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17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
Gen 2:16-17
Hello CCH Family / Welcome Heart/Home
I want to pose a ?/all too familiar verses
I've read/heard these verses several times
Never thought about these questions
Have you ever thought about WHY it was
bad thing for Adam/Eve to eat from the tree?
Afterall isn't that something God wants us...
The problem isn't knowing the difference
as God clearly wanted them and us to know
The ? is from what source will you attain it?
Will you trust God to be the source?
Or will you trust a source independ. of God?
What do I mean by this?
In the garden, and this still holds true today
God wanted to be the one to teach Adam/Eve
Adam and Eve's test was to see if they would
(1)trust an omniscient God to teach them
as He saw fit, in His timing...
OR
(2)Would they choose another source?
Would they trust God's desire to provide
everything they needed OR would they
believe God was holding out on them?
Would they trust God's wisdom to define +/-?
Or would they succumb to the desire of
taking this wisdom against His prohibition?
Well we know the outcome and at times
we lament on how bad they blew it and
we would have made a different choice
Why didn't they just listen to God?!
But we have to be very careful not to think
we are above that poor choice they made
Let's dive in a little further
Gen 3:6
Did you catch it?
Eve defined what was GOOD / her own eyes
This is not to pile on Eve/notice Adam / there
God had defined that tree as bad as far as it
being a source of knowledge for them
Adam/Eve failed to trust Him/redefined
They chose the snake/they chose death
6 So when the woman saw that the 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 gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Surely we are more sophisticated then
those primitive people
We put a man on the moon/don't sweep
Unfortun. we aren't so sophisticated afterall
From the garden to this day, humanity
has chosen to define good and bad
on our own terms.
The years/calendar changed /not actions
Whenever man defines/Indep God/suffer
We dont have to search too long 4 examples
bombarded with them in our society everyday
It's worth repeating...
Whenever man defines good and bad in their own own eyes/indep God / suffer
King Solomon is described in 1 Kings 4:30 as
Let's refresh memory as to how he got there
God basically backed up the Brinks truck
Whatever you ask, you got it
30 Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
He could've asked for anything
Genuine desire to govern God's people effec
1 Kings 3:9
This sounds like someone very familiar w/
Eden narrative
Solomon wanted the same thing Adam/Eve
The MAJOR difference is He trusted God
to be the source of that knowledge
The ONLY source of this kind of knowledge
9 Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”
My church family from the babe in Christ
to the seasoned saint please don't think
your immune from worldy influence that will
form your definitions of good and bad.
If your face isn't burried in this book you
are leaving yourself wide open.
Satan will not tug on your shirt and say...
The snake was more cunning than any beast
of the field
He doesn't need a fruit tree
He has access to the Internet / social media
TV, highly influential people in our world, and of course that guy you work with that watched a documentary on the discovery channel once
Not to besmirch anyone shown, but make no mistake, they have influence (subtle or not)
You may be solid on the major/faced everyday
Be on guard
2 But his delight is in the word of the Lord, And in His word he meditates day and night.
If our definitions do not line up with His
we are wrong it's that simple (Repent)
And we have a gazillion examples of what
happens if we don't.
Or simply turn on evening news c 4 yourself but I don't recommend that
Instead be that person described in Psalm 1
Blessed is the man Who walks
not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;