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Genesis 2:16 · BSB
2:16 And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
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…doesn't it? I think it does. And so we pick up Jacob's story, the story of this proud, deceitful, self-reliant man. We pick up his story inGenesis chapter 2. He's on his way now to reconnect with his family and his brother Esau. At the beginning of the chapter in verse 1, it says, like, on his way to…
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…Jesus did some of his best ministry around the table. Do you know that the beginning basically the Bible is bookended with these two images? InGenesis chapter 2, God takes Adam and Eve and places them in a garden and says, Eat freely. Praise the Lord, hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. At the end of the book,…
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…this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So that's where he's quoting fromGenesis chapter 2. But here's his conclusion. So they are no longer two, but one. And then his answer to the question, therefore, what God has joined together, let…
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…Greek had become the language of the whole Eastern world, and many Jewish families no longer read Hebrew well. When those translators reachedGenesis chapter 2and had to choose a Greek word for the garden, they picked a word borrowed from Persia. The word was paradaisos. It described a walled royal park,…
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…The book is consistent all the way down. And then comes the one moment in Genesis where a list of animals should exist and does not. Turn intoGenesis chapter 2. The account slows down and comes to ground level, and God brings the animals to the man. He brought them to the man to see what he would name…
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…is where the other reading was born. It deserves a fair hearing, so let us give it one. The suggestion runs like this. Read Genesis chapter 1 andGenesis chapter 2side by side, and they do not feel like the same scale of event. Chapter 1 is enormous. God makes humanity on the sixth day, male and female…
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…that gift so God sets this example way back in the creation story in Genesis. God begins to set this example of what this might look like. And inGenesis chapter 2Allison read uh this passage and in verse 2 it says by the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day what does he…
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…37, and let's go to John chapter 2. As you're turning there, I'm going to read to you from John chapter 3 in verse number 20. It says, Look atGenesis chapter 2if you would, in verse number 23. It says, And of course we know that Jesus throughout his ministry was constantly calling out the Jews. He was…
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…terms, if a king sat down, it meant the decision had been made. Everything has been decided. There's nothing left to discuss. When we read inGenesis chapter 2of God creating the earth, we read over and over again where he goes, It's good. It's good. And it's good. God is saying, you know what? I don't…
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…with David. In fact, it had to do with Saul's own disobedience to God's word. Now, this has got echoes that go all the way back to Genesis. Back toGenesis chapter 2and 3. When God put Adam and Eve in the garden and put them in this beautiful kingdom and said, Just do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of…
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…teeth, but you can make it work. Just chew his food for him. Okay, let me stop. Okay, let's just get to the Bible. I feel like I'm I'm being, yeah.Genesis chapter 2. Let me sit down somewhere. Genesis chapter 2. Come on, Jesus. Genesis chapter 2, verse 23. We're going to the Bible. I'm gonna get me out because…
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…that there are boundaries in the garden of Eden. What we want to notice especially is that this garden of Eden was a garden temple. And we read inGenesis chapter 2that God put man into the garden to work and to keep it. And when we follow the use of both these words down through the experience of the church,…
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…They can be mixed and matched any way you like. But the four things are stop, rest, delight, and worship. Stop, rest, delight, and worship. Look atGenesis chapter 2verse one. says, "So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed." On the seventh day, God had completed his work, all that he…
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…This matters. Without this pillar, you move away from God's desire and design for how male and female coexist. Now, we move from Genesis 1 toGenesis chapter 2. Here's a little free insight for you. Some people are confused because in Genesis 1 you have the creation account, and then you turn the page to…
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…I could unpack this for an hour, but I'm not gonna do that to you. But this reaches all the way back to the very beginning, Genesis chapter 1 andGenesis chapter 2, where God plants a garden and he puts Adam and Eve in this garden. He tells Adam to work it and keep it. Interestingly, those two Hebrew verbs,…
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…Everything's good. We get to Genesis 2 and we hear these words come out of God's mouth. It is not good. Now, what do you suspect God is saying inGenesis chapter 2is not good? Anybody know? It was not good that the man was what's the word? Alone. Now, remind me, because sometimes I forget. Was this before sin…
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…the fall. The order that God set in creation never included decay. It never included death. He made us to live, not to die. And so we read inGenesis chapter 2, the Lord God commanded the man, saying of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,…
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…is where the other reading was born. It deserves a fair hearing, so let us give it one. The suggestion runs like this. Read Genesis chapter 1 andGenesis chapter 2side by side, and they do not feel like the same scale of event. Chapter 1 is enormous. God makes humanity on the sixth day, male and female…
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…see, it's not just good enough to come to the table with your intent. It's not just good enough to say, yeah, God, we agree, but if we go back toGenesis chapter 2, we see that God brings about the fruitfulness of the land, because God makes it rain, and the humans are the ones tilling the earth. God's work in…
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…boils down to. Becoming the one is just you becoming more and more like Jesus over time. Think about it. Before Eve ever appears in the garden inGenesis chapter 2, Adam already knows God. Before Adam knows and experiences the love of a spouse, he knows and experiences the love of God. And before you are ever…
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