Adam and Eve
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: July 18, 2010
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Temptations / Addiction, Forgiveness / Repentance, Spiritual Freedom
The fallout of eating forbidden fruit
Since the Lord's face is mercy, peace, and everything good, it is clear that He never looks at anyone except with mercy and never turns His face from anyone. It is we, when we are wrapped up in evil, who turn our faces away. As the Lord said through Isaiah:
Your offenses are what cause a separation between you and your God: and your sins hide His face from you.
(Isaiah 59:2)
Likewise it says here that they hid themselves from Jehovah's face because they were naked. Mercy, peace and all that is good - Jehovah's face - are what give rise to the inner call in the case of those who have perception (and those who have conscience, too, but in a different way). The qualities always operate in a compassionate manner, but the way we receive them depends on our state.
(Heavenly Secrets 223-224, New Century Edition)
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Lessons and text
(Gen. 3:1-19; Is. 59:2; AC Arcana Coelesta 223-224)
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