Welcome to Ask4Longlife.com. My name is Michael Soh. I will walk you through what CSI Case #1 is all about. But first, let me explain what CSI means. When you mention CSI, the first thing that comes to our mind is the favorite CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION shows we watch on our TV. Yes, it is similar to the Crime Scene Investigation shows, be it Miami SCI or New York CSI. Well, our CIS has a similar set up but solely biblical focus. The main difference is found in the first alphabet of CSI. Our “C” represents CHRIST instead of Crime.
Our CSI goes down to investigate the scene of Christ, asking questions and probing biblical verses to find answers to solve and conclude our investigation. I sincerely hope you will find our CSI cases fun, enjoyable and rewarding.
FIRST INVESTIGATION REQUEST (IR)
To begin, I will first share with you in summary the investigation request (IR) that was lodged by Simon Choo Kai Fan on November 1, 2008. Simon Choo reported that there was a serious flaw in the biblical story found in Gen17 to Gen23. In these chapters you will find the amazing story told over and over again of God’s grace in blessing Abraham and Sarah with a baby boy named Isaac. We are all familiar with the great miracle of giving birth to a child at an old age of 91. No want in a sane mind will try to conceive at the age of 90 and be a mum at the age of 91 years old. The Isaac miracle was told over and over again in books, movies in the form of 2D or3D animation and even performance by life characters.
Simon Choo wants the CSI team to investigate if it is at all possible for an old lady to give birth at the age of 91? If yes, can we encourage ladies at that age group to continue to have babies? But how do we get them to be excited about sex and want to have sex to bear children for their husband. Likewise how do we get their husband to respond to their sexual advances? These are all serious investigation stuff and posses difficult challenges ahead for our CSI team to solve.
CSI TEAM MOVES IN
First the CSI team moves in to take Simon Choo's statement. Then they work round the clock to recreate a model how the event took place. They tabulates the events on the white board (see diagram above) and study the events carefully. They mark the bible verses and again re-tabulate the events vertically across the horizontal line that denotes time. Wallah!............ the picture unfolds
The CSI forensic team re-tabulates the biblical verses and attempts to draw out the environment where Sarah and Abraham live. These are all done without changing the time sequence of events.
The following key findings were noted:
1. IR passed accuracy test: What Simon Choo wrote in his IR is indeed what was written in Genesis chapter 17 to 23. Thus his IR warrants investigation. How can an old lady at the age of 91 years old give birth to Isaac?
2. New questions / mysteries for CSI to resolve: Did God get His facts wrong or may be someone wrote the book of Genesis with the sequence all mixed up. May be due to God ‘s budget constraint, God employed a lowly paid writer that is not good at keeping records of events in the correct time sequence. Thus when he wrote the book of Genesis, he really mix it up big time.
3. NEW AMAZING FINDING: Sarah not only amazingly gave birth at the age of 91 years old but Sarah at that age can attract King Abimelech to want her. This sounds a bit absurd and send shivers in many young men’s blood stream that has high hormones. Can a King be attracted to an old lady?
4. The King is not blind. It is safe to say that the king is not blind. The King has a choice to choose or not to choose Sarah for his harem. The King is not forced to take Sarah, nor is the King a fetish maniac. We can confirm this because, Abraham himself is so afraid to tell King Abimelech that Sarah is his wife. Instead Abraham chose to tell King Abimelech that Sarah is his sister ( purposely avoiding the fact that Sarah is his wife) The bible tells us that Abraham was afraid that King Abimelech may kill him to possess Sarah. Why on earth will a King do that? Unless Sarah is a be very beautiful and attractive lady.
The CSI forensic team studies the scriptures thoroughly to find out what new elements introduce into the environment that can have such a profound impact on both Sarah and Abraham. The CSI team pin points two biblical verse:-
Change Element #1
Gen 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Rom 4:3 For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Rom 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Rom 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
James 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Change Element#2
Gen 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
I believe we can deduce some interesting formulas that are greater than Einstein’s Physics formulas in John 1:1 and John 1:14. These formulas circle around the word “ WORD”
Jesus performs miracles with WORDs only. His words is SPIRIT and LIFE . (John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.) Jesus knew the secret of WORDS. He healed the sick with words. We become the sons of God, partakers of His very nature by confessing His words. We became faith warriors by using faith Words that produce Faith results.
To extract those powerful formulas, we need to read John 1:1 and 14 carefully:-
1) John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2) John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Formulas identified by CSI team member:
1) BEGINNING (GOD) =WORD
2) WORD = WITH GOD
3) WORD = GOD
4) WORD = FLESH
Some interesting permutation from the above that we can take away are
1) WORD = GOD = FLESH
2) BEGINNING = WORD = GOD
3) WITH GOD = WORD= BEGINNING
4) BEGINNING = GOD
5) WORD = GOD
6) FLESH = GOD
Sarah means PRINCES. When God change Sarai name to Sarah, he has a purpose for doing so. Imagine, Abraham calling out PRINCES when he see Sarah. Each time Abraham call out Sarah’s name, he is effectively pronouncing blessing on Sarah. In the spiritual realm, Abraham is laying a layer of God’s word on Sarah. Each layer, bit by bit, forms flesh as Abraham exercise his faith that he is accorded righteousness by God.
In conclusion, when we confess God’s word we are setting in motion in the spiritual realm the power of God’s word to work. The spiritual world will move and transform the words that are spiritual to flesh. The more we confess His words in faith, the greater results we see. After all we were taught that Faith comes by hearing. (Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God) It did not say, Faith comes from having heard the word of God once. In fact in Rom 10:17 it says “ COMETH by hearing ………….denoting continuous present tense.
The Word is God eternal. It cannot be destroyed. He watches over it to make it good. His Word brought man into being. Now He is building Himself into man through the Word.
The Word is part of Himself and it is this Self that is changing the conduct of the believers and bringing them into harmony with Himself. He shares Himself with us: He gives us His nature in the New Creation. He makes Himself one with us.
It is very important to note that the Word that we speak out is GOD in Spirit and has life. We should be conscious of God when we speak out His Word. We can rest assured that His Word will not come back void. But it will go forth and fulfill (Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.)
What we confess, will either kill us or give us abundant life. Holding fast to our confession, when our common sense contradicts what we confess, shows that we have become strongly grounded in His Word. The medical facts about our ageing body maybe accurate account in the physical world. But God’s Word is the TRUTH. The Word is the Truth and the Truth is more powerful than all medical Facts assemble together
The concrete that we pile below our house before we build the body structure of the house tells us that the house is built on solid ground. Imagine a piling machine piling day and night on the ground. That machine is equivalent to us speaking out His Word that pound in the foundation of this Spiritual Strength into whatever we do in our life.
I attempt to draw out a house on all the four blocks. You can easily deduce from the diagram, which house is on solid rock, firm and strong………yes, we have a house that can take the beating and withstand the onslaught of Satan
This is another pictorial diagram that I hope to get across the message that the words we confess need to be done on a regular basis. Just as we need to eat our food daily. (Breakfast, lunch and dinner) We grow in size with the food we take daily. The opposite is true, when we fast and abstain from food, we will diminish in size.
Also notice in
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for ...... KJV
Gal 2:20 I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me. .........Contempory English Version
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ...... English Standard Version
Again, here I am trying to get you to virtualize the word that you speak out in the form of sound waves. These sound waves will hit onto your skin. (And WOW!, what a thick skin you have) Each time the word you speak out pound onto your skin, it leaves a layer of God’s word on your skin. With faith, His words turnubg into flesh (John 1:14). It helps to virtualize these sound waves transforming to real GODLY SKIN. Do take some time and just speak out His word and virtualizes the word you speak out in the form of sound waves hitting your body. Close your eyes and see how His word turns to flesh. I pray that as you virtualize His word and His transformation in your mind, your faith will also transform from HOPE STAGE to real SOLID FAITH STAGE. All these will come to pass through the confession that you make daily.
Again remember in Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for .........KJV
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
In conclusion, remember you need to pound it in to see the transformation. You need to eat His words daily to glow in His glory. Sarah is so beautiful and can attract a King at the age of 91 ( even after giving birth to Isaac) is because of the simple daily confession of Abraham. You too can have this blessing today. Start confessing God’s word today.
Remember in Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
You cannot see the sound waves from the words you utter out from your mouth they are SPIRIT and they are LIFE. They are God's living word. Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
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