A God Who Is Consistent

Seeking The Precious Promises Of God

“A God Who Is Consistent”

Genesis 2:4-7, 15-17

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If we are going to search out the Precious Promises; I would like to see that what God says He in fact has done and will do.

I said the first Promise was the promise of Redemption but that is not true.

I see another one that is very important.

If you are going to give someone good news of redemption, does it not make sense they first understand why they need redemption?

It has been said that if you where to go to a person and just tell them you paid a $10,000 fine and yet they did not know they owed the fine, it could upset them.

Yet if you tell them of a serious violation that they did and that there was a warrant for their arrest if $10,000 was not paid; that makes more sense to them when you tell them you paid their fine.

I told you before of the problem I had when our first daughter came around.

I was a battered child.

As a battered child it is over 90% possible that I would become abusive toward my children.

I knew what Christ had done for me when He saved me yet I am still in this flesh and I was afraid.

A great friend told me a simple solution that his father told him; never tell your child you are going to do something that you cannot or will not do.

Our heavenly father is the source of that principle.

I. First Jobs Of Man Vs. 15

Man was never meant to be idol.

To dress it = to labour, work, do work, to serve as subjects, to serve (God)

Barnes Notes. “The plants of nature, left to their own course, may degenerate and become wild through the poverty of the soil on which they alight, or the gradual exhaustion of a once rich soil. The hand of rational man, therefore, has its appropriate sphere in preparing and enriching the soil, and in distributing the seeds and training the shoots in the way most favorable for the full development of the plant, and especially of its seed or fruits.”

And to keep it. = to keep, preserve, protect

Man was charged to preserve and protect the plants allowing them to grow that they might reach maturity in order to produce fruit.

II. First Words Spoken To Man Vs. 16-17

The garden is for you to care for but it is also a source for food.

Still today a principle true.

Deuteronomy 25:4 “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”

1 Timothy 5:18 “For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.”

Notice also:

III. The Intelligence Of Man Vs. 16-17

God gave man instruction that has purpose for man and yet warning them of consequences should they fail to follow directions.

Vs. 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.”

Do not eat =

Thou shalt surely die.

I come to the most important lessons of this day:

1. What God says He means

2. What God said He would do, He does.

God was not limiting mans ability, He was protecting mans innocents.

He was not lying as the Devil said; He was keeping man from the pain of death.

God loves man so much that he planned redemption:

1 Peter 1:20-21 “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.”

Romans 16:25-26 “Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, 26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

Conclusion:

In a day when New Year’s Resolutions’ are easily made and then easily broken; I want you to know a simple truth:

What God Says He Will Do; He Does.

1. He told man IF you do this there will be death

2. Yet He loves us so much He knew man would sin and so HE made preparation for a Saviour. Jesus!

John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.