The Fruit - Galatians 5:22-23

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Ephesians 5:8-10

for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

The fruit of the Spirit should have been the fruit eaten by Adam and Eve, this coming from the tree of life. 

They chose the forbidden fruit instead. That led to the pain and sorrow of disobedience. The need for the law which would begin to define good and evil was established. The law would provide the knowledge of good and evil. It would illuminate the frailty of man. Then the fruit from the tree of life would be appealing to the eye and seen as food for the knowledge and wisdom of God. This the fruit they should have chosen. It is the fruit we should choose. 

Made For Man - Mark 2:27

Mark 2:27 ESV 

Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Creation was made for man just as the Sabbath was made for man. The glory of man to the glory of God is the will of God. 

True Sabbath is not a religious ritual, but a state of being, a state of life, a state of rest.

Darkness Was Over - Genesis 1:2

Genesis 1:2 ESV 

The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

Without God, the natural state of the world is darkness. This is the way He began. It is into this darkness that God spoke His light into creation. He is injecting Himself to fill the emptiness and formless shape of a world without the light of God. 

History is the unfolding of that light in the context of time. The light itself is timeless as God is timeless, and therefore the beginning and the end. 

In the end the earth will be full of His light and creation will be complete. 

So Loved - John 3:16

John 3:16 ESV 

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

When did God begin loving the world? Always!

Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world. This is the ultimate demonstration of his love, The ultimate demonstration of love.

He loved us from the beginning and will love us until the end. He is always there. This is our destiny, for those who answer his call.

Some Do Not Believe - John 6:63-64

John 6:63-64

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

God knowing who will believe and who will not in no way negates or abrogates our free will. He is God Who knows the end from the beginning. He is present in every moment since time began, and this will be case at the end of time. He knows. He is all-knowing. 

It is the Spirit that gives life. The Lord is the Spirit. We join and are joined in that Spirit. 

Receive The Holy Spirit - John 20:21-23

John 20:21-23 ESV 

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”

The story of God breathing on Adam the gift of life is repeated with Jesus breathing on the disciples. 

The disciples hold a special place within the church and with their relation to Christ. They received the breath of God in a unique fashion. They were were the first to receive what everyone in the body of Christ is destined to receive, and that is the Holy Spirit. This Spirit unites with our spirits, joining us to God and each other. 

The Holy Spirit enables the discernment and judgement of sin. The Spirit descended upon Christ and the fullness of the Father was pleased to dwell in the Son. Just as Christ breathed the Spirit upon these disciples, so He breathes the breath of life on all who call on His name. To receive Christ is to receive the Holy Spirit, for they are the same in the mystery of the Trinity. He alone will judge all hearts. As we grow in the mind of Christ so we will be able to perceive and understand in the way of the Spirit. 

It is Jesus Who sends us into the world to shed His light. We are children of that light. We have become sons of God. This happens when we receive the Holy Spirit. 

In The Beginning - Genesis 1:1

Genesis 1:1 ESV   

The Creation of the World

​ In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Matthew 1:1

The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

​ The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

The Greek word translated here as "genealogy" could have been translated as the beginning. The transliterated word is "genesis" which is appropriate for the new creation that would come through Christ. Another beginning is before us. 

Adam, son of God, would fall only to be lifted up by the Son of Man, Jesus Christ. 

Both were children of God, both given life through the Holy Spirit. Adam was given life with the breath of God filling his lungs. That same Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and gave life to Jesus, the second Adam. Through both, light and life will fill the earth. 

Revelation 3:14

To the Church in Laodicea

“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

God was the beginning. 

Jesus says He is the beginning, who is, was, and is to come. 

God is Jesus is Spirit. 

The transliteration of the Hebrew for God is "'Elohim". It is "plural in form but singular in meaning". Three in One. 

The end will be the same as  the beginning.

God

ʼelōhîm 2,602x God (plural of majesty: plural in form but singular in meaning, with a focus on great power); (Mounce's Complete Exposition)