The Fullness of Life_3

<p>Tuesday August 3rd&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>The Fullness of Life 3</p> <p><br></p> <p>When you say that something is full, you are invariably saying that it can be half full or empty. This is what Jesus was saying in Matthew 11:28-30, he was talking about restoring your life to the fullest. Jesus knew that we had life before, but we lost it.</p> <p><br></p> <p>How did man lose this life? Remember God told man not to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of Good and evil, stating that the day he ate of it he will surely die. Man did not understand the statement until she had a first-hand experience of death.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Lets look at Genesis 3:6-12</p> <p><br></p> <p>So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”</p> <p><br></p> <p>The story above summarises how death came into the life of Man. God warned man that the consequences of eating the fruit would be dead. But man did not have the capacity to understand what God meant. Shockingly, they were still alive even after they had eaten the fruit. They were moving, talking, breathing and carrying out other activities of life. The reason for this is because God's definition o