Designed for Pleasures

By Samuel Segun Oladipo

It can be affirmed that ALL THINGS were originally designed for PLEASURES because there was NEVER evil in the original creation! The originator of the idea of creation had no evil in Him neither could He ever imagine creating any singular thing to represent evil. Therefore, there was no evil thought, evil plan, evil agenda at any state or realm. Even Satan, the embodiment of all evils was not originally created with any spot of evil as portrayed in Ezekiel 28 :13-15

Everything about Adam , everything Adam tasted, everything Adam used, everything Adam felt (Just like God after all creations), and everything Adam saw were “VERY GOOD” without any exception. Adam originally had the mind and the Spirit of God. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

He was therefore pleasured by everything within and around him. They were all created for his pleasures too. Moreover, all the things that God created received nothing short of his maximum blessings. “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” Proverbs 10:22

Here are some postulations in respect to the continuity of God’s designed pleasures for His creatures:

1. What if there was no Devil?

2. What if there was no tempter or temptation?

3. What if Eve and Adam had overcome the temptation?

4. What if there was no curse from God, the Creator?

Well, you can be sure that the original plan and purpose of the Creator would have continued forever.

Nothing void of good pleasure ever originated from God, hence the original motive of God in whatsoever He created was pleasure and for the pleasure of whom He originally bestowed them at any given time. When all is said and done, at the consummation of all things, When there shall be the emergence of the New Heaven and a New Earth, His purpose and desire will still have the original label and signature ‘Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”(Revelation 4:11) which will ultimately be to the pleasure and delight of all creatures that will be with the Creator throughout eternity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664217164

Samuel Segun Oladipo

Samuel Segun Oladipo was born in Nigeria but raised in many cultures . He has been exposed to the best of minds in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Moscow as well as Europe and America where he had both bachelor and post gratuate degrees in language and literary works. Oladipo is a former University teacher who has done a lot of exploration both in the literary and spiritual world. His crave for knowledge and spiritual depth has afforded him the opportunity to travel extensively as well as devote time to study the Bible, engage with old and current spiritual giants and sit under the ministrations of seasoned ministers of the gospel. He has devoted much of his time to teaching, preaching, training, organising special programs and seminars, writing gospel tracts to edify believers and show many the way of biblical salvation.He has pastored different congregants both in Africa as well as in the USA for over 20 years. His passion for souls, revivals and the eternal destiny of all men had propelled him to write as well as be involved in various leadership arms of the Church. Oladipo is happily married to Oluwakemi and have two boys: Mark and Timothy, and a girl-Esther.He is currently the Pastor of a local assembly, where he has been privileged to minister for decades in the United States of America.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

The Creation of All Things and for What Purpose?

Chapter Two

The Creatures and Their Individual Pleasures

1.   The Light

2.   The Waters

3.   The Dry Land

4.   The Grass, the Herbs, the Trees, and the Fruits

Wonders Above

1.   The Sun

2.   The Moon

3.   The Stars

Inside the Waters and Creatures in the Firmament

1.   The Birds

2.   The Insects

3.   Abundance in the Waters

Living Creatures on Earth

1.   The Land Creatures

2.   Creeping Things

3.   Man

Chapter Three

The Pleasures in the Garden

Chapter Four

Ultimate Desire of God, the Creator

1.   God Is Love

2.   God of Abundance

3.   God of Beauty and Perfection

*   The Angel

*   The Tabernacle

*   The Priests’ Garments

4.   God of Joy and Happiness

5.   God of Pleasures

Chapter Five

Reasons for Christ

Chapter Six

The Millennium: Mini Ultimate Pleasures of God

Chapter Seven

The Utmost Pleasures of God

Chapter Eight

The Tastes of the Utmost Pleasures

1.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Freedom

2.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Rest

3.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Peace

4.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of a Perfect State

5.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of New Things

6.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Seeing God

7.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Music

8.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Fellowship

9.   The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Orderliness

10. The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Rewards

11. The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of New Food and Drink

12. The Taste of the Utmost Pleasure of Spirituality

13. The Taste of Utmost Perfection of the Senses

*   The Ultimate Sense of Touch

*   The Ultimate Sense of Smell

*   The Ultimate Sense of Taste

*   The Ultimate Sense of Sight

*   The Ultimate Sense of Hearing

14. The Taste of Utmost Pleasure of Love

Chapter Nine

Perverse Pleasures

Chapter Ten

The Creator’s Path to Utmost and Everlasting Pleasures

Chapter Eleven

What, Then, Is at Stake?

Conclusion

Bibliography

This book is dedicated to all creatures of God, visible and invisible. All creatures deserve adequate attention as much as the Creator gives to them.

—S. S. Oladipo

Acknowledgements

First of all, I will like to appreciate my heavenly Father, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and my Inspiration, The Holy Spirit-for without them I could do nothing.

I am very grateful to my loving and dedicated wife, Oluwakemi and my beloved children, Ibukunoluwa, Ifeoluwa and Temiloluwa who helped in one way or another to making the writing and puplication of this book a reality.

Special gratitude to all my spiritual Fathers: Pastor W.F. Kumuyi, Pastor Thomson Aderemi and countless others, co-ministers, church members and friends for their love, prayers and motivations.

Finally, I will love to express my profound gratitude to the entire staff of WestBowPress whose warmth, labor and support encourged the publication of this book.

Introduction

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Revelation 4:11, emphasis added)

Everything visible or invisible; everything in motion or motionless; everything in the heavens, on earth, or beneath the earth; everything in God or through God; everything in their original state and final state—they were all meant and designed for pleasures. Everything, in diverse state of all beings from whatever beginnings, whatever shape, color, outlook, however small or great, high or low, broad or narrow, thin—you name it, was all designed for pleasures. One of the most fascinating things about God, the Creator of all things, is that He is a God of pleasures. The motive behind everything He created is pleasure! God is pleasured by whatever He is engaged in. His motives and motivations are borne out of pleasures. The summations of all things God made is found in Revelation 4:11. All things, both great and small. All things without exception. All things visible to God, who can see all things. All things visible or invisible to human eyes. All things in heaven, on earth, underneath the earth, or on other planets.

All things can be said to be pleasurable originally, because there was never evil in the original creation! The original state had no iota of evil thing, visible or invisible. The originator of the idea of creation had no evil in Him, and neither could He ever imagine creating any singular thing to represent evil. Therefore, there was no evil thought, evil plan, or evil stuff at any state or realm. All creation must have been by all means designed for pleasure. It is worthy of note that from the account of Genesis that:

Nothing was originally meant or made for sorrow.

Nothing was originally meant or created for death.

Nothing was originally created for sickness.

Nothing was originally created for anguish.

Nothing was originally created for anything close to hell or the like. (In fact, hell was not in the agenda of the Creator.)

Nothing was originally created for slavery.

Nothing was originally created for lack.

Nothing was originally created for war.

Nothing was originally created for oppression.

Nothing was originally created for depression.

Nothing was originally created for displeasure.

Nothing was originally created for regrets.

Nothing was originally created for punishment.

Nothing was originally created for misery.

Nothing was originally created for rigor.

Nothing was originally created for rancor.

Nothing was originally created for suffering.

Nothing was originally created for any form of abuse.

Nothing was originally created to intimidate.

Nothing was originally created to suppress.

Nothing was originally created for conflicts.

Even Satan, the embodiment of all evils, was not originally created with any spot of evil, as portrayed in Ezekiel 28:13–15.

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Little wonder that in His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ made an emphatic statement about the state of things in respect to the issue of marriage, being the Creator’s first institution on earth. "In the beginning it was not so" (Matthew 19:8).

He could have said the same of practically every other thing.

He could have said the same about the relationship between men and their neighbors.

He could have said the same of humans and animals.

He could have said the same of the ecosystem.

He could have said the same of the relationship between God and man.

He could have said the same about the economy and social lives.

He could have said the same of the rule of laws.

He could have said the same of natural resources.

He could have said the same of systems of this world.

He could have said the same of changes in times and seasons.

He could have said the same of religious believes.

He could have said the same of countless number of things.

In fact, he saw all men as wanderers—like sheep without shepherds.

Anything or broadly speaking, everything that ever came from God, was absolutely good and created for all good purposes. No one ever knew God as much as Jesus Christ.

The picture painted of God and His ultimate character is through the lips of the one who knows Him more than any angel or any known prophet in the person of Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son. And he said unto them, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God (Matthew 19:17). Whatever comes from Him has to be within Him, for the Son of God also said in Luke 6:45, A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; (something pleasurable, something admirable) and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart [everything God created came out of the abundance of His heart] his mouth speaks.

Humanly speaking, even though it’s practically impossible to know all the creation of God in its entirety, the fact remains that because the Creator of all things created for His pleasures, and God is not only good but love (1 John 4:7–8) beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; for every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God: for GOD IS LOVE. The pleasure of God is at the very core of the manifestations of all He has created in the heavens, on the earth, or below the earth, as buttressed in Ecclesiastes 3:11, "He hath made everything beautiful in His time [anything beautiful attracts pleasure, delight] also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end" (emphasis added).

There is a common adage that God’s time is the best. It is not out of place that it was when God decided to create things, they came out of Him. All that He created was His exclusive idea, and the timing was not anyone’s dictation. Whatever idea He had was excellent because none is as excellent as God. If it is therefore true to the word that He made all things beautiful in his time, then all that He made was beautiful and designed for pleasures.

God’s ultimate pleasure in His creature is clearly affirmed in Genesis, the book of the beginning of things, and in the book of Job. Genesis 1:28 says, And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. In other words, all things were made available for the pleasure of humankind in His domain. The Creator Himself rejoiced because He was pleasured by the work of His hands when He exclaimed with delight in Genesis 1:31, And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Can a good God rejoice and make such a delightful shout of contentment and satisfaction in what was not pleasurable?

Can a perfect God rejoice over anything and express such in clear terms for all to hear, except it achieves a goal of excellence?

Can a praise loving God sort of draw the attention of multitudes to a shameful and ridiculous event, except if it was glorious and worthy of praises?

Can the God of all wisdom approve a failure and say He is wise and almighty?

Can He say after the creation that there is none like Him, except He is a perfectionist to the core?

Can God who is all in all brag on nothing in this manner?

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. (Isaiah 40:25–26 KJV)

In Job 36:11, God emphatically promises, "If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures" (emphasis added), ultimately showing the very desire and purpose of God in and for all creatures.

Nothing that has no good pleasure ever originated from God, hence the original motive of God in whatsoever He created was pleasure and for the pleasure of whom He originally bestowed them at any given time. When all is said and done, at the consummation of all things, when there shall be the emergence of the new heaven and a new Earth, His purpose and desire will still have the original label and signature Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created, which will ultimately be to the pleasure and delight of all things with the Creator and that will be for all eternity.

It’s quite fascinating how the Psalmist surveyed the handiwork of God in Psalm 8.

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Who hast set thy glory above the heavens?

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies,

That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

And hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field;

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,

And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O LORD our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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THE CREATION OF ALL THINGS

AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE?

The Bible, the most authoritative source of the origin and originator of all creation, states, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). However, at a point in time, the things that contradicted pleasure to the Creator were clearly pointed out: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Without form, void, and darkness—all these made a gloomy, disastrous, and unpleasant picture, which did not please God. This brought about a swift reaction from the Creator in order to bring about His original intended design. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said let there be light.(Genesis 1:2b) The moment light appeared, you could feel the ecstatic pleasure of God revealed by the fact that God saw the light, that it was good.(Genesis 1:4a). Imagine how wonderful the Creator must have felt while admiring the light, a significant milestone in the project He set out to accomplish. The angels around Him must have felt the same, rejoicing in the handiwork of the almighty God. It was something new, something great and fascinating.

The Creator must have been so pleased that the summary of His delight was expressed in the fact that it was good. Good things are meant to pleasure in manifold degrees. And so light shining in darkness was certainly a source of great delight and pleasure to all who witnessed this new thing. It is needful to say that great achievements bring delights and motivation to make more progress.