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… originally intended. And so when we look back then in Genesis 2 to try and get an understanding, well, Lord, what was your original intention? I go to Genesis 2. And I think Genesis 2 verses 16 through 17 make it explicitly clear what God intended earth and our experience on earth to be like. Genesis 2 verses 16 through 17 says, and the Lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 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. So this gives us some perspective on the kind of existence that God wanted us to have on earth. In God's divine plan, he wanted us to live in a world where we had no knowledge of good and evil, okay? Let's think about that because when we look at Genesis 1, in Genesis 1, he is very intentional about making sure that everything he has created receives a stamp that says good. So, he created the heavens and this, he separated the heavens and every Genesis 1 is in there. Every time he finishes a completion and it meets his qualification, he says good. So, we know that God did not have a problem with us having the knowledge of good. There was something about us having the knowledge of good and evil that he was trying to prohibit. The Hebrew translation for that word evil is ra. …
… The Lord took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 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. Then the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit for him. Now out of the ground, the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whenever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and the birds of the heavens and every beast of the field. But for Adam, there was not found a helper fit for him. so the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh and the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man then the man said this at last is a bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother …
… You do. Everybody does. Genesis 2.16 says, The Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 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 will surely die then we know the story we fast forward adam and eve they ate of the tree did they die immediately they did but not in the way you think they died immediately spiritually but physically that took some time but death entered into the world and thus death spread to all men because all men well you didn't sound very confident about that let's try that again death entered into the world to all men because all men there you go all men sin all men sin all fall short of the glory of god all that means all all means all that's all all means are you following me i want to make sure nobody's lost God put the knowledge of the tree of good and evil into the garden. …
… We were made this way. So in Genesis chapter two, verse 16, you may remember, verse 18, excuse me, the scripture says that God looked at the man and he said, it is not good that the human is alone. He's in paradise, but there's something that's missing and that is a need for companionship. All right, so humans like dogs need companionship. We need community. We're meant to live out life with other people. Our purpose statement here at Church of the Resurrection is to build a Christian community, to build a Christian community. where non-religious and nominally religious people are becoming deeply committed Christians. That is, we're trying to create a space where people can experience love, companionship, where they can experience friendship, where they can be in community and belong with other people. The Greek word for this in the New Testament is maybe one you've heard before, koinonia. Koinonia means fellowship, sharing together, community, partnership. It has a variety of other meanings, but this is the sense we have in many of the passages in the New Testament that use this word. …
… Who did I tell you? Genesis chapter 2, the Lord God commanded the man saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 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 die. God gave Adam boundaries, and we all have boundaries, restrictions, limitations. And then I talked about a companion. The C in ABCs of family stands for companion, that God wants you to have a companion. It's said in Genesis 2.18. Let me read Genesis 2.18 to you. And the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him. The fact is, God said it's not good for a man to be alone. The word alone means, that word alone means that it's not good for a man to be the chief of a city by himself. and that's an important point because here's what God is saying because right after that he made Eve created Eve and connected them together God recognized that God never intended for a man to run the affairs of the world or of his family by himself and men need to recognize that God never intended for you to make all the decisions by yourself without your spouse's help Thank you. …
… Genesis 2, 16 and 17. And the Lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 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. Y'all see that? The B in ABC stands for boundaries. You got to have boundaries. Life is filled with boundaries, restrictions, limitations, limits. Everybody's got boundaries. Everybody's got to learn to live within those boundaries. We live in a culture today where people don't want no boundaries. They don't want no boundaries. They want to have the freedom to do whatever it is they want to do. That's not the way life functions. It's boundaries. boundaries. You have boundaries, limitations, restrictions. And Adam was given a restriction. Now all these trees, all this fruit here you can eat, but now this tree there, leave that tree alone. Don't mess with that tree. And y'all need to see what kind of boundaries, what kind of limitations has this person that you are thinking about marrying, do they have? What kind of limitations, what kind restrictions. So you gotta, you gotta bow the way. …