The Father and His Household In the Garden

The Nature of God God is eternal – He is always the same Psalm 90:2, (before the mountains were brought forth or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God), Psalm 119:89, (Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens) Hebrews 13:8, (Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever) Isaiah 26:4, (Trust in the Lord, the Lord Himself, is the Rock eternal) 1 Timothy 1:17, (Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.)

God is sovereign – He is supreme and not under anyone Psalm 45:5, (I am the Lord and there is none other beside Me) Daniel 4:25b, (….Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.) Jeremiah 27:5, (With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please.) Daniel 4:34b-35, (His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”)

God is immutable – He is perfect and does not change James 1:17, (Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows). Malachi 3:6, (I the Lord do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.) Numbers 23:19, (God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?)

God is relational Genesis 1:26 (Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”)

“Let us” internal relationship in God (the Trinity)

“make man in our image” external relationship with man

Biblical metaphor Ephesians 2:19 (Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household) Children Relative children Staff workers Visitors Strangers Intruders

God’s Household Angels (workers) God (the Trinity)

God’s Household Angels (workers) Children (image and likeness) God (the Trinity)

God’s provision  Home and a beautiful environment (Garden of Eden)  Sustainable food (fertile land flowing with rivers)  Sustainable wealth (gold, onyx stone, aromatic resin)  Companion/family Genesis 2:8-22

How we see God and what we receive from Him is based on relationship. God seereceive relationship

Man’s responsibility  to work  to take care Genesis 2:15

God’s command  free to eat from ……………………  must not eat from …………………. Genesis 2:16 & 17

……. man changing, changes relationship with God Genesis 3:8-11 ( 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?“ 10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.“ 11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?“ Luke 15:21 ( 21 "The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. ‘)

Nature of the sin Rebellion  Revolted against God’s rule or His created order

Nature of the sin Rebellion  Revolted against God’s rule or His created order High treason  Criminal disloyalty to God (they sold God’s secret and asset to the devil)

Nature of the sin Rebellion  Revolted against God’s rule or His created order High treason  Criminal disloyalty to God (they sold God’s secret and asset to the devil) Contagious  It was pandemic (it contaminated all of humanity and God’s creation) Romans 8:19-23

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