Present at the Birth (Part 3): Creation Reveals His Purpose

Now, forget you and forget me and forget our place in being able to receive that life. And sometimes in the next year, Denise and I will get out a book, God willing, entitled The Secret to the Christian Life. And you have just received, I hope, Living by the Highest Life by Gene Edwards.

That Jesus Christ, in eternity past, lived the Christian life in the Godhead by means of his Father’s life. The Father enjoyed giving to His Son the Father’s life, and that’s what happened in eternity past. The Father gave the Son His life. And the Son lived by His Father’s life. And the Spirit was the giving of that life from Father to Son. For that Life is Spirit. And the Father gave the Son the highest life. And it was by that unction, by that engine, that all of the fellowship of the Godhead takes place.

Now, this eternal corporate God who is Father, Son, and Spirit has made a purpose. And they are so enamored with and touched by this Life which has allowed the Son, the eternal Son, to have life that is given by the Father to the Son, and they, the Spirit, the Father, and the Son, are impressed with the Life which is the Father. And somewhere in the provocation of creation, in the provocation of the eternal purpose, this Life now reaches out beyond the Godhead. For what purpose? I don’t know. I don’t know. But whatever it is, it’s unto Him. It’s for Him. It’s through Him. It’s by Him. And, brother, it is eventually, say it with me, to Him.

There is now an eternal plan pouring out from God, and it is His very Life. His very Life has dared to come onto this unfallen and innocent planet, and I don’t know what’s going to take place there, but I know that eventually, originally it came out of Him, and I know that eventually it’s returning to Him. Praise the Lord. So, we have God, we have man, and we have life. Are you impressed? And it is by Him, for Him, through Him, out of Him, originating out of Him. It is for Him. It is through us, but it is going through us, and it’s going to end up to Him, unto Him. If that Life ever has anything to do with me, the ultimate purpose of the fact that that Life would come to me is that it will eventually go back to Him.

Praise the Lord. Now, do you see that that is nothing but an extension of what was happening in the Godhead? Do you understand that it was originally that way, the Father giving it to the Son? It was from Him. It was by Him, and it was to His Son. His Son received His Father’s life and gave it back to Him. Therefore, it came back to Him. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. I say this humbly: if this has ever been stated before in public in the English language, I wasn’t there, and I didn’t read about it, but this to me is glory. God, my Lord, give us such a mind, give us such a thought, give us such an understanding.

Okay. Praise the Lord. There is also a woman. A woman. Now, where is the woman? Denise? Denise probably knows something. I don’t know. Look at this gal. There’s the woman. Where’s the woman? She’s in the man. She’s hidden inside of him. She’s not visible. She is a mystery. She cannot be seen. And the angels don’t know about her. And the animals don’t know about her. Only the Godhead knows about her. She is inside that man. That man is walking around. He looks very much alone, just like God is alone. But inside of him is a woman.

Now, who is going to make known that woman? Well, yes, God is, but the man will make known that woman. Yes, absolutely. And so, the woman is hidden in man. And she comes forth out of man and is exhibited upon this earth, and she is a glory to the man. And one of the angels scratches his head and says to another angel, Didn’t God say something about him being…that man over there being in the image of God? The other angel says, Yeah. And the first angel says, Does that mean there’s a possibility that there is a woman hidden in God?

Now, brothers and sisters, I ask you, is there a possibility that there is a woman hidden in God? God took out of Adam a woman from his side, and the Father took out of His Son a woman on the cross, and she is the Ecclesia. Yes, there is a woman hidden inside of God. That’s where we got the concept of a female, because God discovered that there was a girl inside of Him. And in death and resurrection, He released her into space and time. So, I’m really way ahead, but all I want you to…Boy, I really spilled the beans there, didn’t I?

I want you to see that there is a woman, and if there is a woman somewhere back there in the eternals, God had a plan that has nothing to do with sin and had to do with man and had to do with life. It had to do with a woman; that that woman is unto Him. That woman is by Him, through Him, for Him, and eventually to Him. Something’s coming back. Something’s going out and something’s coming back. Praise the Lord.

There’s something else here that you can’t list and that is that other reference. a reference I can’t say it can I a reference that is a reference that is other and that’s what I’ve been talking about all this time the Son has that which refers to Him back to the Father and that which the Father has in reference to him refers it back to the Son and so when we talk about us and them we have to remember that there is under all of this the fellowship of the Godhead.

Alright, let’s see what’s next. We’ve got a tree, and it is Life.  We’ve got a woman. And we’ve got a garden. Why would God have a garden? Why would God have… I don’t know. I want you to know something else: if you’re writing this down, write this down too. The garden had a center – there’s a center to the garden – very clearly stated, and in the center of the garden, there’s a center in the garden. Now, if God has established that garden outside the fall, then trust me when I tell you, you’ve got to see it again. It disappears in Genesis 3, but if it’s in Genesis 1 and 2, and has nothing to do with the fall, it’s got to reappear again. That garden has something to do with God’s eternal purpose.

Why would God have a garden? Brother, you may be right, maybe simply because things grow there. Who said that? You said that, brother? Yeah, maybe it’s simply because things grow there. Let me tell you some of the things that grow there. May I tell you about things that grow there? Can I? Stones grow in that garden. Gold grows in that garden.  And something called bdellium grows in that garden, but it’s not actually in the garden. It’s in the water of Life. So, you have to add something else, and that’s the water of Life.