Title: Garden of Eden / Genesis 2:8-17
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Title: Garden of Eden /Genesis 2:8-17
1, Garden of Eden
2, beautiful garden
3, a garden for people
No other country in the world has as many gardens as ours.
However, there are no dense forests.
There are not many beautiful rivers.
There is no way to travel all over the country.
Even in the suburbs of Daegu, there are indeed many hills.
Named "Apsan Garden" "Gaya Garden" "Jeju Garden" "Duryu Garden" "Blue Garden" ...
It is truly Daegu surrounded by many gardens.
I don't know how they got this good name from the bulgogi restaurant.
1, A garden eastward in Eden
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2:8 says, “The Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and the man whom he had formed
put it there"
Dongsan here is not a bulgogi restaurant.
It was the first garden, and it was the only garden.
Eden means joy, kool, joy.
The Garden of Eden is a garden that makes your heart flutter just by hearing its name.
Genesis 28:13 says, "Once upon a time I was in Eden, the garden of God..."
Ezekiel called the Garden of Eden the Garden of God.
In Isaiah 51:3, Isaiah says, “It is called the Garden of the Lord.
There was no other way to express this garden.
But people often believe that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were driven out of the Garden
It seems that there are many times when we think only of geographical and physical things when we say we were born.
Of course, that's the first word.
geographically displaced.
It is true that he received physical restraint.
But it's not that important.
More important than that is your relationship with God.
What is important is what kind of relationship Adam and Eve had with God after they sinned.
It has been separated from our relationship with God.
It is important to fall out of God's attention.
Even when people say hell, the first thing that comes to mind is hot, unbearable sulfur.
Reminds me of the lake of fire
But it matters what kind of people are there.
There are those who cannot have fellowship with God.
This is where those who are outside of God's concern go.
A place without God's care is hell.
In short, everything is a relationship with God.
The Garden of Eden is where God dwells.
The garden of Eden is where we live with God.
2, beautiful garden
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From the first day of creation by God to the last day, there was evening and there was morning.
He continued to say that it was good in the sight of God.
And among the creations, the Garden of Eden was a better place in God's sight.
If we could then see the Garden of Eden, we would probably faint.
Verse 9 says, “And the Lord God will bring forth trees in the land that are pleasing to the eyes and good for food.
And in the middle of the garden was also the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Verse 9 says, "It is pleasing to the eye," but not as pleasing to the eye.
Moses, who wrote Genesis, said he liked it because he did not know how to express it.
I said it was beautiful, but it was not enough, so now I explain the good things in verse 10 or less.
are doing
In the Garden of Eden there was the tree of life, there was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
It was a garden where the four rivers of the Down River flowed.
The first river was called Bison.
there was gold
There was a pearl called Bedelium.
There was a gem called agate.
This agate gem was later attached to the clothes of the priests.
The second lecture was called Gihon.
The name Gihon means to rise vigorously.
The name of the third river was called Hiddekel.
This refers to today's Tigris River.
It is a major lifeline in the Middle East that runs for 1,850 km.
The fourth river was called the Euphrates.
It played an important role in the cultural development of Mesopotamia.
The length of the Euphrates River is 2,850 km.
This fourth river is the river prophesied in the Book of Revelation that there will be great wars at the end.
In the middle of verse 9, there is an expression "good to eat".
It was used to mean perfect for eating.
In other words, it means that there were no poisonous plants in Eden at that time.
3, a garden for people
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Verse 15: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, and he reigned over it.
keep it"
The Garden of Eden was built by God's gracious design.
The beautiful Garden of Eden was given to mankind by God.
"I will rule"
He had put a person there, saying, "Keep it."
Let's read verse 15 together.
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, to rule over it and keep it.
Do it" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We need to take a closer look at this statement.
"Bring the man and put him in the Garden of Eden," he said.
This phrase can be interpreted as saying that Adam and Eve were not in the Garden of Eden before.
to be.
It is said that God made the beautiful Garden of Eden and gave it to man.
However, there was one thing that the humans Adam and Eve could neither rule nor protect.
They were faithful in all that God commanded them to rule and keep.
There was not one thing that was not loyal except for one thing.
The only thing that Adam and Eve could neither keep nor rule over was their hearts.
They couldn't control their minds.
They couldn't keep their minds.
The decisive problem that led them to pursue the Garden of Eden was there.
Even today, we are good at everything in general, but we can't control our own minds.
How many problems are there?
How many times do you make a mistake because you can't keep one's heart?
Even if you do everything well in the world, if you can't control your own judgment, if you can't keep your heart
it all failed
Even though we are all cast out as a result of not being able to rule or keep
Nevertheless, he sent the Son of God again to redeem him and make him a son.
We have received the promise of a new heaven and a new earth that cannot be compared with the Garden of Eden.
became a holy people.
Why?
Because there are things to take care of and protect again.
What are we to govern?
What do we have to protect today?