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In the Garden of Eden God placed two trees which He named. What we as man did with those two trees would determine all the rest of history.
Besides the Tree of Life, there was another Tree in that Paradise: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This tree represented the opposite way of life. This way of living would be motivated by what happened outside of man. Instead of being inspired by the moving of the Life of God deep within him, if he chose to eat of this tree man would be rejecting God’s offer to come inside him and be his life. He would be choosing a way in which he would make his own decisions, instead of allowing the flowing will of God to come through him.
Consider the name of this tree. It was The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Hebrew word for knowledge comes from a root word which, in essence, means to know by experience. If Adam ate of this tree he would be saying to God: “God, I want to experience the good and experience the evil in a particular situation, and then make my own decision as to which I think is best for me.” He would be saying Continue reading
This was the reason for the two trees. As the Scripture declares,
The clause “It is finished”, in the Greek language in which Jesus spoke it, means to reach a goal. It also means to pay a debt in full, so that the books balance. Jesus had reached His goal of paying our debt. But to understand the “debt” Jesus was paying, we must revisit the scene in the Garden of Eden: When God begins to work with a pile of dust. He carefully shapes it into the form of a man. Once this human body is finished to perfection, God “blows” His own breath into the nostrils of this pile of clay. All of a sudden, the form moves! Light comes to its eyes! It gets up and stands erect like God. I can see Father God turning to the rest of His creation and saying,
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