The One Tree

and then…There was One Tree

Sin entered the Garden and the only thing that could stand against it was the ONE TREE!

Man could not stay

The law could not stay

Only The Tree of Life Could Stay in the presence of a holy God

Truth brings freedom not knowledge

Revelation 2:7 ESV

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

Genesis 3:1–13 The Message

The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: “Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?” The Woman said to the serpent, “Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden. It’s only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘Don’t eat from it; don’t even touch it or you’ll die.’ ” The serpent told the Woman, “You won’t die. God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you’ll see what’s really going on. You’ll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil.” When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she’d know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate. Immediately the two of them did “see what’s really going on”—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves. When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God. God called to the Man: “Where are you?” He said, “I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid.” God said, “Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?” The Man said, “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.” God said to the Woman, “What is this that you’ve done?” “The serpent seduced me,” she said, “and I ate.”

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. LORD BYRON

300 Quotations for Preachers ‘Twas I that Did It

I see the crowd in Pilate’s hall,

I mark their wrathful mien;

Their shouts of “crucify” appall,

With blasphemy between.

And of that shouting multitude

I feel that I am one;

And in that din of voices rude,

I recognise my own.

I see the scourges tear his back,

I see the piercing crown,

And of that crowd who smote and mock,

I feel that I am one,

Around yon cross, the throng I see,

Mocking the sufferer’s groan,

Yet still my voice it seems to be,—

As if I mocked alone.

’Twas I that shed the sacred blood,

I nailed him to the tree,

I crucified the Christ of God,

I joined the mockery.

Yet not the less that blood avails,

To cleanse away my sin,

And not the less that cross prevails

To give me peace within.