... **AUGUSTINE SMART ASIEDU ...
...All scripture quotations are from ...
...the King James Version...
...©Augustine Smart Asiedu 2008...
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...I dedicate this book to my ...
...lovely wife, ...
...REV. MRS. RITA YAA SMART...
...HEBREWS 10:12...
..."But this Man, after he had ...
...offered one sacrifice for sins ...
...forever, sat down on the right ...
...hand of God."...
... CONTENTS...
...Broken Bridge.. ............................8...
...Kinsman Redeemer.....................14...
...The Offerer and the Offering......21...
...Here Comes My Brother.............31...
...Ascetism .......................................40...
...Mystery, Of the Ages ..................46...
...Call upon His Name ...................53...
...CHAPTER ONE...
...BROKEN BRIDGE ...
...God from the beginning built a haven ...
...for man to wait for His manifested ...
...presence, but sin separated man from ...
...God, and man hid himself from the ...
...presence of God. ...
...Sin disconnected and cut the bridge ...
...between God and man and the voice of ...
...God walked "in the cool of the ...
...day.....and called unto Adam, and ...
...said unto him, Where art thou?" ...
...(GENESIS 3:8-9). In other words God ...
...was saying, "Adam where is the ...
...bridge between us?" The garden ...
...which once was a place of joy and ...
...fellowship with God became a place of ...
...fear and of hiding from God. ...
...When Adam sinned he died. Now death ...
...here is separation and not cessation of ...
...life because in actual fact, life never ...
...comes to an end. What causes physical ...
...death is separation of the spirit from ...
...the body, whilst spiritual death is....
... ............
...separation of the spirit from the ...
...presence of God; When Adam sinned, ...
...he died because his spirit was separated ...
...from that of God; and the Lord reached ...
...out to hug Adam, as usual, because he ...
...was a part of Him. But God could not ...
...locate him, hence he said, "Where art ...
...thou?" ...
...Sin dislocated Adam, and God was ...
...saying, "I want to love you, but sin has ...
...moved you from your place... " And so ...
...sin became an inheritance ...
...ROMANS 5:12-14 "Wherefore, as by ...
...one man sin entered into the world, ...
...and death by sin; and so death passed ...
...upon all men, for that all have ...
...sinned:.... Nevertheless death reigned ...
...from Adam to Moses, even over them ...
...that had not sinned after the ...
...similitude of Adam's transgression, ...
...who is the figure of him that was to ...
...come.."...
...The first sin wrought the moral ruin of ...
...the race. The demonstration is simple,...
...i.e. death is universal; all die little ...
...children, moral people, and religious ...
...people equally die with the depraved. ...
...For this universal effect there must be a ...
...universal cause; that cause is a state of ...
...universal sin. This universal state is as a ...
...r e s u l t o f A d a m s s i n a n d t h e ...
...consequence was that the "many were ...
...made sinners"...
...ROMANS 5:18-19 "Therefore as by ...
...the offence of one judgment came ...
...upon all men to condemnation;... For ...
...as by one man's disobedience many ...
...were made sinners,... " ...
...Personal sins are not meant here. From ...
...Adam to Moses death reigned ...
...(ROMANS 5:14) although, there being ...
...no law, personal guilt was not imputed...
...(ROMANS 5:13). Accordingly from ...
...GENESIS 4:7 EXODUS 29:14 to the ...
...sin offering is not once mentioned. Then ...
...since physical death from Adam to ...
...Moses was not due to the sinful acts of ...
...those who die, it follows that it was due ...
...to a universal sinful state, or nature, and ...
...that state is declared to be our ...
...inheritance from Adam. ...
...The moral state of fallen man is ...
...described in scripture as depravity. In ...
...this state we do not start life with even ...
...the possibility of living it sinlessly; we ...
...begin it with a sinful nature. ...
...PSALM 51:5 "Behold I was shaped ...
...in iniquity, and in sin did my mother ...
...conceive me" ...
...In other words, no one can plead that sin ...
...is a rare aberration in his or her life; ...
...rather it sprang from what he/she is and ...
...has been from birth. Our corrupt ways ...
...are not sporadic we act in accordance ...
...with our nature. ...
...The bible says, "the wicked are ...
...enstranged from the womb; they go ...
...astray as soon as they are born ...
...speaking lies". (PSALM 58:3). ...
...And so even though you have never ...
...killed, you are a murderer from the ...
...beginning and, if you are pushed to ...
...the corner, it would come out of you. ...
...In depravity, man has become evil, and ...
...further more there is an unmanifested ...
...evil in him, which means, there is an ...
...expectation to do things he has never ...
...done before, because in man "dwelleth ...
...no good thing." This is what Paul ...
...meant when he wrote in ROMANS ...
...7:18, "For I know that in me (That is ...
...in my flesh) dwelleth no good ...
...thing.............."etc. ...
...God knew that by Adams fall, all ...
...manner of evil has been fixed in man, ...
...and so in DEUTERONOMY 27:9 ff ...
...He asked Moses to write about the ...
...c u r s e s i n v o l v e d i n b e x i a l i t y, ...
...******,....etc to let man know the state of ...
...sin in which he is found, so that he ...
...would not be shocked to realize his ...
...level of depravity....
...In ROMANS 1:30, the bible makes it ...
...clear that, by depravity, man has ...
...become an inventor of evil things. ...
...Whether you are saved or not, you ...
...have a life to live beyond this life (e.g. ...
...LUKE 16). Whether you go to hell or ...
...heaven you would live to eternity. But ...
...to have eternal life means to be ...
...eternally fused back to God. ...
...Sin separated man from this eternal ...
...fusion. Ezekiel said,” I looked for one ...
...that would bridge the gap". Job also ...
...said, "If only there were someone to ...
...arbitrate between us" ( ). JOB 9:33ff...
...Therefore Job and Ezekiel were looking ...
...for someone who would unite man and ...
...God. ...
...This is what salvation is about. It ...
...talks about how we are brought ...
...together after we were separated by a ...
...t h i r d p a r t y - S I N . We w e r e ...
...disconnected from our love and God, ...
...but Jesus fused us together, again, ...
...and reconciled us**. ...
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