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Genesis chapter 2 verses 16 and 17 and the Lord God commanded the man saying

you may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

but if the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,

from the day that you eat of it,

you shall surely die. So this is God's clear command to Adam in

Genesis chapter 2 to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

For the day that he eats of that tree, he will surely die.

There's so much we could talk about here with this particular command, what this means,

how this plays out in Genesis chapter 3.

But the big picture that I want you to see, feel as we pray according to this verse is that God's

command is that God commands Adam here for his good.

God is telling Adam how to experience life

through his word, through obedience to his word.

God in giving this command is warning Adam

of death.

If he does this, he will surely die, which God does not desire.

God desires Adam to experience life.

And God is gracious and merciful and loving enough to give Adam his word, to tell Adam the way to life, to tell Adam how to avoid

death. And the same exact thing is true in your life and my life today when it

comes to God's word. Like sometimes we think that the commands of God are restrictive in our lives that living

according to God's word keeps us from good, keeps us from what we desire what we really want but the reality is we see it

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