Called to Be Like The Tree of Life

00:00 Sue Burdullis and I'm the director of the
00:01 Camarillo Healing Rooms and this is our
00:04 sixth session on choices determine
00:06 destiny tonight's session is entitled
00:10 cold to be like The Tree of Life
00:14 so let us pray father we thank you that
00:18 you have called us to be like your son
00:21 Jesus Christ like The Tree of Life in
00:24 Psalm 1 3 we thank you for releasing
00:29 your life-giving spirit to us tonight as
00:32 the word of God goes forth water the
00:36 root systems of our heart
00:38 bring your transformational love into
00:41 every dry and barren area of our lives
00:44 in Jesus's name Amen
00:47 so Roman numeral one called to be like
00:51 Jesus like the psalm one three tree
00:55 God's passionate desire for you is to be
00:59 like Jesus Christ to be like the psalm
01:02 one three tree psalm 1:3 says he shall
01:07 be planted like a tree by the rivers of
01:10 water that brings forth fruit in its
01:14 season whose leaf shall not wither and
01:18 whatever he does he shall prosper the
01:24 psalm one three tree is a beautiful
01:27 picture of your life as a Christian as
01:30 one who abides in Jesus Christ dwelling
01:34 in his love first John 4:16 says and we
01:39 have known and believed the love that
01:43 God has for us god is love and he who
01:49 abides in love abides in God and God in
01:54 him then jesus said these words in John
01:58 15 9 abide in my love
02:02 now last week in Psalm 1 2 we took a
02:05 look at how God called us to meditate on
02:09 the Word of God
02:12 and as we meditated on the Word of God I
02:15 said that one of the most important
02:18 things that we need to do as we meditate
02:20 on the Word of God is to put on the lens
02:24 of God's love for us this is one of the
02:29 greatest callings he has in our life is
02:32 to abide in his love it is the first
02:35 commandment to love him with our whole
02:38 heart soul and mind so we need to look
02:41 at the Scriptures through this lens of
02:44 love you've been planted like a tree by
02:49 the rivers of water Psalm 1 3 it's a
02:54 very beautiful River it's a never-ending
02:58 supply of water not like sometimes here
03:01 in Southern California and you have the
03:04 great privilege and honor of drinking
03:08 from the river of his pleasure the
03:13 rivers of his love psalm 36 8 says this
03:18 and you gave them drink from the river
03:23 of your pleasures now I was so delighted
03:27 when I looked up this word pleasures in
03:30 Hebrew it actually is Eden Eden was a
03:34 place of great pleasure and when that
03:38 tree was planted by the rivers of water
03:42 it was a river that delivered great
03:46 pleasure to all that drank from it and
03:49 you've been invited to drink from the
03:52 river of his pleasure psalm 46 for it
03:57 doesn't use Eden in the their
03:59 translation of the word pleasure in that
04:01 but it has a very similar meaning to
04:03 what we just read it says this in the
04:08 the passion translation God has a
04:11 constantly flowing river whose sparkling
04:15 streams bring joy and delight to his
04:19 people so can you imagine this God went
04:21 ahead and put her River in the Garden of
04:24 Eden and he has
04:26 giving you access to this river because
04:28 he wants you to have joy and he wants
04:31 you to have delight in him
04:34 Genesis 2:10 it says this now a river
04:40 went out of Eden to water the garden and
04:43 from there it parted and became four
04:47 river heads now if you think about
04:52 Palestine in the Old Testament time it
04:54 was desert land and there wasn't like
04:58 rivers just running everywhere they had
05:02 to go ahead and take water from wells
05:05 and it was laborious to do that and here
05:09 in Eden though it was such a different
05:11 picture and that is what God truly
05:14 wanted throughout all the earth is for
05:16 people to drink from the rivers of water
05:20 no scarcity that they would always have
05:23 an abundant supply of him the River of
05:26 Life this river which appears in Genesis
05:32 this river of life also appears at the
05:35 end of the book of Revelation where it
05:38 is seen once again along with the Tree
05:41 of Life because you have access to God's
05:46 throne of grace Hebrews 4:16 you have
05:50 access to this heavenly River while you
05:54 live here on earth
05:56 revelations 21 through 2 says this and
06:00 he showed me a pure river of water of
06:07 life clear as crystal proceeding from
06:12 the throne of God and from the lamb in
06:16 the middle of its street and on either
06:20 side of the river was the Tree of Life
06:25 think about this the very source of the
06:29 river that was in Eden and the source of
06:34 the river that we get to drink from
06:36 comes from the throne of God
06:39 and of the lamb it possesses the very
06:43 life of God the very love of God the
06:47 very Authority and power of God the
06:51 water it's pure it's pure as a crystal
06:57 this is just like the Lamb of God who is
07:02 without spot and without blemish and
07:05 when you drink from this river of life
07:08 you are purified the spirit of life of
07:13 God is in the river so wherever the
07:18 river goes there is life
07:20 I love the passage in Ezekiel 47 Ezekiel
07:25 47 9 says this for they will be healed
07:29 and everything will live wherever the
07:33 river goes you're a carry of that River
07:38 and wherever you go you can bring life
07:42 when the women at the whale asked Jesus
07:44 for a drink he answered her and said
07:47 this John 4:10 if you knew the gift of
07:52 God and who it is who says to you give
07:56 me a drink you would have asked him and
08:00 he would have given you living water
08:06 John 7:37 through 38 jesus stood and
08:13 cried out saying if anyone thirst let
08:19 him come to me and drink he who believes
08:23 in me as the scripture has said out of
08:26 his heart will flow rivers of living
08:29 water Jesus was speaking about the
08:34 Spirit who would come and live within
08:37 you and flow out of you abiding in God's
08:43 love means that you're going to be
08:46 drinking continuously from the river of
08:52 living water
08:53 from the river of his love one river
08:58 went out from Eden from God's kingdom
09:00 and it watered the garden that was Eden
09:05 but in the Garden of Eden four rivers
09:08 came out so get this we have a river
09:12 coming from the throne of God and in us
09:15 it becomes rivers of God because we are
09:20 the Garden of God isaiah 58:11
09:26 prophesied this you shall be like a
09:30 watered garden and like a spring of
09:32 water whose waters do not fail you all
09:37 know that song
09:38 I've got a river of life flowing out of
09:41 me makes a lame to walk and the blind to
09:46 see where's that river it's here and it
09:51 really is to come out bringing life
09:55 resurrection life the life that Jesus
09:58 offered people when he walked on this
10:00 earth wherever Jesus went the river
10:03 flowed out from him and Jesus is within
10:06 you and the river of life is to flow out
10:08 of you bringing healings miracles and
10:11 supply to God's people who are in need a
10:16 healthy strong vibrance fruit-bearing
10:20 tree mirrors what is happening below the
10:23 surface as your roots grow deeper in
10:28 God's River of Life the river of his
10:32 loved you your branches with its leaves
10:37 and fruits will be filled with the
10:40 fullness of God with the fullness of his
10:43 love
10:44 Ephesians 3:16 through 20 be
10:48 strengthened with might through a spirit
10:50 in the inner man why so that you would
10:55 be rooted and grounded in his love why
11:00 so that you would know the love of
11:02 Christ that she would be filled up with
11:06 the very full
11:07 illness of God your inner root system
11:11 needs to daily be nourished and
11:14 strengthened in the love of God
11:18 therefore it is crucial that you put on
11:22 the lens of God's great love for you as
11:26 you read his holy word and has she
11:29 meditate on it your duty and privilege
11:33 as a believer in life is to drink from
11:38 the river of his life the river of his
11:41 love and as he drink deeply of his love
11:46 you will be able to feel fulfilled God's
11:49 greatest commandment in that he has
11:52 given you an eye right that she shall
11:54 love the Lord your God with your whole
11:57 heart your whole soul and your whole
12:01 mind and then what the river comes out
12:04 the river glob and you shall love your
12:07 neighbor as yourself all on these two
12:12 Commandments hang all the law and
12:14 prophets your greatest calling in life
12:20 is to abide in God's love to be like the
12:26 psalm one tree to be like Jesus Christ
12:30 and as you look into the mirror of God's
12:33 Word God's love you will be transformed
12:37 into that same image from glory to glory
12:41 like a tree you will grow more and more
12:48 into the image of Jesus Christ into love
12:54 itself God's plan for mankind has not
12:59 changed Roman numeral 2 Psalm 1 3 has so
13:05 many hidden treasures for us to discover
13:09 let us reflect on some of the hidden men
13:12 and we were given in session 4 in that
13:16 session we saw that the name of Jesus
13:19 Christ was
13:21 revealed in the very first letter of the
13:24 Hebrew alphabet and in the last letter
13:29 of the Hebrew alphabet so the very first
13:32 letter of Psalm 1 was olive and the very
13:36 last letter in Psalm 1 was tall so Jesus
13:42 is the olive and tall the first and last
13:47 letters of the Hebrew alphabet so that
13:51 it reminds us of Jesus being in the
13:53 Greek alphabet what the Alpha and the
13:56 Omega the beginning and the end so in
14:01 Genesis very first book of the Bible we
14:04 see the tree of life and then in the
14:10 last book of the Bible last chapters
14:12 also we see the tree of life both having
14:17 the same river the river of life flowing
14:22 right next to it so as we look at this
14:30 God is informing us that his plans from
14:35 Genesis all the way through revelation
14:38 for you and I to grow in the likeness of
14:41 his son Jesus Christ to be that Psalm 1
14:45 3 tree has not changed
14:50 revelations 2:7 says this to him who
14:53 overcomes I will give to eat from the
14:56 tree of life which is in the mist of the
15:00 paradise of God that's something to look
15:04 forward to and then God is showing us in
15:11 Psalm 1 3 this tree of life that
15:14 appeared in the center of the Garden of
15:16 Eden and then in Revelations he is
15:19 showing us that at these two bookends
15:23 that Jesus is in the beginning and he
15:27 will be in the end of all things he is
15:30 the Tree of Life Genesis 2:9 the Tree of
15:33 Life was in the midst of
15:34 garden revelations 22 - and the mist or
15:39 in the middle of its Street and on
15:41 either side of the river was the Tree of
15:44 Life I like what Martin Luther said he
15:50 said that the Psalter the Psalms is a
15:54 little Bible and from you journeying
15:57 with me throughout these sessions I can
15:59 I hope that you have seen that psalm 1
16:03 the introduction to all the Psalms is
16:05 really like looking at a very miniature
16:08 scope of the Bible as even we talked
16:11 about this lesson about the tree it's
16:13 just amazing how when you start looking
16:15 at what how God put words together and
16:18 there's just all these multi layers word
16:22 upon word verse upon verse and they all
16:24 fit together like this nice beautiful
16:27 woven picture and your eyes go oh I've
16:30 never seen that before that's what's
16:32 been happening to me in this study so
16:39 Roman numeral 3 created to be like The
16:42 Tree of Life in a very real sense Adam
16:46 and Eve in the Garden of Eden were
16:47 already like the tree planted by the
16:50 rivers of water like Psalm 1 3 describes
16:53 they were planted in the Garden of Eden
16:56 which was a real place that was like
16:59 heaven on earth it was like the kingdom
17:02 of God on earth Genesis 2 8 the Lord God
17:06 planted a garden eastward in Eden and
17:09 there he put the man whom he had formed
17:14 when you receive Jesus Christ into your
17:17 heart you are taken out of the kingdom
17:19 of darkness and you're planted into
17:22 God's kingdom of love so what's the
17:28 nature of God's kingdom love what does
17:35 that mean it means that the King King
17:39 Jesus he wants to be in a loving
17:43 relationship with you in his kingdom
17:47 of love Adam and Eve were made in the
17:52 very image and likeness of God having
17:54 the very life of God the very breath of
17:58 God within them Genesis 1:27 so God
18:03 created man is in his own image in the
18:07 image of God he created him male and
18:10 female Genesis 2:7 says that the Lord
18:16 breathed into Adam and Eve Adam's
18:19 nostrils and the breath of life came
18:23 into him and he became a living being
18:25 when you invite Jesus Christ into your
18:28 heart to dwell you become a new creation
18:32 in Jesus Christ like we've shared in
18:34 other lessons about certain Corinthians
18:36 5:17 if anyone is in Christ is a new
18:39 creation the old things have passed away
18:41 behold all things have become new
18:45 and we understood that when you become
18:49 new that your spirit man becomes 100%
18:52 righteous and holy which is shown to us
18:55 in 2nd Corinthians 5:21 four verses
18:59 after this new creation reality of 2nd
19:02 Corinthians 5:17 did you know that
19:06 Isaiah prophesied about this Isaiah 60:1
19:11 3 they may be called the trees of
19:16 righteousness the planting of the Lord
19:20 you see how the tree is a tree of
19:24 righteousness and who is the righteous
19:26 one Jesus Christ and you have made in
19:29 the image and likeness of Jesus Christ
19:32 in His righteousness at the same time
19:37 that she became one spirit with the Lord
19:40 you became one flesh in real
19:43 relationship with the Lord by Matthew
19:46 5:30 through 31 for we are members of
19:50 his body a flash of his flesh and of his
19:54 bones the to man and wife shall become
19:57 one flesh
20:00 this is a great mystery but I speak
20:03 concerning Christ and the church
20:07 just like the life-giving spirit was
20:10 breathed into Adam the life-giving
20:13 spirit has been breathed into you when
20:16 you receive Jesus Christ did you know
20:19 that when Jesus Christ was resurrected
20:21 from the dead he became a life-giving
20:24 spirit in John 20:22
20:28 this is before Pentecost it says when he
20:32 meaning Jesus said this he breathed on
20:35 them the disciples and said to them
20:38 receive the Holy Spirit and then on the
20:44 day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was
20:47 released and his breath came over them
20:50 like a mighty roaring wind and they were
20:57 all filled with the Holy Spirit and the
21:00 world started to be turned upside down
21:02 as thousands of people started becoming
21:08 made in the very image and likeness of
21:12 Jesus Christ like trees planted by the
21:15 river of water having that river of
21:18 water living in them and flowing out of
21:21 them
21:23 the Holy Spirit releases the breath of
21:27 God the very life force of God the life
21:29 of Jesus Christ into our spirits this
21:33 life-giving spirit can be felt and it
21:39 can be experienced but usually we don't
21:41 see the Holy Spirit it's just like wind
21:44 that's invisible acts - - and suddenly
21:50 there came from heaven as of a rushing
21:55 mighty wind and it filled the whole
21:58 house where they are sitting then there
22:01 appeared to them divided tongues as a
22:04 fire and one sat upon each of them and
22:07 they are all filled with the Holy Spirit
22:11 when the Holy Spirit releases the very
22:15 breath of God into us he imparts grace
22:20 to receive one of the greatest of all
22:23 gifts the gift of the love of God Romans
22:30 5:5 says this because the love of God
22:34 has been poured out into our hearts by
22:38 the Holy Spirit who has been given to us
22:42 this is one of the greatest realities
22:46 that the Holy Spirit releases into our
22:48 lives is the very love of God into our
22:52 hearts so that we then can go ahead and
22:55 have his love flow out of our hearts
22:58 first John 2:27 says this but the
23:03 anointing which you have received from
23:04 him abides in you teaching you
23:09 concerning all things the Holy Spirit
23:15 wants to teach us how to abide in this
23:18 love of God he is zealous for this when
23:23 God spoke the blessing over Adam and
23:25 Eve's life to be fruitful multiply
23:27 subdue and have dominion over every
23:30 living thing he was calling out their
23:33 destiny to be like the tree of life that
23:36 stood in the midst of the garden
23:39 mankind's destiny has never changed your
23:43 destiny has never changed to be like The
23:46 Tree of Life to be fruitful to multiply
23:49 to subdue and have dominion Roman
23:54 numeral four created in the likeness of
23:56 love just like Adam and Eve you were
23:59 created in the image of God the one who
24:04 is loved first John 4:16 because of this
24:08 you were created with a great capacity
24:11 to love and be loved which is very
24:14 unique to the human spirit
24:16 love is God's nature it's his
24:20 personality and guess what love is your
24:24 nature and it's
24:26 your personality love is not something
24:30 that God does but love is something that
24:35 he is love is something that you just
24:38 don't that you just do it's something of
24:42 who you are in Christ you are created in
24:48 God's likeness to relate to God in the
24:52 same way that the God had relates to one
24:55 another and guess what God dwells in a
24:59 deeply satisfying relationship of love
25:02 within the Trinity Jesus loves the
25:07 father and the father loves Jesus with
25:11 the same intensity they delight in using
25:16 their authority to honor one another and
25:19 I've given you scripture there that show
25:21 that John 5:23 John 8 49 through 51 they
25:28 delight in serving one another John 12
25:31 26 and they delight in glorifying one
25:35 another there's lots of Scripture I've
25:37 listed on that here's just some of them
25:39 John 13 31 through 32 John 14 12 to 14
25:46 the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit
25:50 are fully committed to one another God
25:56 loves you in the same way and the same
25:59 degree that God loves God Jesus invites
26:04 you to remain and dwell in this family
26:08 of love divided in God's love requires
26:12 that you talk to God
26:15 most often about how much he loves you
26:19 not about your problems and your
26:22 opportunities the number one
26:24 conversation that you should have going
26:26 on with God at least every day is about
26:30 how much he loves you one way you can
26:35 begin John 15 9 says this as a father
26:38 [Music]
26:39 love me I also have loved you so one way
26:44 you can enter in to meditating and
26:47 praying about this is saying thank you
26:49 Father
26:51 that you love me just like you love
26:54 Jesus would you guide and direct my
26:58 heart into this great love that you have
27:01 for me would you settle my heart would
27:06 you help me to know this love I Love You
27:10 Father
27:11 but I want to know your love so I can
27:15 even love you that much more second
27:20 Thessalonians 3:5 says this now may the
27:23 Lord direct your hearts into the love of
27:25 God and into the patience of Christ Lord
27:30 direct my heart into the love of God
27:33 that can be a prayer upon your lips
27:36 every day
27:38 Philippians 1:9 that your love may
27:42 abound still more and more oh God
27:45 I want that your love in me would abound
27:50 more and more Roman numeral five The
27:58 Tree of Life is the life of God The Tree
28:04 of Life was a real tree by which the
28:07 zowie life the life of God was imparted
28:11 to Adam and Eve as they ate from the
28:14 tree
28:15 do you realize they actually had to eat
28:17 from the tree of life to have that
28:19 impartation of life God often uses
28:24 physical realities to impart or to
28:28 explain spiritual truths Jesus when he
28:33 came he said I am the bread of life did
28:36 he look like a loaf of bread or a slice
28:39 of bread he says if anyone eats of this
28:43 bread he'll live forever and the bread
28:45 that I shall give him is my flesh which
28:48 I shall give for the life of this world
28:51 John 6 51
28:53 what does it mean to eat Jesus to eat
28:59 the bread of life there's two ways that
29:02 it explains very clearly in scriptures
29:05 and these two ways of eating the Word of
29:08 God are identical to what he calls us to
29:11 do when we are to abide in the love of
29:14 God so when we abide in God's Word it
29:18 says this in John 8:32 if you abide in
29:21 my word you are my disciples indeed how
29:25 do we abide in God's Word Jeremiah 15:16
29:28 tells us your words were found and I ate
29:33 them what do I do I eat the word yes yes
29:39 we do we take it in to our spiritual
29:43 beans and your word was to me what joy
29:46 and the rejoicing of my heart it's my
29:50 great delight like Psalm 1 2 says
29:52 Matthew 4:4 but jesus answered and said
29:55 it is written man shall not live by
29:57 bread alone but by every word that
30:01 proceeds from the mouth of God every
30:05 word he wants you to eat he wants you to
30:08 that digestion is simulated and gains
30:10 strength he wants you to be strengthened
30:14 in his love to be strengthened in the
30:16 life that he has for you the other way
30:20 that we eat Jesus that we abide in Jesus
30:26 if something is a real mystery but it's
30:31 very real in john 6:53
30:34 through 54 jesus said unless you eat the
30:39 flesh of the Son of Man and drink his
30:42 blood you have no life in you whoever
30:45 eats my flesh and drinks my blood has
30:48 eternal life and you know what happened
30:52 most everyone left him they couldn't get
30:53 it and in John 6 56 he who eats my flesh
30:59 and drinks my blood abides in me and I
31:05 in him
31:06 for those that want to we have communion
31:09 Tuesday nights its back there and you
31:12 can partake of communion two ways of
31:15 eating Jesus apart aching in him of
31:18 abiding in him the Word of God and then
31:21 in the communion elements just like Adam
31:25 and Eve they could eat from the tree of
31:27 life these are two ways that you can eat
31:30 from the tree of life and be given life
31:35 the Tree of Life was placed in the
31:37 center of the Garden of Eden for a
31:39 purpose much like everything God says or
31:42 does it has a purpose Adam is an Adam
31:46 and Eve's lives were to be centered and
31:48 depended upon God as their source of
31:52 life just like your life is to be
31:55 centered and depended upon God as your
31:58 source of life the tree Genesis 2:9 was
32:04 in the midst of the garden the tree in
32:08 the midst of the garden is the tree that
32:12 is in the New Jerusalem the Tree of Life
32:18 John the Apostle John highlights the
32:21 importance of receiving the life of God
32:26 forty seven times in his gospel he
32:30 mentions this word life which in the
32:33 Greek is Zoe which means the life of God
32:37 himself
32:38 do you think John wanted it to actually
32:40 get something understood about this tree
32:43 of life believing in Jesus Christ so
32:47 that you can have the Zoe life of God so
32:51 that you can be like the tree of life is
32:54 the purpose for John writing the gospel
32:59 John 20:31 says this but these are
33:03 written that you may believe that Jesus
33:06 is the Christ the Son of God and that
33:09 believing you may have life life
33:15 resurrection life in his name
33:20 believing you shall have life the way
33:28 you receive the life of God is the same
33:31 way you live the life of God through
33:35 believing in Jesus Christ if you don't
33:38 want to perish like the ungodly like
33:40 Psalm one six says if you don't want to
33:43 be like the lifeless shaft of someone
33:46 five you need to believe in Jesus Christ
33:50 and you need to keep on believing in him
33:53 for every aspect of your life John 3:16
33:58 says this that whoever believes in Him
34:03 should not perish but have everlasting
34:07 life
34:08 do you know that you can live on this
34:10 earth and still perish in different ways
34:15 we need to continue to drink from the
34:18 river of life so that there is no decay
34:22 in our life at all the river of life
34:25 just washes away Oh old and rotting
34:30 things II by faith you the justified one
34:37 the righteous one shall live Romans 1:16
34:41 through 17 says this the gospel of
34:45 Christ it is the power of God to
34:47 salvation for everyone who believes for
34:52 in it the righteousness of God is
34:55 revealed from what from faith to faith
34:58 as it is written the just that's you
35:02 that's me the just shall live how by
35:08 faith this is a continual abiding in the
35:13 love of God just like John summed up the
35:17 purpose for writing his gospel in John
35:19 20:31 Jesus summed up his purpose for
35:23 coming into the world John 10:10 I have
35:29 come that
35:30 might have life and have it how more
35:37 abundant Lee is that a picture of a tree
35:42 that is prospering and growing and being
35:46 fruitful and multiplying and providing
35:48 shade for those in need the abundant
35:53 life of God the zowie life of God gives
35:58 you the ability to think like God talked
36:01 like God create like God enjoy like God
36:06 loved like God and live like God now and
36:12 throughout all eternity this is not only
36:18 possible but it is your god-given
36:22 destiny in life and it comes as you
36:28 abide in Jesus Christ God does not want
36:33 you to be a tree that's barely surviving
36:36 because you don't have a sufficient
36:39 supply of water God desires that you
36:43 thrive because of the abundance of his
36:47 life flowing through you because you're
36:49 drinking from the river of living water
36:54 from his life-giving water eating from
36:59 the tree of life this is just for those
37:09 that have a financial need Malachi 3:10
37:13 if I will not open up the windows of
37:15 heaven and pour out for you a blessing
37:18 that there will not be room enough to
37:20 receive it
37:21 that's the abundant supply of God 2nd
37:26 corinthians 9:8
37:27 oh was having all sufficiency in all
37:32 things may have an abundance for every
37:36 good work
37:38 that's who you're called to be you
37:42 called to be like the
37:43 three of life God has made you alive in
37:50 his son Jesus Christ he can read these
37:54 verses Ephesians 2:4 through five first
37:57 Corinthians 15:22 Romans 6:11 through 13
38:02 he feeds 2:5 he's made us alive together
38:06 with Christ if you're not experiencing
38:10 the life of God the life of the Blessed
38:12 man Jesus Christ pray for God to revive
38:17 you according to his word revive means
38:23 making alive keep it alive and giving
38:26 more life it's so interesting that when
38:30 I was reading psalm 119 that the very
38:33 first verse appears just like the very
38:36 first verse in Psalm 1 verse 1 this is
38:41 how it reads blessed are the undefiled
38:44 in the way who walk in the law of the
38:48 Lord so your prayer
38:51 psalm 119 25 revive me according to your
38:57 word one of my favorite books Christ the
39:03 healer FF Bosworth wrote it he died of
39:07 an old age and one of his favorite
39:10 verses was this one revived me according
39:15 to your word what are you calling God to
39:18 do your drinking in from the River of
39:22 Life revive me revive me revive me
39:26 revive me moment by moment by moment you
39:30 know when I was really sick I had a pray
39:32 moment by moment believing in what the
39:35 Word of God said over every contrary
39:38 thought this is what it means to live in
39:42 Christ fully alive abiding in him Roman
39:47 numeral six the choice of love the
39:49 choice between two trees as I begin this
39:54 next section I want
39:57 to think about the implications for your
39:58 own life because God has made you a new
40:01 creation in Christ into his image and
40:04 has translated you into the kingdom of
40:07 the son of his love so now can you
40:10 imagine in Adam and Eve's position being
40:16 able to partake of this wonderful tree
40:19 of life to partake of the Zoe life of
40:26 God can you imagine knowing God
40:29 face-to-face walking in the garden with
40:32 him and experiencing the supreme
40:35 pleasure of unhindered love from God can
40:40 you imagine a spouse that's sinless can
40:45 you imagine how it must have been
40:46 relating to all the animals before the
40:48 curse came on the earth can you imagine
40:51 the inherent beauty of the Garden of
40:54 Eden can you imagine that God created
40:58 all of this for Adam and Eve because of
41:02 love he's created it for Adam and Eve
41:08 and his descendants and for you and I if
41:12 you've ever been a parent you know that
41:14 from time to time you hear that you're
41:16 gonna you might hear you know you're
41:18 gonna have a child like my son had his
41:20 first grandchild so we have a grandchild
41:22 that's about a year old right now and
41:25 what you do is you start preparing the
41:27 environment you give him all the best
41:30 things you can think of you start
41:32 planning you know so they there aren't
41:34 gonna have to live in you know a squalor
41:37 kind of condition you give them
41:39 everything the best you can think about
41:41 you're starting to prepare and that's
41:43 how God prepared for his children for
41:46 you and I and if you think about you
41:54 being a parent and wanting to give your
41:56 very best you give your life to your
41:59 child I know I do to mine you give of
42:02 your time your resources your energy and
42:05 then God says this to us Matthew 7:11 if
42:08 you being evil know
42:10 how to give good gifts to your children
42:11 how much more will your father who is in
42:16 heaven give good things to those who ask
42:19 him
42:19 Jesus was talking about this river of
42:22 life he knew about the much more the
42:24 abundant supply of heaven God gave Adam
42:27 and Eve everything they needed to live
42:31 in the fullness of his eternal love the
42:34 fullness of his peace enjoy he did not
42:38 withhold one good thing from them and he
42:42 is not withholding one good thing from
42:44 you
42:45 Romans 8:32 this is something you can
42:48 meditate on long and often he who did
42:50 not spare his own son but gave him up to
42:53 us all freely how shall he not with him
42:56 freely give us all things God he didn't
43:02 want robots to run the planet he didn't
43:05 want people to that are programmed to
43:07 love him back he wanted mankind to know
43:10 and experience the joyous love that was
43:13 between him and his son and that was in
43:15 the Godhead therefore God gave Adam and
43:19 Eve a choice they had a choice to eat
43:22 from the tree of life as well as all the
43:25 other trees in the garden that were
43:26 shouting out yes or they had a choice to
43:31 reject God's command and to eat from the
43:34 one tree god forbid them to eat from the
43:38 tree of the knowledge of good and evil
43:40 God warned them that if they from that
43:43 tree what would happen they would surely
43:45 die God knew what was best for them
43:49 because God was their Creator he had all
43:52 the wisdom he had all the knowledge of
43:55 knowing what would happen if they ate
43:58 from that tree you can read about that
44:01 in Genesis 2:9 justice 2:16 through 17
44:07 says this and the LORD commanded the man
44:09 saying of every tree of the garden you
44:12 may freely eat but of the tree of the
44:14 knowledge of good and evil you shall not
44:17 eat for in that day you eat of it you
44:22 will surely
44:23 dieeee the implications for Adam and Eve
44:28 its choice is similar to the
44:30 implications for your choice like
44:33 someone presents the choice is not a
44:37 simple test to see if you're just going
44:39 to obey God or not to go the way of the
44:43 godly or the ungodly like psalm once it
44:46 says the choice is about love the choice
44:53 is about living in a loving relationship
44:56 with God would Adam and Eve finds the
45:01 supreme satisfaction and the love of God
45:03 and trust God's love for them believing
45:06 he knows what is best for them as
45:08 revealed by the word he spoke to them or
45:12 would they turn their backs to God's
45:15 instructions of love his word to not eat
45:19 from the tree of the knowledge of good
45:21 and evil whose word would Adam and Eve
45:25 believe would they believe the lies of
45:29 Satan or would they believe the truth of
45:33 God God was not calling mankind his
45:40 children he's not calling you to do
45:42 anything different then his only son
45:45 Jesus Christ was called to do John 14:31
45:50 but the world may know that I love the
45:54 father and as the father gave me
45:56 commandment so I do John 14:15 if you
46:03 love me keep my Commandments but the
46:09 niche the nature of love calls for a
46:11 choice to be given God clearly gave Adam
46:15 and Eve a command not to eat from the
46:18 tree of the knowledge of good and evil
46:23 God insaneness with inviting Adam and
46:28 Eve to submit to his love to his
46:32 lordship but we know what happened Satan
46:36 who
46:37 very cunning appealed to Eve's reasoning
46:40 just like he tries to appeal to your
46:43 fleshly reasoning especially when you
46:49 leave God out of the equation just like
46:51 Psalm 1:1 says and it refers to leaving
46:56 God out of the equation as ungodly
46:59 living Satan his first question he takes
47:03 the prohibition of this one tree and
47:05 extends it to every tree causing Eve to
47:09 entertain that perhaps something was
47:11 being withheld from her by God Genesis
47:15 3:1 and Satan said to the woman has God
47:19 indeed said you shall not eat of every
47:22 tree of the garden then Satan moves on
47:26 like a deceptive snake oil salesman he
47:32 says you will surely not die for God
47:34 knows that in the day you eat of it your
47:37 eyes will be open and you'll be like God
47:40 knowing good and evil Eve paid attention
47:46 to Satan's words she began to think
47:49 thing why would God give Adam and Eve
47:52 all these trees and just withhold this
47:55 one that doesn't make any sense
47:58 surely there must be something wonderful
48:01 in that tree God told us not to eat from
48:04 perhaps God is really being selfish
48:07 withholding best tree for himself of
48:10 course that must be it
48:12 I really want my eyes to be open I don't
48:15 believe I'm going to die and you can
48:19 find some of this reasoning you can't
48:21 usually see it in yourself but you can
48:23 see it in others right to this day
48:27 Lucifer Lucifer has not changed his
48:29 operational mode after trying to get you
48:31 and I to question who God really is and
48:34 what God has really said then he tries
48:36 to get us to question our god-given
48:39 identity identity satan's proposition to
48:42 Adam and Eve was similar to what he
48:44 proposed to Jesus in the wilderness
48:46 temptation and it's exactly what he's
48:50 doing
48:51 right now to you and I lucifer nuit was
48:55 created in the image and likeness of God
48:57 but he's deceived them into thinking God
48:59 was withholding this from them so he
49:02 said so we said what did he say he said
49:07 your eyes will be open and you will be
49:09 like God but they were already created
49:11 in the image of likeness of God Matthew
49:16 4:3 in the wilderness he said the Satan
49:19 said to Jesus if you are the son of God
49:23 God had already told him he was the son
49:26 of God
49:27 and blessed him is that but do we
49:30 believe what Satan's saying or what God
49:32 is saying about who we are
49:33 Deuteronomy 30:19 highlights the
49:37 spiritual implications connected to
49:39 man's choice the tree of life imparted
49:42 the blessing of the life of God and the
49:47 tree of the knowledge of good and evil
49:48 imparted the curse of death Deuteronomy
49:53 30:19 I call heaven and earth as
49:56 witnesses today against you I set before
49:59 you life and death blessing and cursing
50:02 therefore choose life that both you and
50:05 your descendants may live that you may
50:08 love the Lord your God isn't that
50:11 interesting right after the choice he
50:13 says what that you may love the Lord
50:16 your God and that goes on number seven
50:20 the fall of mankind although Adam indeed
50:22 had dominion over all the animals they
50:26 listened to an animal they listened to
50:32 Satan who was in the form of a snake
50:35 they listened to Satan who slithered
50:39 into the Garden of Eden in the form of a
50:41 serpent instead of crushing the
50:44 Serpent's head and fulfilling their
50:47 god-given assignment to extend the
50:51 blessing of God's love throughout all
50:52 the earth they ate from the tree of the
50:56 knowledge of good and evil
50:58 this caused the curse to enter the world
51:01 rather than the blessing of God
51:05 because of their sin they were kicked
51:07 out of the garden no longer having
51:11 access to the Tree of Life or the River
51:14 of Life God's redemptive plan was
51:18 already in place knowing that the first
51:21 Adam would fail in the work God gave him
51:23 to do we're the first Adam failed to
51:28 obey God's love regarding the tree of
51:30 the knowledge of good and evil the
51:32 second Adam Jesus Christ obeyed God's
51:36 love by dying on the tree of Calvary the
51:44 tree of life became the life-giving tree
51:50 for you and I redeeming us from the
51:53 curse and allowing us to enter the
51:55 blessed state of the Lord Jesus Christ
51:59 you got to remember in first Peter 2:24
52:02 here's what it says about the tree who
52:07 himself bore our sins in his own body on
52:12 the tree that we having died to sin
52:15 might live for righteousness by whose
52:18 stripes you were healed here's the tree
52:21 again in Galatians 3:13 Christ has
52:24 redeemed us from the curse of the law
52:26 having become a curse for us why for it
52:31 is written cursed is everyone who hangs
52:34 on the tree that the blessing of Abraham
52:38 would come upon the Gentiles in Christ
52:42 Jesus
52:44 in conclusion Jesus gave his life so you
52:49 and I would once again have access to
52:52 the tree of life as a believer you are
52:55 made in the image of the Tree of Life
52:59 Jesus Christ don't let Satan deceive you
53:03 god exhort you in psalm 1:3 to grow into
53:07 the fullness of the life of Jesus father
53:11 we just thank you and we praise you Lord
53:14 we thank you for your word in 1st
53:16 Corinthians 15:20
53:17 - you said for as in Adam all die so
53:20 also in Christ all shall be made alive I
53:22 pray father that you would revive each
53:25 and every person here and father each
53:27 and every person that will be listening
53:29 to this revive them according to your
53:32 word in Jesus's name Amen