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I’m A Believer Don’t ask me what I believe about God and His Son Jesus Christ unless you are prepared for a long discourse. Space will not allow me to print everything I believe, but perhaps you will have an idea of what I believe. First of all I believe that God created the heaven and the earth: (Gen. 1:1) “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” This is something that you and I cannot fully understand unless we first consider just how powerful God is. God has the power to do whatsoever He wills. I also believe that God created man: (Gen. 2:7) “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.” I believe that God planted a beautiful garden [called Eden] and He placed the man that He had created in this garden to tend to it: (Gen. 2:8) “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” I do not believe in the theory of evolution or the big bang theory; rather I believe in creation by the power of God. I also believe that God can be angered when we do not do as He has commanded. God even became angered with the first man and woman! God gave Adam a simple command: (Gen. 2:16–17) “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17But 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.” The Bible tells us that Adam and his wife Eve could not even obey this simplest of commands. They ate the fruit of the forbidden tree and this was not pleasing to God and He cast them out of this wonderful garden: (Gen. 3:23) “Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. This resulted in life being much harder for all of mankind because man could not keep the commandments God had given unto him. I believe that God caused a great flood to come upon this earth because of the wickedness of man: (Gen. 6:5) “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Although God was very displeased with mankind there was one man and his family that found grace in the eyes of God: (Gen 7:1) “And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.” Yes, I do believe that there was a flood just as God’s Word proclaims: (Gen. 7:11–12) “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” I believe that God does indeed love His people and will come to their rescue. In the book of Exodus we find the children of Israel in Egypt; they had gone there to find food. From a small number of people they multiplied and the king became afraid of them and tried to destroy them: (Ex. 1:13–14) “And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.” God saw the afflictions of the children of Israel and heard their cries: (Ex 3:7) “And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;” Because God loved them he sent a deliverer to them. The man that God sent was Moses. Now Moses had killed an Egyptian and had fled from the country, however, Moses was not hidden from God. God appeared to and spoke to Moses from a burning bush: (Ex. 3:1–2) Even though it took ten plagues to free the children of Israel from the Egyptian bondage God’s love did prevail and the children of Israel were delivered. Friends, I have only begun to tell you what I believe about God. Therefore I will continue with more next week if it be the Lord’s will.
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