Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

We're going to talk about the staff of Moses,

and in fact, the staff of Moses

connects back to the larger story that we're talking about,

which is returning to the garden.

It's this idea that when Adam and Eve

ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

they didn't just do something that God told them not to do.

That's not the entire point of that story.

In fact, we already know that Adam and Eve were human.

They were fallible.

They had the ability to disobey God long before this,

and it was the temptation that the serpent

brought that caused them to choose to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

but they had the ability to do that even before.

It's entirely possible that they had made mistakes,

and that God had corrected them,

and that their relationship could stay the same,

because there was a difference between learning or growing

or expanding a knowledge or being taught by God.

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