Season 3 Day 9 Gen 2:4-25 Tale of 2 Trees
Joy’s Notes:
Gen 2 Adam & Eve
“ The TWO trees” were
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HOMEWORK this wk:
Read Genesis 2
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🔥WHO are you God
🔥WHAT are you like?
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Gen 7-9
“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good & evil.”
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“The doctrine of the two trees is the premise of the entire Bible!”
⁃ Yet its the most neglected subject of the BIBLE!”
• The two trees were first instruction God gave to Adam immediately after being made!
• God opens (GENESIS) & closes (REV) His Word by talking about the tree of life!
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TREES:
⁃ one tree can absorb 48 pounds of carbon dioxide a year
⁃ One tree gives back up to one 100 gallons of water vapor a day.
⁃ One tree can also supply enough oxygen each day for 4 people.
Trees give life.
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ROOTS:
The roots are the most important part of a tree:
ROOTS: anchor the tree to the ground.
ROOTS: are the source of nourishment for the branches and fruit.
ROOTS determine:
1. how large a tree can grow,
2. how many branches it can support,
3. what kind of fruit it produces
4. how much fruit is produces
NO TREE can survive without healthy roots!
Toxic roots (fruits)
healthy roots
OSMOSIS = the “water of life” goes into the ROOTS; into trunk & into branches providing vitamins to produce GOOD FRUIT !
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Gen 2: 15-17
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must NOT eat (“stay away”) from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
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Deut 30:19
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you
LIFE & DEATH
BLESSING & CURSE.
Therefore,
CHOOSE LIFE🌳 that you and your offspring may live...”
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THE 2 TREES:
1. Tree of life
2. Tree of knowledge of good & evil
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1. 🌳Tree of LIFE
• GIVES me EYES TO SEE
• provides REST (God just told him about the sabbath)
• A MIND governed by Spirit= (gives LIFE & PEACE)
• GOOD FRUITS= (Galatians)
• provides EVERY spiritual resource
• gives me POWER of Holy Spirit in my ORDINARY!!!
• DISCIPLE & surrendered posture
• PRAYER/intimacy (JESUS HAD LIFESTYLE OF BEING DEPENDENT ON PRAYER) 👉 David, prophets, disciples= all PRAYED before deciding!!!
• provides REVERENCE
(Reverence precedes TRUST & “keeps me from sinning!”(Ex.20:20)
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2. 🌳Tree of knowledge
• DETECTIVE posture (“if I know more, I’ll be more in CONTROL:(
(False sense of
control)
• Man began thinking he could live without His creator.)
• PROMISES “SIGHT” but makes you blind to spiritual realm containing all HOPE’
• RENDERS us POWERLESS!! (But promises power:(
• No need for PRAYER! (Pride)
• presents knowledge & willpower as PATHWAY to transformation!
• Head Knowledge (G’nosis)
• Knowledge is power”= a lie!!( God IS POWER)
• becomes an IDOL— worshiping the created thing instead of the Creator Himself (rom 1:25)
• The religion of SELF-HELP
• I’ll define what’s good & evil for myself!
• Rotten fruits of tree of knowlege: competition, vanity, bitterness, pride (exalting myself) resentment, exhaustion, competition, strife, envy, jealousy, bitterness, opposition, disharmony, disunity,
• No sabbath REST
This “beautiful” tree is COUNTERFEIT!
⁃ Satan is a fraud.
⁃ He masks himself to be an angel if light!
Knowledge can FEEL very appealing —
👉giving your heart FALSE PROMISES of control, power, stability, structure & SAFETY.
But it’s a trap!
ITS A:
• PEACE-ZAPPER
• JOY KILLER
• FEAR SUPPLIER
• HOPE DEPLETER
• PURPOSE STEALER
• LOVE TAKER
• SOUL IMPRISONER
• Anxiety ATTACHER
• Fig-Leaf MAKER
• Relationship-destroyer
Matt 21:18-19 (Jesus curses a tree)
• “Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.”
Fruits of character-
Vs.
Leaves of healing-
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Matt 7-
“We did mighty healing in your name.” “But I (Jesus) never knew you- depart from Me!”
⁃ without being attached to Vine, we can do nothing, (NO FRUIT!)
• I can only BE HEALED, RESTORED, FORGIVEN & WHOLE through the doorway of THE TREE OF LIFE. (surrender)
• Anything thats through information and knowledge and self will/STRENGTH, will not be lasting! (Bandaids)
“Knowledge puffs-up but love builds-up”
(1 cor 8:1)
Jer 17:5-9
“This is what the LORD says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD.
They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.
V.7 But blessed are those who TRUST in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.”
Psalm 20:7
“Some TRUST in chariots and some in horses, but WE TRUST in the name of the LORD our God.”
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⁃ The TREE of life gives us drop-to-my-knees reverence for God!
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🔥A deep reverence from God:!
PRECEDES trust
THE TREE OF LIFE IN BOOK
OF EZEKIEL:
Ex 47:9 &12
“There will be swarms of living things wherever the water of this river flows.
Fish will abound in the Dead Sea, for its waters will become fresh.
Life will flourish wherever this water flows….
FRUIT TREES 🌳 of all kinds will grow along both sides of the river.
The leaves of these TREES will NEVER turn brown and fall,
and there will always be (good) FRUIT on their branches.
There will be a new crop every month, for they are watered by the river flowing from the Temple (EDEN)
The fruit will be for food & the leaves for healing.”
A river flows out from the sanctuary/ EDEN!
THE TREE OF LIFE MENTIONED IN BOOK
OF REVELATION:
Revelation 22:1-2
“Then the angel showed me A RIVER of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God (Eden, sanctuary & throne)
and of the Lamb.
It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a TREE OF LIFE,
bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month.
The LEAVES were used for medicine to HEAL the nations
THE TREE OF LIFE will offer healing to our family line!
Every day we have the OPTION of choosing:
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1. the tree of life or
2. the tree of knowledge!
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The CROSS of Christ is called a TREE in Scripture
(Gal, 1 Peter, acts )
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Jesus IS the tree of life
🔥 The tree of the knowledge—> keeps me from God,
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BUT the cross —>makes me one with God.
🔥The tree of the knowledge—>resulted in
sin and death,
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BUT the cross—> resulted in forgiveness & redemption (Jesus reversed the curse!!!!)
🔥The tree of the knowledge—> banished man from paradise
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BUT the cross—> leads us TO Paradise!
🔥the tree of knowledge—> makes me weary, fearful & exhausted,
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BUT the cross —> gives me REST for my weary soul
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EZER KENEGDO
(Helper) (suitable)
Gen 2:18
“Then Yehweh said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I’ll make a HELPER SUITABLE for him.”
Up to this point God has said “And it was good!”
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But now God says:
“It is not good!” (For man to be alone)
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“I will make a HELPER SUITABLE for him!”
“I will make a
HELPER ( EZER) SUITABLE (KENEGDO)
for him”
H E L P E R :
⁃ The very first word in the Bible that describes a woman is EZER (helper)
🔥The other place we see the word Ezer, is when God uses IT to describe who HE is to the people of Israel!!
God is an EZER to Israel!
The very first word God uses to describe a woman — is the word God uses to describe Himself!!
• EZER= Helper, Aid, Strength
Deuteronmy 33:29
“…He is your shield and helper (EZRA) and your glorious sword!”
• when God is being an EZER to Israel — He’s being a WARRIOR!
• Woman are WARRIORS! (Not worriers)
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“S U I T A B L E ”
(Kenegdo)
• KENEGDO = only place ever mentioned in bible!
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⁃ To stand in front of another
⁃ ask deeper questions
⁃ hold the other accountable
• A kenegdo will check you.
• A kenegdo will hold you accountable.
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• EZER: side-by-side
• KENEGDO: face-to-face
An EZER-KENEGDO is a woman who:
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lives in side-by-side & face-to face
relational rhythm with husband.
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GEN 2:21-22
“So Yahweh caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man & while he slept God took one of his RIBS & closed up it’s place w/ flesh. The rib God took from the man, He made into a woman & brought her to the man.”
A RIB= “covers the heart.”
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• Husbands — made to cover his wife’s heart !
Woman- EZER Kenegdo
Man- heart protector