Followers of Christ have the hope of heaven.  Whether we physically die or if we are “raptured” we know we will be in heaven with our Lord and Savior, our God! Enoch lived many hundreds of years before Noah.  He was a real man who lived in our world. Enoch walked with God and God […]

Two men, hundreds of years apart, walked with God. (NASB) Genesis 5:24 “… Enoch walked with God… ” (NASB) Genesis 6:9  “… Noah walked with God… ” To walk with God is to be in agreement with Him, yielding to Him, walking where He walks. Walking with God is to live by faith in Him. […]

Protection – Roget’s Thesaurus includes words that could be used in place of “protection:” preservation; salvation; safe-keeping; guardianship; safety; security; sanctuary and refuge among other words. All of these describe what the Triune God did in the Garden of Eden when He drove Adam and Eve from the garden.  What?  How could the living God […]

Adam and Eve sinned against the Lord God by disobeying His command to them. (Genesis 3:1-7) Do we do the same?  Do we willfully disobey God’s command to us? The Lord God judged their choices and then disciplined them.  Their disobedience had consequences.  Adam and Eve’s consequences became ours for we all sin against the […]

When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden… that sin involved all people.  Sin is disobedience to the living God. God dealt with sin and the sinner in the Garden of Eden and He does so today.  God promised Messiah at the time of the first sin and that promise was carried out […]

Eve was deceived by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.  She disobeyed God when she knowingly and willfully ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The Lord God confronted Adam and Eve.  He then dealt with the sin beginning with the instigator, Satan.  After promising Messiah in the condemnation of Satan, […]

Satan is a deceiver, a murderer, the father of lies.  Satan deceived Eve and she disobeyed God’s distinct command – “You shall not eat from it (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil).” God deals with sin in our lives.  He does not count to “10” or even “3,” He has given us […]

Sin – separates. Sin separates people. Sin separates people from God. What happens after anyone sins?   The sense of being “dirty” after committing a sin is being exposed, being naked and… a sense of fear may be present!  Fear tries to cover-up sin with flimsy excuses or rationalization. One example – ‘somebody else made me […]

The process of temptation can lead to sin against the living God. Eve is an example of the process of temptation which results in sin against the living God of the Holy Bible.  God said, ‘don’t eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.’ (NASB) Genesis 3:6 “When the woman (Eve) saw that […]

What do you know about temptation in your marriage, in your job and/or in your church? What did Eve know? She knew God had created her and Adam – Genesis 2:7 She knew God had made a garden for her and Adam to live in – Genesis 2:8 She knew God’s boundaries, what she could […]