QUESTION #7    WHAT THEN WILL MY OUTCOME BE?        

"…And the Lord God said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’"         Gen. 3:13

    The final question I have for you is not one the devil wanted Eve to think about.  What will the decisions we make in our minds lead to in the spirit?  Had she been more focused on her and Adam's relationship with God she could have asked herself, "Have I used my mind appropriately and thought completely through all my actions until my innermost being has had a chance to express itself in God?"  Our outcomes in life depend on this kind of spiritual thinking.  How different things really would have been if only Adam and Eve had done this.  They would have gone on to unknown natural and spiritual levels and we would never have had to learn these same lessons in the hard ways.  We would quite naturally walk as spiritual men and women with awesome mental capacities in that physical paradise God created to be a heaven on earth.  Thank God, Jesus came as the "second Adam" according to First Corinthians chapter 15, verses 45 through 49.  He has restored the ability for mankind to live in the Spirit again by following through with the call of God where Adam did not.  Jesus' life was all about the submission of His soul to the Spirit of God.  As a result he completely fulfilled and finished the greater plan of God for mankind.  His sacrifice was one of soul and body for the freedom of the spirit of man.  He did nothing of his own design.  Everything was purely spiritual in that it was God designing His every move and thus absolutely perfect.  If the first couple had thought these questions through and not fallen into the power of sin, they would still have encountered Christ and realized their total need to depend on Him.  In hindsight though, we only lack the perfect physical and mental environment they originally had.  I believe our spiritual capacity is potentially even greater, in that we now have the opportunity to experience God's plan for our lives through the person and power of Christ Jesus, even though we have all already eaten of the forbidden fruit!  Beyond that we have the further opportunity to reflect a degree of the likeness of God to every person we come in contact with.  We actually become the physical and mental representation of the Lord to those who so desperately need to encounter Him on a personal level...until He returns!