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false religions lay the emphasis on these aspects of life, and miss the most impor tant aspect, the spiritual.
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Golden Text Illustration E zekiel 1S:4
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In the Garden o f Eden G enesis 3:1-24
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Memory Verse: “They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8). Approach: Have you been wondering what it was that God told Adam and Eve that they must not do? It was this. In the middle of the beautiful garden there
were Adam and Eve, and all of the sinning people who should live after them, to get back to God? God made Adam and Eve a promise—He would send a Saviour who should bear their sins for them. And God did this very thing. He sent His “only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
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stood a tree. God called it the tree “of th e knowledge of good and evil.” God said that Adam and Eve must not eat of the fruit of this tree. Lesson Story: One
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day the serpent, who was r e a l l y Satan, came to Eve and said something like this: “ Did God say that you couldn’t eat of every tree in the garden?” This made Eve think about this one tree. She told the serpent about the one tree that stood in the middle of the garden, and she said: “ God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it . . . lest ye die.” “ Ye shall not surely die,” said the ser pent. And he went on to say that God had just said that, in order to keep them from eating the fruit, because, so Satan said, if Adam and Eve should eat of the fruit of that tree, they would be “ as God” (v. 5, R.V.). Wasn't that a wicked thing to say about the loving God who had made the world and the garden for them? Eve looked at the fruit. It looked so good. She was hungry, too. She began to wonder whether the serpent was right. Perhaps she wouldn’t die if she ate of this fruit. She’d try it anyway. She took some and ate, and gave some to Adam. They did not obey God, and that is the way sin came into the world, and that is the reason that people die. And now God couldn’t come and walk and talk with Adam and Eve. He was a holy God and they were sinners. How
Object Lesson C orks an d C h ristians
Objects: A tumbler, enough corks of dif ferent sizes to fill it, and a pitcher of water. (Blacken the corks with permanent ink.) Lesson: This empty glass reminds me of Eve in the garden. Her heart was free from sin, but it did not stay that way long. Satan, the devil, as “the serpent,” came along and threw into her heart a little doubt, a little question, about God’s telling her not to eat of the fruit of the certain tree, but this doubt opened her heart for the sin o f . disobedience to enter. We will put this small black cork in the empty glass to remind us of the doubt which Satan put in Eve’s heart. Satan then followed with a denial, “ Ye shall not surely die.” Eve believed the lie of Satan, and she took the fruit which God had forbidden her to take. She ate some
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