How We Are Made Alive

• I always have, I am so glad to have Jenka here, because I think like an African in many ways having spent a good part of my life in Africa. And We Europeans, we’re sort of rather a long way behind in some ways. We don’t see these things so vividly. I like to picture this. You see God said: The problem with Lucifer was he was too glorious, he was too beautiful, he was too powerful, he was too wise.
• So we will start at the opposite end. We’ll just take some dust. Just dust. Mix it with a little water, make some clay and mold it into a body. And there it was, the body, formed by God. A more beautiful piece of sculpture or statuary or whatever you want to call it than even anything that Michelangelo ever produced.
• A perfect body. But it was just clay. And then it says, The LORD breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Hebrew is a very vivid language. The sound of the words is related to the thing that they describe. And where it says, He breathed, in Hebrew it says ‘wayyippah’. Phonetically the “P” sound is called a plosive, it’s an explosion.
• And then there’s the __ which no ordinary English person can say, but the Scots can say it: Loch. It’s that missing sound in our English vocabulary. And that’s a long breathed out sound. An outgoing long drawn out sound. and that contains such a sense of dynamic. God didn’t just breathe languidly into that body of clay.
• He breathed himself into it. He imparted himself. Through that breath God came in. And that piece of clay was marvelously transformed, miraculously transformed into a living human body, into a living human person, with all the faculties that you and I enjoy. There came out of clay through the inbreathed breath of God a man became a living soul.