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of life comes, even then you may sing, “And He walks with me, And He talks with me, And He tells me~I am His own.” Object Lesson A G lorious G arden OBJECTS: A piece, of white paper 8%x21 inches. (Two inches from the right end, fold toward the left, mak ing the size 8%xl9 inches. One and three-quarter inches from this fold, fold backward (away from front of large sheet). Three and one-quarter inches from the second fold, again fold toward the left. Follow the same procedure in reverse working from the left end of the paper. When this is done, the two ends of the paper will meet, and* the over-all measurements of the folded paper will be 7x8 x/2 - inches. With the two ends meeting, put half of a red cross on each, the whole cross being 4 inches wide and 7 inches high. Along the left side print “GOD” in large letters. Along the right side print the word “MAN.” Open this first fold on each side and print “ GOD” on the left and “MAN” on the right, in. the same relative positions as before. From the first to the second folds on these surfaces, cblor lightly with black and print tlfe word “SIN” in each. These two sur faces lack % inch of meeting. In this opening, print the word “SEPARA TION,” 1beginning about 1% inches from the top and working down. Color the spaces between the second and third folds lightly with black, and write the word “SIN” in' each. Be tween the third fold from the left and the center of the whole paper, near the fold, print the word “ GOD.” On the right side print the word “MAN.” - Using the word “SEPARATION,” com plete the following words, “SINLESS,” “FELLOWSHIP,” “COMPANIONSHIP,” “PEACE,” “WORSHIP,” “I MA G E , ” “LIGHT,” “LIFE,” “SOUL,” and “DO MINION.” Near the top and left side of this 7x8% inch space, print “ GLOR IOUS,” and on the right side the word “ GARDEN.” Fold both wings back of the center.) LESSON: This paper reminds me of . the Garden of Eden. It was a glorious garden, where God and man walked and talked together. These words, “SINLESS,” “FELLOWSHIP,” “ COM PANIONSHIP,” etc., suggest the rela-
church stands a cross; on the pedestal of this aré carved Spanish words of which the following is a translation: “Ten thousand years of indulgences for each time, when in grace and be fore this cross, any person recitesJ:ive times the Lord’s Prayer and "Ave Maria with Gloria, in memory of the passion of Jesus Christ.” Thus man still seeks to avoid the penalty of sin, and thus the tempter still seeks to persuade men that the soul that sin- neth shall not die.—Cyclopedia of Re ligious Anecdotes, by Lawson. MEMORY VERSE: “The day is thine, the night also is thine” (Psa. 74:16). APPROACH: Do you suppose there is any one here this morning who ever disobeyed his parents? I think if we are really honest we will all have to admit that sometimes we have done that which we were told not to do. Do When Evening Comes G enesis 3 ’ our sih. Do you know who He is? LESSON STORY: Last Sunday we learned how God started the first home. Do you remember who the first people were? God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful garden, and told them they could eat most everything they saw, but the tree in the midst of the garden they must not touch. Do you think they minded God? Well, they didn’t. yThe serpent, who was really Satan himself, coaxed Eve,, to taste of the fruit of this tree, and to give some to her husband. She lis tened to. the serpent instead of God. Do you ever listen to the devil instead of to God? I hope not. The Lord God came in the cool of the day to walk in the garden with the two whom He had created, as He was accustomed to do. For the first time, they were afraid of God and hid from His face. But God found them; He" discovered their sin, too. How un happy they were! How unhappy God was, too! They could not walk to gether any more with God. Their sin separated them from Him. Is your sin separating you from God this morning? Let me tell you "how you cam get rid of it. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, and let His blood cleanse you of your' sin. Even a child can do that. If you will do it now, while you are little, when you are older, and when the evening you remember how your disobedience made you f e e l ? Did you want to ru n and h i d e ? Maybe you were able to hide your sin from your par ents, but there is One from w h o m we can never hide
the c o m i n g t e s t . Third* the Bible does not say that the physiological effect of its fruit would be to open man’s eyes or bring death upon him. There was not, evidently, any poison ous quality in the fruit which would kill the eater, for the man lived physically for many years afterward. Fourth, the Bible states clearly that it was the act of disobedience, not the fruit, that did the damage: “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:16, 17). Just as a human father might forbid his child to eat a certain bit of fruit, not because the fruit would poison the child, .but as a test of the child’s obedience—even so God f o r b a d e Adam to eat of this particular tree, in order to test his obedience and thus bring him into the realm of moral ex perience. The important thing was not the fruit itself, but what it stood for. Following the same line of thought, we find literal bread used in the Com munion service as the • symbol of spiritual "things. 2. Did not the man have any knowl edge of good and evil prior to his eat ing of the forbidden fruit? The an swer is that there are two kinds of moral knowledge; first, there is what may be called' mere intellectual or descriptive knowledge; and second, there is experiential knowledge. Adam certainly had the first kind, for God had told him. what was good and evil (Gen. 2:16, 17). But thus far he had had no experiential knowledge, be cause he had not yet faced any real moral itest. 3. Could the man have gotten this experiential knowledge of "good and evil" if he had not sinned? This is an extremely important question, be cause some have taught that man’s fall was really a' good thing since it brought him into the realm of moral knowledge. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The first man could easily have gotten his experiential knowledge of good and evil without disobeying God. All he had to do was to obey God. It was not wrong for man to have a knowledge of good and evil. The wrong thing was the way he got it. In the face of moral testing, we may enter the realm of moral experi ence by either of two doors, obedience or disobedience. Adam entered by the wrong door. The proof that moral knowledge may be had without sin king can be found in the fact that God has such knowledge. See Genesis 3:22, “The man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.”
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