Oh, uh, Hello and welcome to Bible stories I'm your host Matt Todd is out, but he'll be back next week.

In the meantime, we're taking just a brief break from the incredible story of Paul

toward the end of his life, because today I want to talk to you about the Tree of Life.

No, I'm not talking about the crown jewel of Disney's Animal Kingdom,

although I will, by the way, sponsor us and we will.

This is one of two very special trees that the Lord

introduces us to in the Book of Genesis. So let's take a trip back to the Garden of Eden.

God had created just this incredible paradise where he literally walked with man.

It was heaven on earth. There was no pain, there was no sin, no hate. This place was completely perfect and there was only one resident at the

point that God laid out the ground rules this guy named Adam

Adam was the first person to ever live and he was given a job to do. He was a farmer.

He was personally responsible for working the incredible land that God had provided him.

The man was commanded that he was able to eat of every tree

of the garden any fruit he wants except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

For in the day that he eats of that tree, Adam would surely die.

Then the Lord looked at Adam and determined that it wasn't good for to be all by himself. So God created every form of

animal, every critter, every beast of the field, birds, everything and brought all of these animals

to Adam so that he could name them.

Adam does it, probably enjoys playing with the animals, but he's still lonely.

None of these beasts, none of these birds, seemed to provide with the Lord and vision for man.

So God acts. He causes Adam to fall into a coma of sorts and while the man was out God performed surgery on him

The Bible tells us that the Lord removed one of Adam's ribs and then closed the wound back up

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