DAY TO DAY WITH JESUS
RECOVERY DEVOTIONAL
THE NON-EXPEDIENCY OF
THE KNOWLEDGE OF
GOOD AND EVIL
Brother James, OIC
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.
1Co 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Gods concern for His Creation (us) from the beginning has been one of what would be expedient, that is what’s in our best interest, for us to be Pleasing to Him. In Adams first state, after he was created, before he disobeyed God he was in perfect trusting relationship with God. This relationship and trust was one like a small child with its parent; non-questioning, obedient, loving, trusting and secure. And Adam would be given a command from God based on Gods understanding and foreknowledge of things to come.
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
Then God created Woman. Out of Adam God created Eve.
Gen 2:20-25 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Now both Adam and Eve were in perfect relationship with each other and with God.
This perfect relationship came with perceptions of what would be best. God had created Eve to be a help meet for him (Adam). Help meet for him is an interesting term in itself and it was what Eve was all about.
Greek: Neged (help meet for)
neh'-ghed
From H5046; a front, that is, part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually (adverbially, especially with preposition) over against or before: - about, (over) against, X aloof, X far (off), X from, over, presence, X other side, sight, X to view
Eve would be given the nature of a different view of things, later after the non-expediency of the fall (read Genesis 3), this different view would be coupled with a desire a longing for and toward Adam.
The fall of man was explained this way in the new Testament:
1Ti 2:13-14 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Deception did not overtake Adam. Adam Made a willful decision to disobey God which was not expedient for him but for his wife, thus sin (by a non-expedient choice) entered the world through Adam. In other words Adam gave up his life for Eve. Jesus the second Adam would also give up His life for us by becoming sin for us on the cross.
The Knowledge of Good and Evil has been the fallen state of man since. We sin out of our knowledge of good as well as out of our knowledge of evil. This occurs when we trust in ourselves and believe we have an answer to a life circumstance apart from Gods Promises.
It’s God’s desire for us to be in that perfect trusting childlike humility toward Him again and this we can be in Christ.
Mat 18:2-4 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
