“ONE THING”
By Greg Rooks
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What could happen if you take your eyes off Jesus and forget the “one
thing”?
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BEGUILED
1.
Beguile(verb) to delude by guile, artifice, or
craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure
2.
Beguile(verb) to elude, or evade by craft; to
foil
3.
(verb) to cause the time of to pass without
notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert
Reference
beguile. (n.d.). Definitions.net. Retrieved March 16, 2013,
from http://www.definitions.net/definition/beguile.
Think about it, the
Devil attempts to “to delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose
on, as by a false statement; to lure” us to believe what God says is not true.
“Don’t eat from the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil”.
If I said to you,” don’t
put your finger in that electric light bulb socket or you will get
electrocuted”, then you would probably listen.
But, if you say to a young child, “you can put your finger in
that socket and no harm will become you”, then the child would probably do it
just to see for themselves.
Remember
how God said it in the Bible:
Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man,
and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 ¶And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
COMMAND
1.
to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order: to command troops to march.
2.
to require authoritatively; demand: to command silence.
3.
to deserve and receive (respect, sympathy, attention,
etc.).
4.
to dominate by reason of location; overlook: The hill commands the sea.
5.
to have authority over and responsibility for (a military
installation).
Category: Military
6.
to have control over; be master of:
The Pharaoh commanded 10,000 slaves.
7.
(v.i.)to issue an order or
orders.
8.
to be in charge; have authority.
9.
to occupy a dominating position; look down upon or over a
body of water, region, etc.
10. (n.)the act of commanding or ordering.
11. an order given by
one in authority.
12. an order in
prescribed words, as one given in a loud voice to troops at close-order drill: The command was “Right shoulder arms!”
13. (cap.) a principal component of the U.S. Air Force: a body
of troops or a station, ship, etc., under a commander.
Strategic Air Command.
Category: Military
14. the possession or
exercise of controlling authority: a
lieutenant in command of a platoon.
15. expertise;
mastery: to have a command of four
languages.
16. power of
dominating a region by reason of location; extent of view or outlook:
the command of the valley from the hill.
17.
a signal, as a keystroke, instructing a computer to
perform a specific task.
Category: Computers
18. (adj.)of, pertaining to, or resulting from a command.
19. of or pertaining
to a commander.
20. ordered or
requested, as by a sovereign: a command
performance.
Reference
COMMANDED. (n.d.). Definitions.net.
Retrieved March 16, 2013, from http://www.definitions.net/definition/COMMANDED.
17 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 3:1 ¶Now the serpent was more
subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said
unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said
unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of
the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that
in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil.
6 ¶And when the woman saw that the tree was good for
food, and that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Wait a minute…….what just happened here? Satan deluded by guile, artifice, or craft;
to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure first Eve to take of
the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then to eat it,
thereby giving up their position of
authority that God had given Adam and Eve.
Since, legally, God placed Adam in authority, Adam bent his knee to
Satan giving over his position of dominion over the earth.
God wants us to be like him. He made us in his likeness and image and
placed the first man and women in authority over His creation, the Earth. God is in authority over all creation since
He created everything that was created.
John 1:1 ¶In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the
beginning with God.
3 All things were made
by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and
the life was the light of men.
Think of it like this: Satan pulled Adam and Eve into
the darkness with him away from the light of God.
Genesis 2:7
7 And the LORD God
formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living soul.
8 ¶And the LORD God
planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground
made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good
for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out
of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into
four heads.
11 The name of the first
is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is
gold;
12 And the gold of that
land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the
second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of
Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the
third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And
the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God took
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 ¶And the LORD God commanded
the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 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 1:26
Genesis 1:26 ¶And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
27 So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he
them.
28 And God blessed them,
and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 ¶And God said,
Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all
the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of
the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon
the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and
it was so.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all
thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 ¶Be not wise in thine own
eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to
thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit
of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God:
So, what is that
“One Thing” that comes before God in your life?
Nothing can separate you from God except you putting anything else
first. This may sound harsh or unkind but,
nothing should be more important to you
than God. He is the one that protects
you and your family. He is the one that prospers
you.
I think that we all should be diligent in assessing our
day to day lives to determine whether we are letting anything come before
God. Take him at His word, believe on
Him, He shall guide your path. And when
Satan starts seeking to destroy you by deluding you by guile, artifice, or
craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure, then keep
Jesus first and know what His Word says.
I welcome comments and thoughts that edify the Body of
Christ!
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