MAN DOES NOT LIVE ON
BREAD ALONE
Mt. 4:4 Jesus answered, “It
is written: `Man does not
live on bread alone, but on
every word that comes
from the mouth of God.’“
• Ge. 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of
the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life, and the man became a living being.
• Ge. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the
east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had
formed.
• Ge. 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow
out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye
and good for food. In the middle of the garden were
the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil.
• 2Co. 5:1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in
is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal
house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• 2Co. 5:2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed
with our heavenly dwelling,
• 2Co. 5:3 because when we are clothed, we will not be
found naked.
• 2Co. 5:4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are
burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but
to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what
is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
There are two parts to a human being: the earthly
tent in which the man lives, that is the earthly
body, and the soul or the inner being. As Ge. 2:7
says, God began the creation of man by first of all
forming the earthly body, and then breathed into
that body His Holy Spirit and man became a living
soul. In Ge. 2:8-9, we see the garden that God
created to provide food for man that He had
created. The Garden of God also had two parts:
there were trees that provided food for the earthly
body and two trees that provided food for the
soul.
•Ge.
2:16 And the LORD God
commanded the man, “You are free
to eat from any tree in the garden;
•Ge. 2:17 but you must not eat from
the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, for when you eat of it you
will surely die.”
One of the two trees that can provide
food for the soul is actually poisonous to
the kind of body that Adam and Eve had,
before the fall of man. I believe that
Adam and Eve had the kind of body that
Jesus possessed after his resurrection.
For this reason, God warned man to
never eat from the poisonous tree, else
he would die.
• Ge. 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit
of the tree was good for food and pleasing
to the eye, and also desirable for gaining
wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also
gave some to her husband, who was with
her, and he ate it.
• Ge. 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were
opened, and they realized that they were
naked; so they sewed fig leaves together
and made coverings for themselves.
Man eventually ate from the poisonous tree,
which God had warned him never to eat
from, and immediately became naked. This
nakedness means that man lost the heavenly
body that he had in the beginning and his
soul had no body to cover it. As we can see
from 2 Cor. 5:3-4, that is what happens when
a human being of today dies. When a human
being dies, the soul becomes naked, having
no covering or tent to live in.
• Re. 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under
the altar the souls of those who had been slain
because of the word of God and the testimony they
had maintained.
• Re. 6:10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long,
Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the
inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
• Re. 6:11 Then each of them was given a white robe,
and they were told to wait a little longer, until the
number of their fellow servants and brothers who
were to be killed as they had been was completed.
In Re. 6:9-11, we can see the souls of people
of God who had been slain because of their
faith in God’s word. God ordered that each of
them be clothed with white robe or heavenly
body. Big question is, what happens to souls
of people who do not die on the side of God?
Who is there to clothe those souls? How
does it feel for a soul to remain endlessly
naked? Is that what hell is all about?
We notice in Ge. 3:7 that as soon as Adam and Eve ate the
forbidden fruit, they noticed that they were naked and
immediately sewed fig leaves together and made coverings
for themselves. They were able to do this because of the
extent of development their souls had attained before the
fall of man, as a result of their closeness to the presence of
God. They had acquired some level of divinity. The fact that
they quickly made some low-quality coverings for
themselves shows how uncomfortable it is for a soul to be
naked. Apostle Paul alluded to this in 2 Cor. 5:4. The mortal
fear that a human being experiences when he comes face
to face with death is actually the horror the soul
experiences at the possibility of becoming naked.
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
Ge. 2:9b In the middle of the garden were
the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
The trees that feed the soul cannot be
physical, but spiritual. What are the tree of
life and the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil?
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
Mt. 7:17 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree
bears bad fruit.
Mt. 7:18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit.
Mt. 12:33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree
bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
Mt. 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything
good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Mt. 12:35 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up
in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in
him.
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
The New Testament gives insight to some things
written in the Old Testament that are clouded in
obscurity. In order to understand clearly what the
two trees in Ge. 2:9 that feed the soul really are,
I searched for “tree” in the New Testament and
immediately everything became clear. Mt. 12:3435 applies the word “tree” to human beings. In
Genesis 2 and 3, the two trees in the middle of
the Garden of God are spirit beings and the fruit
they produce are words of mouth. See Mt. 12:34.
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
Who are the two spirit beings
that the words of one give life
and the words of the other give
death? These two spirit beings
appeared in the Garden of God
and spoke to Adam and Eve.
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
Ge. 2:16 And the LORD God
commanded the man, “You are free
to eat from any tree in the garden;
Ge. 2:17 but you must not eat from
the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, for when you eat of it you
will surely die.”
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
Ge. 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild
animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did
God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Ge. 3:2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from
the trees in the garden,
Ge. 3:3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that
is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you
will die.’”
Ge. 3:4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Ge. 3:5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
The tree of life is God; the fruit that He
produces is His word. The tree of the
knowledge of good and evil is Satan; the
fruit that he produces is the word that
comes out of his mouth. Satan even
mentioned “knowing good and evil” in Ge.
3:5.
The Two Trees that can feed the Soul
Jn. 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil,
and you want to carry out your father’s desire.
He was a murderer from the beginning, not
holding to the truth, for there is no truth in
him. When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Satan murdered mankind with lies.
The Light Shines in the Darkness
Jn. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
Jn. 1:2 He was with God in the beginning.
Jn. 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing
was made that has been made.
Jn. 1:4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
Jn. 1:5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has
not understood it.
1Jn. 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole
world is under the control of the evil one.
The Light Shines in the Darkness
Since the fall of man, the world of mankind has
been greatly influenced by the lies of Satan. The
word of God is the light of the world, but
people’s minds have been so beclouded by the
lies of Satan that the word of God does not
penetrate their minds. Even people who say that
they teach or preach the word of God mix it up
with wisdom of the world and thereby corrupt it.
The Light Shines in the Darkness
Mt. 4:4 defines precisely what the word of
God is: “every word that comes out of the
mouth of God”. When human beings turn
God’s word into doctrines, it is no longer
word of God. But when human beings
speak God’s word exactly as He said it,
they are ministering the word of God.
The Light Shines in the Darkness
The word of God to mankind is made
up two sides: His commandments and
His promises. God’s commandments
are preeminent over His promises. The
promises of God can only be fulfilled
when
mankind
obey
His
commandments.
Eternal Life
Satan deceived mankind by telling Eve that the way to
live forever is by disobeying God’s word. The truth is that
the way to overcome death and live forever is by
perfectly living by the word of God. Even if a human
being cannot perfectly live by the word of God, active
determination to live by the word of God continually
increases the measure of the Holy Spirit of God that is
present in a human being. The Spirit gives life (Jn. 6:63).
The measure of the Spirit in a human being inversely
determines how easily death can operate in that human
being.
Eternal Life
In August 2014, my two-year old son was having acute malaria.
The malaria was so intense that by the time my wife started
giving him malaria drugs, he could not take them. Some hours
later, severe convulsion took over him and life was rapidly going
out of him. I took over the boy from my wife and held him in my
arms. I began to speak to him: “I give life to you by the Holy
Spirit of God, in the name of Jesus Christ.” By the time I spoke
like this a few number of times, he suddenly came out of the
convulsion. I handed him back to my wife, who then gave him
malaria drugs and he easily took them and began to recover. If I
did not have sufficient measure of the Spirit in me, I would have
lost my son.
Eternal Life
Jn. 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;
Jn. 11:26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?”
In Jn. 11:25-26, it is the Word, made flesh in Jesus (Jn. 1:14),
speaking. The word of God is the resurrection and eternal life.
Any person who understands this fact and thereby lives by the
word of God has eternal life. Even though the person dies, God
will clothe his soul with a heavenly body and he will live forever.
Any person who perfectly lives by the word of God will never see
death.
Eternal Life
What about people who totally disregard the
word of God? One day they will die; since they
do not die on the side of God and there is no
Spirit of God in their souls, they cannot
approach the presence of God. God cannot
clothe their souls with another body. That is
hell fire—eternal nakedness of the soul. I don’t
know for how long a naked soul can survive.
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