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Chapter 4 - Faith to Believe

he foundation stones we have laid so far can be summed up in the following
Tway:

· All mankind is born under the slavery of sin.
· Sin has caused a separation between God and man, and has
brought death.
· The Son of God came to repair the breach and bear upon
Himself the penalty for sin that man might live.

Yahweh has done all that was necessary to restore man to life and fellowship
with Himself. Sacrificing His own Son that man might live was an act of the most
profound love. Yahweh could have demanded that man bear the consequences of
his sin, but He is a God of mercy and tremendous compassion, as the Scriptures
state.

Psalms 145:9-10
Yahweh is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works. All Your
works shall give thanks to You, O Yahweh, and Your godly ones shall bless
You.

Although Yahweh has done all that is necessary to provide atonement for the
sin of man, and He has made a way for men and women to come back into
fellowship with Himself, there is something required on our part. We must believe
that these things that have been testified thus far in this book are true. Not all men
and women acknowledge that they are slaves to sin. Not all recognize that death,
both physical and spiritual, is the portion of mankind due to our sin. And not all
men believe and confess that Yahshua is the only way to obtain forgiveness of sin
and be restored to fellowship with God.
Our part is to both believe these things and confess them. Man has ever
sought another way to cover over their sin. Men have often sought to cover their
sin with some work of their own. They have sought to improve themselves, and
thereby make themselves acceptable unto God. This was first symbolized in the
Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve took fig leaves and sewed them together to
cover their nakedness (Genesis 3:7). Yahweh judged their covering to be deficient
and unacceptable. He then provided an acceptable covering for them.

Genesis 3:21
Yahweh God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed
them.

In order to make garments of skin, an animal had to be slain and blood had
to be shed. The covering of nakedness is a spiritual parable of man’s shameful sin
being exposed before the eyes of God, and needing a covering. When Yahweh
rejected the fig leaf covering of the man and woman, and provided His own