Friday, January 1, 2010

Tree of Good and Evil

Adam and Eve both felt like they had to/could do something to become like God. The serpent came to them with his message and said, "in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good from evil. (Gen 3:5)"

The problem with this kind of suggestion is that it implies that there is something you can do to make yourself like God. The message that if we do enough then somehow somewhere along the line we will perhaps be accepted by God. This is fruit from the wrong tree. We send mixed messages like this all the time in today's church. We tell people to abstain from the evil on the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," but we tell people to gorge themselves on the good. What we have been failing to see that the good from this tree will kill us just as quickly as the evil. It is still the same fruit! What we need is to switch tree's. Instead of eating from the tree that by our effort we can be accepted and in right standing with God, we need to eat of the tree of life which says that everything that was needed for you to do to be saved was completed by Christ. We need to eat the tree of Life. We need to realize that God has made us righteous (in right standing with God). We need to find our life "In Christ" because In Him we have peace, we no longer strive for God's favor since it is already ours, and our works come out of resting In Him. Let's stop fooling ourselves in thinking that the "good" from the wrong tree is good for us. Its just much more deceptive. Let's eat from the truly good tree the Tree of Life.

Some quotes taken from "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" by Lynn Hiles

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