Genesis 2:16-17 NIV . And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” What is the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”? What was it all about? There are some who even think it was something evil? How could the perfect God create evil? All His works are good and perfect. All of God’s creation were good and perfect and that tree was part of the creation. “And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day…………Genesis 1:31KJV” In the rhetorics of men, there are some who even mock God as tempting Adam and Eve to sin, but that tree was no temptation from God. God never tempts man with evil. Remember that the tree was not evil but good. “Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man……. James 1:13KJV” So what was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? It’s what sin is all about, it has been played out over and over in the lives of men. The partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil didn’t end in the garden of Eden, it’s still going on. God said to man, you have the freedom to eat of any other tree but you must never eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why? It is because that tree belongs only to God. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil didn’t just mean a tree which after eating of its fruit you will be able to discern between what is good and what is evil. It was more than that. It’s a tree of moral autonomy, it is where one gets to decide what is good and what is evil. Only the creator decides what is good and what is evil, the creature has no right to determine that independent of God. Only God has moral autonomy. This has been the longstanding problem of man, the reason for the curse. He wants to determine what is right and wrong, he wants to take the position of God. The creature has no right to decide what is right or wrong and how to live his or her life. So the serpent tempted and deceived Eve saying, after eating of this tree you will be like God, you will have moral autonomy deciding what is right and what is wrong. It’s the very reason for all the sins men commit. Men became their own moral compass. They became wise in their own eyes, trusting on their own understanding. So the Prophet says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that count darkness as light, and light as darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!.......Isaiah 5:20-21KJV” Anytime you ignore what God has said to do what you want; you are no different from Adam and Eve. Anytime you think you are right just because it makes sense to you or your friends, you are partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When God placed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the midst of the garden yet commanded man never to eat of it, it was God’s way of telling them that you live by my commandments and not by your own dictates or that of any other. I only determine how you live; I am the reference point of righteousness. Moral autonomy is what will bring in the antichrist age and the destruction of men, it’s the cause of all moral decadence and problems of men. A man one day will make himself God determining what is right or wrong, a man who will become the law. he is the man of sin, the antichrist. Moral autonomy is self-worship, its idolatry. Are you the reference point of righteousness, do you determine how things are done independent of God’s word? If so, be careful and repent! Discover more @ lightembassy.org Contact us anytime on 0903 9562280 Discover more about Light Embassy at lightembassy.org Get in touch with is at info@lightembassy.org Spotify t.ly/EiAdU Apple t.ly/nj3ws Amazon t.ly/oUwEg Youtube t.ly/JRB9G Web t.ly/spQMl
