in the beginning God created man in his own image the image of Holiness of of Beauty on the cross man makes God Into His Image the image of sin and fallenness and [Music] condemnation now each of us was made each of us each of you were made to become one with God you’re made to become the bride matter man or woman doesn’t you’re made to become the Beloved the Bride of God well God is the bridegroom but we fell think about that we fell like the woman so we can never be joined to God because you have sin and God cannot be cannot be with
something that’s right but in the in the garden Adam fell Messiah God never fell but he joined himself to sin on the cross without sinning he joined himself to sin so now he became one with your sin so now he could be joined to us again that we could be joined to his righteousness hallelujah how do you put this together he specific in order to be joined to you he so he specifically became joined to you like Adam had a fall in that sense I mean he did but he didn’t he came he became joined to our fall our sin so we could be joined to
him again the tree is a picture of Life a tree is a picture of Life a tree should bring life but in Eden the tree brings death but you look at you look at Messiah you look at the cross you’re looking at a tree of death that brings life brings Redemption Adam looked at a beautiful tree he looked at a beautiful tree he said it was good the fruit was good pleasure offered knowledge offered power off in godhood they thought the second Adam looked at a tree that looked horrible and yet he chose to be joined to it’s
the O that is the act that undoes the Temptation it’s the opposite his temptation would be not to have enjoyed he said yes to it to save you in Genesis 3 it says they ate of it then the eyes of both of them were opened they knew they were naked and good and evil the tree caused their eyes to be opened not in a good way but in sin that but now the tree of Messiah caused his eyes to close one Eyes Open the Eyes close he said it is finished in Genesis 2 it says the Lord God planted a garden toward the east in Eden and placed the man in there in the
beginning God blessed the man sets him in a place of Life what happened in Redemption man curses God God blessed man now man curses God and puts him in a place of death execution criminals God sets man surrounded by trees of Life man puts God surrounded by trees of death crosses God brought man to the garden and said partake of this tree not that one but this tree you can partake of all these trees now man brings God to a place that says partake of this tree the cross it says in Psalm 8 you have made man God made a little lower than than
