we surrender to have Victory through dying we live Letting Go you get from the cross comes the resurrection now they heard the sound of the Lord Walking In The Garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God Among the Trees of the garden then the Lord God Called To The Man said to him where are you he said I heard the sound of you in the garden I was afraid cuz I was naked I hid myself he said who told you you were naked have you eaten from the tree that I command you not to
eat the man said the woman that you gave me she gave me some of the fruit of the tree and I ate the Lord said to the woman why did you do that what is this that you’ve done and the woman said the serpent deceived me and I ate the Lord said to the serpent because you’ve done this cursed are you more than all livestock more than any animal of the field on your belly you shall go and he said dust you will EAD all the days of your life I will make enemies of you and the woman and your Offspring and hers you will bruise he will bruise you on the head
and you will bruise him on the heel to the woman he said I will greatly multiply your pain and child birth of pain you shall deliver children in pain your desire will be for your husband he will have precedence over you then to Adam he said because you’ve listened to the voice of your wife to eat from the tree that I commanded you you not cursed is the ground because of you with labor and toil you’ll eat from it all the days of your life thorns and thistles it will grow for you yet you will eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your brow
you shall eat bread until you return to the ground because from the ground you were taken you are dust and to dust you shall return this is the curse this is where it all begins and from this has come everything that we deal with from Strife conflict pain sorrow frustration toil burdens Wars sickness infirmity destruction death from the curse and yet within the curse is a mystery and a prophecy actually more than one we’re going to open up the Mysteries tonight and see where it leads and why tonight it’s good Friday because if you want to
understand what happened on Good Friday you have to understand what happened in the garden because Good Friday is linked to the history of Eden First The Curse to the serpent serpent is an animal but it’s also a symbol an embodiment of the enemy the adversary the one known in Hebrew as Satan the devil evil on your belly you shall go well there’s a natural application because serpents move on the ground but there’s a spiritual application because the enemy is cursed cast down to the Earth and degraded dust you shall eat and the