That taste described as being sensible in regards to Adam’s change of estate may be subtle at first but, as we may grow, things once subtle are to become more plain. There appears a great gulf between the recognition of woman as received here by Adam:
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
And of what would be later response when questioned about his present knowing of being naked and if he had eaten:
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
What a far cry from some understanding the reality of matters once so differently expressed! Where once was acknowledgement of a most tight knitting, and even recognition of self in it; Adam has now, and is now, speaking both of the woman and to God in a very arm’s length manner. He does not even understand that, to in any way, lay any accusation against the woman was to so inculpate himself :
because she was taken out of Man.
Because she was of him, she was no less than himself in another. And in a way that should not be peculiar to us as believers, being fully of him, and a full expression of things once in him; to now assign her as distinct in all explanation from himself, was a great chasm filled with blindness. Not merely had Adam, in such blaming by excuse set God and the woman as apart from himself, in all action and apparent question of motive…he could not even see his own self. He was made foreigner to all. And so, and no less also, when we read, if we do read of Adam in such a way as “different” from us, as totally other than us, as a story about someone else than us, we simply betray that same blindness of all unknowing in that fall to death.
It is a curious working this matter of death. How that man is totally blinded in it and by it, set to presuming because he may state facts, he knows truth. And as man, each must take caution as to how he sees, and in particular with the scriptures, how he reads and hears.
Jesus states emphatically that they all do testify of Him, yet in His now presence before those in that blindness of death made plain by refusal to come to Him in such recognition, they do not have at all what they think they seek, life.
You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
To say all are blind and dead in such manner that there is a total alienation from God and therefore all and any truth, may seem a far too bold thing to either consider, much less, say. And as such surely true till the coming of, and the coming to, Christ. But the Lord is not shy nor reluctant to, and neither are His apostles. Is it not then of less wonder now one would read more rightly, even of the prophet Isaiah’s words? Even written as though in past tense of things yet to be revealed:
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
For there is no recognition nor receiving nor even understanding at all until such revelation be made. For if left all and only to man for his recognition and esteeming is this:
“he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men…”
For to read this as only pertaining to others, yet holding some pride of our own for recognition and acknowledgment of God’s Christ, God knows. For just as these words may be made to seem to us “to others”, no less then will God see to it that as to us in any estate of pride, and no less…all of the words of Christ are also excluded from us, by our own pride. Eating all the Lamb is not merely important, but essential.
To whatever remains of death and carnal thinking whereby that enmity of spirit is of all above as against it, there will be unsettling. And only the fool or novice will take to himself credit for himself, and as from himself, for being able to recognize the Lord. Only the spirit is able to give, and only the spirit is able to keep. For by any claim that he has come to such of his own, a man proves he does not believe the scripture(s) and is in no place to either instruct by them or hold them up to others for their esteeming.
It is quite like Jesus confronting those who took a stand upon a something they believed given exclusively to them as endorsement of their own exclusivity that they so relished and wallowed in.
And yes, God can smell wallowing.
Jesus said:
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?
Paul also came to understand this, see later, understand later…when brought from death to life. He then understood Isaiah’s words in truth and light of which were once hidden by all pride and presumption in himself as, at best, only pertaining to others or some others of which he could never account himself as…because he was dead in such blindness. The words were surely there and no doubt he could repeat them even accurately and factually…but never till such time as:
When it pleased God to reveal His son in me
Understand their relationship…to himself. As all in Adam, truth was placed at arm’s length, making the man foreign to it. Nevertheless he came to see. To understand. To believe. To know.
But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
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But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Are we gainsaying?
We cannot but be if we think ourselves so very different by our own distinctiveness.
We will always have a delightful treasury we may visit unseen by all except God of just how special and different we have made ourselves to ourselves.
And yes, God can smell wallowing.
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