God is the creator of the universe. He is a distinct personality with intelligence. He is the source of all life, spiritual and physical, as well as the source of emotional and mental well-being.1
He is God in three persons, consisting of Father (Life), Son (Word of God), and Holy Spirit (Breath of God). Creation was made through the spoken Word of God. 2
Created things do not contain deity within themselves. Instead, they respond to the spoken Word of God. These words are assignments which contain both the understanding and the power (light and energy) to carry out God's intentions. If any part of creation does not follow through with their assigned purpose, it is rebellion and subject to destruction. Not because God is a tyrant or on an ego trip, but because He is God and cannot change or compromise who He is. His is truth, wisdom, justice, and love. If He compromised His holiness and integrity, He would no longer be God. Balance in creation is maintained through obedience to the spoken Word of God. 3
Humans are also created by God, but they differ from the rest of creation in that the breath of God was breathed directly into them. This enabled humans to speak words, and to communicate with God in His language. The first man and woman were told to repopulate and subdue the earth, thus giving them governing authority in the earth. 4
This authority was for the maintenance and perpetuation of the earth, yet not to plunder it into destruction. They were to care for the earth with appreciation for what it provided, but not worship it, for worship is reserved for the one true God, the Creator, alone. 5
All that God has created for mankind's nourishment was to be utilized without the exhaustion of it, and to be kept in the purest possible form; mankind learning from God how to care for His creation, how to perpetuate it, and how to use it for the health of our bodies which were taken from the soil. 6
However, physical life and health do not come from the nutrients of the earth alone. All life originates from God, who is spirit. For life to remain, one needs to stay in spiritual fellowship with God. God's intention was, and is, to fellowship joyfully with mankind, communicating in His language, with words. This was interrupted when the divine order was broken. 7
Divine order was established when God gave a spoken command and told the first man all that he could eat from the earth, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, next to which was the one tree they were not to eat of--the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 8
When the first man and woman disobeyed the command, and ate of the tree of knowledge, the divine order was broken and eternal spiritual life drained from their bodies. This spiritual death began the process of physical death. This condition was passed on to all of mankind born from the first couple. 9
A veil between the spiritual and physical realms separated God, who is in the heavens, from man who would remain on earth as long as they had physical life. The rebellious ones who do not keep the Word of God are destined for the lake of fire. 10
However, at the time of mankind's rebellion, God set a plan in place to redeem mankind from their captivity to rebellion, which now ruled over them. 11
In the years since then, the lives of men became history--stories which teach and reveal the divine order and God's plan of salvation for mankind. We honor those who have gone before us, not in worship, but with respect to learn from their stories, which reveal the blessing of obedience to God's Word--His spoken, instructive, and assigning breath--as well as the curse of rebellion against it. 12
At the appointed time, God's Word was birthed into physical flesh, into the womb of a woman who agreed with the spoken assignment given to her from God. The birth was announced by a star which appeared over His birthplace, along with many other miracles of confirmation during His life. 13
The Word of God, in human form, was the Son of God who completely aligned to the will of Father God throughout His entire life. And in an extraordinary act, He took upon Himself the penalty of all mankind's rebellion and disobedience. He offered up His body and blood, to be brutally murdered on the cross, as payment in full for the sin of mankind. 14
After three days, the price being fully paid, He was resurrected from the dead, having freed those--past and future--who were held captive by their inherited sinful, rebellious nature. Those who believe in Him and accept His sacrifice for them experience a realignment of their will to the will of God. They undergo a spiritual, inward change becoming a "new species altogether" in Christ. They are born-again. 15
This rebirth is a life-breath of God into their spirits once again, on an individual basis. The forgiveness of their rebellion is complete. The holy body and blood sacrificed for them by God's own Son becomes a continual cleansing as they adhere to the Word of God, which had been recorded in written form throughout the ages for each generation to learn. These written words, spoken from the mouths of those with the Spirit of God within them, release His power just the same. And His Word lives on in the Spirit. 16
These rebirthed ones--believers in Jesus Christ, disciples of His--are to experience an infilling of the Holy Spirit Himself, even continually. He will remain with them to guide, teach, remind, prepare, reveal, and give understanding into the ways and mind of God. He brings the empowerment to obey, to complete the assignment of God, resulting in believers experiencing the very presence and fellowship with God Himself and His Son, Jesus Christ. His Word and His Spirit live within them.17
These believing ones become a temple of the Holy Spirit--sacred, set apart for God. Not to be worshipped themselves, but to become worshipers of God--the natural response to God's life within. Keeping themselves pure as temples of the Holy Spirit, and eventually, the Bride of Christ. 18
Creation, apart from man, cannot contain this Spirit, nor the eternal life. Only humans who believe in the Son, who is the Word of God made flesh. The Word of God is our assignment. Aligning with it, with the Son of God, will bring eternal life and the abiding presence of God. 19
The Holy Spirit gives gifts, supernatural abilities, supernatural language, and the unction to pray and intercede for the welfare and salvation of all mankind. To advance the kingdom of God, which dissipates the kingdom of darkness. 20
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Yet, God is not seeking worship, but worshippers. The worship of God is expressed in many ways. It may be through spoken words, blessing, or sincere gratitude. Through prayers and fellowship with God. Through music or song, or an inherent silence, awe, or reverence of Him and His mighty works. We admire Him in the beauty of His creation. We worship Him when we believe in Him, and in His Son, and in His sacrifice for us, His love, and when we acknowledge Him as truth. 21
Worship is also expressed through our work, through extracting the provision of the land He has placed us in, and in turn offering the energy and substance that provision gives us back to Him through expressions of worship. Our bodies themselves are offered to Him as a living, and holy, sacrifice through willful obedience to the Word of God. 22
Fellowship with other believers is unifying to the body of Christ that each believer is a member of. Each one connected to the Head, who is Christ Jesus, and to each other. 23
He will return again at the appointed time, bringing His reward with Him and judging all things rightly. Then, the final salvation of our bodies will occur--a physical transformation into glory and a fellowship with Him and other believers forever in the new city, the new place--the land of our ultimate destiny. This is the believers hope and the purpose of humanity. 24
1 Genesis 1:1
2 Matthew 28:19; Matthew 3:16-17; John 14:16-17; 2 Corinthians 13:14
3 Habakkuk 2:18-19; Genesis 1; Isaiah 45:9
4 Genesis 2:7-8; Genesis 1:27-28
5 Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:8; Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 6:13-15, Luke 4:8
6 Genesis 2:5-9
7 Colossians 1:16-17; John 1:1-4; John 14:23; 1 John 1:1-7
8 Genesis 1:9, 15-17
9 Genesis 3:6-24; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
10 Revelation 21:7-8
11 Genesis 3:15
12 1 Corinthians 10:11; Matthew 7:24-27
13 Luke 1:26-38; Luke 2:1-20; John 1:14; John 21:25
14 John 8:29; Hebrews 9:11-22; Isaiah 53:4-6; Romans 10:13
15 1 Corinthians 15:3-6, 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Corinthians 5:17; John 3:1-21
16 1 John 1:7; Isaiah 55:11; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Mark 16:15-18
17 Acts 2:1-13; John 14:16-18, 26
18 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Revelation 19:7; Ephesians 5:25-27
19 John 14:17; 1 John 5:11-12; John 14:23
20 1 Corinthians 12:1-13; Romans 8:26-27; Jude 20; 1 Corinthians 14:15
21 John 4:23-24; Psalms
22 Proverbs 3:9; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Luke 21:1-4; Romans 12:1
23 1 Corinthians 12:12; Colossians 1:18
24 Revelation 22:12; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; John 14:1-3