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makes us poster children for grace. If we examine Jesus’ genealogy in Luke 3:38,
Luke lists Adam last as the Son of God.
We can’t rebuild
the wall if offense Adam was not a perfect person. He blamed his
and division are in wife for his sin instead of being accountable.
the church. We Adam’s own son, Cain, killed his brother, Abel
must honor His by not submitting to God’s wisdom (Genesis
birth by embracing 4:6-7). Lust, pride, rebellion and then murder as
His sheep that He has entrusted us to minister the first generational curse (Genesis 4:8, 23-24)
the gospel. pushed Adam into darkness. By God’s grace,
May I suggest that Jesus is the reason for the He still selected Adam’s generational line for
season? By examining God’s love and light Christ to come through with Seth’s birth
through the genealogy of Jesus, we can reposi- (Genesis 4:25-26).
tion ourselves into right alignment with our Seth restored reverence for the fear of the Lord
commission. to the people; Jesus did the same thing when he
met a Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:24-
Let us reacquaint ourselves with the divine pat-
tern created by Jesus’ birth. It is time for our 29). God made Jesus the second Adam, a quick-
present journey to come full circle. ening Spirit that revived humanity (1 Corinthian
15:45).
His Love: In the Beginning, There Grace by Birth Principle #1: Jesus Christ’s
Was a Divine Pattern birth gives us second chances and restores true
When God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy worship to God in spirit and truth, no matter
Spirit) make man in Our image, according to what we have done.
Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual per-
sonality and moral likeness]; and let them have
complete authority over the fish of the sea, the His Light: How Jesus’ Descendants
birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire Showed God’s Grace
earth, and over everything that creeps and Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am
crawls on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26 AMP) the light of the world: he that followeth me shall
֎ ֎ ֎ not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of
life. (John 8:12 KJV)
God created the divine pattern in the Garden of ֎ ֎ ֎
Eden. Adam was the first man, a living soul
who daily communed with God and lived in Light shone through Jesus’
prosperity and peace. God had given him a five- descendants as their love of
fold mandate of grace: be fruitful, multiply, re- God transformed the dark-
plenish, subdue and have dominion. The only ness of their lives. In
thing Adam could not have was fruit from the Matthew 1:1-18, the dis-
tree in the center of the garden. Adam & Eve ciple traced Jesus’ geneal-
allowed a created thing to corrupt the divine ogy from Abraham to His
pattern. Their sin put enmity between their seed earthly father, Joseph as a tran-
and the serpent, which the devil was using to sition into His divine conception. Each of the
speak to them. It released a prophecy of Jesus’ men, known and unknown, had made mistakes.
birth, the Seed that would bruise the head of the Abraham lied. David had an affair and killed
serpent and free them from eternal death his mistress’s husband. Solomon’s relationships
(Genesis 3:15. made him worship idols. Jacob operated in de-
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