In Genesis 1:2, God said, "The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters." This Spirit of God is air, wind, breath, and life. God gave Adam and Eve life by breathing into them his life, the Holy Spirit, and also gave them their own spirit or free will. The first law or commandment given by God was: "You shall not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die." He did not want that to happen, and when they ate of the forbidden tree, they expelled in their beings the very life and Holy Spirit of God. This is the death that God was talking about. They were still physically breathing and alive but not supernatural beings anymore. God the Father at Pentecost freely gave all mankind back the Holy Spirit when we get truly born again. But most Christians are rejecting and quenching the Spirit by keeping him in a locked compartment of their heart. "The first Adam became a living being (soul), the last Adam (Jesus) became a life-giving Spirit" (1 Corinthians 15:45). God is saying, "I have given you of myself in the Holy Spirit. Don't quench or grieve me.
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