Skyscraper Ministries/Lectures/Annual Baptisms/The Other Seventy Training Academy
Time vs. Space
Lesson
Text: 2 Corinthians 6:1-2
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not
the grace of God in vain. 2(For
he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation
have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the
day of salvation.)
Question: What is our unique connection with time and how is it impacted by omnipresent-space.
“There are two distinct views on the meaning of time. One view is that time
is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which
events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured.
This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed.[1]A
contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure
(together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify
the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions
of objects.”
Genesis 1 Notes:
God said let us make man
(Father, Son, & Holy Spirit). “And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them” (Genesis 1:26-27). How do those elements exist within man/woman
today, and why did God say “let us make” only in the creation of humanity? Why
did He not say let us make the heavens and earth?
In
essence, the schema trilogy of humans is based upon the-let-us-make-man factors. God spoke inclusively of the Son and
Holy Spirit. Therefore, the three elements of God are contained also within the
spiritual genetics of humanity. How are they represented:
·
God: The
intellect and free-will of man
·
Son: The
human element wrapped in obedience
·
Holy Spirit:
The battery and guiding presence within man that connected with God initially,
and now to the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 2 Notes:
The planted
Garden/Metropolis equipped with decision making power (Genesis 2:8-9, 15). He
was given intellect, freedom, and law. Genesis 2:23-25, Adam and Eve were in
the garden totally and freely connected to God in terms of obedience. They were
made in the image and after the likeness of God, therefore their imparted
God-breathed spirit perfectly guided them. This was now a heavenly extension
earthly, a perfect dwelling place on earth, with man and woman having power to
control. God above and man below, a situation of harmony, heaven colonized to
earth.
(Genesis
2:8-9, 15). “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he
put the man whom he had formed. 9And out of the ground
made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good
for food; the tree of life also in
the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” “ 15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it”
(Genesis 2:23-25). “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. 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed”
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“Ye
men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among
you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of
you, as ye yourselves also know: 23Him,
being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have
taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.”
(Acts 2:22-24)
In
Acts 2:23, the Word informs us that by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, Christ was delivered into the world. When studying the
concept it becomes clear that the process consists of the reality that God does
not exist in time, He transcends time. Jesus Christ was delivered out of
timelessness or eternity, into time memorial. Pivotally, God does not exist in
time, but in space. God is not bund by time, but because He is omni-present,
His domain is space. Not outer-space, like the cosmos, although He exists there
as well, but in what we know as space general. There is no space where we
cannot find the presence of God.
Our terrestrial dilemma then becomes an abuse of our God-like character. We have been created in His image and after His likeness. Therefore, we have been given freedom, intellect, ability to intuit, subdue, and power through dominion. Those elements make the human, not just the Christian, possess certain elementary qualities of God. Thus, we begin to act out of recklessness, due to an abuse of God-like qualities, like God, we attempt to exist in space, forgetting that our existence is not celestial, but terrestrial, specifically predicated on time. When such a physiological, psychological, and spiritual condition is ignored or rationalized, spiritual urgency in terms of salvation and a seeking of heaven is impaired.