THE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
No matter how righteous you are, you cannot do ‘it’ alone
“A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.
Proverbs 18:1 (NKJV)
Genesis 5 The Family of Adam
Genesis 1:26-27 (KJV), “26 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. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
In Our Image
Strong’s Concordance (6754) – tselem: an image. Brown-Driver-Briggs – image (something cut out).
After Our Likeness
Strong’s Concordance (1823) – demuth: likeness, similitude. Websters 1828 – 1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance.
Genesis 5:1 (KJV), “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.”
In the Likeness of God
Strong’s Concordance (1823) – demuth: likeness, similitude. Brown-Driver-Briggs – 1. likeness, similitude, of external appearance.
God calls man and woman mankind – Let’s look at 3 different translations
Genesis 5:2 (KJV), “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”
Genesis 5:2 (NKJV), “He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.”
Genesis 5:2 (NASB1995), “He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created.”
Adam, Mankind, or Man?
All 3 translations are correct
KHV NASB NKJV
Strong’s Concordance (120) – adam, man, mankind. Brown-Driver-Briggs – 2. collective man, mankind.
This is why it is so important to examine the root words or the original text. In many cases, in scripture, the word man or mankind refers to man and woman
Adam – 930
Seth – 912
Enosh – 905
Cainan – 910
Mahalalel – 895
Jared – 962
Enoch – 365 – > and he was not (of Enoch’s disappearance from earth)
Methuselah – 969
Lamech – 777
Noah –
Shem, Ham, & Japheth
Micah 6 God Pleads with Israel
Micah 6:3-5 (KJV), “3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 4
Paul’s account to the Corinthians of why God placed him there
2 Corinthians 4:6 (KJV), “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (KJV), “16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
Proverbs 18
Read thoroughly
Romans 6
Do not sin intentionally knowing that God’s grace will abound in us
Romans 6:1-4 (KJV), “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
Romans 6:11-15 (KJV), “11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.”
Forget being slaves to sin but now be slaves to righteousness
Romans 6:18-20 (KJV), “18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.”
We are set free from sin and have the gift of eternal life
Romans 6:22-23 (KJV), “22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Grow in the Word of the Lord 