Lesson 5 The Reason for Creation

     We have determined from the Word that the reason for creation was the earth and the reason for the earth was man.  We now come to the crutch of the matter; what was the reason for man?    
     The reason for man was the heart of the Father God.  Genesis 1:1 tells us that, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."  The word "God" in Hebrew is "Elohim."  This word is plural and reveals the Trinity at work in the creation.  We find in John 1:1-3 that Jesus Christ played a major role in all creation.  Both Psalm 104:30 and Genesis 1:2 tell us that the Holy Spirit was also at work in all that was created.  The Trinity or the three persons of God or the totality of God is revealed throughout the Old and New Testament.
     In Matthew 3:13-17 at Jesus' baptism and in Matthew 28:19, we see the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The Father God created the heavens and the earth in the very beginning and had the Father nature in the very beginning.
     It's easy to see the love of a father even in today's world.  A father's heart is for his children.  Ephesians 3:14-15 shows how a human father is an archetype of our Heavenly Father.  Earthly fathers love because our Heavenly Father God is eternally and infinitely a Father and we're made in His Image. It simply stands to reason that as a Father, God would long for a family to share in His love.
     Ephesians 1"4-5 (Amplified) says, "Even as (in His love) He chose us (actually picked us out for Himself as His Own) in Christ  before the foundations of the world (that we should be holy consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach before Him in love."  Verse 5 says, "For He ordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His Own children through Christ Jesus, in accordance with the purpose of His will (because it pleased Him and was His kind intent)."
     Romans 16:25 (Amplified) reveals the same truth to us that had been hidden until now saying, "Now to Him Who is able to strengthen you in the faith which is in accordance with my gospel and the preaching of (concerning) Jesus Christ (the Messiah), according to the revelation (the unveiling) of the mystery of the plan of redemption which was kept in silence and secret for long ages."  1Corinthians 2:7 (Amplified) says, "But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden (from the human understanding) and now revealed to us by God (that wisdom) which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification (to lift us into the glory of His presence)."
     Jesus came to do exactly that very thing in His ministry, He often said, "He came to reveal this God to men as the Father."  Can you imagine the comments and the hassle that erupted when Jesus taught them to pray saying, "Our Father, Who is in heaven" in Matthew 6:9?  These people held the Name God as being so holy that they wouldn't write or speak it.  Even today, many Jews write God as G-d because of reverence.  And Jesus said they should call God Father.
     Jesus said in John 14:6 (Amplified), "I am the way, and the truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except (through) Me."  He said in John 17:26 (Amplified), I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very self, and I will continue to make (you) known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them (felt in their hearts) and that I (Myself) may be in them."
     Jesus repeated that very statement in John 10:9 (Amplified) saying, "I Am the door; Anyone who enter in through Me will be saved ( will live). He will come in and he will go out (freely) and find pasture."  Jesus is the door we pass through to return to the presence of God as Father and not only God.  Jesus became our door back to a place of sonship with the Father.  Did you notice how Jesus said in John 14:6 that "No one comes to the Father except through Him?"
     Many people have come to Jesus, but still haven't entered the other side of the door into the Father's presence.  We stand at this side of the door and address God as "God," but won't pass through the door and address Him as "Father."  We read the Lord's Prayer and pray, "Our Father,"but still act as though He is distant.  Our fellowship and sonship connection has been made if we will accept it.
     The entire reason for everything that exists, was the Father and His family.  Enter through the door of Jesus, into the throne of Grace and to the presence of your Father.  Make Him Father and not just God.  This is His heart and His dream fulfilled.