"The Rule and the Plan"
“The Rule and the Plan”
Blessings folk!
God created everything.
Ex nihilo.
From nothing.
In six days…24 hour days, evening/morning days.
So states Genesis 1-2.
If you do not believe this, then you will not believe the balance of the Word.
Created man, Adam and Eve, had one rule.
Only one.
Gen 2:16-17
The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”
They were not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
One rule.
Yet, they chose to eat of it.
Why?
Because they wanted to.
Because they listened to the lies of the evil one…
Gen 3:1-5
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’”
The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
They did not “fall” in the sense of an accidental stumbling.
They rebelled.
They rejected the Lord the Creator.
On the day they did so, they died.
A death that would result in their physical expiration.
A death that would carry to the balance of man.
A death that impacted all of creation.
Gen 3:17-19
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
Thereby, the need for grace.
Thereby, the need for restoration to Father.
This rebellion separated them from the intimate relationship that they had with the Lord.
Still, God had a plan.
A plan known from before the foundation of the earth.
…to be continued…