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Unity in the Spirit #4 - A Real Exorcism

Before January 30, 2004: When I was in grade school, all my reading and writing skills were below par. The highest score I ever achieved was a B in English and only because I did a lot of extra credit work that used grammatical formulas. I never liked reading because I was made fun of by other students. Teachers, on occasion, publicly laughed at my reading failures. My reading was always slow and so was my comprehension.  My writing skills were no better. It was so bad that I had to take remedial writing classes before I was allowed to enter community college, but every class requiring writing produced the same struggle until I just simply gave up on college altogether. It was during my college struggles that I was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia that inserted incorrect words into my brain that caused the material to become confusing when I read or when I wrote. For example: I would read "hat" and the actual printed word was "cat" or I would w...

The First and Last Adam

What a wonderful deja vous in Genesis 1:26-31 , 2:5-9 ; then repeated in Jesus' baptism, desert visit, and ministry! God speaks and thus sows the word as seeds, Luke 8:11 . (see Parable Defined ) The seeds took time to germinate and grow just like they do today. In the mean time: Adam is formed from the dirt, Genesis 3:19 . God breaths life into Adam, Genesis 2:7 , washes and greets Adam. Genesis 2:3 ,* Adam walks a garden of dirt, Genesis 2:5 , 8 , fasting, Matthew 4:4 , and worshiping, Deuteronomy 28:47 , Hebrews 13:15 . As a result, the dirt is cultivated, Proverbs 18:20 , which waters the earth, Proverbs 18:4 , 20:5 , Jeremiah 2:13 , Psalms 19:7 .** The earth produces an abundant yield, Genesis 2:5 , 9 . Adam's life typifies Jesus' life on earth, Romans 5:14 . Thus, Jesus is the second Adam, 1 Corinthians 15:45 . Look how Jesus did the same thing His father, Adam, did: Emanuel is born of flesh, Isaiah 7:14 , Matthew 1:23 , taken from dust, John 3:...