Davar Kingdom Of God

In order to learn to reign in life, we need to know first how different life is from death. We are so used to death and its reign over us that we do not even try to go against it, but simply accept it without thinking we can reign over it. The same attitude is usually seen even among Christians. In spite of the teaching in the Bible, we Christians do not try to reign, or do not even think we can. In order to know what life is, we need to know what death is. Death as discussed in the Bible is of a spiritual kind—the kind depicted, for instance, in the first part of the book of Genesis. God said to Adam: You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 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 (Gen 2:16-17). About this death, the serpent lied and said, “You will not surely die,” and Eve believed it. Life comes from God, and only from him. The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils