On December 27, 2023; The Lord prompted this question in my spirit.
“What would’ve happened if Adam would’ve acknowledge his sin, (instead of saying the woman who gave me she gave it to me and I ate?”

What if, instead, he (Adam) acknowledged his sin properly, and knowing the character of God… Adam knew that God could help to reverse that curse, and they could eat from the tree of life and live forever.

The Bible teaches us that God doesn’t change. He was merciful then and He’s Merciful now. (His Mercy is from EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING) (Psalm 103:17). God was Merciful to Adam and Eve, even after not acknowledging their sin, but what if they did?

This question that the Lord brought to my spirit brought me to a deep dive into prayer and study to search out a possible answer to this question.

I first started my study by looking into the word “acknowledge” in the Bible and went from there.

The Lord took me to Psalm 32, here David is talking about the contrast between 2 types of people. People who are forgiven and set free from guilt/shame/sin and people who are not.

Person #1 is blessed and Person #2 is distressed.

Person #1

• Blessed/happy
• Forgiven, covered, justified
• Spirit is honest and sincere

Person #2

• Bones grew old
• Groaning all day long
• Heaviness
• Vitality turned into drought

But here’s the thing… The two people are actually the same, only difference… ACKNOWLEDGEMENT vs SILENCE

but when I acknowledged… (when I made known my sins)

Psalms 51 (David’s repentance) says the same thing “I acknowledge my transgressions”

This concept of acknowledgement isn’t just with David, it’s principle, and found all throughout scripture.

A few quick examples…

• Hosea 5:15- “I will go away and return to My place [on high]
  Until they acknowledge their offense and bear their guilt and seek My face;
  In their distress they will earnestly seek Me, saying, “Come and let us return [in repentance] to the Lord,
  For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
  He has wounded us, but He will bandage us….”

In Jeremiah 3, God tells is speaking to His people saying, “Only understand fully and acknowledge your wickedness and guilt (iniquity),
That you have rebelled (transgressed) against the Lord your God
And have scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.

In Jeremiah 14:20 Israel finally is humiliated and afflicted and they say “We know and acknowledge, O Lord,
Our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.“

There is already some Biblical principles being laid out here in these few scriptures, that we will expound upon more…

However, one of the main principles we will discuss from these examples and throughout all of scripture is the idea of.. Being naked and not ashamed in front of God. (Genesis 2:25)

To understand this concept, I went back to Genesis 2 and 3 (during the first temptation and the fall of man.) Trying to gain understanding on this question God asked me “what would’ve happened if they (Adam and Eve) acknowledged/confessed?” 

After the sin and fall of man, God’s first question to Adam was “where are you?” Adam answered and told God where he was and why he was there. (hiding in the trees because he heard the voice of God and was afraid BECAUSE THEY WERE NAKED. (Genesis 3:8-10)

So God asked another question based on Adam’s answer and He said “who told you that you were naked? (more on the voice that spoke to them that they were naked on another Bible Study 🤪) Have you eaten from the tree which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11)

Adam’s next response is significant…

God’s question was for Adam, and Adams’s first response was “the woman”

So God went to the woman, and her response was “the serpent” 

So God said to the serpent… and curses were loosed… (Genesis 3:14-24)

Neither Adam, or Eve acknowledged in the right way. The did not take ownership and responsibility.

What would have happened if God came to Adam to confront him about his sin and Adam responded like David in 2 Samuel 12?

What would have happened if Adam said “Have mercy on me O God, For I sinned and you said the wages of sin was death, and Yes I did eat the fruit and I deserve to die, Your judgment is righteous but have Mercy on me O God according to your mercy and compassion. I willingly followed Eve into sin knowing that you had the power to free us from death and not kill us……etc”

I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT IF ADAM AND EVE WOULD HAVE CONFESSED RIGHT AFTER THEIR SIN, GOD WOULD HAVE FORGAVE AND WE COULD BE LOOKING AT A DIFFERENT STORY/OUTCOME. (this is my opinion but I believe there’s Bible for it) (Obviously God knew what would happen from the beginning and had a redemptive plan).

Let’s Compare Adam and Eve’s response to David’s response (2 Samuel 12 and Psalm 51) to help prove this out.

“Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”

Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.  But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.” (2 Samuel 12:13,14)

After David is confronted with his sin and transgression, the very first thing he does is confess. Nathan immediately replies and says that God took his sin away and he’s not going to die. (God forgives and forgets sin but he does not take away consequences of sin).

Davids Prayer of Repentance is continued in Psalm 51…

“Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness and guilt. And cleanse me from my sin. For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them; My sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned And done that which is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak [Your sentence] And faultless in Your judgment.” (Psalms 1-4 AMP)

“ For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.“ (Psalm 51:3-4 ESV)

“For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them; My sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned And done that which is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak [Your sentence] And faultless in Your judgment.“ (Psalms 51:3-4 AMP)

Here we are getting into some context for a Biblical Principle in the Word of God… God (in any capacity) confronts us about our sin, iniquity and/or transgression , and our response (obey or disobey) reveals our heart and determines if God can really use us to fulfill His Will through us.

Examples of a call to Confession and Repentance: 

• God confronted Adam and Eve (Genesis 3)
• Samuel confronted Saul (1 Samuel 15:1-30)
• Nathan confronted David (2 Samuel 12)
• God confronted Solomon (1 Kings 11:9-12) 
• All of the Prophets confronted the Israelites (Hosea, Joel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jonah, Jeremiah, etc)
• John the Baptist confronted the people (Matthew 3:1-8)
• Jesus confronted the Pharisees and Sadducees (Matthew 4:17, Matthew 23 etc)
• Paul confronted the Churches (Epistles and Letters)
• John confronts the Churches (Revelation)

Confession and Repentance are not the same… for example…

Some of these examples above show that some people flat out ignored God’s confrontation, some confessed, some confessed and repented; and those are the ones God will not only forgive but HE CAN USE.

DAVID AND SAUL BOTH CONFESSED THEIR SINS, BUT THEY DID NOT BOTH REPENT!

Confession is admitting it happened, Repentance is making a mental 180 degree turn to make sure it doesn’t keep happening (Confession should lead us to repentance)

A child who stole a toy and got caught can confess he did it, but still not change his attitude and actions for the next time there is a temptation to steal.

Our response to the confrontation of sin in our life reveals the contents of our heart. The goal of God confronting us about sin isn’t to shame us (like satan), but it’s to get us to acknowledge our sin and do something about it (humility, like David in Psalm 51) and lead to a repented/changed life.

That’s what CONVICTION OF THE WORD IS…

A man of God is ministering something that begins to confront US about how different we are from God and it is a call to repent and change and BE LIKE JESUS.

Another example is when are reading the Word and all of a sudden you read something in there, that is contrary to the way you have been living. This is one of God’s ways of speaking to His people to get us to BE LIKE JESUS. (we decrease and he increases) (John 3:30).

WE CAN’T HAVE MORE OF GOD WITHOUT HAVING LESS OF US. (WE ARE FIXED VESSELS AND NEED TO BE EMPTIED OUT OF US AND HAVE MORE OF HIM PUT IN) Praise God!

TRUE CHRISTIANITY, means to follow Jesus and to BE LIKE JESUS.

This is one of the many reasons the Word of God is important. The Bible tells us that WORD IS GOD. When we fellowship with the Word we are putting the very DNA of God into ourselves and it is cutting (Hebrew 4 :12) out the bad and putting in the good. (THERE IS LITERALLY SPIRITUAL SURGERY TAKING PLACE IN US).

The Word of God is like a mirror. God shows us who we are in comparison to His Holy Word (whether through our prayer and study or through the ministered Word). 

When God shows us a discrepancy between us and Him, we need to confess and Repent.

God cannot elevate us to the next level in His Kingdom if we don’t have the character (through a repented heart and contrite Spirit) which comes through His Spirit and Word convicting us about who we are vs who He is. 

The 1st step to change /repentance is always

AWARENESS 

We see in some of the previous scriptural examples this idea of knowing/understanding and leading to acknowledging. (Simply put, you can’t actively change something you don’t know about).

So God reveals it to us , and gives us an opportunity to first admit fault

Resulting in the 2nd step

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

As a born again believer, After acknowledging our sin, God can forgive us. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)

Through this confession, God can begin cleanse us and create in us a clean heart and renew in us a right Spirit though turning from sin and unto righteousness.

Resulting in the 3rd step 

REPENTANCE 

This whole process is detailed in Psalm 51.

• David is confronted with His sin (made aware of it) 
• David Acknowledges his sin
• David Repents of his sin 
• David is transformed by a Renovation of His mind (and Spirit) 
• David will use His experience to help others
• David reenforces that God loves/delights in a Brokenness and Contriteness (Godly sorrow leads to repentance) 
• David asks that God would do good to the church (His people/Kingdom) 
• That He (God) would have favor on them (His people) and Build a wall about them 

After the heart of the Church is restored THEN…

• God would be please with sacrifices and offerings (action)
• Isaiah 1 emphasizes this also that works need to have the correct Spirit and Heart behind them for it to be acceptable (ATTITUDE BEFORE ACTIONS)

David said this because you would later read in the book of Kings the sins of the King would effect ALL OF ISREAL 

• 1 kings 14:16 
• 2 kings 13:2-6 
• 2 kings 13:11 
• 22 more times in the book of kings it mentions “made Israel to sin” 

• All these kings sinned and “made Israel to sin” 
  • It’s mentioned often that the sins were the sins of Jeroboam (REBELLION) (1 kings 11-14) 
• Solomon’s sins affected His sons and on and on, Jeroboams sins affected his sons and so on, and ALL the Israelites for GENERATIONS to come.
• It’s even recorded that the tribe of Israel caused the tribe of Judah to sin and stumble.
• IF YOU DON’T DEAL WITH YOUR SINS IN THE RIGHT WAY, IT WILL NOT ONLY AFFECT YOUR SPIRIT BUT ALSO THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AND YOUR KIDS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME (sinning against God is more than just about you).

We all need to put on sackcloth and ashes (humility and repentance) and get back to a place of being naked and unashamed in front of God (nothing to hide and no shame from sin) 

Sackcloth and ashes (humility of confession must proceed repentance) (Matthew 23, James 4, 1 Peter 5:6)

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.“

Notice the order God lays out to Solomon at the temple, humility was the first requirement. Why? Because the natural tendency of man when he sins is to hide and to cover. It takes a MAN or should I say a MAN OF GOD to be humble enough to take of the covering of shame/pride and admit a fault.

Jesus made a statement that the “true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers.  God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:23)

Notice closely the way Jesus is talking, He doesn’t use capital letters in spirit and truth. What he’s talking about is that the ones who want to get close to Jesus (intimate fellowship with His Spirit) would have a posture of worship of nakedness.

The greek word for worship refers to a dog licking a masters hand and in a prostate position as a sign of reverence and adoration.

Think about that for a moment… I know most of the people reading this are use to a dog being submissive and prostate because we live in 21st century America, where we have domesticated house dogs. But that wasn’t necessarily the case back in the Biblical times. A dogs nature was/is not one of humility and submission. It is one of animalistic/carnivorous tendencies and survival instinct.

Humans also have a human animal nature to them as well and, especially in America, a desire for independence and pride, not submission and humility.

The significance of this scripture is saying that the ultimate form of worship and submission that God is looking for is TRUTH (humility, straightforwardness, reality) and SPIRIT.

Let’s not sugar coat… If getting intimate with the one you love naturally requires absolute nakedness and vulnerability, then how do we expect our God to be any different? We need to take off our spiritual covering and get back to a free fall garden state of nakedness. So where does this covering come from?

Well, this false covering comes from sin leading to shame, and we become covered by it (shame). Shame is a result of sin leading to the wrong type of nakedness,(more on this in other lessons) BUT if we are naked in front of God, He will cover us, but if we try to cover/hide ourselves before God, then shame will cover us)  (Genesis 2:25 , Isaiah 47:3, Jer 3:25 Revelation 3:18)  

I heard a man of God one time say “satan wants to strip shame from sin, then he will make it prideful, then he will normalize it”  (this is a profound statement and you really see if become true in our world today)

Shame is an internal covering that manifests as pride (self adornment on the outside, wanting to be seen on the outside, so you never have to address what’s on the inside.

Shame is a covering and God is a covering, we can’t be covered by both. 

Which one will you pick? (God, help us pick to be covered by you and not our shame). 

Shame is a covering and concealer, preventing us from Spiritual Nakedness with God (because what we hide, made us want to hide) (Adam and Eve in garden) Shame also means disgrace. When we are prideful and don’t confess our sins in humility leading to grace, we are covered by shame leading to DISGRACE. 

God is freely giving his grace to forgive us and cleanse us by His blood, and when we don’t humble ourselves to receive His Grace, we DIS-GRACE. (Proverbs 11:2). Meaning we oppose Grace. We are resisting Grace

Biblical Principle: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to humble” Proverbs 3:34 James 4:6-10, 1 Peter 5:6)

As the people of God, we need understanding on what TRUE CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE looks like…

God, I pray that everyone who reads this study would receive the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of God in all Humility and Repentance. And I pray that this Word would get into the deep places of our spirit and that you would grant us an understanding heart and willing spirit to sustain us! IN JESUS NAME! Amen.

Changing our Mind/Heart  (2 Corinthians 10:4-7)

^“(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) ⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”

thoughts —> high places and Imaginations —> Strongholds 

• Take thought captive, by making it obedience to Christ or it will become high thing (something exhaled in the mind) 
• Things that we exhault in our mind turn into imaginations (visual images of thoughts that are dwelled on) 
• When a build in pattern of thinking and imagining easily in your mind, it becomes a stronghold 

Thoughts: 

What are thoughts? 

• Thought- Perception (to become aware by the senses) (greek)
• Thought-  (intention/plan, texture, fabricate aka build) (Hebrew)
• Thought- Idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind (English Definition) 

• Root word perception: receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses”.

1. What is our job when it comes to Thoughts

“Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” 

Captive- make prisoner (of war)  

• If someone is taken captive in war, they are first binded up (Matthew 12:22-29), then they are questioned to find the source, if they can’t provide information that is valuable, they are killed (this is the same process for a prisoner of war) 
• (Thing about it like a foreign invasion, our garden is God’s… if something is trying to trespass on foreign soil, the US govt will anilalate it, how much more the garden and territory of God?)
• We take this thoughts prisoner so that they become obedience to Christ’s Word/thoughts/nature/knowledge (does it line up with Bible; Phillipains 4:8) 
• If the thought that’s coming to your mind is not from God (aligned with His word), you rebuke it 
• (Silence can be a form of agreement, you can’t be silent with thoughts, you need to speak) (death to them or life to them) 
• Rebuking it is when it is when it’s at the front door of your mind 

• • Rebuking it doesn’t work when it’s in (you cant cast out what you flirt with)

Imaginations: 

1. What are imaginations? 

• Imaginations- computation that is (figuratively) reasoning (conscience conceit) imagination thought also a reckoning, computation also a reasoning that is hostile to the Christian faith (reckoning root word an account of teams received) 
• Imaginations-  Something said (including thought) that is taken inventory (greek root) 
• Imaginations-  conception, thing framed/frame (Hebrew) 
• Imaginations-the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses (English Definition) 
• The imagination is the visual image that is now given where the thought or word becomes a vision
• Summary: A imagination is when thoughts are taken account of/ taken inventory and becomes something that is framed and set up in the mind as an image 

1. What is our job when it comes to Imaginations?

^“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,”

Cast down- to lower (ore with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively) cast (pull put take) down destroy (greek) 

• To tear down beat down break down, overthrow, destroy (Hebrew) 

Examples of God casting down high places and images:

• Leviticus 26:30-32
• Judges 6: 28-31 
• 2 Kings 18  
• 2 Chron 25:8 
• Proverbs 7:26 *
  • TPT and AMP
• Jeremiah 6
• Ezekiel 6:4 *
• Matthew 7:19 

High Thing: 

1. What are High Things? 

• High thing- an elevated place or thing that is (abstractly) altitude a barrier (figuratively) also height (evaluated thing)  (greek) 
• High Place –  to be high, an elevation (height) high place also high place, ridge, bamah (mountain, battlefield, places of worship) (Hebrew)
• High thing- positions of power and authority (English Definition) 

• a high thing is thought that came to your spirit that you didn’t rebuke (it becomes elevated in your mind) 
• Then you dwell on it, and when you dwell on it, it elevates and its influence elevates in spirit and mind to where you begin to believe it and it begins to war against what God has told you  
• Joshua 9-
  • Joshua and Israelites destroying a stronghold 
  • Destroyed everything but in AI some people took some “devoted” things 
• Solomon loved the Lord and walked in His ways, but went to offer sacrifices at the greatest place (Gibeon) a people / way of thinking that wasn’t destroyed in earlier generations affected the generations to come (Joshua etc) 

1. What is our job when it comes to High Places?

^“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,”

Cast down-to lower (ore with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively) cast (pull put take) down destroy (greek) 

• To tear down beat down break down, overthrow, destroy (Hebrew) 

Examples of God casting down high places and images:

• Leviticus 26:30-32
• Judges 6: 28-31 *
• 2 Kings 18  
• 2 Chron 25:8 
• Proverbs 7:26*
  • Amp and TPT
• Jeremiah 6
• Ezekiel 6:4 *
• Matthew 7:19 
• 2 Kings 23 *

The language in all aspects of casting down is a violent language. We are in a war. 

• Matthew 11:12 

StrongHolds: 

What are Strongholds? 

• Strong Holds- meaning to fortify though the idea of holding safely, a castle (figuratively argument) – stronghold also fortress, fastness, also of the arguments and reasonings by which a disputant endeavors to fortify his opinion and defend it against his opponent (greek)
• Strong Holds- a fortification, castle or fortified city, figuratively a defender, fenced, fortress,  (Hebrew) 
• Strong Holds- a fortified place, a place of security or survival, (English Definition) 

1. What is our job when it comes to Strongholds?

^{“ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty  through God to the pulling down of strongholds…”} 

Pull down- demolition, extinction: destruction pulling down (root word is the same as cast down) (greek) 

Examples of strongholds (good and bad) 

• Exodus 34:13
• Joshua (Jericho) 
• Judges 6:2
• 1 Samuel 23:19, 29
• 2 Kings 8:12
• 2 Chon 11:11
• Psalms 89:40 
• Isaiah 23 
• Lamentations 2:2
• Daniel 11
• Micah 5:11 
• Nahum 3:14
• 2 Corin 10:4 
• Ezekiel 19 

1. Law of 1st mention

Law of 1st Mention:

• Genesis 6:5 (first time thoughts and imaginations are mentioned) 
• “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually “
• imaginations (conception, thing framed/frame) come from thoughts (intention/plan, texture, fabricate aka build) which come from the heart (feelings, will and intellect) (the centre of everything) 
• only (leanness/thin , limitation, nevertheless) evil (root: breaking into pieces/ good for nothing) (bad as noun naturally or morally) continually (sunset to sundown) 

• Summary: your heart (mind and body) build thoughts (plan of thinking) that form imaginations (framework of thinking) which are all EVIL ALWAYS (Jer 17:9)
  • V9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? v10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”

2. What happens when high things and imaginations (high places/images) ARE NOT cast down?

When things are not taken care of in the garden, it affects our garden and the generations to come. 

Textual examples:

• Joshua and not clearing the forest (Joshua 17) shows effects in 2 Samuel 18:6-8)
• Joshua and the Gibbeonites treaty 
• The Kings (Saul etc) not killing ALL their enemies and they grow stronger 

⁃ ⁃ Saul and King of Agag 

2. What happens when high things and imaginations (high places/images) ARE cast down?

Walking and operating in Freedom/liberty, rest, peace, authority and dominion. 

Textual examples:

• 2 Kings 18 (Hezekiah cleans house and destroys images/high places) 
• 1 Kings 5:4 (Solomon has no advisory or disaster because of David’s victories) 

Scientific Explanation:

(Thoughts, high things imaginations, strongholds):

• When you have a experience or thought it is like a seed being planted in the fertile ground of the mind 
• Thoughts when you trap them begin to look like trees (research from Dr. Caroline leaf)
• On the images it looks like a seed when you have the thought of experience 
• After 14 days of meditating/dwelling on it it takes on the form of mushroom, after 
• After 21 days it takes on form of a tree 
• After continued dwelling (positive or negative) it begins to grow branches )
  • These begin to case shade over every other thought or exp you had 
  • Ex: This is why will people will know a relationship isn’t good for them but they stay in it anyway, 
  • Ex: Or they know a habit is bad, put still do it anyway 
  • You break this from neuroplasticity (changing the brain) and you can cast down those imaginations 
  • After Adam and Eve sinned, the advisory tried to plant a seed of shame (they hid among the trees)

• Pride manifests externally
  • Psalms 73 
  • Tattoos, beards, makeup, clothing , adornment 

(psalms 73) “pride is their necklace) and unjust gain is their covering (chaff) 

Matthew 13- 

• When you have pride you adore yourself externally 
• Separate the wheat from chaff(Matthew 13) 
• Chaff 
  • The chaff is the husk that is covering the seed 
  • The chaff is the part that is through away, taken off, can’t be eaten , it has no value but to hold grain until time of harvest 
  • Chaff grows up , chaff gets burned because no value 
  • The elect has both the wheat and the chaft (because its part of the same plant but only the wheat has the value for food) 
  • Chaff is in our life, it is their (it WILL be removed at harvest) 

• Tares 
  • a weed that grows among any crop (wheat) 
  • Nearly identical to wheat in the early stages of growth (it can even be called false wheat) , it isn’t until the later stages that the differences become apparent 
  • Tares are children of God, right next to the children of Kingdom 
  • When they are mature they no longer resemble each other , making separation possible 

• Wheat 
  • Wheat has to be processed before consumption (sifting) 
  • It is violently beaten to separate the wheat from the chaff 
  • It is used to feed livestock 
  • Winnowing is next(tossing things up in the air) (wind disperses) 

⁃ ⁃ Then wheat is ready to be into grain storage container 

• Past programming can be compared to the Parable in Matthew 13:24

Things sown in Egypt continued: (sowing a reaping principle) 

• 2 Corinthians 9:6 

Principle: there are certain things that we have sow in Egypt that we will either have to reap or God will uproot in His timing 

Summary: 

• God sows good seed in his field
• But while men slept, his enemy cam and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way
  • all the enemy can do is sow or try to sow, he can’t make you do anything 
• When the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also 
• Servants came to householder “did you sow these? How’d they get here?”
  • They first became aware 
• He told them it was the enemy, (revelation of source), wondering if they should go get them out 
• He said no because the wheat would be in danger of being uprooted 
• He said let both grow together until the timing of the harvest, 
• THEN gather first the tares (uproot), bind them in bundles and burn them
• THEN gather the wheat into his barn 

Conclusion: God has a perfect timing with everything in His garden/field, it is not our job to say the time or reaping and harvest. It is all about His timing 

Book of Joshua- 

Joshua 1- breakdown 

• The Promise that was given to Moses is extended to Joshua
• That everywhere his foot lands he will have dominion 
• God will be with him (not leave him or forsake him)
• God says BE strong and courageous 
  • So that you can get the land that’s promised 
• God says
  • SO THAT may observe (to hedge about) TO DO all all the law…
  • Don’t turn right or left… so that you might prosper wherever you go
• The Law should not depart from thy mouth, but thy shalt meditate on it day and night
  • SO THAT you observe (to hedge about) to do all that is written and may be prosperous that you will have good success 

The things that come into our Garden enter by Hearing and  Seeing (keep)

The way we protect our garden and cultivate what’s in it is thought Mind and Mouth (dress) 

How do we know this?

Its impossible to think something you have experienced through stimulus

Its impossible to speak something you haven’t heard or seen  

thoughts come from heart which lead to imaginations 

1 Chronicles 29 (David praying for solomon and the people in order to be able to build temple)

v18 (David is praying for heart and willingness to build temple like he had for people) 

imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people