In The Beginning 3
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Do you realise that we only really know how much we like something by when it is taken away from us? Have you ever had a nice toy, a nice time or person you love taken from you? How did you feel? Yeah! Once they’re gone, it is then that you know how good it was.
To understand why things are not perfect in today’s world, we need to know what the perfect world was like. Has anyone ever said to you, “Oh, it’s like the garden of Eden!”
Let’s find out what the real Garden of Eden was like…
Bible Reading
Genesis 2:1-25
2 So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.
The Seventh Day
2 By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested. 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it special, because on that day he rested from his work.
4 That's how God created the heavens and the earth.
The Garden of Eden
When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth, 5 no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land. 6 But streams came up from the ground and watered the earth.
7 The Lord God took some soil from the ground and made a man.God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing. 8 The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.
9 The Lord God filled the garden with all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of these gave life—the other gave the wisdom to know the difference between right and wrong.
10 From Eden a river flowed out to water the garden, then it divided into four rivers. 11 The first one is the Pishon River that flows through the land of Havilah, 12 where pure gold, rare perfumes, and precious stones are found. 13 The second is the Gihon River that winds through Ethiopia. 14 The Tigris River that flows east of Assyria is the third, and the fourth is the Euphrates River.
15 The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it. 16 But the Lord told him, “You may eat fruit from any tree in the garden, 17 except the one that has the power to let you know the difference between right and wrong. If you eat any fruit from that tree, you will die before the day is over!”
18 The Lord God said, “It isn't good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” 19-20 So the Lord took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. That's how they got their names.
None of these was the right kind of partner for the man. 21 So the Lord God made him fall into a deep sleep, and he took out one of the man's ribs. Then after closing the man's side, 22 the Lord made a woman out of the rib.
The Lord God brought her to the man, 23 and the man exclaimed,
“Here is someone like me!
She is part of my body,
my own flesh and bones.
She came from me, a man.
So I will name her Woman!”
24 That's why a man will leave his own father and mother. He marries a woman, and the two of them become like one person.
25 Although the man and his wife were both naked, they were not ashamed.
Consider This
What is the rest? (verse 1-4)
What did God do for man? (verse 7)
What is the tree of life and what is the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
Explain verse 23.
Why were the man and the woman not embarrassed?
To Think About
The garden of Eden must have been a wonderful place. You know, sometimes when I hear birds singing I wonder…"If I could ask them why they sing I wonder if they would say they are singing to God”
Who knows? Whatever, the Garden of Eden was a fabulous place to be.
How are you going with your memory verses? Do you. know what the verse below mean?
Memory Verse
“For in Him we live and move and have our being.”
Acts 17:28