Whoever believed and trusts in His Son, God would give him eternal life. Whoever does not believe in His Son would be perished.

The love that God spoke and expressed, no human mind or understanding could ever grasp. His love is too enormous and it applies to so many areas in our lives, and all our natural system of functioning in all creation.

He loved not only mankind but the whole of His creation, including animals, material things, the earth, river, mountain, sky, natural system of the universe, laws of nature , etc.

All that He created were good. He loved everything seen and unseen as it was in the beginning, until 'The great battle' happened in heaven. The moment when once of the Archangel decided to rebelled against God's plan. Especially God's plan of salvation. When God decided to come down as man so as to save His people. As He would still be God, they had to worship Him. This caused one of the Archangel to rebel. For they were created so much higher in authority and power, that pride caused them not to be able to worship God as a servant and human being. They can't accept God's plan for allowing God Incarnate in Jesus to suffer a cruel death. Pride caused them to disobeyed and sabotage God's plan. But in heaven all God's creation must not rebel. For God's plans are supposed to be perfect and no creation must never doubt God's ability and power to fulfill them.

By sabotaging, rebelling, condemning and as a whole, work all out to make God's plan a failure, caused them to be permanently separated from God, His Kingdom and His Angels.

Since the devil, together with his followers cannot possibly take revenge on God, they therefore targeted God who lived in human being. They tried to destroy the souls of human beings, which was God's personal property. They manipulated the freewill of mankind to their benefit and to our destruction.

But God had every power, right and authority over the world of the death that is hell, Satan, his instruments and followers.

God had every right to command or even destroy them.

Human beings are mere creature of God.

After the fall, God can destroy the sinful race and created a new one. But then this was not the way of God. He chooses to redeem and save the 'old' that He had created.

He did it in the most controversial manner, that people could not understand or take it.

God could easily pardon all mankind without the life of Jesus Christ. He could have said certain words and the whole of creation would be renewed. But He had not chosen this way.

From the beginning before the fall, God knew through and through that Adam and Eve would fall. He knew exactly when this would happen. Every event, thought, desire, ability, talents, plan, etc are all laying fully exposed in the 'eye' of God.

Yet God loved and created them. Nurtured and sustained them with good food, companionship, creature of the air and land that are so pleasing and beautiful.

God still provide fresh air, water, intelligent and all goodness in life to the fallen creature of God.

God's grace and forgiveness is so much greater than our weakness and sin.

Time is in the 'hand' of God. He knew exactly when to fully intervene in human history of salvation.

Jesus' Divine Nature takes flesh, or incarnation was a perfect way by which God sanctified, purified and saved all mankind.

The sin of pride and doubt of Adam and Eve had brought about the fall of mankind but the obedience and faith of Jesus as man had brought about the rise of mankind. Rise to freedom and victory. Whereas in the past they were living in bondage of sin and darkness. Death was defeated after the resurrection of Jesus as one of our kind. Jesus is truly man. The Divine Nature in Jesus as Son is completely submissive to the will of the Father. By this essence of His life, He not only overcame death personally but He is the foretaste of what is to come. Although Jesus' mother was the first to experience the fullness of the fruit of Jesus' victory, whereas others during and after the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

From birth till the day He died was a mystery. He represented all mankind. All mankind waited patiently for Jesus to triumph. He was the only hope of the whole human race. Even Adam and Eve was restless in their sleep.

Jesus Christ was the only mean whereby the ransom would be pay, by the power of His love. The essence and summit of His love was manifested by His suffering and His death, whereby He became the New and Living sacrifice for all people of God

Why is sacrifice ever necessary and needed?

Indeed, we may think that God is very cruel to have demanded the blood of animals or worst still the blood of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. We may think it is really cruel of God to have demanded these. But why are all this necessary at all?

Indeed salvation and redemption can exclude these 'bloody' staffs. But what would happen, if everything were taken so lightly. More and more evil would have been committed by the people, because sins could easily be forgiven. What symbolized by blood is life. Because of sin, life is in fact taken away from us. Because the consequence of sin is death. Just like Abraham, offering of Isaac as sacrifice for the people in order to seal a covenant with God, for the forgiveness of sin but God decided that Isaac be spared from death. By sincerely and willing offered Isaac up is enough. Symbolically Isaac was in fact death but instead an animal that was caught in the bush becomes the real victim of the sacrifice.

So this applied to the death of Jesus too. The one that should have died was not supposed to be Jesus, but all the sinful generation of Adam and Eve. They and all of us needed to accept the consequence for our sins. But the victim of the sacrifice was replaced by Jesus Christ as Son of Man. So the death of Jesus is in fact our own death. By this we died to our once sinful self and rise later on to a new and fuller live. A life journeying towards God with an outstretched hands, fearing not the footsteps and voice of God as Adam and Eve once experienced when they were stripped off all graces. As the Holy Trinity is one God bonded together in a mysteriously, overwhelming love, so are the people who had God's Spirit dwelling actively in them. The Holy Spirit in our hearts and souls would mysteriously and powerful draws our human nature into Christ's Natures, reaching intimately to the embrace of the Father.

In contrary after the fall of Adam and Eve when God's Spirit were withdrawn or diminish, darken and weaken in their lives, they began to fear God as He walks through the Garden.

Why did Jesus had to be baptized, eventhough there was no stain of impurity in His life?

Jesus is the one whom God had chosen to go before us and to unite us with the Father. He was the one whom God had specially and uniquely chosen and Anointed to be the head, leader and representative of human race.

By His baptism, He as representative of mankind brings the sins of the whole world, symbolically, as a foreshadow of what would really be fulfilled. It shall be fulfilled at His death. Entering into the water is a rebirth spiritually that comes from the will of the heart to change. Jesus reminded the people that unless one is born of water and spirit, one cannot enter into heaven.

After baptism, Jesus raised from the water. A voice of the 'Father' was heard, calling Jesus, His beloved Son. The Holy Spirit descended onto Him, filled and Anointed Him with the mission of redemption and salvation. From that day forth, the Holy Spirit shall empower Him to achieve His own willed in co-operation with the will of the Father.

The Holy Spirit led Him into the wilderness, where He was being tempted by the devil.

Wilderness can simply mean desert or spiritually it can mean the world full of sin. God allowed Jesus to go through temptation, just like all mankind. The fruit of the 'Tree in the Middle of the Garden' was before Him. Shall He obeyed the serpent and fall again, like the first Adam and Eve or is He going to patch up the wound in the heart of God, by reversing what our first parents had done? What does the words 'Fruit of the Tree in the middle of the Garden' meant? Does there really exist a tree with even one bite from its fruit would bring about the fall of mankind?

The fruit here means 'outcome' or 'consequence'.

The Tree in the Middle of the Garden means that it can easily be seen. It is very tempting and delicious to eat. Many people would have hunger to take that fruit. It is more on selling ourselves to the world and its material pleasure. Here we can see the sin of the world, devil and flesh. The devil is the serpent. The flesh is Adam and Eve and the world is the Tree in the Middle of the Garden.

Most people would have fallen, if we took the place of our first parents. They like most of us would be attracted or lured to the material and pleasure of this world. We would most probably listened to the serpent who would offered us all these in exchange for obedience, trust and submissive towards God.

So at the wilderness Jesus was tempted and the whole scenario was before Him. Praise the Lord, God Almighty. Jesus Christ as Son of Man had triumph and we share in the reward of His victory. His glory shone and we absorbed onto ourselves, and at the same time shone into the darkness that still exist in the hearts of God's people.

During the Great Temptation of Jesus, the Devil offered great reward for obeying him and worshipping him. But Jesus rejected all his offered flatly and firmly, using the Words of God in the Scripture.

Therefore we needed to have knowledge, understanding and wisdom of God's Words and truly applying them personally in our daily lives to wad and destroy the deceits and evil lies of the devil.

During the final moment of His live, He had accomplished all that was expected of Him, including His mother's welfare, then He breathed His last calling God to take His soul and spirit. The moment He said these words, the inner most curtain that hide the Tabernacle from the world was split into half. From top to bottom, therefore exposing it for the Jewish to freely enter and worship without any restriction and also for people of other races. Now through the death of Jesus, God embraced the Jewish and people of the whole world for Himself. Salvation starts with the Jewish then extending to people of all races and nationality.

All can therefore worship God in Truth and in Spirit. Not in Jerusalem, the Mountain or any specially reserved places but everywhere, as the hearts and spirit would open to God's prompting and 'thirst'.

At His death, like the death of the animal that was caught in the bush, while Abraham was going to stab Isaac, the people of God is now free because Jesus was and is the living victim of the sacrifice.

Therefore when we received our baptism, we must die to our once sinful self and desires. And be transformed into the person of Jesus Christ, the victorious one.

Sharing in the lives and mission of Jesus Christ, we shall also share in His presence with the Father. We too shall have His victorious Spirit , so as to be able to live as Christ intended us to live.

We as pilgrims on earth are waiting with eagerness in experiencing the fullness of God's presence even in this life.