On January 26, Gratia Community Church Sunday service sermon was delivered by pastor Thomas.
The message was from Genesis 2:17.
God said “Do not eat.” This is the commandment and law of “do not”. If you look at the law of God in the big pictures, there are 2 types. There are the law we should do, and the law we should not.
First, what should we do? The first one is in Genesis 1: 28 “be fruitful” And in Genesis 2, it is to not eat the fruit from the tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
What is faith? Faith is doing well what He tells you to do and not doing what He doesn’t tell you. In Genesis 3, man did something that God told them not to do. That is how they fell. Why did God give this kind of commandment? Why did God give the law?
First, we must know the reason why God gave the commandment. When we understand this, we won’t misunderstand him. The reason why God gave the commandment is to protect man. When man keeps the commandment well, then man can be protected.
Before God gave them the commandment, He gave man freedom. Why did God give man freedom? This is because God loves man. If you don’t understand this clearly, then Satan comes to tempt you. He tells you, “God is restricting your freedom”
Who was the one that gave you freedom? It is God. God gave you freedom and that is why He have the commandment. The commandment does not restrict our freedom- it protects our freedom.
When we break this protecting barrier, then Satan can come in and take over us. Our freedom is the freedom within the Truth.
In Genesis 3:5 Satan is saying, “Do you know the reason why God gave you this commandment? It is because you might be like God. Eat it and be like God.” In other words, it is saying that God is trying to control you, God wants to always make you weak and overpower you.
What is this? This is arrogance. The origin of sin is arrogance. Why does man sin and why does man fall? It’s because of arrogance. When you are arrogant, you disobey.
Satan continues to tempt the people of God. I hope that you will be the ones to obey and keep this commandment well.