The Love of God – Why God Created Man (God’s Counterpart – Part 1)

Genesis 1:1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening, and there was morning, on the first day.

Please turn over to the next chapter with me. Verse 18, this is Genesis 2:18. Then the Lord said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Alright, it says in the margin, “I will make him a helper corresponding to him.” Praise God. And out of the earth the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air. All things came from the earth, even man. And He brought them to man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called the living creature, that was its name. And the man gave names to all the cattle, to all the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field. But for Ish, there was no helper corresponding to him. But for man, for Adam, for Ish, it was not found a helper corresponding to him. So, the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. And the Lord God built into a woman the rib which he had taken from the man, and the Lord brought her to the man. Praise God. The man said, “This is now bone of my bone, and this is flesh of my flesh.” And she shall be called Isha, because she was taken out of Ish. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Let’s turn to John chapter 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God, and all things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the Life was the light of men. And that light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it. There came a man sent from God whose name was John. He came for a witness, that he might bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him.

Brothers and sisters, turn with me to John 3:15-16. That whoever believes may in Him have eternal life, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Praise the Lord – verse 29. I’m going to read it just the way I feel it. He who’s got the bride is the groom. He who has the bride is the bridegroom. Praise the Lord.

Lord, there are some things that we’re not worthy to even know. We really open our being to You, tonight. Deal with us spiritually as we deal with the spirituals. Open ears that are not in our heads. Open eyes that are not on our face. Open our inmost being to comprehend what cannot be comprehended. We must not be like Nicodemus, who could not even understand the earthly things. We must be like those who can understand the heavenlies. I ask that you be very merciful to me and to my brothers and to my sisters. Give us a revelation, and beyond that revelation, give us an experience. Amen.

There isn’t anything that I will say tonight that you will understand; at least you will not be able to understand it with your mind. There’s not anything that I am going to speak about tonight that I can say that I understand with my mind. For the Lord is Spirit, and He is understood only by the spirit. There are spiritual truths to be said tonight that deal exclusively with the spirit, and yet God, in His effort to explain them, spoke in the only terms that we could understand, and that was human terms. Therefore, I will also speak in human terms, but they still must be understood in the realm of that which is unseen.

These verses are all beginning verses, but they all begin with time. Nonetheless, the Lord has, in the Scripture, given us along the way, indications of what was in Him before time. The Scripture starts, “In the beginning…” Now, you know and I know that in the beginning is in the beginning of time and in the beginning of creation, in the beginning of atoms, electrons, and protons. But there was before the beginning because God always was. There was never a time when God was not. So, He preceded the beginning. Now, though we have done this a few times in the past, we will also do it more in the future, and we will do it tonight.

I have to ask you to join me in asking a question. What was before the beginning? Well, there was only one thing before the beginning, and that was God. Alright, then look at God. I cannot comprehend Him. I can come closer to anything else in all of creation to comprehend Him. I can comprehend Him better than an angel can, because an angel was not made with God’s disposition. I was made a type of the very disposition, emotion, feeling, and outlook of God. I have some small understanding of Him because I have a picture of His nature. I don’t have His nature, but I have a picture of nature.

Now you say, “But Gene, yes, you have His nature.” Yes, I have His nature. But even the fallen man could tell you something of God if He had the wisdom to, because He was made in the reflection of, in the mold of God. Therefore, I dare to look at God, and what do I see? I see many things. First of all, there were no planets. There was no matter. There was nothing visible. Brothers, there wasn’t anything invisible. There wasn’t anything seen, and there wasn’t anything unseen. There wasn’t the physical, and there wasn’t the spiritual. There was not the realm of dimension and the realm of non-dimension. There was God.

Now then, for that reason, you must say there was only one thing, and it was the only thing that was real because it was the only thing. Therefore, you say before the beginning, God was reality. Alright, we know He was reality, right? He says He was truth, He was real, He was reality. Alright, He also existed. Therefore, what was He? He was Life. Which life? Would you say He was the highest Life? No. He was the only Life. He was Life. And though it is very difficult for us to comprehend, nothing else has ever had Life.

What about the little bug that flies around? It doesn’t have life. It has a picture of life. What does that mean, Gene? I don’t know. The cow, does it have life? It does not have life. God only let it have something that resembles life, so that you could look at the cow and learn a little bit about God. A cow says something about God. I’m not sure what. Okay.