Evicting Adam


Evicting Adam
Marsha Deveaux Johnson, Living Joy Ministries, Inc. http://hepzibah40.blogspot.com
Who is Man?
Man is God’s creation (Genesis 1:26).

How does man exist?
Man exists as spirit, soul, and body (1st Thessalonians 5:23).
Spirit:  The inner man that houses the Spirit of God.  It becomes alive to the things of God when you receive Jesus as Savior (Ephesians 2:1-3).  Your spirit is the only part of you that changes when you receive Jesus as Savior.  Your spirit is God-conscious
Soul:  The soul of man consists of his mind (intellect), his will (decision making power), and his emotions (feelings).  Your soul is Self-Conscious
Body: The body of man consists of flesh, blood, and bones.   Your body is World-conscious.

Who Is Adam?
Adam is the first man created by God and placed in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:4-25)

How does Adam relate to me?
Adam was given instructions by God for life and he willfully disobeyed these instructions. By doing so, he brought a curse (sin) on himself and on all future generations to come (Genesis 3:1-24).  Disobedience was the first sin committed.  Every man born after Adam inherited this curse of disobedience to the God of creation (Elohim).

Why must Adam be evicted?
Adam sinned and passed his sin on to every human being.  God was cut off from His creation in the manner that He had first ordained.  But He had a plan. His plan was to “become a man” and restore (or bring) His creation to a place where this separation could never ever be permanent.  He would give man a way to connect with Him so that separation would only take place if man made that choice.

This plan required God to take the inherited sin of Adam and the committed sins of man (past, present, and future) and abolish them forever.  This happened when Jesus came and died for all sins: inherited, past, present, and future.

What a blessing to know that God’s plan was taken care of from before the foundation of the world by God Himself.  He always had a plan for man to exist with Him in fellowship throughout eternity.
Eviction Plan Execution

Man’s New Existence (Human Spirit Changed): Step 1
Evicting Adam starts with making a decision to accept and follow Christ and His word (Bible). This is the first and necessary step for the redemption plan to work for man.  Christ then comes to live in your reborn human spirit.  Your soul does not change at this time.  You still have the full range of emotions, decision making power (will), and your intellectual memory and capacity.  Your body also does not change at this time.  You are as fully physical capable now as you were before you accepted Christ.  However, your “reborn spirit” changes your consciousness toward God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.  You now desire to serve and fellowship with them!

Renewing of the Soul:  Step 2
Evicting Adam continues with bringing the soul under the authority of your spirit (which is sealed by the Holy Spirit), Ephesians 4:30).   Adam and his disobedience must be now evicted from the soul of man. Your soul must now seek to be subject to your spirit.  Your body then follows your soul. 

Step 2 is a process of the renewal of the mind of the Believer.  This renewal takes place by being a hearer and a doer of the word of God (James 1:22-25).  The word of God must first be known (studied) and then be applied (lived) in the Believers life.

The transformation of the mind of the Believer is called “Conforming to the image of Christ” (Romans 12:2, Romans 8:29).  This process is self-denial and  daily dying to the residual disobedience of Adam in the soul.   This disobedience has remained in the soul of man even after accepting Jesus as Savior.

“Disobedient Adam” lives for “self”.   Self love, self interest, self promotion, all things “self” are demanded to be on the throne of the soul. However in your newly regenerated spirit, you have become a new creature in Christ Jesus (2nd Corinthians 5:17).  Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit occupy the throne in your human spirit.   And thus begins the struggle.  There is no doubt about it.  Adam screams death (1st Corinthians 15:22) scripturally and spiritually.  But Jesus is “Life Himself” as we “die daily“ (1st Corinthians 15:31) to “Disobedient Adam”.  We become more alive to Christ as we cast down imaginations (2nd Corinthians 10:5) and all things that try to exalt itself above the knowledge of Christ.  We are transformed by God’s word (Romans 12:2).
Disobedient Adam diminishes as we conform to the image of Christ! Amen (So let it be)!  The blessings that God has prepared for us are limitless and timeless.  He desires us to walk in sweet communion and fellowship with Him.  This can and does happen as we continually yield our soul to His word.  All of Adam dies and all of Christ lives (1st Corinthians 15:22)!
Generational Blessings and Curses: Step 3
Proverbs 26:2, “As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come”.

Exodus 20:5, “Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God is a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep My commandments.”

This part of evicting Adam addresses the blessings and curses (sin)  in the bloodline of man.  It is also known as ancestor traits and lineage sins.  These are things that are passed on through the generations that either bless or curse (Galatians 3:13-14).  When previous generations served and obeyed God, spiritual doors were opened for future generational blessings.  When previous generations sinned, spiritual doors for sin were opened for future generational curses of sickness, murder, hatred, etc. (Galatians 5: 19-21).

Blessings and curses try to visit future generations, (What spiritual heritage are you passing to your offspring?)  However, curses must be denounced and broken by Believers.  This process takes place by what I call, “Casting out” and “Closing doors”. 

In addition to the bloodline open doors, doors were also opened when man sinned himself.  The Bible says that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). We must first denounce the curses (sins) that entered our lineage when our ancestors sinned. Then we cast out every spiritual force (in the soul only) that entered and remained through them.

Then we denounce the curses (sins) (in the soul only) that entered when we committed sins.  Then we cast out every spiritual force that entered and remained through our committed sins.  After that, we close every spiritual door that was opened and remained open with bloodline curses and sins committed curses.

Your spirit is reborn, new creation.  Your soul must be transformed by God’s word.

Self Reflection with Father God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit
What generation curses do you recognize in your life?
What are the sins you committed that opened doors for curses in your own life?
Are you willing to denounce both generational and committed sins?
Are you willing to cast out and stop committing generational and committed sins?
Do you want doors closed for sin in your life?
By your words, denounce generation and committed sins and cast them out of you.
By your words close all open doors for sin.
Commit to daily conforming to the image of Christ by hearing and doing His word.
Evicting Adam
Marsha Deveaux Johnson, Living Joy Ministries, Inc. http://hepzibah40.blogspot.com

Self Reflection with Father God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit

What generation curses do you recognize in your life?


What are the sins you committed that opened doors for curses in your own life?


Are you willing to denounce both generational and committed sins?


Are you willing to cast out and stop committing generational and committed sins?


Do you want doors closed for sin in your life?


By your words, denounce generation and committed sins and cast them out of you.


By your words close all open doors for sin.


Commit to daily conforming to the image of Christ by hearing and doing His word.










Why "Hepzibah in Training?"

More than twenty five years ago I stood in a powerful praise and worship service. As I entered into worship weeping in the presence of the King, I heard the voice of Jesus in my spirit. He called me two names. The first name was Hephzibah and the second was Beulah. I was stunned and immediately sat down on the bench to ponder these two names. Neither of these names appeared flattering to me.



I left church and called my sister, a mighty warrior of God, and told her that God had called me two names. Her reply was “If God called me names; I needed to find out what they meant.” I searched scripture and found that the name Hephzibah means, “The Lord delights in her” and that Beulah meant, “Thy land is married (committed, spoken for, etc). Needless to say, I was delighted in the significance of these two names that my Savior has bestowed upon me. My goal and treasure in life is to fulfill the plan for my life on this side of Eternity and to train for the other side of Eternity.



I offer you the revelations, thoughts, and meditations that God imparts to me in this blog “Hepzibah In Training”.



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