Sermon 1620 - Sixteen Desires - 1st Message…..(Tue pm 3/10/98)

SIXTEEN DESIRES - 1ST MESSAGE......(TUE PM 3/10/98)

(Ministerial Convention) Genesis 2:6,7. explains how God created man, in the beginning. Adam or Aw-dawm (as the name is pronounced in Hebrew) was made from the dust of the ground. Aw-dawm, whose name means to show blood in the face, to be red or rosy, had visible flesh and blood. Genesis 2:21-25 says that God put Adam to sleep and took a rib from him and, then, closed up the flesh instead, thereof. The word instead means to be beneath or behind. This rib, which God used to make a wife for Adam, was taken from the Eesh or inner, invisible part of man. When Adam saw her, he said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man [Eesh]. The woman is man’s other self. The word Eesh is kin to the Hebrew word for fire .The Eesh, the Fire man, the inner man, had invisible flesh and blood. God created man with fiery desire (aw-vaw) to lift up the LORD’s Name (Isaiah 26:8). The overflow of this desire is what draws people to follow us.

When man sinned, he turned his desire to himself and started desiring to lift up his own name and make himself known. This is was origin of the Big “I” which causes man so much trouble.