DAILY?READINGS: Gen. 17; Job 20; Matt. 9:18-38
And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:22-23
God and fallen man conversed in Eden with the Tree of Life nearby. God knew that, if man in his sin should eat of that tree, he would be confirmed in his wickedness perpetually and without escape. So, God in His mercy, sent man forth from the Garden and imposed upon him a death sentence that would put bounds upon his capacity for evil. Then God set about providing a ransom for fallen man through His Son; giving to man an opportunity to escape eternal perdition. —Doug Kazen
We’ll join the song, for we can tell, how sovereign grace dissolved the spell,
That kept us bound in chains; and from that dear and happy day.—J. Kent