Message 5: The Fall of Man and Man’s Need of Salvation
I. The fall of man:
A. God’s eternal purpose can be accomplished only by man receiving God as life.
B. The two trees:
2. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil—Gen. 2:9, 17:
a. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies Satan and everything apart from God.
b. The principle of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is independence from God.
c. The result of independence from God is death.
Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.
Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.
Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.