What God Created when He Created You

By Tyrone Everett

This book is an in-depth study of God's word and his revelation knowledge to inspire, develop, and increase your mindset to walk after his Spirit. The principle upon principle is phenomenal, remarkable, and exciting as you gain spiritual insight of what God created when he created you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781636924915

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WHAT GOD CREATED WHEN HE CREATED YOU

TYRONE EVERETT

Copyright © 2022 Tyrone Everett

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-63692-490-8 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63692-491-5 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

I dedicate this book to the Artist Who gave me the picture. His vision has helped me to interpret the drawings He created to its fullest color. To the Author and Finisher of my faith, much love.

Contents

Introduction

God’s Creation

God’s Creation: The Body

What God Created When He Created You the Spirit

The New Creature

The Fallen Man and Woman

Walking in the Spirit

Introduction

If you were reared in a Christian family as a child or if you ever went to children’s church, you may have heard the story about Adam and Eve and remember these words from the Bible: God created man in His Own image after His Own Likeness, He created them male and female (Gen. 1:26–27). As a child when I heard this, my imagination tried to visualize what Adam and God may have looked like. Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on your point of view—I had pictures from children’s Bible books to do this for me. As children, a large part of what we believed and trusted came from our parents, older siblings, relatives, friends, school, and media sources such as TV. These philosophies, ideologies, and other suggestive persuasions molded our beliefs as adults today. Every book, TV program, movie, and other observation added an input to the way you interpret the world around you. Think about how you acquired your beliefs. We never take time to think about what we believe or what circumstances brought us to the conclusion we have about life. Some of you who are reading may know what you believe because you were taught by your religion, others by their experience. But whatever you believe, start comparing it to the Word of God and by the spirit of truth.

As a child, I just assumed innocently that the paintings of Adam and God from various artists were based on what they had seen. I thought, for example, an artist who painted George Washington or some other American historical figure must have seen the actual person. I trusted that the paintings by great artists, such as Michelangelo, were accurate pictures of the men in the Bible.

One painting in particular that stood out to me as a child was one I had seen when I attended St. Vincent Catholic Church in Newport News, Virginia. It was on the ceiling, and I thought it was a painting of God sitting on a cloud with a triangular halo on top of His head and baby angels around Him. The figure looked like an old Caucasian man with white hair and a long white beard. The painting always made me feel like God was watching me and that God was in heaven looking down on us, full of compassion (maybe that was the desired effect). I attended Catholic school when public schools were segregated until I started the fourth grade. When public schools began integrating, I started to attend Booker T. Washington Elementary School. By the time I reached the eighth grade in the 1970s and attended Huntington Jr. High School, the idea of how Jesus and God may have looked that had been formerly suppressed by African American artists started coming out in public view.

African American artists’ paintings of Jesus and other Bible figures depicted them as having a bronze skin color or as black men. By this time, I realized that no one had ever seen God or any other person in the Bible. As a child, the color of God was not very important, only what He expected of me was. (I am sure you may have noticed in your lifetime children of different races playing together who never notice race.) I have never had a true visual of what God really looked like in my imagination after understanding that no picture that I had ever seen of Him was a true representation. The fact that He was watching me still made me conscious of my actions. I wanted God to be proud of me just as I did my parents.

When I did something wrong, I would just pray to the Virgin Mary to intercede for me (as I had been taught) and continued my lifestyle of sin. I would like to add Santa Claus into this discussion since he wanted the same things as God did. When I found out Santa was not real as I had been taught as a child, I started to reason in the back of my mind, If Santa was not real as I was taught, what about God? I am sure some of you might have had some similar thoughts while growing up. I was being persuaded by the debates that maybe Jesus was not a Caucasian man. Now my vision of what God looked like was scrambled, and when I prayed, I had no face to imagine who I was praying to. To be safe, I just kept on praying, used the cross as a visual, and imagined some shadowy figure hanging on it.

When I entered the ninth grade, I started doing things teenagers did in those days (not far from what teenagers do today): I was getting high and trying to be a player (have as many girls as I could to get intimate). I continued to attend church and sometime different churches other than my Catholic church. From time to time, the preacher’s sermons, such as by the late Dr. Fred J. Boddie Sr., would touch my heart and even make me cry. I played off all those urgings to give my life to God after his sermons because I did not want anyone to know how the Word had touched me. I understood Santa was not real but concluded, God must be real or how else could I explain these urgings in my heart to surrender to Him. I wrestled with these thoughts here and there, through all my years of high school until I started attending college at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia, in the early 1980s.

There I began to study and understand the laws of physics (from physics class), and I was able to apply these laws to human nature. I could see how men could use these laws and principles to gain advantage over people as well as applying them to science. Around this time, in 1981, the Spirit of God came upon me, and I started to read a green pocket-size New Testament book that people were passing out at college. When I started reading it and applying the laws of God to my life, the Holy Ghost convicted me of my lifestyle. I repented and asked Jesus into my heart. I still did not have a vision of God’s true appearance when I prayed (I guess as humans we need to see someone to understand them), but I was not concerned how God looked at all, nor did I feel a need to have questions about His appearance answered. All that mattered to me were the principles and precepts of the Bible, His word to me. I had been truly born again of the Spirit of God!

When this happened, my greatest desire was for the word of God. For the first time in my life, I had a God conscience. I could see how my sinful life appeared before God and how all of my good works fell short of His expectations. It was quite a shock to me! I mean, I was not a bad person. Yeah, I had a little fun, tried to make people laugh, and did what young adults did in that time; but overall, I had a good rapport among my elders and peers. My perception of the true God had changed—and I wondered how it was that I had thought I knew what God might be like before my conversion. As I meet people today who have never experienced this conversion by God and as I talk with them about God, I discover that they all have similar perceptions of God as I did before my conversion.

Our perception of God is very important. It affects our paradigm, the way we perceive and understand God’s will for our lives. Our perception affects the way we walk in the Spirit. For example, let us look at how you visualize Jesus’s physical appearance as He walked the earth teaching men about the kingdom of God. Do you see Him as a handsome man with long straight hair and a well-groomed beard? Does He resemble the pictures from artists such as Michelangelo and Picasso or some of the movies of a man portraying Jesus? As an experiment, I have walked around a mall asking people at random: How do you visualize Jesus? As you may guessed, the majority of people responded that he was a Caucasian man, handsome with long hair. A very few people said that he had a brown to a tarnish-brown complexion with long hair and a beard (see figures 1–4). I followed up with another question: This idea of the way Jesus look to you, is this based on what the Bible says about how Jesus may have looked? Most of the people answered No, while the next majority answered, I don’t know.

There are a countless artist renditions of Jesus’s appearance. The details of their depictions helps the viewer to visualize some very popular Bible events such as the Last Supper, Jesus on the cross, and the four horsemen of the apocalypse, to name a few. Artists are good at visualizing and drawing what they imagined. Their finished works tend to help us view the stories of the Bible as more real.

I understand how powerful the imagination can be and how an artistic drawings and paintings can convince people to believe what they see and how these pictures can affect children’s impressionable perceptions, just as they did mine when I was a child. For this reason, I understand God’s reason for giving the Jews the law in Exodus 20:4, Not to make any graven images of things in heaven or the likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on earth beneath. God knew the spirit of men and their imagination. He knew men would make graven images or pictures in the likeness of their race or animals, just as the people and cultures around Israel demonstrated during that time. We can see from artists of ancient history until the present day that this is exactly what has happened. Artists have drawn pictures of Jesus and the apostles to look like their own image! For instance, Spanish artists made the men of the Bible to look Spanish, French artist made them to look French, and so on.

There are some Christian faiths that make statues of people that have been here on earth and things that are in heaven and pray to them. Think about this for a moment. No picture or painting can give us the true colors, brilliance, splendor, holiness, aroma, and feelings of the kingdom of God in all of its glory. We may get a visual of John’s visions from the book of Revelation, such as drawings by the artist Pat Marvenko Smith, who gives some of the most detailed renderings of John’s visions ever seen. But upon closer examination, one will discover that some of her impressions of Jesus’s physical appearance are not accurate according to the Scriptures.

Before I give you the Scriptures that describe Jesus’s physical appearance, I’d like you to write down your thoughts of how he appears to you.

Now go to the Bible and turn to the book of Isaiah chapter 53:2, and read it: "For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant and as the root out of a dry ground, He has no form nor comeliness and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him." If you happen to have pictures of Jesus in your home or if you can imagine pictures you have seen of Him, do they match this description? Did the