Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, May 9th, 20124. Let's open up in a word of prayer first today. Father God, we thank you for your word and we pray that your word does not return void. We pray that the audience who listens to this word has an open mind and heart to receive and believe in your word and to apply your word to their lives to have an understanding that you provide for us through your word. I pray that your holy spirit speaks to their hearts and minds through this message that you move me aside. Let your holy spirit speak through me and articulately and perfectly. Thank you, Father God, for your living word. We praise you and honor you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. I welcome each and every one of you. Today I'm going to begin a new series. I took last week off and uh we we had some celebrations of birthdays and family events and did some traveling there. So now I'm back and we're gonna begin a new series called Women in the Bible. Now men, don't jump ship yet. This is just as much for you as it is for women. Especially this particular first message that we're going to talk about. We're going to be starting with Eve. Now, I can teach on Eve at least three parts that I have just in the top of my head. But today, we're going to talk about Eve, and we're going to be talking about being born again. You're going to see the message of being born again from the very beginning to when Jesus was crucified to the time that we live today. Amen. So, this is an awesome word. So, let's begin. So, women of the Bible, this is the first message in that series and we're going to talk about Eve and we're going to be talking about being born again. We're going to start here in Genesis 1:27. Uh I'm in the King James version. So God created man or the word man there also means self in his own image. The word image there means to shade or be a phantom in the image of God plural gods. That's what this word god means. Created he him male and female created he them. So let's lay a little bit of foundation here so that you understand what's taking place here. So there are two books of the Bible that are attacked the most. Genesis and Revelation. Satan had attacked them so much that a lot of people don't believe in creation. A lot of people don't believe uh that the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. They they try to extrapulate what they believe science to be true and try to fit it or force it into the scriptures. The scriptures are very very clear. And um it it is really unfortunate to not have enough pastors and teachers and preachers doing apologetics in the book of Genesis and the book of Revelation. So I truly uh encourage you to check your teachings that you're listening to. Do you hear anyone teaching on Genesis or Revelation? If so, great. If not, you may need to supplement because you need to know the beginning. If you know the beginning, it's going to help you with today. And you're going to see that in this message is really incredible. So here we have Eve. She is the first woman of the Bible. She is the mother of all. So she is a created person just like Adam. The difference is that Adam was created of the earth and Eve was formed from the rib of a man. So let's go to the scripture. Now I before I dig into that, let's look at this deep part of this particular scriptures of what God is saying. He says created man self. This is God's self in us. Please understand that we're in his image. So his self is in us. Now look at how he did this. In his own image, in the image of God. He's multiple parts created. He him male and female. He created them. Listen, there's some revelation here. We know God as male and we see that he is represented as male throughout the entire scripture. So when you see gods or plural, we know that there is the godhead. God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. Yes, the word trinity is not in the Bible. But the word trinity means the godhead. And you can see the structure. It is biblical. It is in the word of God. So we know that God the father we you see him treated as a male. You know God the son that became Jesus that is male. He was born a man. So here you've got that representation. Now look what he says though. He says in the image of God created he him. Now there's something to that too because we're doing a transliter uh King James version does a transliteration of the original text. he him of the parts of he and him. But then look at what he says here next. Male and female created he them. So in other words, when he created Adam, Adam cannot be by himself. Adam cannot make life by himself. He cannot procreate without woman. So you have to have male and female in order to procreate and create life. If all men were by themselves in one generation, the earth would die. That's how this works. Same with all women. If you had all women, because you do not have that sperm to procreate life, the earth would die in one generation. So, male and female. Now, let's look at how God created the image, how they put together that fulfills the image of God because it is male and female and they were created differently. So, let's go look at that. So here Adam was created. Let's go to Genesis 2:7. And the Lord God formed through and the word formed there means through the squeezing into shape man of the dust. That word dust means earth or mud of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul. Existed as a living soul. That's how Adam was created. He was formed by the dirt, the earth, the mud and the ground. That's how God decided to make him. And then he breathed into his nostrils and he became alive in existence a soul, a living creature sensient. Okay. Now let's look at how Eve was made. So Genesis 2:21-24. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs. Now the word rib there means a part of or the side curved part of the body and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto man. And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave loose in his father and his mother and shall cleave or cling adhere catch unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." Now let's look at this. So Adam was made from the dirt of the earth. So here's God and he makes Adam directly straight from the dirt of the earth. But instead of making woman from this uh dirt of the earth, he goes and puts man in his sleep and he takes one of the ribs. Notice he didn't take a piece of Adam's brain. So she is not equal in the head. He did not take a part of his foot. So she can be equal to his footing or his standing or he you know there's no dominion over or Adam dominion over Eve. There is no dominion because it wasn't taken by the feet either. Took it from the rib. What does the rib do? The rib cage encases all of our vital organs. So he took from the edge of it which is where it sits at the bottom left hand side under the heart. He takes that rib and he forms woman. What does that mean? Well, man can put his arm around woman and she could be tucked in here next to his heart. He covers her. He protects her and she protects him because of the rib that is what protects the vital parts. She protects him on the inside and they become one flesh. So when God looks at a married couple, he sees one individual, not two individuals. He sees male and female. And by the way, that completes the image of God because God is plural. So he embedded the pluraless into us, male and female. And then what do we get to do as a blessing? We get to procreate and have children and expand and populate the earth is what we have the privilege of doing. So Eve was made for this purpose and every woman since is made for this p purpose. Now, when we get into this series, you're going to see some women who fulfilled that purpose very well, and you're going to see some who did not. And hopefully, we can learn from their examples of what they did and and the impact that they had on generations after they were existed. Amen. That's why I want to do this series. Oh, it's so good. Now, let's go a little further here because let's talk about the birthing process here because I want to get into being born again and show you how Jesus works in this. So, when a woman ha gives birth, first comes the water. The water breaks, the baby comes. What comes second or the third after the baby is the placenta sack or the blood sack. This is the blood that fulfilled and u met all the needs of the embryo, the fetus, the child within the womb. So you have water and you have blood. Now where does Jesus come into this? Let's go to John 1:1 real quick. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. So when Jesus when if you read Genesis 1:1 and you see the spirit of God hovering over the waters of the earth, Jesus is the one who said, "Let there be light and there was life." Jesus is the one who created Adam. Jesus is the power that did all of this creation and he created Eve out of the rim. This is what Jesus did. Now, what is going on here? What is happening here? Because Jesus is demonstrating something in the creation of his image between male and female and procreating. So, let's look at a conversation that Jesus has in his time with Nicodemus. So, we're going to go to John 3 3-6. Jesus answered and said unto him, talking to Nicodemus, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born, procreate again, he cannot see or know the kingdom of God." Nicodemus sayaith unto him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter the into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit." Now remember the physical birth involved water and blood. Jesus is saying now I am going to tell you it needs to be water and the spirit to be born again. So how does this work? So the wa the living word of God is the water. And so when you immerse yourself into the living word of God, you become born again because you when you confess Jesus, Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. I've been teaching on this for a long time. So now what happens is he says you cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you're born with water and the spirit. What is the kingdom of God? What did Jesus do when he was walking in the on the earth? He was healing people, delivering people, saving people, letting the blind be seen. That is the kingdom of God. So if you want to go into ministry after you confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you cannot go into ministry until you are water baptized. Now the water comes in. And when Jesus came out of the water after he was baptized, the dove the spirit came upon him and immediately Jesus went into the wilderness, but he went into ministry right after that. That is what being born again of water and spirit means because the Lord calls us to ministry to be fruitful and multiply just like Eve and Adam were told to do. So there's a physical representation in the male and female as one flesh procreating and giving birth to what Jesus is talking about in the spirit uh 2,000 years later. Now what happens here? Now there's something that goes on. So Jesus who he got baptized, he came he he came out of the baptism. He went into ministry. He was then crucified. But let's talk about that going back into Genesis because I want you to see part of this crucifixion here in Genesis because this is awesome. This is revelation that I had not thought of before that the Lord is revealing. So when Satan was cursed, see when Adam and Eve failed, they they lost the blessing because they disobeyed God and they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Three curses were spoken. one was to Eve. This is why I said I can do more parts. I'm not going to talk about the curse on Eve today. Uh then there's a curse against Satan and there was a curse against the earth. So he did three full curses. Let's look at the part of the curse that he did to Satan because this deals with the crucifixion. Genesis 3:15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. Now when Jesus when he was talking to Nicodemus and he was saying be born of water and spirit he was baptized. He came in and he went into ministry. But Jesus had a goal and that was to redeem all of us because he did not want to lose one of us. He needed to save us. When we are conceived today, we are conceived in sin. David clearly talks about that in the scriptures and in Psalms. So we are conceived in sin. So the Lord has to redeem us to get us out of that that sin. So what did Jesus do? He had to go to the cross. Now let's talk about being on the cross here for just a moment. Now they really don't know how Jesus was crucified per se. There are different uh ways to be crucified, different methods that they are familiar with. You can go study this on your own and check it out. I'm going to use the scripture here and just follow what the scripture is leading me on and we'll go from there. As for semantics of this, again, it's it's what you believe and you can ask the Lord to reveal this to you. So now let's picture Jesus on the cross here for a moment as he so in order to get Jesus on the cross. I don't believe that they put a ladder there and he climbs the ladder because anyone I mean Jesus might have done it. Anyone else I don't know about you but if they're going to try to kill me I'm going to fight to the end. Okay. And that is normal natural human nature right? uh Jesus is abnormal so he would go willingly but I don't think they had a cross there and that peop the men that were being crucified would be walking up there willingly so I think that they they bind their arms to the cross beam and so they are bound they can't really do much fighting but I mean fall and go limp and make the soldiers carry you and put you up there see that to me seems unreasonable so let's think about this in a reasonable matter let's say the horizontal beam is laid down and they have they lay you down and it's hard. You're not going to be able to get up after you're laid down because your arms are tied to this vertical beam. So, they have control over you at this point. So, they lay you down on that cross and then they pierce you with the nails. They put it into the hands or the wrists, whichever you want to believe in. They I guess they did some tests where if they did it in the hands, it would tear the body hanging. But remember, they probably had the ropes because they had to be bound to that vertical beam. So hands or wrist, that is up to you. The Bible talks about uh the wrist or excuse me, the hands here. And that's the word used. And uh maybe you can do a deeper study on that if you like. But here's what I do know is that they would raise the cross. And what the purpose of the cross was to do was to suffocate the person on the cross. You see, with your hands up here on the cross and your feet pierce to the the horizontal beam, when the nail pierces the feet or the foot, one or both, it pierces the heel. So Jesus heel is bruised on the cross. This takes the action of the cross back to the curse that God spoke to Satan at the time that Adam and Eve fell. So now you can see there's something that connects the two. We have to look at this in depth and see what the revelation is here. So if his heel is bruised, now understand what's happening here. There's a little piece of board or a platform that they put there for the feet and you can push up on that to lift you up because see they you're being pressed down you cannot breathe. You have to lift up yourself up to take a breath. When they pierce the foot the heel you are in so much pain when you lift you up. You have to let go. You take your breath you let go. So you relieve the pain in your heel so that you but now you can't breathe. So you have to keep going back and forth, back and forth. Now what happens is eventually you get tired and what happens is you're breathing less and less. Now your heart in the inner part of the ribs that is protected is now working double time, triple time, quadruple time. It is trying to get oxygen to the brain to the body. But this is the point of crucifixion. You are suffocating when you're up there. Well, as Jesus is dying, that blood is flowing. His heart is going. The the water separates from the blood. And so when the soldier pierces his body, he that blood and water flows. Now what? Let's look at the scripture to talk about how Jesus looked after he rose from the grave. I think this is very important because this tells you about the hands. This is why I lean towards the hands where the piercing took place. Now, it could have been the heel of the hands that would hold very well and it might very well be instead of the wrist. Who knows? But this is what the conversation that Thomas and Jesus had. Look at this. John 20 25. The other disciples therefore said unto him, talking to Thomas, "We have seen the Lord." But he said unto them, "Except I shall," this is Thomas talking, but he said unto them, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." Now in verse 27, Jesus is talking to Thomas. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side. Look at the side, a rib, and be not faithless, but believing. You see the point of God taking from the rib and making woman out of the rib. He was pierced under the rib right there where the blood and water flowed to do what? For the spirit now, but he's in the flesh. So now you're talking about the fleshly church. The church is being born here on the cross by the water and the blood. And so now we have the church of God established today through what Jesus did in what he established when he made man in his image and completed because see Adam and Eve became one flesh and they birthed procreated life and children started coming out of them. Now Jesus came to the cross one flesh he birth. So himself and the church are together in the flesh as one flesh. Got to get this because see you understand look at the attack on the church today. We are still in the body. And what happens even though we're dead to uh uh sin, we're dead to these things, what happens is you're going to find people failing because we have an active adversary. The devil is constantly after us. He is constantly irritating us. So, we're going to lose self-control. These are the things we deal with. You see it in the pulpit. You see it in churches clashing. You see it in just doctrine. how there are so many different types of doctrine out there because we don't agree. But instead of disagre agreeing to disagree and walking in mercy and forgiveness and saying there could be truth to that or you know just being in love about the word of God and just showing the love and forgiveness, you see the active attack because we're still in the flesh. That's what Jesus did on the cross. Look at what the soldier did on John 19:34. But one of the soldiers with the spear pierced his side and forth with came there out blood and water. So there's a walking testimony here that the blood and water birthed the church. Now how is how is this to an individual being born again? Let's go to two people who were there to take the body of Jesus off the cross. Look at this. We're in John 19:38-40. And after this, Joseph of Arya, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the blood of Jesus. And Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrr and allows, but about a 100 pound weight. Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury. So now what I want you to see here, this is where being born again for the individual is so powerful. Now this revelation came through my dad. And so I I want to give him acknowledgement. This is something the Lord showed to him. He shared this with me the other night. He's the one who suggested I talk about women in the Bible. But it's interesting he shared that talked about women in the Bible and then I received several confirmations to teach this message. So I talked to him and obtain permission to share this revelation with you. So watch this. So in order So now they got to take the body off the cross. Do you think the soldiers are going to climb up on a ladder and try to carry him down? You know that that's more work. And in all fairness, they were smarter than we think they were. We always think we're the smartest generation. And uh these guys knew what they were doing. They're able to bring that cross down with the body on it. How? I don't know. But they were able to do so because that is a reasonable assumption. Okay. So, they were able to they might have a mechanism where the c the vertical beam sits into the hole, but they can lift it out and it just lays back down. They've got ropes and they know all these mechanisms. They're not they're not dumb. Okay? So, please understand that. How you want to take this and how you want to do it is up to you. But they're able to bring it down. Which means this allows Joseph of Arya and Nicodemus to prep take the body off the cross and prepare it. So now you have to understand there's nails in Jesus. They have to remove these nails. So they're going to pound it out from behind and get the nails off. Well, one of them, Joseph of Arythea and Nicodemus or both have to get uh they have to grab Jesus' body. Jesus is dead. That body is dead. It's now like a sack of potatoes. So, they're going to have to put their head under the arm. Imagine Nicodemus putting his head under Jesus' left arm where the blood and the water flowed and he picks him up. They lay him down on the linen cloth. Now that blood and that water is on Nick Demas. That is how you become born again. Now remember that was the flesh. What happened at the day of Pentecost? The Holy Spirit showed up. Now we're baptized with water and the spirit and we enter into the kingdom of God to minister to those around us, sharing the good news, the gospel, the redemption of Christ, laying hands on the sick. You know, I remember working at the school many, many years ago and one of the teachers was in the break room and she had her head down on the the table. She she had a headache, a really bad one. So, I went and laid hands on her, not even thinking about it. I just did it and prayed. So, I walk back into the office and about 15 minutes later, she shows up says, "I just want you to know the headache is gone. Your prayer worked." That is how we operate in the ministry of the kingdom of God. Every time you go to a gas station, every time you go to a grocery store, you're showing the spirit of God through you to others because you walk in the water and the spirit of the word of God. And the water is the Bible, the living word of God. That is the water, the spoken words of Jesus that cover us, go through us, penetrate us, allowing the spirit to manifest through us so that we confess words of blessings, revival, repentance, restoration, reconciliation. This is how the glory of the Lord manifests through us. We're born again and we can tell the world we are born again because see they look at us and they go what's different about you? Because see they face death the same way you face death. But you understand as a believer in Christ that death is just another door to go into the next life with Jesus. And so we celebrate life when a passing takes place. Whereas we might grieve a little bit but we become above and beyond the grief because we miss them. We're a bit on the selfish side. we're going to miss him. But someone who is not of God are going to grieve and hurt so bad that they it's a very difficult time for them to come out of it. This is where we have to show them with Christ how much more they can believe and be at peace and joy. Even though we all suffer the same way, there's a big difference. And you can see this from the day Eve was created. You can see how this is impacted the world to this day. This is Jesus. He set it up from the very beginning. Now, women, we are to protect the inner parts of our man. And men, you are to cover your woman. And we're to manifest and walk in one flesh with the water and the spirit of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. We pray that your word does not return void. And we anoint your word. And your word is so powerful. It is your presence. It goes through. It ministers to us. Lord, we love you. We thank you. We honor you. And we worship you. We praise you. Lord, do not let us forget this word. Do not let the devil take this word out of our hearts and minds, but let us apply it and live it the way you designed us to be living, to live and to walk in this earth. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye.