and the animals. None whatsoever.
What's this extracurricular stuff? Well, I am too. All right. He gave names to all of the cattle to the fowler there to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was found no helper and the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam.
Are there any medical doctors in? Audience. Are there any? Retired nurses in the audience. Be tell us what is meant by the term deep sleep. What does smart Alex say? Number five. Okay. In surgery. The anathetist is the most important person in there.
Because they kill you and then hold you just above death. That's what deep sleep is. He put Adam into that deep sleep. Now since we're playing the game God could have. He could have done it without putting him to sleep.
Why did he not Make Eve from dirt like he did Adam. I don't. I don't know if we're. I Don't know if we're learning anything, but we're sure having fun at it. Why. That's exactly right. There was an attraction as soon as he saw her.
There had never been an attraction in any of the animals if he had made her from dirt. Then she would have been a separate identity and have there ever been any attraction. There had to be an attraction between these two.
We'll get to more of that in a moment. Well, we'll get to it right now. Therefore Where did I leave off and the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam? And he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh thereof now.
For the first 80 years of my life. I thought man who had one less rib than a woman. But that's not true and the rib. Which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto man. Now a rib is symbolic of what he did.
He took bowl. Russell in fact God did the first cloning. From Adam he produced a woman. Out of the sight of Adam came the human race. Out of the sight of the ark came the home. Out of the sight of Jesus our Lord came eternal life.
All out of the sight. And Adam said This is now bone of my bones flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman. Because she was taken out of man. Ishmael was Eve a descendant of Adam. Now, you've had all kinds of answers.
She wasn't. Are you sure? The only way you define it descendant you descended from what did. No, would you just Adam and Eve? Was Eve a descendant of Adam? Well, we need to work on your definition. Oh, she was a descendant of Adam.
What. And just like Adam was? But she was a descendant of Adam. She did not stand alone in her creation. Adam was made out of dirt. Woman was made from bone. Why did God not make the woman. I've already asked that.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and. They were both naked. Now this is naked not naked and they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed.
And God called them what what. He called them Adam. He did not call them the Adams's. He called them Adam one. The man and the wife make up one. Before woman was removed from Adam now. I want you to listen very close and not misunderstand.
Adam had all the properties of both male and female. Although he didn't look like a woman. But he had all of the properties of both. The woman has that talking about. Now the woman has that for which a man seeks love motherly instinct care for children.
Abilities to manage a household. Everything that a woman is good at. Man on the other hand has all that the woman desires. Protection provider for the family leadership of the home. Spiritual head of the household and so forth everything that the man is held responsible for.
What is the oldest institution on earth? But Family. Get very far. But we must get started in it. And this is the ones going to take some deep concentration on your part. Now the serpent was more subtle Than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
It's very unfortunate on some circumstances that we live in the West. The eastern part of the world Seems to have a better understanding Than our translations. We have here one of the most difficult as well as the most important narratives of the whole book of God.
This third tip the last chapter Ended with a short but striking account of the perfection of the first human beings and this one Opens with an account of their transgression degradation and ruin. That man is in a fallen state the history of the world with that of the life of miseries of every human being establishes be on any successful contradiction.
But how and by what agency was this brought about the great mystery and I ask each one of you. Have you ever Been satisfied on this part of the subject though, you're convinced that it is a fact. Have you ever really been satisfied?
Or have you just accepted it as what it says and go on? Who and what was this? In what way did he or it seduce the first happy pair? These are questions yet remain unanswered. The whole account is either a simple narrative of facts or it is an allegory.
If it is a historical event Its literal meaning should be sought out. That's what we're going to do. If it is an allegory, no attempt should be made to explain it. I Take it as a event in history. I believe it to be an account of something that actually happened.
Therefore I'm going to take it upon myself to seek the true meaning of it. I Cannot stand here and give you all of my research. So you will get a part of it. But if anybody would like to have a full copy, I'll be glad to make one.
We start now with notes On the serpent in the garden. First of all, we have to go to language and brother Rogers. That's a difficult task. As you just pointed out, but as you study the languages of the world You begin to see that they all Trace back to either one of the languages of Hebrew or Arabic.
I Have found that in the Hebrew where I could not find a root I could usually find it in Arabic and Vice versa. If it's not in the Arabic, then you can usually find it in Hebrew. So, I think I could be safe in saying that the language that was first used Was either Arabic or Hebrew and I leaned toward the Hebrew.
It had to be given by God. Man did not come equipped speaking a language Had all of the facilities to do it. And God saw that it was developed now the word The base word for serpent in the Bible Is no cash in a CH a SH and it signifies this It means to view attentively to acquire knowledge or experience by attentive observation no cash and Through study of the scripture.
I have learned that this word Seems to be the most general meaning in the Bible. It's used throughout the Bible and It actually is used in the wrong way in lots of places. Because they make it mean something other than in one particular verse.
The original word is by the Septuagint translated a serpent no cash. Not because that was the fixed determining determination of the meaning of it But because it was the best that occurred to the translators.
And they do not seem to have given themselves much trouble to understand the meaning of the original. For they have rendered the word as variously as our translators have done. Talking about the Septuagint in the Septuagint We find nearly the same Translation as we have in this part of Genesis.
The New Testament writers who seldom unfortunately Quoted the Old Testament from the Septuagint translation and often did not change even a word in their quotation. They copied the first version Using this word so from the Septuagint We find in such some places Such as this in Genesis 3 1 is translated serpent.
In Genesis 1 21 the same Hebrew word is translated whale. In Ezekiel 29 and 3 it is translated crocodile. In Jeremiah 5134 is translated dragon. In Job 2613 is translated a whale or a hippo or a seahorse.
Now all of these different Translations are from the same word. So we can expect not much light and need from any of the ancient versions Which are Handed down to us from the Septuagint. And by the way, the Septuagint was a corrupted text even in the beginning in a in all of this uncertainty is natural for Anyone that's serious in their inquiry to look someplace else for information.
They go to the Arabic. They go to the Hebrew roots very nearly we find a word similar to that in the text and It casts quite a bit of light upon it and it's called ch a n a s Channis or Cahannes. This word signifies he departed drew off lay he had seduced slunk away.
From this root word comes ac anus Cahannes Cahannes a and Canoes. Which all signify an ape or any other creature of that? Gene genus genus. It's very remarkable also that from this very same root comes Cahannes the devil.
And I found it rather interesting that the devil and the ape have the same root word in their meaning. Now the Nakosh was more subtle more wise cunning prudent Than any of the beasts of the field that whatever this Nakosh was He stood erect and he stood at the head of the inferior animals for wisdom and For reasoning he did walk erect.
Because that was necessarily implied when his punishment was Upon thy belly. It actually says upon all fours thou shalt go. That he was endued with the gift of speech. Or a conversation is here related between he and woman.
That it was also endued with the gift of reasoning Where we find him reasoning and disputing with Eve. But these things were common to this creature. The woman no doubt having often seen him walking erect and talk and reason and therefore she testifies No kind of surprise.
When he accosts her in the language related to the text and indeed from a manner in which this is introduced it appears to Only be a part of the conversation. Had this creature and never been known to speak before is addressing the woman at this time and on this subject.
It could not have failed to excite or surprise. And to have filled her with caution though from the purity and innocence Of her nature she might have been incapable of being affected with fear. And I'll grant you that that might have been the reason now I Say all of this to say that none of these Can ever be spoken of the serpent?
Of any species none of them ever did or ever will walk erect. The tales we've heard of two-footed and four-footed serpents are justly exploded by every judicious naturalist. And are utterly unworthy of credit.
Remember he named the animals according to their shape Their activity or the sound that they made. All of these things considered we are obliged to seek for information someplace else. The word serpal The word serpent means serpal come from serpal and it means to hiss.
Doesn't mean to talk means to hiss. That's what the snake did. And I think that's the reason he named it what he did the subtlety and cunning endlessly various pranks. How many of you ever been to a zoo and observed an orangutan?
It is my belief and I put that in quotation marks because it's just my belief. But I have a right to my belief is all of the other theologians. They're guessing After they've done research. But my belief is that this animal was a forerunner of the present-day orangutan.
If you'll stand or sit and watch them over a period of time. They seem to be very intelligent but they In their natural state will not walk erect. Now man can make them walk erect. But it takes a lot of patience and training in one place.
I found that a Survey was made Monkeys in general and Over 90 of them hated women. I don't know if that has any connection at all or not. They were told to That they would eat from the dust. Which the orangutan does.
Although he has all of the capability of Inspecting the food. He'll rub it on his coat mostly just to see what it is or to get the dust off of it. And that brings us down to the first verse of chapter 3.
And we're going to stop there. So I want you to think about this animal. I used to think of it as a snake all of the time. But I have decided that it was not. If you disagree, that's fine. All right, we'll start with verse 1 of chapter 3 next time.
Are there any questions? Statements. Arguments, I cannot believe that God would make a certain animal and make them like this Just as one. I Think it was a species. I'll tell you I'll share with you what I really think it was if you won't ever tell anybody all my life of education.
I've always heard and read and studied about the caveman. How many are familiar with the caveman? Well never having seen one, but seeing all of the pictures of how he Evolved from some little something and finally walked erect and finally become man.
Which is not true. I Think that this animal Was the forerunner of the caveman. It answers all of the questions. And it was not a man at all. It was an animal and I believe if we had been there at the time we would have thought nothing about the difference between the animal and Adam and Eve.
But that's just my thoughts anything else. Then let's stand and go home. Bill would you dismiss us please?