God Intended You to Live by Divine Life, Not Human Effort

This is the wonderful thing, and don’t you ever forget it: He is the only creature that belongs to both realms. Now, because that other realm is unlimited and has no dimension, he has access to it. Maybe not out there, but in here. He can enter here and get into that realm. You can’t say where the door is. Never say where the door is. You never know where the door is. Now I’m telling you that this creature called Adam, red man, part spiritual, part of the realm, and he was my grandfather. I’m kin to him. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. There is kinship between that spirit in him. There is some kinship, some relationship, if not kinship, some matching, some identity between that spirit and that God who stands before him, invisible, spiritual, and the highest form of Life.

Well, let’s go to our biological chart now. What do you see? You see God, holy, spiritual, nothing physical about Him. Spirit and the highest Life, called eternal Life. Here is angelic life, everlasting life, which belongs to the other sphere, also light, and also life belonging to the other realm, everlasting life. It’s going to go on forever, but it had a beginning. And here is man’s life, and I can’t tell you, I don’t know. I don’t have the wisdom to tell you, but it seems as though that life could go on forever, or it could be terminated. The power rests with a man and his own choice.

Boy, I’m going to really leap here into something that I may not even be right about. There’s a possibility that he could have been heir not only to everlasting life, but he could have even been heir to eternal Life. Meaning he not only might have been able to go this way forever, but he might also have been able to go that way forever. But if we can understand things that have no dimension, Betty, did you understand that? That didn’t make a whole lot of sense, did it? We are the inheritors of everlasting life, and I’m playing here; I don’t know. I’m in fact…I’m conjecturing. But you know, when the Lord Jesus grew up as a little kid, He didn’t know everything. He gradually came into consciousness of what He was, and He gradually came into consciousness of what He had been. And His eternal life began to move both ways. If you will notice, watch this. When you read the gospels, as He moves toward the cross and He becomes utterly and totally mature, you sometimes don’t know who’s talking. You don’t know if it’s the Father or the Son. It gets really cloudy in there right toward the very, very end. He is wholly at one with His history.

Well, I’m really off the subject. Let me come back to my point. This one is the third-highest form of life. He is physical and spiritual. He belongs to both realms. He has a life; he has a spirit within him that may be subject to termination. We will never know what might have happened if he had just done what the Lord had told him to do, which was to sit down and have a good meal off the Tree of Life. Something he never got around to doing. His schedule got full, and he didn’t quite make it. Here, he is very much like the animals, and in the material realm, he has a soul. He can think very much like God and the angels. He belongs to the other realm.

A very interesting creature, is he not? His destiny is incomplete at this point. He is the third highest on the biological chart. He is the first highest on the chart of beings that are material. Do you understand that? Of beings that are visible, he is number one. Of beings that are invisible, he is number three because a portion of him is invisible. The spiritual beings, he’s number three. The physical beings, he’s number one, but on the biological chart we’re looking at, he falls into number three. His destiny is not complete. In fact, God has prepared for him a destiny unique to biology.

As Christians, we do not believe that one form of life can mutate or evolve into another form of life. We do not believe in biological evolution. Did you know that? We don’t believe we came up from the apes, but I’m here to tell you that God believed in evolution: a spiritual evolution. A cow never became an ape. A bird never became a dog. But God had intended for the third-highest form of life to move past the second-highest form of life and join him on the highest plane of life. He intended for man to come up to the top of the biological chart and join him as the literal sons of God. You can’t be a son of anything without having the life of that one.

I am the son of JC Edwards because I have his life. I am not the son of a king or a queen or a peasant somewhere. I don’t have their life. Nor am I the son of a fish because I have no life of the fish. I’ve often said, and I always get a laugh for this. I’m always surprised at it. There are two forms of life that have no navel, that have no navel, and there are only two forms of life that were ever called sons of God. There were reasons for it. The angels have no navels. They have no navels, and they never have kids, and they didn’t have daddies. When they turned around to see who it was that had fathered them, they turned around, and they saw the face of God. He had come from their hands. Adam had no navel. When he turned around to look, he had no father. God had created him. Angels are called sons of God, and Adam is called a son of God, or the son of God, because they had fallen from the hand of God. The only one they knew was God, but even that is a created thing. Even that kind of relationship was a created thing, but God had intended for something uncreated to happen to Adam. He had intended for Adam to take within himself that life He uniquely named eternal Life, which is a name for the Life of God. God’s biological life form is called eternal life. That’s a biological name. The highest form of life in the universe was destined to be put within the spirit of man. That’s why God gave him something in his being that was from the other realm so he could impregnate it with His own life.

Well, just to quickly say, to wrap that up, saints, that was Adam’s destiny before the fall. He was supposed to become something visible, very much like that which was in the realm of the invisibles. God was in the business of demonstrating physically. God was making an image, and He was going to turn that image into a visible reality of what He was. Now, does that sound foreign to you that God was about to make a visible reality that could be seen of what He was? Well, don’t let it sound foreign to you because we Christians call it the incarnation. It did come. We’ll get to that in a minute. Brother.

Audience: I just had a question. Was Adam’s spirit eternal life, or was Adam’s spirit the container for it?

Oh, he did not have eternal life. Adam had something from heaven, but not from the nature of God. You can call it (Adam’s spirit) a bucket if you wish, and God was going to be put in the bucket. Okay, right now I would concentrate somewhere else. I want you to know that the human being was supposed to come equipped with a segment of himself that was part of another realm. That’s the part I’m driving home right now. We’ll get to the bucket later.

Okay. I want you to be impressed that you got part of you that can go through that door. Part of you has a right to the other realm. Well, you getting that? Are you folks out there in video land getting this? You have a right to another realm, and our God made His life available, digestible, and partakable of…there’s no such word, but partakable of…When He put Adam before the tree of life. It’s the Tree of Eternal Life, and Adam never ate. He never partook of the divine nature, and therefore, his spirit never contained the spirit of God. He never got a hold of the highest form of life.

Well, let’s just look at this for a moment. Would you answer this out loud? By what form of life does God live? Alright, give me another word for it. Uncreated life. Eternal life. God lives by the life of God. Now, if God gets up this morning and gets out of bed, He does it by the means and the power and the unction and the source of divine life. If an angel lives by a life form, by what form of life does he live? Created life that is angelic life, and if he gets up and gets out of bed, he does it by the source and the power and the unction and the dynamic of angelic life that belongs to another realm. Now, when Adam got up in the morning, by what form of life did he live? Human life. Absolutely. By the life of the human soul, reinforced by his spirit, but the center of his being is definitely the soul. I know we don’t realize this. We don’t like this word, but the center of him was his psyche, his psychology. He lived by human life. What did the dog live by? Dog life. And if he got up and got out of bed in the morning, he got up and got out of bed by dog life. Birds flew by bird life. Fish swam by fish life, and the seeds grew by our seed life, herb life. Herbal.