to chapter 2 or 50, ploughing through it already, we looked at Genesis 1 last week and obviously
a famous chapter of the Bible with the six day creation and we looked at how this absolutely
bizarre religion of atheism is really an attack on God's word because that's what it is isn't it and
if you can disprove the first verse of the Bible well then the rest is has to be discarded too
or at least taken with a large pinch of salt. However what we really and many people are aware
of here when you talk to most atheist types it's not that they really believe that because
you either have to be an imbecile or at least be willing to pretend you're an imbecile.
The truth is most of them are just angry with God. They usually say something like we said along the
lines of and I had this so many times so they'll go I don't believe in God well if there was a God
why did he let this happen to me if there was a God why did this happen etc and it's you do
believe in God you're just angry with God why didn't he help me why when I called out did this
not happen etc but it is there are those that say in their heart there is no God and for me
they're reprobates okay and we looked at Psalm 53 one which says a fool have said in his heart
there is no God corrupt are they and have done abominable iniquity there is none that doeth good
okay and there's a type of person that does really believe deep down in their heart because that's
beyond stupid that's now I'm just completely denying just just just obvious facts life just
looking at each other proves as a creator okay it's it's madness so once you're saying it in
your heart well what's happened to your heart to get to that point but we saw that day one was
heaven and earth night and day and and you know Jesus we looked at being that light of the world
didn't we so that was before the sun and before the moon and um but but but that's what he
creates on day one and we looked at day two um which was the atmosphere and remember it wasn't
something firm even though it's called the firmament because birds fly in it we looked at
that then day three was the dry land and vegetation and and we looked at how the waters were gathered
into the seas so there wasn't like this sort of piecing together of land that people try and talk
about or un-piecing together a bit at some point um day four was sun moon and stars and we talked
about how the stars uh picture soul winning christians shining forth that light um which
I thought was a cool thing to think about that that every one here that's going out soul was
being pictured on day four of creation day five was sea creatures and birds and and no there were
there are no sea creatures morphing into birds over millions of years imagine what a terrible
time it must have been well they were halfway in between like while the wing was half grown
they kept falling into the water and drowning I mean I don't know how many of them survived it's
just so ridiculous isn't it but um and then day six was the living creature after his kind cattle
and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind and what a surprise that's what we see
still to this day creatures bring forth other creatures after their own kind yeah not you don't
see dogs giving birth to cats or anything else as much again millions of years don't change that
and then we saw obviously man be created on day six as well and then we we finally saw how how
man was told to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and have dominion over the
earth and how just how many false teachings are just dispelled by the first chapter of the bible
finally people just read the first chapter of the bible then they wouldn't be going on about we've
got a population crisis which is just ridiculous they wouldn't be saying things like you know we're
a we're a scourge we're some sort of parasite on the earth because the bible just dispels all of
that in in chapter one but anyway we're going to continue but uh genesis 131 it ended with this and
god saw everything that he'd made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning were
the sixth day not the sixth period not the sixth sort of you know uh million year day it was the
sixth day yeah it was a six day creation um okay and we're going to go into genesis chapter two
now and verse one which reads thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of
them i'd like to pray before we continue father thank you for your word thank you for um well
just just these great truths that we can get straight away out of the very first couple of
pages of your book lord your preserved book a book that's just a miracle that we still have
that we're able to read well it's not because you promised that we'd have this book lord help me to
preach this second chapter of your book lord just clearly accurately boldly help everyone have
attend to his lord um would it just be full of your spirit and just known for all of this
amen so so he said thus the heavens and the earth were finished all the host of them so basically
what was up in the sky and down the earth was made in six days along with everything in it okay and
that's what we we saw last week verse two says and on the seventh day god ended his work which
he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made
and then god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had
rested from all his work which god created and made he must have been worn out right
yeah god was just absolutely wrecked well no because god spoke the world into existence didn't
he it was all made by the words of his mouth you don't have to turn it but psalm 33 6 says by the
word of the lord were the heavens made and all the hosts then by the breath of his mouth okay it was
out of his mouth and no he didn't have a sore throat either okay from just saying too much of
this ah let there be this and that so why did he rest on that seventh day what was the point
well it was a picture of something and no it wasn't a picture of the sabbath it was at least
you know the start of the sabbath but turn to hebrews chapter 3 the sabbath continued the
picture and was then fulfilled approximately 2 000 years ago the the picture was of the rest that
we are also to take from our works when we put our faith in jesus christ that's the picture that's
why he rested on that seventh day and made a point of resting on that seventh day and hebrews 3 and
4 explains this so we're going to start in hebrews 3 and verse 17 hebrews 3 17 which helps us to
understand this where it says but with whom was he grieved 40 years was it not with them that had
sinned whose carcasses fell in the wilderness so we're talking about the children of israel here
those that weren't allowed to enter into the promised land and to whom swear he that they
should not enter into his rest but to them that believe not so we see that they could not enter in
because of unbelief okay so they didn't enter into his rest because of unbelief what's he talking
about entering into his rest well hebrews 4 and verse 1 says let us therefore fear lest a promise
being left us of entering into his rest now this is much a long time now after the promised land
obviously that it that was kind of the first fulfillment of this but it was more of again the
promised land there was a picture of heaven to come and he said any of you should seem to come
short of it for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not
profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it so look just a quick point just
thought that verse alone no one ever got saved any other way other than the gospel okay that is
i mean it's for me it's damnable heresy these people who start coming out of these different
gospels it's another gospel let them be a curse there is no other way no one got saved by their
works yeah otherwise what was the point in jesus christ just carried on getting what what jesus
just came to die just for fun like he went through he went to hell and back okay for us and for
everyone previously and for everyone that will come after him as well so whether it was faith
in the coming christ the current christ or the now risen christ it was faith in christ wasn't it
and there we just saw that where it says for unto us was the gospel preach as well as unto them
talking about those children of israel in the wilderness okay but however many of them didn't
put their faith in christ like nowadays many people don't put their faith in christ
and it's funny that because if you think about it's the same way that you paid for all your
sins past present and future as well the same way that people from the past present and future when
i say present when jesus christ was here was saved by the faith in christ but verse 3 says
for we which have believed do enter into rest as he said as i have sworn in my wrath if they shall
enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world
now um this is from psalm 95 and then we're not going to go there and it then says for he
spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and god did rest the seventh day from
all his works and that's what we just read in genesis 2 2 was him talking about the seventh
down this wise god resting the seventh day from all his works but we do enter into that rest if
we believe it was a picture of resting christ and that's what we see that's what he's doing and we
already looked last week it's just pictures of things to come in in genesis chapter one and it's
just an amazing thing isn't it the bible how events happen things happen even as as amazing
as the creation of the world is constantly picturing things to come and i mean i don't
even know how you explain it obviously it's just amazing isn't it but here what what we do see is
that that that rest that seventh day was a picture of the rest in christ genesis 2 2 said and on the
seventh day god ended his work which he had made me rest on the seventh day from all his work which
he had made it's a picture of rest in christ verse five where where you were if you still sorry i
should have said to stay there in hebrew he said and in this place again if they shall enter into
my rest and and for me because it said it just to read that again verse four said for he spoke in
a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and god did rest seventh day from all his works
okay we saw that in genesis 2 2 then it says and in this place again that for me is in the same
place he said it if they shall enter into my rest and i think that's the blessing and sanctifying
from verse three in genesis 2 where it says and god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it so
in this place again if they shall enter into my rest this is a picture of blessing and sanctifying
from entering into his rest because you're clean by that aren't you by faith in christ you're
sanctified aren't you because that in it he had rested from all his work which god created and
made and then back in hebrew still it says in hebrews 4 and verse 6 seeing therefore it remaineth
that some must enter therein and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of
unbelief they didn't enter him because of unbelief because how how do we enter into god's rest it's
faith in christ that's it that's what the belief is it's putting your faith your trust in jesus
christ which means that you do not have to work your way to heaven okay you can cease from your
works and and if you don't cease from your works your works never get you there anyway again he
limited for certain days saying in david today after so long a time as it is said today if you
will hear his voice harden not your hearts that's from psalm 95 again for if jesus had given them
rest then would he not after it have spoken of another day that now jesus by the way is is a
greek for joshua okay who led them into the promised land into rest that's what it's talking
about here okay usually in hebrew is he's going to use a bigger type than just jesus it's the lord
jesus christ christ jesus etc so here he's talking about joshua said if joshua had given them rest
then would he not after it have spoken of another day but then he says in verse 9 there remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of god so basically he spoke of another day that's the rest to come
for he that is entered into his rest he also has ceased from his own works as god did from his
so if you enter into the rest of jesus christ you do that through belief through faith in jesus
christ then you've also ceased from your works as god did from his on day seven of creation or at
least the first day after the six days of creation that seventh day was him giving a picture of rest
in the lord jesus christ to be basically remembered constantly through the sabbath day that was a
point of the sabbath day was to that's why there were you know there was punishment for working on
the sabbath because the whole thing was it was a picture of faith in christ it was important
so back in genesis 2 god resting on the seventh day of creation like i said is a picture that rest
and then we enter into it when we cease our own works and trust in christ verse 3 says and god
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which
god created and made and and like i said that's why the sabbath and sabbath is saturday by the
way was blessed and sanctified as it was a reminder obviously of that rest okay that that
that one receives by faith in the coming christ at this point but this now is done away in christ
so christ has fulfilled the sabbath christ is lord of the sabbath christ has pictured christ came
and that's why colossius 2 16 says let no man therefore judge me for and drink respect of of
an holy day of the new moon of the sabbath days now there are many sabbath days and many rest
days and feast days and sabbaths but however none of these are to be followed anymore okay these
carn lordesses they're they're done away within jesus christ a lot of them are pictures of christ
however with that you could argue that there's probably a good pattern there to try and get a day
off i think for you know it's probably healthier it's probably better for you to try and get a day
off and you know especially for the working men out there it can be hard for a lot of the moms
and women because it's not so easy to get a day off is it however it's probably nice to have a
day where maybe you're not doing your normal routine and stuff i think it helps to refresh you
i think in in for sportsmen and things like that it's very good as well i think it's probably
healthy to try and get a rest day and maybe mentally you need that as well however it's not
there's no rule with that we're not these people who could try and say to you so is you know why
don't you meet on the sabbath or something or you you've got the wrong day have you ever heard these
idiots out there come out of this stuff or or they they try and say you even get these people that
go oh uh i've had a good sabbath today talking about sunday even a sabbath like anyway back to
verse four and we're going to carry on with that but that's what it's about that's what that's what
the lord was picturing there that's what god was picturing when he rested and verse four says these
are the generations and generations here meaning history okay so no they're not they're not some
fun stories or mythology this book is history okay this book is history it says these are
the generations or the history of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in that day
and the day being in that time okay that the lord god made the earth and the heavens
and every plant the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew
for the lord god had not caused it to rain upon the earth there was not a man to till the ground
but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground so we're
now focusing in on post day three where the plants and herbs have been made but he hasn't made man yet
on day five so we're now kind of going in kind of into more depth now at this point for me god
watered the vegetation of the mist as there was still no rain at this point and then verse seven
says and the lord god formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life and man became a living soul the dust here being being the earth the ground
soil whatever you want to call it and and it's interesting is that the human body's main six
elements being oxygen hydrogen nitrogen carbon calcium and phosphorus they're kind of the main
six and uh with with a few others in lesser amounts and and it's it's interesting as well
because verse six you look back at verse six there went up a miss from the earth and and and
watered the whole face of the ground and the lord god formed man of the dust of ground it was water
dust or ground or soil or earth which kind of makes sense with 55 to 60 percent depending on
whether you're female or male of the human body being water but the the water on earth makes you
think of a potter with the clay don't doesn't it so it's watered and then he makes man of the
of the ground and for me that's a picture of that potter with the clay you have to turn there but
isiah 64 8 says but now oh lord thou are our father we are the clay and now our potter and
we all are the work of thy hand and it gives that picture that he is the potter and and who are we
to talk against him you know against him that formed us anyway and it makes you think of i
think there's a in romans 11 with that if i'm right but um and it's the same with the animals
okay now it's same thing they were made of the ground however there's a difference with us so
look at verse seven and the lord god formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul and no you animal lovers out there
this wasn't the same with animals yeah look nothing wrong with animals but um they're not
living souls as many people like to convince themselves they are man became a living soul
and as though i'd when hungry that loyal to the person feeding them you know a dog might be
it doesn't have a soul it doesn't have a soul and i like you know that sort of topic sometimes i
avoid it when people come out with that on the door when you ever have people that say as long
as i'm with my little fido or something you've heard that stuff before you get there don't you
about wherever little i'm going to be up there with little snoody good luck i usually avoid that
however i do sometimes come out when people say no such thing don't believe in god don't believe
in heaven i usually say something along the lines of oh um what so you believe we don't have a soul
and sometimes they'll say yeah or no and usually i'll say what just like an animal you're just
what like a dog without a soul and when they say yeah i'm kind of by then i'm ready to move on but
i think i've left a little thought in their mind there they really think they're just like that
animal that dog like some stupid beast no we have a soul and and people that believe that well again
it's getting pretty hard-hearted isn't it to think that you're just you're on the same level
as an animal but um and here's the thing if people are getting taught that so much is it any wonder
that you get these nutters going to schools and start shooting up people like they're just like
other animals it's such a wicked teaching isn't it and just just crazy but i like to say that
some blood but there's a big difference isn't there there's a big difference or at least there
should be a big difference maybe some people do that like animals so you understand why they
believe that but you know you the whole thing's just ridiculous i think i heard a past for each
the other day just say so why are there still monkeys if we came from monkeys why are there
still monkeys it's so ridiculous isn't it makes no sense to where's the half monkey half man
where are they why aren't any of these monkeys that we're coming across what now we're able to
observe it because oh no it was like this secret stuff that went on millions of years ago you can't
observe it now why aren't we observing it why aren't they in the middle of morphing why aren't
their monkeys at least they're like talking a little bit and kind of doing because there's no
such thing because it's complete nonsense anyway that that soul is what sets us apart but it but
it's also what makes eternity so important we're living eternal souls and when the physical life is
over our soul can either live forever or it can die forever and that's why eternity is so important
isn't it we're not like the animals as much as people want to convince themselves that because
then basically eat drink and be merry because what's what's doesn't matter i'm going to return
to the ground that's not really the truth though is it because your soul is either going to live
forever or it's going to die forever okay and they're the two options there's nothing else
and that's why it's so important isn't it the gospel it's so important to get out so important
to get saved because otherwise when your time coming that could be any time can't it any time
when that time comes you're going to die forever in a fiery furnace of hell your soul will be
there forever and it's once you're there it's too late but verse 8 says and the lord god planted a
garden eastward in eden and there he put the man whom he had formed and out of the ground made the
lord to grow every tree that is pleasant to the site and good for food the tree of life also in
the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil so first thing to point out here
were they just functional trees no god made trees that were pleasant to the site again makes no
sense this whole uh you know atheism big bangs order coming out of chaos kind of ridiculousness
because why are all these things just so pleasant to the eye so pleasant to the site because god
made things like that for us didn't he and and we we see you know you see the creator in the
creation as well and he obviously sees a beauty and this is the things that he's wanted to make
to give to us as well and look there are some amazing amazing plants amazing trees amazing
things out there which you just look and your mouth drops open sometimes when you see him and
the beauty of them and he made he made uh the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the site
he said and good for food okay and again that's a great food to come through we i've said this
before we're blessed yeah we could have just been given one thing that we need to eat and that's all
you have and it tastes the same and that's what you do because it's functional because food is
functional isn't it some people go too far don't they where everything has to be this
tense taste sensation and you know they've got to just somehow you know be just so yummy with
everything they eat okay however aren't we blessed that we have all these foods that are pretty yummy
and a lot of them are pretty healthy when you start going to to a lot of these fruits and
vegetables and things that we're talking about here are just like absolutely amazing isn't it
amazing those things but sadly what happens is we get our taste buds get conned by all the
frankenstein food so then people stop finding that stuff enjoyable whereas you should look if you you
you never give a kid any of that junk and you give a child like a piece of mango or you give a child
a piece of fresh pineapple it's like wow this is amazing and they're yummy and loving it but you
start giving that kid haribo every day or so or they're similar then they're not even interested
in the fruit are they because they just need that you know that weird frankenstein food but
god gave us these amazing foods in me and they are great and when you eat them with the fibre
and everything else they're bad for you either you know some people try and go i don't eat fruit
because of carbs and everything else well the thing is if it's good quality fruit and you're
eating it as whole fruit you're going to be all right and you're probably not going to overeat
it either because there's only a level you're going to go with fruit isn't there okay so he he
he made these trees he made them good for food but then he made this tree of life also in the
midst of the garden a tree of knowledge of good and evil what is the tree of life anyone ever
wonder what the tree of life is well turn to proverbs chapter 11 because for me it represents
the word of god that's what i believe which gives eternal life it's a representation of the word of
god you're turning to proverbs chapter 11 we just read he said the tree of life also in the midst
in the middle of the garden proverbs 11 30 says this the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life
and he that win of souls is wise that's proverbs 11 30 famous chapter of the bible the fruit of the
righteous is a tree of life and he that win of souls is wise let's just also mention there that
yes you do go and win souls it's not just god that does the saving you work it with him yeah we are
laborers together with god however the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life what is the fruit
of the righteous anyone ever wondered that it's what comes out of their mouths the fruit what the
fruit is what comes out of your mouth what is it that comes out of a saved person person's mouth
which can result in souls one it's a word of god it's a word of god turn to matthew chapter 12
we just read in proverbs 11 30 the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life our fruits are what
comes out of our mouths it's got nothing to do with our good deeds or of the fruits of the spirit
okay people like to come out with that one well where are their fruits how do you prove they're
a christian it's well look at have they done this have they done that you know are we seeing the
fruits of the spirit well if they're not walking in the spirit you're not gonna see no fruits of
the spirit yeah and and there are people that can blag fruits of the spirit as well who don't even
have the spirit okay that's not how you see it's what comes out of your mouth matthew 12 and verse
33 says either make the tree good and his fruit good or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit
corrupt for the tree is known by his fruit oh generation of vipers he's talking to false
prophets here how can ye being evil speak it speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh that's what we're talking about here with the fruits that's why matthew
720 you don't have to turn there stay in matthew 12 talking to false prophets says wherefore by
their fruits you shall know them it's about what comes out of their mouth okay that's how you know
is what comes out of their mouth you go well wait a second what do you just have to wait
for for false prophet you know false doctrine do we have to wait for the repent of your sins with
people not always because sometimes it'll be the sheer covetousness that comes out of their mouth
and by their fruits what's coming out of their mouth you're starting to get to know them right
sometimes it'll be other such like things sometimes they're just going on about other
things which are clear signs of false maybe it's just like the maybe it's like just sheer sexual
perversion just filth coming out of their mouths and by their fruits you know them oh well still
haven't said something you know dodgy about salvation no it's out of the it's the fruits of
the mouth that's why there verse 35 says a good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth
forth good things an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things but i sound
to you that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned it's all
about the words that's what the fruit is so when proverbs 11 30 talks the fruit of the righteous
it what's it's what comes out of their mouths that's the tree of life and we've turned to
proverbs 3 well i just read proverbs 15 4 you're turning to proverbs 3 proverbs 15 4 says a wholesome
tongue is a tree of life but perverseness there is therein is a breach in the spirit
so according to to proverbs 15 4 a wholesome tongue is a tree of life okay the tree of life
it gives life and how does it do that because where does a wholesome tongue come from it's when
it's talking ultimately the words of god that's why the the the fruit of the righteous what comes
out of their mouth that saved person is a tree of life again if they're preaching the word of god
proverbs 3 13 says happy is a man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding
okay so it goes on to say of wisdom then in verse 18 we're going to jump forward but he's just
talking about wisdom she is a tree of life that's wisdom to them that lay hold upon her and happy
is everyone that retaineth her where does wisdom come from well proverbs 2 6 says for the lord
giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding proverbs 4 5 says get wisdom
get understanding forget it not neither decline from the words of my mouth it all comes in the
word of god so it all comes from that's where wisdom comes from that's where that's what that
tree of life is it's a word of god coming out of a saved person's mouth look if they're not saved
they're getting anyone saved if you're if you're not saved it doesn't matter how much bible you
read to someone you're not getting anyone saved okay it takes a saved person it takes the word
of god it takes the holy spirit okay and that's how we get people saved and and that's what the
fruit of the righteous is that's the tree of life the word of god and go back to genesis 2 with that
in mind verse 9 said the word of god is in the midst of the garden said and out of the ground
made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree
of life also in the midst of the garden it's central to our lives isn't it yeah it's central
to our lives the word of god genesis 3 22 after the fall so jump forward to chapter 3 and verse 22
it says the lord god said behold the man is become as one of us to no good and evil now lest he put
forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever the word of god is what
gives us salvation Romans 10 17 he'd have to turn there says so then faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the word of god and genesis 3 24 says so he drove out the man he placed at the east of
the garden of eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree
of life for me that's a picture of the preservation of god's word that's the preservation of god's
word to keep the way of the tree of life you have to turn to sum 119 in verse 89 says forever oh
lord thy word is settled in heaven which is why we see the tree of life from from genesis and we see
it in in revelation in the last chapter of the bible in the new jerusalem because forever thy
word is is settled in heaven that's what it's about that's what i believe the tree of life is
um and and it's a picture it's a it's it's a basically something to represent the word of god
let's carry on with genesis 2 and verse 9 which says and out of the ground made the lord god to
grow every tree that is pleasant to the site and good for food the tree of life also in the midst
of garden and a tree of knowledge of good and evil so what's this tree what's this tree of the
knowledge of good and evil well for me it represents man's ability to choose to sin
it basically represents free will god didn't create a calvinist robot in case anyone's wondering
okay there ain't no calvinist robots out there he created a living soul who has a choice to obey
or not okay there's no you're not just being pulled around by a string and you just do anything
that some weird version of god that these weird nutters believe in beret wearing nutters i'm sick
of berets i went up to here i've had up to here actually with berets recently i had some some
beret wearer trying to trying to annoy me on on email recently anyway we won't talk about berets
but calvinists they love a beret don't they absolutely love it but um but but and again
like you've got a question again we don't want to go where you must be unsaved because you can't
interpret that but that's pretty basic isn't it it's pretty basic to open up first corinthians
chapter 11 and see that the covering is clearly talking about hair because it mentions hair
about 10 times in the chapter doesn't it it's absolutely bizarre that someone can look at
that and come away and go yeah women have to wear this weird woolen beret yeah that's what
that's what the apostle paul was talking about weird what about it you know they oh i am going
to talk about this now do you know how they justify the weird will and beret when you go back
to the greek apparently i got this the other day well when you go back to the greek and then
apparently it's a different word which actually talks about something about the angle or something
that it's being placed on which clearly must be talking about the beret because if only the king
james bible translators had had these people there at the time to explain to them that all
women have to wear a beret when they go to church yeah and as long as men don't wear the beret and
like i said this person i'm sure in your sort of church you wouldn't care if a man had long hair
or if a woman had had a skinhead as long as they had a beret on right but they didn't really reply
to that anyway berets calvinists so calvinists believe that that the there is no choice well
what was the point in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil it presented a choice in verse 17
he gave man the choice and disobeying it resulted in the knowledge of good and evil verse 17 says
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die turn to deuteronomy one where we see that there's an age
of accountability which is described as the knowledge of good and evil in deuteronomy one
in deuteronomy one where you're turning most is reminding them about the 40 years of wandering
in the wilderness and that generation not seeing the promised land which like i mentioned earlier
is a picture of heaven okay it's a picture of heaven it's obviously not heaven but it is a
picture of heaven in verse 34 in deuteronomy one deuteronomy chapter one and verse 34 says
and the lord heard the voice of of your words and was wroth and swear saying surely there shall not
one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which i swear to give unto your fathers
save caleb the son of jeffrna he shall see it and to him will i give the land that he
had trodden upon and to his children because because he hath wholly followed the lord
also the lord was angry with me for your sake saying thou shalt thou also shalt not go in
thither but joshua the son of nun which standeth before thee he shall go in thither encourage him
for he shall cause israel to inherit it moreover your little ones which ye said should be a prey
and your children so don't say the children now this is older than the little ones yeah which are
obviously infants and your children which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil
they shall go in thither and unto them will i give it and they shall possess it
so there's an age where a child has no knowledge between good and evil isn't there
okay and like i've i've mentioned this before i talk to people when they ask about this
this isn't knowledge of whether mummy or daddy gets angry this isn't the knowledge of what makes
mummy or daddy shocks a lot of kids know when they're just going against or something results
in a punishment or something else that's not what we're talking about we're talking about
a knowledge between good and evil and my kind of point with this once they're old enough to
understand that well they're old enough to understand the gospel and vice versa so if a
child is old enough to really understand the gospel and understand you know the the the
punishment for sin and sin and grace through faith they're old enough for me to understand
the difference between good and evil but there's some debate about that as to what that age
actually is and you could argue with here i mean he goes really high with the age here but i
again i'm not sure with that i don't think you'd be going up to 20 some might argue that but
back in genesis 2 9 and 17 that tree represents innocence and responsibility for sin okay the the
knowledge of good and evil without that knowledge of good and evil you're innocent aren't you
once you have that knowledge of good and evil you're now responsible for your sin yeah and and
they chose to sin they chose that they made that choice they had free will they chose it and you
go why did god finally just hadn't planted that tree in there well had he not plant that tree in
there there would have been no choice they made that choice they chose to sin we're given the
choice and every single person here that wants to look back and go adam and eve you know and
everything else you all choose to sin every day what's your excuse you choose to sin you have the
bible and you have the holy spirit if you're saved but we still choose to sin don't we okay and they
chose to sin they were given that choice but but praise god they were also given the choice to
choose faith in jesus christ and choose salvation and and look we we have the choice and then it's
up to us isn't it let's go back to genesis 2 and verse 10 with that in mind it then says and the
river went out of eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four
heads the name of the first is paisan that is it which compseth the whole land of havala where
there is gold and the gold of that land is good there is delium and the onyx stone and the name
of the second river is gaihond and the same is it that that compseth the whole land of ethiopia and
the name of the third river is hidacle that is it which goes toward the east of asyria and the fourth
river is euphrates now the location of these rivers is debatable even in euphrates where
things did change after the flood so you could argue that maybe they just named a river off the
flood euphrates we don't really know do we because the whole landscape was changed after the flood i
mean look at things like the grand canyon which obviously formed by the flood yeah so a lot of
things change so what the rivers were at this point look where or what they were and etc i
suppose isn't the point for me the point is that they were key to sustaining life weren't they
they watered the garden for starters because he says a river went out of eden to water the garden
and and here's the thing without pollution dumped waste etc and all that sort of stuff
they they would have sustained human life too wouldn't they so these rivers were sustaining
human life being drinkable and a way of watering the food you know producing trees and crops as
well and my point with that is that what's interesting these rivers went far and wide
okay so that you had this river that went through eden where obviously the first man was and with
with eve as well and then you had these rivers branching off and going pretty far away from
from eden if you look at you know we've got you know havala you've got you've got ethiopia you've
got euphrates if it is where we think i think we're talking about sort of in in asyria you've
got these these areas where these these rivers are going out to my point is that genesis 1 28's
command and god bless him and god said unto them be fruitful and multiply replenish the earth and
subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fall of the air and over every
living thing that moves upon the earth god's god's design wasn't everyone living on top of
each other in the garden of eden was it so he made that point then he's got these rivers going out
far and wide which are what sustained life don't they and there weren't reservoirs at this point
drinking water and stuff like this we we the the water came from the rivers it was for people to
replenish the earth and not just eden okay so that command wasn't just sort of something you just
kind of mentioned then thought but you might as well hang out in eden because that's the best
place to be the whole point was for them to go far and you even got you know one place there's gold
you know the the gold of the land is good there's delium and the olic stone another one is compass
of the whole land of ethiopia this is a big river covering an old other area and then the
third river hidacle goes towards the east of a syria the fourth river is euphrates so you've
got all these all these rivers going in these different areas and the whole point was that
people went out people went out and moved and and settled in other areas that's what god wants
people to do doesn't he that's what he wanted he wanted people to spread out not to get together
and we see obviously as we're going to study as we go through genesis when people did all get
together after the flood with with with babel then suddenly he's not happy is he because when
people are all on top of each other and doing you know and and all of that we end up just seeing
wickedness come from it don't we and people are all getting together all of one language they
were there and everything else and we you could argue we're seeing that kind of sonder form again
now but the the first man adam though he was given eden as a place to live and work okay so he was
given eden as a place to live and work however we see these rivers going out to sustain life in
other areas and man was meant to go out and spread out and you know when people talk about
overpopulation yeah i i would agree with them when it comes to cities when it comes to to if
only people weren't all centralized in cities because they are pretty filthy disgusting places
usually aren't they and throughout history they've always had high levels of disease and other things
because of all the people living on top of each other however there's not an overpopulation this
earth there's vast areas that are just completely uninhabited which are habitable as well so the
issue the problem is is is all the city living and a lot of times a load of people that aren't even
able to to fend for themselves or live for themselves because instead they're just brought
into this kind of industrialized sort of nation aren't they and really that's the issue it's not
the numbers but anyway let's keep going so in verse 15 the lord god took the man and put him
into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep it so did god put adam into the garden of eden
to lounge around staring at pretty trees is that what he did was it like was it just paradise with
his feet up just staring at things to soak up the rays whilst drinking fresh fruit juice
no he was put in a garden to work wasn't he to dress it and keep it that's gardening isn't it
the first man was a gardener and you could argue in fact you not even argue let's be honest that's
what we're designed for aren't we we're designed to work and look and some people over the years
are maybe more designed for certain types of work than other types of work but we are designed to
work now the first ever man was was given a job to do straight away and well do you think he was
unhappy do you think he was like man i really need a rest do you think he was saving up for his
retirement i don't think he was i think he was content and happy without all the without all
the kind of pushing and brainwash on him without the whole of the world saying you know you should
only be working under 40 hours a man's taking your paycheck and everything else without all of that
junk without all of that just kind of encouragement to be lazy the chasing the dream of riches so you
don't have to work anymore look what i see in the world i see when people stop working especially
early retirement types a lot of the time they get sick a lot of the time they die early that's what
i see out there a lot of the time when people are chasing this doing nothing they kind of just shut
down because we're designed to work we're designed to do stuff we're designed to keep busy we're
designed to keep active and we're just because it's not just stationary as well and that's the
thing is that there are many stationary jobs and the thing is when you have a stationary job you
kind of need to find something to keep active with on the site if you can find a job where you you
you know you're keeping active well you kind of got the best of both worlds sometimes don't you
but we do need to be active we do need to do stuff we do need and the first man did that didn't he
and we see the first ever man and by the way you've all got genetics of adam in you haven't
you which came through noah okay and that and adam was was designed to garden he was a designed
gardener so if you don't have a job and you uh and you've got nothing else to do at least do a bit of
gardening i don't have a garden someone else will let you garden in their garden they'll be chuffed
get their lawn mower out or something yeah but i don't think he had a lawn mower but you know
what he did do is he kept he he kept busy and we need to work don't we it's fulfilling isn't it
those you look and when i say work i'm not just talking about paid employment for the women out
there who are doing work work at home and work when it's looking after the kids work keeping
at home work cook all it's all fulfilling isn't it when we get through a day and you get to the
end of a day when you've worked you feel fulfilled don't you you feel like yeah i've put some hours
in today and whether that's mental hours or physical hours you feel fulfilled it's
satisfying and you know what it does as well it keeps you out of trouble it keeps you out of
trouble because look the devil does make use of idle hands doesn't he and when we're not doing
stuff when we've got too much time on our hands a lot of people just get up to bad things and we
should be busy we should keep busy yeah it's probably good to have a one day a week where
you can rest up a bit if you're able to it's not really possible for everyone but we should keep
busy shouldn't we and we see here we see the first man given something to do here
and he was living in paradise but he was living in paradise he was keeping busy
verse 16 says and the lord god commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden now may as
freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the
day that thou eatest so if thou shalt surely die and of course we see that it's a spiritual death
isn't it when that happens verse 18 and the lord god said it is not good that the man should be
alone i will make him and help meet for him notice how there's only uh there's two e's there not an a
okay meet means suitable and i always say this just because the amount of people you hear talk
about the help meet okay she's my help meet i don't even make sense like she's my help suitable
this is she's my help fitting or something no help meet for him help suitable for him
okay she's not a piece of meat she's she's she's an help that's suitable for him and this is day
six for me it's a more in-depth look where genesis one was a sort of summary and he says this out of
the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them
unto adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever adam called every living creature
that was the name thereof so god is bringing all the living creatures adam he's naming them
verse 20 says and adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of
the field but for adam there was not found and help meet for him so just a point he didn't settle
on the dog did he it seems that dog wasn't man's best friend or the cat for the cat lovers out
there you know cats are cleaner aren't they well they might be cleaner some of them well i had a
terrible cat that wasn't at all cleaner just had real issues with that but however neither of those
none of them were suitable for him as in help verse 21 says the lord god caused a deep sleep
to fall upon adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof
and the rib which the lord god had taken from man matey a woman and brought her unto the man
no women don't have more ribs than men okay people like to put this stuff out there so
then people can be disproved you know and and ridiculed when they come out of this stuff
there are some interesting facts about rib regeneration i don't know if anyone's ever
heard this stuff before and ribs actually do seem to grow back when now it's unclear whether a
completely removed rib can grow back or whether it's you know a very damaged rib but they do
regenerate better than anything else however this is god who spoke the world into existence so we
don't have to suddenly marry it up with biological science do we okay if only we could work out how
he spoke and then that look it's god yeah god god does amazing things and if god wanted to pull a
rib out you know heal him straight back up within a second and his rib to grow back or not it makes
no difference does it okay because that's what the word of god says the word of god gets everything
else right i have no doubt that the word of god is 100 right yeah so that's what happened but what's
the point of it what's the point of the rib because it's not so that we can go look men have
like one less rib or something women have an extra rib or any of that stuff what's the point well
verse 23 says and adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called
woman because she was taken out of man the point is that she complements man okay that's the point
yes there's a hierarchy okay don't forget that there is a higher in all in all areas of life
there has to be a hierarchy okay it doesn't work otherwise there has to be a final authority there
has to be a line that's the only way it works but she's still of equal importance because some
people get this go two ways with this don't they there are some who are like these women are like
we're completely equal i'm gonna tell you what to do my whole life you know because we're equal
and then there's others that are like well women should submit to men so i'll treat her like a
doormat and and walk all over her and everything else but but the the answer is always in the
middle isn't it yeah there's a high yet women should submit unto men the bible makes that very
clear doesn't it wives submit but who are they submitting unto their own husbands okay the women
in here don't have to submit to anyone else's man okay no one no one says that okay the the obviously
the children should be submitting to their fathers yeah and their mothers but ultimately father is
ahead of the house on however when it comes to wives yes they should submit unto their own
husbands the bible teaches that clearly okay they should revere them as well they should respect
them they should treat them like like the head of the house that they are however they're not less
important than them is you know and i've said this many times you go to you go to a place of work and
see some of some of these employees are probably as important in the in the job maybe more important
than the boss there because they're such a great employee there maybe that duty manager makes
everything just work great and that business is going great no one's going oh but they're not the
manager they're so so they're so beneath them they're just so not of little worth no we all
have roles and jobs to do in life and just because there's a hierarchy in terms of who's in charge
that doesn't make mean anyone's less important but however people just like to mix this up and mess
it up and people can go extreme i mean in this nation you're not going to see that much are you
but some place you do you get to the point where men are just completely abusing women and
treating them like filth and dirt and everything else and that's not that's not right either is it
she was he said she's now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called
woman because she was taken out of man she's not a separate creature though we often wonder
sometimes us men yeah but they're not okay they are actually we we are actually the same we are
we are well as a bible called it we are man aren't we we're mankind people call it humans
but look however however we complement each other and look we've said this many times if we didn't
have the women in this church the place would be a mess if we didn't have the men in this church
well you know i'll leave that joke but okay i've already gone far enough however look the truth is
we complement each other don't we okay and and and but yes there is a hierarchy there in terms of
who's in charge and there it says therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother
and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and that for me is when they leave
okay that's that's when they leave home i i'm not a fan of this sending your kids out to go and live
the world nonsense okay it's crazy it's like and and don't get me wrong again many of us here have
come from backgrounds that aren't from the bible but we now have the blessing of having the word
of god and being able to understand the word of god because we hopefully everyone here has a holy
spirit in them and you read the word of god and sending your kids out into the world is a recipe
for disaster isn't it they therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto
his wife so for me i see no reason for my sons to go and get a bachelor pad with with some some
other guys and hanging around you know and and oh well they've got to learn to fend for themselves
no well they can look i'll teach them that at home and they can pay rent at home and they can learn
to do stuff at home and i can teach them at home when they get married they can move out and same
with the women why would you send your daughters out to go and live in this wicked world and think
about the amount of just wicked stuff that goes on where people young kids are like sent off to
university or or not even that a lot of the time 18 years old well you can get your own place now
good luck and then you know years later with all the unwanted pregnancies and all the rest of it
what did i do wrong well maybe because chapter two of the bible said therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they should be one flesh leave and cleave
but once they leave and once they cleave they have left haven't they that's where that saying comes
from leave and cleave that means look when when our kids grow up those of us here when you when
your kid leaves you and cleaves they've become one flesh you're no longer head of that household
and many many parents many in-laws get that wrong don't they they think that they have some sort of
control and they they've they meddle too much in the relationship in the marriages that could be a
big strain a big problem you know and we have to understand that that we've left our parents
to cleave now it's not that you have to cast them off and never talk to them again but there has to
be a good balance there doesn't there and they were both naked the man his wife and were not
ashamed and why were they not ashamed said no knowledge of good and evil okay they hadn't at
this point chosen chosen sadly to go down that route and to no longer be innocent and again
something that people talk about the age of innocence with kids some equate it to well when
they're kind of still not uncomfortable being naked they don't see an issue they don't even
think about it however um i don't know for me an easy way is just once they understand the gospel
and if you're saved and you've got kids preaching the gospel right preaching the gospel and when
they're able to understand it and get saved well you've probably got them at a good time they never
need to get them saved yeah um so that was um that was genesis chapter two some interesting stuff in
there that's why i see a lot of that be interesting your views after the sermon if you've got any
interesting views on that um on that we're going to pray father thank you for your word thank you
for um well you know just just so many kind of truths that you just set out early on in your in
the word of god uh thank you for those that you've given us today out of genesis chapter two um i
hope i've preached those accurately as you'd want me to preach them not as a world would
want things preached just preaching how you'd want to preach lord pray that you just help everyone
here to go home and think about those things which may be spoken to them today and and and
if there are things that they can apply to their lives to do so as well um and obviously you know
one of the main things is just that need to go out and preach that gospel preach that gospel loud
and clear help us do that this week help us to return on sunday for another day in your house
jesus name pro this amen