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All right, welcome back to day three as we do a deep dive on God's intention for man in the

garden. Chapter 2, verse 16, and the Lord God commanded the man saying, you may surely eat of

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

for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.

The second thing that God gave the man was a will to obey.

The first thing that God gave him was work to enjoy.

Now, one of the things I want you to see here is that there was technically in the Garden of Eden,

there was no like worship service, but the way in which a man was going to worship God, two of the three things,

was one in his will to obey or in work to enjoy. Secondly, is in his will to obey.

Now what's going to happen in chapter three of Genesis is the enemy is going to show up on the

scene and every single time that lying serpent shows up, he always... Now, what's going to happen in chapter three of Genesis is the enemy is going to show up on the scene,

and every single time that lying serpent shows up, he always tries to get us to question the word of God, the work of God, and the worth of God. And the first thing that he's going to say to Eve in

Genesis chapter three is this, did God actually say, you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and

evil and the answer is that is not what god said god said you may surely eat of every tree in the garden

but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat you see the niv translates it this

way you are free to eat of every tree. You see,

the enemy constantly wants us to try to put our own wants and desires above the precepts of God.

And the reason is because he wants to kill, steal, and destroy everything that God wants to give us.

You see, if you look at God's posture before the fall of man in Genesis

1, 2, and 3, what you're going to see here is God is not into rules. God is into relationship.

That God creates Adam. He breathes the rule of life into his nostrils. He is in a face-to-face

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