A Tale of Two Trees

A Tale of Two Trees

Gen 2:9 Two Trees are Introduced to man

Gen 2:17 God warns Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil, and tells him that if he does he will surely die.

What did God mean, he would surely die?

God meant that right now, Adam is perfect, without sin, and could be friends with God, like a dad and a son are friends.

Being alive is to be without any sin at all. So, to die would be to sin.

Eating from this Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil would mean man will disobey God, and then know evil , which all he knows right now is good, perfect, and totally knowing that God is right there with him.

God then creates a woman for Adam, so he will not be alone.

Gen 3:1-7 the serpent (snake) lies to the woman and talks her into eating from the tree that God told them not to eat from. He tells her that she won’t die, but that she will be like God and know good and know what evil is. She eats from this tree, then shares it with Adam, now they have both sinned.

It wasn’t just the eating of the tree that was sin to God. WHEN they ate from this tree, they were able to know they difference between Good and Evil.


Remember what did we say it meant to be “alive?” to be alive is to be friends with God, like a dad is with his kids.

*if you have a friend that your parents don’t like, why would they not want you to be around them? Because when we are around other people, we tend to act like them, talk like them, dress like them…you want to be like them. But that is how man is, that is not how God is.

How can we be friends with God? God has a standard, and His standard is Perfection. Unlike us, when we are around someone, we pick up things that they do…God isn’t like playing in a mud hole…only God can’t be dirty, or less than perfect. But for someone to be in His presence that is imperfect, would be, well….it’s like wearing all white and

Now that man has sinned he is not God’s friend, they are his enemy & he is not allowed in the garden, which is a place where only perfect people can be.

Gen 3:24 God asks them what they have done and makes them leave the garden.
Adam was sad to leave, because he was Gods’ son. Because Adam sinned, he isn’t God’s son anymore, he is the son of the devil.

Gen 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Rom 6:23
For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

But God created man to live forever! He created man NOT to die. Now man is dead. Remember that to be “alive” is to be SINLESS & FRIENDS with God.

But what if God could send a replacement? Someone who WAS perfect, someone that COULD obey God, one who COULD be friends with God because he had never ever sinned. And if someone could do that, could they trade with me? Could I give him my sin, and he’d give me his perfection. What He give me the power to obey God again, so that I could be God’s child again, and be friends with Him, like a dad and a son would be?

God DID do all that! He made that possible!

God sent His only Son from Heaven, his name is Jesus Christ Jesus was perfect, had never ever sinned. Jesus talked with God and heard from Him, like a Son would His Father. Jesus was friends with God like a dad and a son would be. Like we were SUPPOSED to be.

What if Jesus could, being Sinless & Perfect, A Friend of God, die for us, so that WE could live forever again and be with God forever?!

Well, that is what He did. He was taken, had done nothing wrong. Jesus was beaten, nailed to a tree (the Cross), and hung there until He died. THAT was OUR punishment that He took. He paid OUR PRICE for sin when He did that.

Not only did He die for us, but He rose again from the grave on the third day to live in our hearts. How do we receive what Jesus did for us so that we can be with God again? All we have to do is believe that God sent His only Perfect Son, that He died FOR US, that He rose again on the third day…to give us a Life with God FOREVER, which is called ETERNAL LIFE. We just need to ask Jesus to come live in our hearts. Let’s go to this scripture and read what God says about this:

Rom 10:9-10
That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou will be saved.


For with the heart man believes unto righteousness (just means a right standing with God, like, you are able to be with Him) ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (meaning, because you believe it in your heart and have said admitted it out loud to God, you are saved).

Now we are able to come back into the Presence of God, through Jesus, and live with God forever and forever. So, it’s like Jesus took us back to the garden where man sinned and whipped away the sin and we are now eating from the Tree of Life. Jesus is the Tree of Life that we eat from now. For now, and into Eternity (forever and forever).

The only thing that we have to do, is continue to keep our faith in what Jesus Christ has done for us, ask Jesus to lead us in our lives. And Jesus leads us through His Holy Spirit. So when we go to do something that we shouldn’t be doing, God will speak to us through the Holy Spirit and tell us to do something or not to do something. This is something that will help us STAY with Jesus, and eat from His Tree of Life until we go to Heaven.

***anyhow, I hope that is clear enough to share with children. I think if children can understand it, than we definitely can. God has actually made this so easy that even a child CAN understand His Gospel. The problem is, not enough people out there preaching and teaching the true gospel of Christ anymore. ☺