žTHE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.
žGenesis 2:9
žAnd out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
žGod gave man the free choice.
GENESIS 2:16 – 17
Vs 16 And the Lord God commanded the man saying , “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
Isn’t God very good every tree you may freely eat .
This means Adam was given every tree for him to freely eat.
Vs17 “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat you shall surely die.”
žWHY DID GOD ALLOW MAN A FREE CHOICE?
1.MAN HAD FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
2.WHY DID GOD DO THIS? GOD IS GREAT. HE IS NOT SMALL.
3.EVEN IN CHRISTIANITY TODAY WE ARE GIVEN A CHOICE EITHER TO BELIEVE HIM OR NOT.
4.WE DO NOT FORCE OR COMPILE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT JESUS.-----THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BRING PEOPLE TO CHRIST.
5.IF YOU ARE A GREAT MAN YOU WILL NEVER FORCE TO ACCEPT YOU.
6.NO MAN WHO IS GREAT AND HONOURABLE WILL COERCE PEOPLE.
7.LIKEWISE, GOD IS GREAT, HE IS SO ATTRACTIVE AS THE GOD OF GLORY.
8.GOD DID NOT PLACE MAN IN FRONT OF HIM EXCLUSIVELY THUS COMPELLING MAN TO CHOOSE HIM.
9.GOD DID NOT PLANT THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL AS A SOURCE OF TEMPT.
žRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE.GEN 2:23
žAND ADAM SAID:
žTHIS IS NOW BONE OF MY BONES
žAND FLESH OF MY FLESH
žSHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN
žBECAUSE SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN.
žTHIS IS THE ONLY CONVERSATION RECORDED IN THE BIBLE.
žWHAT DOES IT TELL US?
žMAN MUST CONTINUALLY SPEAK TO YOUR WIVES.
žIF NOT SOMEBODY WILL COME AND SPEAK AND DISTORT THE TRUTH.
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žGENESIS 3: 1-6
žNOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE CUNNING THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE.AND HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, “HAS GOD INDEED SAID YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN?”
žVS 2 AND THE WOMAN SAID TO THE SERPENT “WE MAY EAT THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN:
žVS 3 “BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN, GOD HAS SAID, ‘YOU SHALL NOT EAT IT NO SHALL YOU TOUCH IT,LEST YOU DIE.’”
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žVS 4 THEN THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN,
ž“YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE.”
žVS 5 FOR GOD KNOWS THAT IN THE DAY YOU EAT OF IT YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED AND YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.
žVS6 SO WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD, THAT IT WAS PLEASANT TO THE EYES AND A TREE DESIRABLE TO MAKE ONE WISE SHE TOOK OF ITS FRUIT AND ATE. SHE ALSO TO HER HUSBAND WITH HER AND HE ATE.
žHOW WAS SATAN ABLE TO MAKE EVE BELIEVE TO HIS DEVICE?
1.SATAN MADE EVE TALK TO HIM.
2.WHEN EVE TALKED SHE TALKED WRONGLY AND ADDED FEW WORDS WHICH GOD DID NOT SAY.
3.AND ADAM WAS NOT IN THE PICTURE.(HE COULD HAVE STOPPED THE COVERSATION)
4.SATAN MADE GOD LIKE VERY SELFISH.
5.SATAN POINTED TO THINGS GOD DID NOT ALLOW TO EAT NOT POINTED TO THINGS GOD ALLOWED TO EAT.
6.THIS IS THE SAME TACTICS HE USES TODAY.
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žSIMILAR INCIDENT IN THE CASE OF JOB. Job 1: 6-11
žNow there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them.
žVs7 And the Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth and from walking back and forth on it.
žVs 8 Then the Lord said to Satan “Have you considered My servant Job that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man one who fears God and shuns evil?”
žVs9 So Satan answered the Lord and said “Does Job fear God for nothing?”
žVs10 “Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the works of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
žVs 11 “ But now stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has and he will surely curse You to your face!”
žSatan uses the same tactics even with god.
žHe pointed out why Job was faithful.
žHe told all the good things that God had bestowed on Job that is the reason Job is faithful.
žToday Satan has no more power to appear in the heaven to talk God.
žThe key of the Gates of Heaven was taken by Jesus after Adam lost it.
žHe can only come to you and tell you the lacking that you have and make God small and cannot help you.
žHe wants you think that God cannot help you.
žHe creates doubts in your mind.
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žGod wants us to eat from the tree of life. The tree of life was a symbol signifying god as the proper source.
žIf we read Genesis 2 only we will be unable to understand the meaning of the tree of life.
žHowever the Gospel of John reveals the life denoted by the tree of life in a concrete way.
žJOHN 1:4
žIN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN.
žJOHN 15:5 “I AM THE VINE YOU ARE THE BRANCHES HE WHO ABIDES IN ME AND I IN HIM BEARS MUCH FRUIT FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING.
žTHE TREE OF LIFE IS JESUS HIMSELF.
žJOHN 6:53
žTHEN JESUS SAID TO THEM,
žMOST ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU UNLESS YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN AND DRINK HIS BLOOD YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.
žCHURCH YOU ALL HAVE LIFE YOU ARE EATING EVERY TIME FROM THE TREE OF LIFE.
žYOU HAVE THE LIFE OF JESUS IN YOU.
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žJOHN 6:54
žWHOEVER EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD HAS ETERNAL LIFE AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAYS.
žSATAN COMES TO DESTROY BUT JESUS GIVES LIFE.
žJOHN 10:10
žTHE THIEF(SATAN) DOES NOT COME EXCEPT TO STEAL, AND TO KILL AND TO DESTROY, I HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE AND THAT THEY MAY HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.
žI WANT TO ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO DO THESE THINGS IN YOUR HOME.
1.HOLY COMMUNION EVERY DAY.
WHY EVERY DAY?
DO YOU WANT LIFE ABUNDANTLY?
DO YOU WANT JOY?
DO YOU WANT ALL THE FAVOURS AND BLESSINGS OF GOD?
THAN EAT THE BODY OF CHRIST AND DRINK HIS BLOOD.
2 HEAR FROM GOD ON A REGULAR BASIS. LIFE WILL CHANGED. AMEN
3. HAVE A FAMILY GATHERING AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK.
žTHEN WHY DID GOD PUT BOTH TREES ?
žWAS GOD TRYING TO TEMPT MAN?
žSURELY NOT
žTHE ANSWER IS IN JAMES 1:13-15
žVS 13 LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, “ I AM TEMPTED BY GOD,” FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY EVIL NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT ANYONE.
žVS 14 BUT EACH ONE IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY BY HIS OWN DESIRES AND ENTICED.
žVS 15 THEN WHEN DESIRES HAS CONCEIVED IT GIVES BIRTH TO SIN WHEN IT IS FULL GROWN BRINGS FORTH DEATH.
žTHE FIRST ADAM FAILED BUT THE SECOND ADAM DID NOT FAIL.
žCLOSE:
ž1 COR 15 VS20-22
žBUT NOW CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME THE FIRST FRUITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP.
žVS21 FOR SINCE BY man CAME DEATH, by MAN ALSO CAME THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.
žVS 22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE,EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL BE MADE ALIVE.
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žSAY AFTER ME.
žI HAVE JESUS.
žI HAVE LIFE
žI HAVE BEEN HEALED.
žI HAVE PROSPERITY.
žI HAVE LONGEVITY.
žI HAVE PEACE
ž I HAVE JOY.
žI HAVE EVERY THING.
Jesus loves you. Amen
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