A SERIES ON GENESIS BAD NEWS: The tree of knowledge of good and evil many have treated it like a test but more than a test, I believe it is the imagery of God’s ulterior motive for man. HE CREATED MAN FREE BEING. The tree was more than a test. The tree was giving man the freedom whom to worship, himself, his own way of life of God’s ways for man. To think of it as a test is like treating us as if we are just God’s toy and experiment. And God is looking at when are we going to fail. No God is not like that. God’s government is governed with freedom and not coercion. It is not force and power that He uses to rule. God uses love to rule and it is in humility and service not in the display of superiority. The very day they sinned, God did not delay and sought for them. This is so amazing to note. Please remember. We have this misunderstanding that when we seen God abandons us and is angry at us. No. He maintains his distance with sin but never the sinner. God knows fully well the story humanity was deceived by the real enemy. Man is not the real enemy of God with the sin in man’s heart, it was really Satan. God sought for them and like all of us when we sin we do ourselves to cover it up, but here we get the real picture that only God’s covering will last and will stand to be the truest covering. Man can never cover the shame that sin caused. Whenever we fall, there is no self-repair, self-preservation, self restoration needed on our end, it should only be God’s repair, restoration, preservation, transformation and never ours. Only God’s way lasts and leaves us with no side effects. The only side effect is the consequence but the rest as long as we allow God, it is His works! That’s how God loves you. That’s how God still wanted you despite you sins. GOOD NEWS: This chapter may be the saddest but we get also the best news, the good news in this chapter. GOD declared the GOSPEL, THE FIRST GOSPEL, THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DEFEAT OF THE ENEMY. Why the defeat because God will be man’s defender, fighter, and savior. God Himself will fight a personal fight with Satan. God, Himself, will fight a personal fight, the fights His children needed to fight. He will fight face to face with Satan not in power and might of a king but as a humble man: a tiny baby, a simple boy, and an ordinary man. He has no armies but himself, he has no allies but himself, he has no arms but his soul, he has no strength but his love, and he has the whole heaven guiding him and fighting the battles for him. He is alone with the will of the father on his heart. LOVE & JUSTICE: The law of God was broken and the payment is death. Justice must be served and Adam and Eve are to die and be separated from God forever. But before this happened Jesus in heaven already volunteered to be man’s Savior. Jesus did not want any one will be separated from God forever and miss going back home. Man’s home is God. Man’s home is in the heart of God. And Jesus promised that He will do what is necessary to be done to bring back man into the arms of God… Jesus died for the death man deserved to receive. We would like to connect with you visit us in: Website - https://thetouchpointminis.wixsite.com/website Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thetouchpointministry Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/touchpointministry/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXSSu0CU7Bten5zBMEUikw --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/touch-point-ministry/message