“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me… ”
“Adam, where are you?”
“Lord, I heard your voice and I hid, because I was naked. ”
“You heard My voice, so you’re my sheep. But you do not follow me. You must be running away.”
“Lord, I heard your voice and I hid myself because I was naked.”
“Adam, you’ve always been naked, I formed you that way, but I never told you. Who told you that you were naked? I came yesterday and you ran to me naked and we talked, you didn’t mind being naked. You have always been naked, you have always had the propensity to sin, but I didn’t mind, neither you did you know. Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
“My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. Adam, I called and you hid. You hid because you disobeyed me, you ate the fruit.”
“Lord, I ran because I was naked, I couldn’t bear the thought of you seeing me bare, my nakedness is too unholy for you to behold.”
“Adam, I can’t deal with you like this, because now you’ll always run from me, you’ve seen your nakedness, now you know your vulnerabilities. Please, Adam, take off those clothes of figs they don’t do much good, take these clothes of skin, I would solve the problem soon, so things would return to normal.”
“You’ll have to leave the garden now, Adam. Because I want to work something out for you and if you stay here you’ll eat of the tree of life and ruin my plans.”
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
“Adam, My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”
“I and my Father are one, Adam. Here’s the robe of righteousness I made for you. It’s not like the robe of skin I gave you earlier, this one is better, far much better. My son had to die for me to make this. Put on this new robe, and you’ll never be ashamed to come to me.”
“When I call you, no matter what you have done, come to me and obtain mercy. I forgive sins and remember them no more. Adam, you’re blessed because I would not impute your sin against you.”
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. I have prepared a place for you, that where I am, there you may be also.”
“Adam, it’s going to be like Eden again, the good times would return. No, it’ll be better than Eden, because, Adam this time, no more snakes.”
“I love you, Adam. I really do, I always have and I always will.”