Debrecen Messages #9 – The Function of the Human Spirit: Discernment, Peace & Knowing God

Now, where do the species of angels live? In heavenly places and invisible realms. Where does the dog live? Huh? On the ground.

Now, man is part heaven and part earth. Where is he going to live? You see, if I am spirit, I have to live in a place that fits me. If I’m a dog, I have to live in a place that fits me. Dog belongs to the earth. Cows belong to the earth. Angels, spirit, live in spirit. They live in a spiritual place because they are spirit. How am I going to live in a spirit place if I’m part human, part earthly, and how am I going to live in an earthly place if I’m part spirit?

And so, God looked out over toward the east where the sun rises, and it was brilliant as it rose, sparkled and glistened. And then the Lord thought of a place called Pleasant.

Have you ever heard of a place called Pleasant? Or Pleasure? Oh, Hawaii? That’s not bad. Well, there is a place in the Old Testament called Pleasant or Pleasure. And I think you need to know this. Do you know the other word for that? It’s a Hebrew word. Eden? Yes.

Eden is, if translated, Pleasant or Pleasure. I think it’s wonderful that my Lord is into Pleasant and Pleasure. I think it’s marvelous. Yes, Peggy, smile, real big. He didn’t say devil and hell or hot and desert or mean and do right. He said Pleasure and Pleasant.

Now, listen to these words. and he made a garden in Pleasant. And God made a garden in Pleasure, and they lived in the garden of Pleasure. Isn’t that beautiful? They lived in the garden of Pleasure. Whoa! What an insight into your God.

And so, he made a garden. Now, you may not discover this until you get to Revelation, but that garden was part heavenly and part earthly. It was a place where God and man met. God was comfortable there because it was partly spirit. Man fit there because he was part of earth and of heaven. And God made a habitat for man. And it was called the Garden of Pleasant. And it sat in the in Pleasantry.

I wonder what God wanted man to do in that garden. He wanted him to be pleased. And have pleasant, and have pleasure. A garden is the perfect picture of something beautiful and pleasant. It was a garden for pleasure. And God gave a man a habitat, a place to live, and he has never backed away from it.

And if you want to know how determined God is, you better look at that garden and know that God will move heaven, earth, and that garden to put you in it. And it’s not earth, it’s not heaven, it’s both. It’s a place where you are spirit, body, and soul. And when Jesus ascended, he was spirit, body, and soul.

And I want you to know that someday he’s going to live in that garden. Because that garden is better than heaven. It has the best of heaven in it. And we think of earth as such a pitiful place, but it wasn’t at one time. It would match heaven and its glory. And God wants to take the best of heaven, He’s going to, not wants to. He’s going to take the best of heaven and the best of earth and put them together. And the best of heaven and the best of earth is where you are to live with him forever.